El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-05
d ADVENTURES.
A Detective Recounts Some Strange
Experiences.

Experiences.
In my experience as inspector of the
detective force I nave been consulted
frequently. boil officially and confiden-
TALLY. to save men from temptation
to guard them from evil associations.
In many of these cases suspicion has
fallen upon innocent men, and I have
often been able to set matters right.
Here is n case in hand.
h managing partner of a large
firm came to me one day and said that
his house had been robbed of many
thousand dollars. He believed hat a
young man. whom we will call Smith,
was the thief, and he asked me to take
the matter in charge. After a few days
of investigation I fixed upon the man
who had committed the crime and sent
for the
WELL said he, You found ! was
right. didn't you?"
NO" I returned. ct wasn't Smith.
1t was Brown"
Brown? You have made e terrible
mistake. We haven't a man in the
house more to be trusted thai Brown.
I'd stake my reputation on Brown"
"A1l right. 1 added. You send
Brown to me this afternoon and I'll
have a talk with him."
Now it is an impossibility for a man
who is indiscreet in his manner of liv-
ing to hide his indiscreetions for any
prolonged length of time. Sooner or
later. in one way or another. he will
show some signs of irregularity.
Then. too. when hav learned hat
n man is living beyond his means; is
asSociatiEg with men who are spend
ing more money than he can afford to.
and is iudulgipg in extravaganza. you
may safely supply many facts of which
o are really ignorant. With the
scanty evidence I had gathered I was
able within half IN hour to secure a
complete confession from Brown
wholly eXhonerating his fellow-clerk.
When | sent for the manager again he
would hardly credit the evidence.
The Three Dad to Wrong Doing.
The three principal causes that lead
Young men into crime are gambling.
~infatuation for a woman and drink.
Gambling as a rule results more from a
desire to retrieve losses caused by in
discretions than from a passion for eX-
element. There are few things tina
a man. young or old. will not venture
for the m he loves, and frequently
these things bring ABOUT his downfall.
I have found that drink follows rather
inspires those follies. 1t numbs
IL SohSSiSDCe- SINSS courage W d Idl-
tering spirit. and adds ton to shatter-
nerves. I mean the kind of drink
ing that lands a man in state prison.
not that which sets him adrift, a home
less wanderer- n tattered tramp or a
Bowery lodger.
Once I was called in to ferret out the !
thief in a large mercantile establish
nent. No n liz particular was ex-
p cted. After a few weeks l discOv-
tEa- kL@ .-r~-:X - |
steadiest, hardest-working and ap-
most trustworthy young men
In the house. He was frugal. sober.
md ambitious. His salary was less !,
twenty dollars a week and he
was in love with a girl who required
IN income of eight or ten thousand
dollars to maintain her in the style
he was accustomed to. He had stolen
800 to 5000 worth of goods a
week and was using the proceeds to
urnish 4 suitable home for her. At
err I had laid the evidence before the
he declined to prosecute.
I'll pay h money out of my own
he said. rather than send
hat boy to prison. I'll give him an
'ther chance"
He did so, and ] am glad to say the
Dung man deserved it.
Before / became an inspector it was
" SeIeTally cTeOlteO Dy uet5ct1VeS
hat men could be made to convict
through their own volun-
ary confessions. Nothing is simpler.
Gu send for a man. He comes to you ,
romptly. He is guilty. and he fears
nat you know as much as he does.
[e expects an accusation. You talk
} him about other things-about ev-
in fact, save the one thing &
lat he has in mind. Then in the {
purse of time his guilty thoughts will I
some expression. and his story is
ours. .
There is one regularity about men a..
lat I have learned: No man can re- .
a statement of any considerable 1
myth without changing the language l
some wav. provided he is telling q
le truth. If he is lying. however. he e
lettar-porfect in his part. like an ac- q
II. There is another point which I
ads ne up to a case 7 once had
large of. No man ever signs his
twice precisely alike. There is
Ways some trifing change in the sig .
iture that the masnifvipg glass will /"
low. OF course it will bear all the p
licences of the authors stvIe. hut it =
not be an exact duplioate.-Satur- t
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