The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-23
Dr.. A. N. Kittilsen
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office in TorriSon' S Block.
Residence at Windiate House
Nj A NITO woo, WIS
TALES THAT ARETOID

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| Col. 9. +. Newcomb general manager Of
the rhiel detective agency when Pion
eer Press reporter asked him to tell A
story OF detective who made a bad
guess. The reporter made the ameuda
| honorable and the big thief taker put on
his thinking cap. 1t was yesterday after
noon IN MAJ. Cooley's office The colonel
has been In st. Paul several days, not be-
cause he wanted anyone, but because
he has been little under the weather
and was looking for change and rest.
ooh, yes, he eaid presently, there
was an affair that came off last sprlnp
that is perhaps the most remarkable of
the kind on record. 1t not only shows
that detective may be very close TO the
truth and then make n bad guess, but 1t
| also illustrates the difficulties that beset
the pal of the fugitive from Justice. It
was this way:
"One day in the early part OF last
spring the confidential man of big New
York importing house vanished. He had
held position Of peculiar trust and the
house was not only ont Of good deal of
money, bnt was seriously embarrassed
through lack of the knowledge that the
fellow carried off in his head [ won't
give you any names because he is now
occupying the same position the firm
failing to proaecgte after we got him.
HIS disappearance was as complete as
though he had left the planet. They
used the New York police until they
gave up and then they turned it over 10
rs. 1t was absolutely necessary to get
the fellow then.
"Our New York men took the case and
went to work. They soon found ont that
] i1 I, 80. fIT
gave them a start They looked the mls-
tress up. She had flown. She had lived
very quietly AMI inexpensIyely and it
was certain that the man had no; spent
his money with her. They looked up her
associates and found that they were peo.
pie known on race tracks ana it didn't
take long to prove that the fellow had
lost his money against the horses And
it did't take much more tine TO prove
that the woman had planned the escape
and provided for covering his tracks So
the men turned their attention TO the
woman. She was good one The ope-
ratlves found ont that she had come from
Plttshdrg originally, and they also found
that she had gwen orders when she left,
10 have her mail forwarded to a certain
address III that town. That looked easy
and off TO Plttsburg the detectives went.
He found the address ard proceeded TO
pipe the house. 1t was occupied by an
old washwoman. He thew the Job up,
In disgust, and "A man who has been a de-
tective all his life and who is known to
everybody as Old Tucker was put on
the case. He took it up at Plttsburg
and followed some sort of a clue 10
Evanston, where the fugitive had lived
for some time.
There he found the absconder had
been in California and was likely to go
there again. He reported The firm had
spent a good deal of money and the case
looked hopeless. They said they would
pay for fourteen days more work and
fuckers expenses to California. He
started. 1t didn't take him long to turn
San Francisco up. Ia fact it Is one of
the easiest towns In toe country to turn
up for there Is practically only one way
of getting into 1t. He found no trace
and he was in despair
lie had friend, detective policeman
and they knocked around together until
the last day of fuckers limit had arrived
His partner was man named Coffey
who afterward committed suicide. He
knew every corner of the town and they
began to work the places of amusement
a wonderful faculty Of recognizing men
from descriptions gwen. Old detectives
have that faculty greatly cultivated and
he was looking for his man on a general
description. In music hall that night
he looked up in the gallery aud saw his
man. He went up stairs and took a
closer pipe and was convinced. The
fellow had couple of women With him.
Tucker and Cotfey went downstairs amt
called the proprietor and told him &c
have the man, pointing him ont, called
down; they wanted him, but they didn't
care TO make Il row. The man was called
down end Tucker told him that he was
wanted. As he said it he got a fair look
at the fellow and was convinced that it
was his man.
The man laughed Tucker thought
Il was bluff and said so. The man said:
See here" Il am so and SO and am in
he wholesale cigar business on such a
street. You don't want Inc. but [ know
he man yon want and can pat you next
o him." The fellow proved that be was
cling the trnth readily enough and then
anne the strange part of it: That same
aY IL had been raining and as it stop
'ed man came into the store of the man
7ho had been put under arrest and asked
he conld leave his macintosh there.
IL left 1t and rs he went out one OF tha
Jerks called the attention OF the pro-
rIetor to the remarkable likeness that
he stranger bore to him When the
rrest was made be thought of the
ranger and the odd likeness ut once.
ucker went to the store the next day
nd after a while IN walked Mr.. Stranger
I'd he got nabbed. 1t was the right
ian and Thicker was only DAY over his
me IN getting back East. lent that
q odd way of falling up against a crlmi.
al after every Iope known TO the pro
ssion had been strung?"