The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-10
GUARDING WALL STREET
AGAINST ANY POSSIBLE THEY
ING.
An Army OF Detectives Constantly on
Duty Along the Street and In the Fi-
naneIaI Installations.

Duty Along the Street and In the FL
naneIaI Institutions.
Ia has been more than a quarter of a
century since Wall street has known
great robbery-sO long ago that the sto-
~ is told like a legend-yet there is no
district in any city of the country. per
haps of the world, so constantly and
vigilantly guarded as the financial CEN
ter of New York. Special detectives,
city detectives and policemen unite to
keep the thieves from Wall street and
to prevent one who becomes a thief
there from escaping with his booty. I
observed at the corner of Wall and
Broad streets, on the sidewalk opposite
the office of ]. Pierpont Morgan & Co,
group of men, square-built men with
big Jaws, who seemed to have met there
casually and were engaged in friendly
conversation. They were city detec-
tives. A block down Wall street, at the
corner of William street, two other men
of the same stamp were lounging
against a building, talking and laugh
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city detectives. A little farther away.
at the corner of Exchange place and
New street-narrow, dark streets, be-
tween towering walls of buildings-Were
three men who seemed to have more
leisure than the multitude of others
who were concentrating their energy
into the short hours of business. These
three were detectives also.
Aside ffem these eight whom l had
seen were twelve other men from the
city detective force, and all of them the
oldest and most experienced of the
force, patroling the small district where
the great financial business of the
country is done-east of Broadway and
| between Fulton street and the East riV-
err. A part of this squad of twenty
men gives it's attention to Maiden Lane,
where every building is filed with dia-
| monds and the richest gems and jewell
ry, and the others guard Wall street
and its short tributaries, where the Of
| fees of banks and bond houses ana
| stock brokers' offices occupy every inch
| of space inside the sidewalk line.
| These twenty men from the city detec-
tive bureau are selected for one partic-
| ular qualification, and that is their
knowledge of thieves and their ways.
| These men have made a study OF the
faces of the most important thieves of
the world. As soon as one of these no.
ted criminals appears in Wall street ne
is sure to be recognized by one or more
of the twenty. Even though he may
not have committed crime for which
The has not been punished, his very pres
enCe in the precinct where money and
valuable securities are the only COM
modities at hand is suspicious circum-
stance and he is quickly driven outside
the sacred limits. The dead line on the
north Is Fulton street and on the west
Broadway. The thief must stay beyonc
the dead line.
There is a branch station of the detec-
tive bureau in the Wall street district
which is entirely distinct from the po'
lice precinct headquarters.
This station Is in the basement Of the
new Stock Exchange building on Broac
street, near Wall. Every morning al
nine o'clock the twenty detectives re-
port there for duty after they have left
police headquarters. Then they scatter
about at will through the streets of the
financial center. About half-past four
when all the financial business of the
day is over, they leave Wall street tt
the care of the large force of patrol
men. The posts in this district are moi
more than a block long. In the block
on Broad street between Wall stree
and Exchange place two patrolmen are
on duty at night One of them walks
back and forth over the short block or
the east side of the street, the Other
walks the same distance on the ives
side,
Aside from the city detectives and pa
trolmen in the financial district eacl
large bank and financial institution ha!
one or more special officers of its own
In the office of ]. P Morgan & Co. there
are six. Other large banks have thu
same number. These are not the only
safekuards against robbery in Wal
street. It is customary, when any
cash or valuable securities are takei
through the street from one financial
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