The times., 1900-12-31
HARD TO ESCAPE JUSTICE
Periis of Criminals Seeking to
Evade Extradition.
Few Countrie,. Vow Present Chances
of Sccurity-Fhc Trnusvnnl n F1-
vorite Resort Temptations Fre-
auentIy Overcome Frgitives aud
Finally Lend TO Their Capture.

such a herce iiGht is now shed by the
telegraph and press on the movements of
| persons who, for reasons of their own. are
! desirous of avoiding the long arm OF the
| law that the evil doer of today must be
OF opinion that he might as well live in a
glass house Where am | to go?" says
the criminal. 1t is knotty problem, for
even the detectives whom the writer has
consulted are not unanimous on the sub
ject.
Said one: 81 don't think that Argentina
! will be much run uponNfor some time to
| come. 1t has loomed so large in the pub
lie gaze that runaways, naturally thinking
| that newcomers will be regarded with sus-
picion, will shun that State The Conti
neut? If you can pass as foreigner, not
unless There are, OF course, thousands
| OF Englishmen abroad. but when anyone
| is wanted only two classes escape suspicion
the dashing young fellow fresh from COL
! lege, bluff, hearty, with friend or two.
plenty of letters from England and an en-
| tire absence OF secrecy, and the married
| Englishman with his family.
Now. the fugitive from justice is nearly
| always alone. and. however much he may
/ swagger. spend his money, or live ire
proachably, he has no letters and is gener-
| ally pale in the morning Why? Bad
! nights rest Then, again, the inventive
| faculties of criminals generally fail from
| the moment they run away. There are ex-
| ceptions, Of course.
Il remember once chasing after forger
half over Europe, and ultimately tracing
/ him to Bordeaux. / anticipated an easy
capture, as the French police had all the
J stations and roads watched to prevent es-
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! ed and the hotels searched No use. How
was l to know that the Indian gentleman
! who was so submlssively followed by
/ his Indian attendant was my man, espec-
| tally as not only his clothes and get up
were those of a Parsee, but his jewelTy
/ and effects were Indian too? One morning
! chambermaid in the pay Ot the police
| told me that the toilet cover in the In
/ dams bedroom was missing and had been
/ replaced by a new one. That set me think
! ing. So on the first opportunity | search
/ ed his luggage and the secret was reveal
/ ed. The reason for hiding the toilet cover
was at once apparent-a brown stain the
color of walnut juice. II flashed upon me
| in an instant that he had upset the bottle
! while dyeing his skin. He subsequently
/ told me that he had made all his arrange
ments, even to securing the servant, long
| before he left England
| 1t is the opinion of well-known retired
/ detective, whose services are still greatly
| in request when the Continent has to be
visited that the work would be rendered
much more difficult If law breakers
| thought out their plans for bolting before
I hand. Il remember a bank cashier" ne
/ says, who before he bolted obtained
| large quantity OF French money and re-
covered from his friends all his portraits.
including also the negatives He had also
worn a toupee SO long that everyone had
| forgotten that the top OF his head was
quite bald. Still. managed somehow TO
! trace him to Boulogne, where the English
colony is large enough TO make it difficult
! to Identify anyone without photo. The
baldheaded ones / naturally left alone,
and as / was sure he was not among the
others | was on the point of returning to
| England when l received letter saying
| that my man was passionately fond OF the
| opera Carmen That evening, attired in
spare uniform belonging to one of the
| local bands. 1 persuaded the leader to al
! low me to stand in the ranks and pretend
| to play a clarionet 1t was getting late
| when Carmen was played for the last
! time The hotels had made no sign, and
/ as a last resource We had stopped outside
one of the boarding houses. There wasn't
soul about when a baldheaded gentle
man crossed the road and gave the con-
selection. Next day We journeyed togeth-
er to London"
An Italian gentleman with whom the
present writer is acquainted says: The
| fidelity observed by the numerous secret
societies of Italy is due to belief tnat
| there is no hiding place in the world
| where traitors are safe from vengeance.
not even in London. toward which they
all gravitate as affording them the safest
| asylum Two years ago the body of an
| Italian was found in the Thames stabbed
| to the heart We were acquainted, and /
was the only person to whom on his ar
! rival he confided the secret OF his hiding
| place He had betrayed the society or
which he was a member to the Govern
ment. His pursuers. who knew that ne
| had fed to London made no effort on
| their arrival to hunt him down, content
| ing themselves with instructing the keep
| ers of the Italian restaurants to keep
| watch about four months later, on any
| Italian who might dine there. They cal
culated that by then the temptation TO
meet a countryman and renew his ac-
quaintance with the dishes Of the old
| country would prove irresistible Three
months elapsed, and the poor wretch,
| weary of hiding, stole from his retreat
and. after passing pleasant evening at
| one Of the cheap Italian restaurants, ad
| journed with some companions TO the
| lodgings of a compatriot to play domi-
nos. That night he met his fate"
| Considering the vast size of America,
| cne would think that fugitive landing in
| that country would disappear in an i'm
| penetrable mist. Scotland Yard however,
| will tell you that American detectives have
| a most extraordinary knack of finding any
| criminal they choose. Enlistment, as
| rule, is useless for any but young crimi
| mails. CITY defaulters are seldom found in
| the ranks for man is generally thirty
years of age before he obtains position
which will enable him to rob his employ
| er excepting of course. the foolish young
| fellow who bolts with the money he is en-
| trusted to pay into a bank.
| OF late years quite the most popular of
| the few hiding places left was the Trans
| vaal 1t does not follow because the Boer
| farmers have made the practice for years
| past, and notably since the abortive Jane
| son raid, to extend a hearty welcome to
| all persons wanted by the British authori
| ties that they have a natural liking for
| criminals. Their dislike of us is so great
| as to cause them to entertain, II not a
| friendliness at least surly sort of com
| passion for all those who have incurred
| the dspleasure Of the police.
| The criminals who fled to the Transvaal
have been, as a rule, young men, for your
elderly reprobate generally has a horror
| of what is known as roughing 1t. He may
| have a liking for game, but only when
| cooked Till recently one of the most
| en- ,erprising of the hunters who supply
| the English market with skins OF wild
| animals was a bank fofger who, after
evading the detectives by passing himself
off as an Indian servant of an old friend
| In al