Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-05-31

sortv-nye minutes. and at the end OF cecn
nfteen minutes one after another OF NE
accompllces was taken across the couis.
ward Is IL he had just been arrested no.
word was said by me. lie KEPT
ssklnw me what I wanted OF him. anu
what n. had done. As each OF zoe t"o
first OF his accompices was orousn. ~
i could SEQ him start. Then a pawn.
broker came into the room and handed
me the pistol, with which the mutoer
ras done. The pawn-broker went OUT
and | sat there playing with the pistol
Inst then Blanneld the last OF the ac-
somnlices was brought through the yard
handcuffed 10 n detective. Mepiolh
dropped 10 his knees In an agony OF
terror. and begged Inc 20 save MIN IIVh
the gallows.
VERY EFFECTIVE.
such methods were effective againtt
professional criminals, and rev cues III
tho world have such record o. free-
dom from the operation OF this class as
New York has had since Byrnes became
a power But for the detection Oh spo-
radio crime they fail. ard this city has
. long record OF unsolvcd murder mys-
teries.
Tho exclusion Of crooks from Wall
street was one OF the Inspectors earliest
acts OF Importance. About II O'Clock on
the same day that he was appointed 10
take charge OF the Detective Bureau ne
went down town and hired a room at his
own expense al II Wall street. The next
morning he selected nine of his best men
and sent them TO his new ONCE, 10 cover
that section Of the city. He gave speclhc
orders TO his men TO arrest any thlei
who might be found within the district
who could not give a good account OF
l.rf,, ar
purpose. 1t was not long before the
president Of the Stock Exchange Invited
Inspector Byrnes to take possession OF
and establish his business In room OF
the Exchange This invitation was ac-
cepted and ten detectives are constantly
on hand in that building. Connections
TO this Office were made by telephone
and telegraph with every large banking
house In the city. So complete is the
system established that on receipt OF
call detective can be sent from the once
to almost any place in the lower part
of the city in three minutes. There is'
In fact, no more perfect system OF de-
tective supervision in any part OF the
world. and as consequence thieves have
since given Wall street a wide berth.
As Chief OF the DetecuTe bureau
Byrnes obtained from the Legislature
powers which made him independent even
Of the police commissioners; as ChleI III
spector he got an extra salary and was
ex-officio the head OF the Detective Bu-
reau. He is probably sorry now that ne
ever took a higher place. During the
eighteen months or more before super
intendent Murray was retired, when ne
was or sick leave, IL was well UNDER
stood that Byrnes held the key 10 the
situation and was making his own terms
He refused TO be made superintendent
unless he could retain his hold on the De
tective Bureau. And II was not until II
was agreed that Mclaughlin, whom he
had educated, should be advanced to an
inspectorship. jumped over the heads OF
williams Conlin, and McAvoy. and put
in charge OF the Detective Bureau. ana
that the law should be changed 10 permit
this by abolishing the place Of Chief IN
spector, that he would consent 10 be pro-
NOTED. As Superintendent he has had
no end OF troubles with the commission
ers, on one side, and, of late, with the
Parkhurstians, simultaneously, on the
other His offer of his resignation TO
Mayor Strong, before the latter took Of
flee, was one of the sensations OF the
Lexow investigation. That Byrnes Is
rich, he has owned. He has fine house
in Fifty-eizhth street near the Plaza.
and a handsome country place at Red
Bank, on the Shrewsbury river. That he
has hosts of rich and influential friends
is also without question. 1t was these
men-Jay Gould, Commodore Vanderbilt.
and others-who gave him the chances
to make money.