The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31
FAMOUS DETECTIVE TO RETIRE.
Some of the Brilliant Work of the
Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard.

Some of the Brilliant Work of the
From the London Telegraph.
After thirty years service, including a
fun quarter century of experience as a
leading detective, Frederick Jarvis, chief
inspector of Scotland Yard, enters upon
his well-earned retirement next month.
He Is one of the shrewdest and cleverest
hunters of criminals that ever existed.
One of the first cases in which he dlstin-
guished himself was the LEROY murder.
After this came the fenan and dyna-
mite outrages of DR. Gallagher and his
associates and of Cunningham and Bur-
ton. A celebrated task imposed upon Mr.
Jarvis was TO trace the career of Neil
Cream, the Lambeth prisoner, in America
and Canada. One of the officers special
ties In criminal Investigation was the
detection of forgeries and II Is claimed
by some of his admirers that as a result
of his efforts in this direction an act of
parliament may be instanced. This came
directly from the sentence of ten years
Imprisonment on Barton for forgeries on
the Northwestern railway amounting to
over $4,000. The forger was pursued to
America where he was followed over
half the continent The most sensational
OF Mr.. Jarvis cases was the arrest of
Mendell Howard for extensive bank for
geries In France, America, Germany and
Belgium. This forger who was watched
for over two years before he could be
captured, with proof sufficient TO insure
his conviction, was taken with complete
forger's factory at Chester terrace, Eaton
square, where he lived. Another celebra-
ted forger who owes his Incarceration
to the vigilance and ability of the retiring
an or &c Ell q Ia n
bond forger now completing a ten years
sentence, with whom was also captured
Laterner. who got three years. These
were arrested as they were getting off the
boat at Dover, with forged bonds and
notes to the value of thousands of pounds
in their possession.
The Sunderland bank robbery was a
striking instance not only of the brains
and money now employed In such enter
prises but of the difficulties with which
a modern detective must contend. Here
was no case of craoksmen who go on a
spree as soon as they secure their booty
and betray themselves, but of men with
cool nerves and money enough to take
them to the ends Of the earth, If need
be, to elude capture. That Mr. Jarvis
was able to arrest these criminals is a
high tribute to his skill That he should
hold the criminal after capturing him Is
proof that his long experience in handling
Sucn criminals mao not mace MIN TOOL
hardy He kept a good hold on Armstrong
and promptly secured him in cell while
the other prisoner easily slipped away, and
is still at large.
To the average reader II will be a sur
prise TO learn that dlsguises form no part
of the modern detectives outfit. There
are two ways by which the perpetrator
of a crime becomes known to the police
that is supposing, of course that his
pals do not peach" One of these Is
by an examination of the scene Of tho
felony; the other Is by information re-
ceived at Scotland Yard, which is, in real
ity, little more that a bureau for informa.
ton. 1t is next to impossible for burg
lar or q forger to do a piece Of work with
out leaving some trace or ciew sufficient
for an officer of Mr.. Jarvis experience. If
there is absolutely nothing, the officer
must rely on sudden absences or unusual
displays Of prosperity in criminal quarters.
II neither Of these means succeeds he must
rely on Information which is almost GER
tain TO come In from one place or another