The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-01
LONG TRIPS AFTER CROOKS.
HALF ROUND THE WORLD AND
BACK WITH CRIMINALS.
A Member OF Byrnes's Old star Tells SOM
OF Ills Il Adventures bringing In
Prisoners From Far Lands OF
Them Tried TO Escape From Him.

| them in" said a veteran New York de-
~tective. formerly a high man on the Byrnes
stan, in speaking Of fugitives he has brought
back here from distant places. Il always
found il a good plan to put il up TO them
To be on the level with me, and after that
to handle them Is II they weren't pinched
at all. Very few nabbed runaways will
lie TO a fly cop as to what their intentions
are on a conveyed home trip. and a de-
tective who knows his book can always
spot the living kind and keep the good eye
on them.
We'll | used to say to the fellow that
I was about TO hike back here with, what's
It going to be. loose or hobbled? Are you
going to be good or are you going TO wait
for me to fall into a trance and then lam
for it?'
you've got me right would be the
usual reply, and so l don't need TO De triced
up. I'll be good
Il could always tell whether a mar was
giving me the inside OF him in making
that reply or not. Two or three young
and foolish fellows hat l brought back
gave me very different answers.
You're all right they said, in effect,
'and / don't want to put you out my. but
II there's a space a. big AZ a gimlet hole
anywhere from here TO New York I'm
going through 1t, and I'm telling you
THAT wasn't necessarily buster talk
either; 1t was the foolish talk Of young
| chaps made desperate over being oorralled.
They always meant it, too, although they
| shouldn't have told me about 1t. | brought
a boy Jack from the City Of Mexico in IS,
| who told me when l as ked him that he was
all for the jump II he had any show on
earth. He was edged up with mescal
when he said that and doped 1t out that
he was merely making a little music with
his face. But he wasn't. He came near
losing me twice before | got him back.
Il didn't iron him when we started out
but sat in the same seat with him. once
| leaned acrossthe aisle to get. a drink on
| water from the cooler, and before | got a
! hand on the glass he was half way out OF
| the open car window. / yanked him back
and divided a pair of the bracelets between
US. At New Orleans ! put him in the lock-
up over night sos i could go TO a hotel
and have a good sleep before starting
north again, In the morning, when |
had him in front Of the station house desk
| ready 70 take him to the train, he made a
| sidewise dash while was leaning over the
rail having a momentary buzz with one Of
the detectives, and i had 10 sprint thiee
IAN right said he then. after he'd got
his breath; it's all of now. l won't try
again
You might think 1t funny that be-
lieved him after he'd made those two at
| tempts, but | could tell then that he was
speaking the truth, just as he'd spoken
ii when he old me in Mexico that he would
stand me up II he could. and gave nm the
easiest kind of a swing of II all the way up.
with the irons cut out. He Justified my
confidence. and l don't believe he'd have
bolted after passing his word II I'd given
him a start of a thousand yards.
Il had a pretty kinky time of II with an
elderly man, an embezzler, that brought
back from Portland. Ore, IN the mid
lie Sos. The train got stuck between
a couple Of washouts in ldaho-it was
| during the spring thaw-and II was a case OF
wait there until a few miles OF the road In
front had been quilt all over again Oh
the second day my man got pretty nervous;
There was a queer light in his eye. and l
! couldn't make out what allied him, DE
kept pressing his hand to his head and
moaning. and ] began to wonder whether
ID nave TO bring the papers back lndcIs and
il any longer. however, he put me next.
He was a morphine fend, and his supply
had run out. He was In the habit OF taking
bet ween thirty and forty grains oil tho
DOPE a day. e,0, ,,., INV
and suddenly cut on from his regular ration
OF hop, stood a mighty good chance 10
croak- ESPECIALLY an elderly man And
vet there We were on a stalled train N tho
middle Of he Idaho sage-bnIsh. There
was "A little railroad and sheepherdlng
town Of about 800 population twelve miles
back, and ! went there on "A land-car to ~"
II there was anything doing an the place IN
in the way 4 morphine ! left my man
on the train unguaTded ! knew he "ouldht
make any stab a. hiking p" long az he was
aware that | was after his narcotic
When | got to the little town found
THAT there wasn't any drug shop there
al that he young doctor ~ the plac' was
making a professional Ni-it AZ a rhi'n
about Ten mil.s beyond the village !
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