The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-11

cide's watch or a photogra phi taken from
his vest pocket the incendiary's brand,
the burglars tools and the bomb of the
dynamiter. What thousands of world-old
stories in those relics, in wall where the
mortar is hardly dry!
But up to a few years ago-and proba-
bly, not nowhere was no Bertillon cards
of recorded measurement. criminal
could not be stripped without rendering
the examining officer liable to action for
assault. Means of identification must
rest on the features.
The powers of Scotland Yard officials
are peculiar The 400 subordinates at
tached TO the criminal investigations de-
partment are scattered among the twen-
ty-two sub-police stations of the metrop-
oils, leaving a staff of thirty in the Of
flee. The commissioner of the yard
has charge of all demonstrations, such
as the Trafalgar square meetings,
which were stopped, although small
meetings were permitted in the streets.
All professions of envy sort are regulated
by the yard, including the Salvation Ar
my parades. Strikes are under yard SUI
perVision, and government reserves were
called out to keep order during the docks
strike and several hundred constables
were sworn into the employ of the dock
companies.
Commissioner Munro stopped the May /
demonstrations and refused to allow
bands and professions to come from all
points of the compass and march in Hyde
Park. He laid out a route along the en-
bankment-by Birdcage Wak-a back
stairs route altogether useless for collect
ing band money Home Secretary Mat
thews reversed this decision. Mr.. Mum
70 stuck to his rights to prevent obstruc-
ton of the streets. The home office and
Scotland Yard clashed, and Mr. Munro re-
signed.
The yard regulates theaters, music halls
and clubs, and, of course, all political ca
ses. One thousand constables are attach
ed to the office, and the criminal investi-
cations department has 400 men ALWAYS at
its command in London, with many more
on the continent, in Ireland and the Uni
ted States shadowing suspects. year
or so ago Mr.. Anderson was in charge
of the crimes department and he was
given many pointer by Mr.. Munro him
self detective of wide reputation.
According to some accounts it is difficult
to discover how the Scotland Yard detec-
tives ever detect anything. We are ac-
customed to think of the detective as a.
Gaboriau sort of man, able to assume any
disguise and proceed secretly about his
work He has sharp wits, and the tiniest
clew to mind like Sherlock Holmes war
rants the most intricate plot. Well they
don't have that kind in Scotland Yard.
There is a sporting feeling in England
that the criminal is game to be run down.
so they have built up a system on the
model OF fox hunt-the man who makes
the arrest gets the brush, that is the glory.
The detective force is centralized at the
'meet-the yard. Men from the twenty
two substations ferret out the criminal
but they are mere dogs held in leash bv
headquarters. All they do is buried in re-
ports which they send into the Yard. The
local man and his nose" a cheap Grim
inal who enjoys immunity for putting the
police onto bigger criminals, have done
all the rough work
Then the great man appears-the con-
stable from Scotland Yard-makes the ar
rest, testihes in the Old Bailey and wins
the plaudits Of the public. This bobby'g
nose is the simplest type Of "informer.i'
the system is not confined to Irish no
litical crimes-it runs through the whole
system, and has grown up out of the i'm
possibility Of arresting a man on suspi-
cion and putting hkm in the sweat box
as we do here and as is done in France,
The "informer" system was aired thor
oughly In the case of the arrest Of the fe-
MANS and by chat means it got itself into
disrepute, though ii is a time-honored SAX
on custom
The Irish police were lavishly praised
Tor their shllful employment of II in the
case Of the Phoenix Park murder. but The