The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-27
INSPECTOR JARVIS.
The Career of One of Ensland's Most Gel
cbrated Detectives.

cbratcd Detectives.
From the London Telegraph
After 30 years service, including a
full quarter century of experience as a
leading detective, Frederick Jarvis,
chief inspector of Scotland Yard, has
entered upon his well-earned retire
ment. II would be difficult to find an
officer more Numerically opposed to
the popular conception of detective
MIR. Jarvis stands close on 10 feet, and
the dominant impression conveyed by
his personal appearance is that he is
a good-natured provincial rather than
one of the shrewdest and cleverest hun
ters of criminals that ever existed
There was a time when good detec-
tive had to be either a rough fellow
able to mix in the lowest society with
out exciting suspicion or comments, or
a highly educated man, able to direct
the operations of others. Mr.. Jarvis is
combination of both these types.
Starting in the force as a constable, his
first service was in the A division, in
the course of which he was on duty
about the houses of. parliament. Draft
ed soon into the detective department,
he devoted all his energies to one OBJ
ject-a thorough acquaintance with the
ways of criminals. With this end he
ffequented courts and prisons. race
meetings and dens. One of the first
cases in which he distinguished himself
was the LEROY murder. After this
came the Fenian and dynamite out
RACES of DIR. Gallagher and his assoei-
ates. and of Cunningham and Burton.
4 celebrated task imposed upon Mr..
Jarvis was to trace the career of Neil
Cream, the Lambeth posoner, in
America and Canada. One of the Off
GERS specialties in criminal investiga-
ton was the detection of forgeries, and
it is claimed by some of his admirers
that as a result of his efforts in this di-
rection an act of parliament may be in
stanced. This came directly from the
sentence of 10 years Imprisonment on
Barton for forgeries on the Northwest
ern railway amounting to over ---y. 900.
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 How
ard for extensive bank forgeries in
France, America, Germany and Bel
GUM. This forger, who was watched
for over two years before he could be
captured with proof sufficient to insure
his conviction, was taken with COM
plete forger's factory at Chester Ter
race, Eaton Square, where he lived.
Another celebrated forger who owes
his incarceration to the vigilance and
ability of the retiring inspector is DOM
browsli. the Russian bond forger, now
completing a 10 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 en-
ployed in such enterprises. but of the
difficulties with which a modern detec-
tive must contend. Here was no case
of cracksmen who so 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 captur-
ing him is proof that his long expert
ence in handling such criminals had
not made him foolhardy He kent a
good hold on Armstrong and pronltpIv
secured him in a cell, while the other
prisoner easily slipped away and is still
AT large.
To the average reader it will be a