The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-23
TRACKING CRIMINALS.
THE SEARCH FOR coINERS IS THE
MOST REMORS LESS.

Last Hun Down ho Stern ChaAe
After Sergeant Loy4 Darrell.
There have been many long pursuits
OF criminals. great in the distance
Travelled, the obstacles overcome and
the persistence OF pursuing officers,
but that of Sergeant Wood of the Ma
tai, South Africa, police is doubtless
record breaker. The man sought by
Sergeant Wood was charged with en-
bezzling large sums of money at Pie
termaritzburg. He got away from
South Africa, ard went to New York
Although the detective had information
as to where his quarry was hiding,
yet he had first to visit London to
obtain the necessary eXtradition pa
pers. Then he hurried to America,
and with the assistance of the United
States police, ran down his man. ~
the time be nad reached MartiZburg,
he had been travelling hard for nearly
three months, and had covered nearly
81 900 miles.
One of the sternest chases of recent
years was after Logs Darrell, formerly
sergeant in the Seventh United States
cavalry, Darrell enlisted at the begin
ming of the Spanish-American war, and
distinguished himself in Cuba. There
he fell in love with a pretty Spanish
girl and beggared himself in buying
finery for his sweetheart. To obtain
more money he robbed and murdered
a in
He then fed.
A detective named Dupuy was put
upon the murderer's track, and finding
a clew, started for New Orleans. He
was right in his surmise that Darrell
had gone there. but when he arrived
the bird had flown He had left on a
British mule transport for South AT
RIGA. Dupuy took train for New York,
fast boat for Southampton, rushed by
rail across Europe, caught a boat of
the German-East African line. and
finally arrived at Beira, in Portuguese
East Africa.
There he waited, like a spider for
fly, and just as Darrell was fancying
himself safe from pursuit, he bounced
upon him. Later on the detective de-
posted the prisoner safely in Castle
William Jail in New York. He had
travelled in all 81, 900 miles and spent
S1257 in the chase
One of the most astonishing crimi-
nails England ever produced was man
named Benson, who began operations
in London, with two eonfederates. He
organized q series of swindling COM
panies in the city, while he, himself
pretending to be an invalid, lived in
the greatest luxury in the Isle of
Wight. He posed as a great philan-
thropist, was foremost in charitable
works, and went into the very best So
clety. BY dint of bribing certain Off
GERS of the law, he lived for some
years on the proceeds of his swindles.
But one day the crash came He was
arrested, sentenced and got long term
in Portsmouth Jail.
No sooner was he out than ne was at
his old tricks again. These eliminated
In Switzerland, where he managed to
gain the affections of the daughter OF
an English officer, Through her he
induced her father to trust him with
the investment of his entire capital
some $4,000. He bolted with the
money, Chased across Europe, de-
tective caught him at Bremen. To
avoid scandal the victim promised not
to prosecute if Benson would give up
the money. The latter did 20 and left
for America Hardly was the vessel
out of sight before it was discovered
that the bundle of scrip the thief had
handed over was worth at most $3.50
Followed across the Atlantic, Benson
escaped 70 Mexico, where he made $25,-
900 by passing himself off as Nine
PATHS agent and selling forged concert
tickets. BY this time his photograph
was in almost every police bureau in
the world. Yet he lodged and twisted
under a dozen aliases, and was heard
of in almost every South American
state before clever New York detec-
tive ran him down in Rio after two
years hunt
Even then he cheated justice Land
ed in prison in New York he walked
up stairs dating amiably to his jailer.
Suddenly he made a spring and jumped
clean over the bannister He was
picked up with a broken back and died.
The police never exhibit more re-
lentless energy than in hunting down
4 coiner. A coiner's crime is against
government, and so the whole forces
OF the state are against him The
United States suffers far more from
coiners than England does and is pro-
portionately keen 10 run down such
offenders. Early in 1900 man named
Hastings vas surprised in his work.
shop, from which he mad issued many
thousands CT snail silver coin. but he
was too quick for his would-be cap
tors and escaped. No fewer than seven
secret service men were nut on his
track. Fhe remarkable fact is that
Hastings Eeyer attempted to leave the
States.
Ellfer, one of the detectives, got a
lint that stranger was in the woods.
He took 4 blanket and some food and
mic himself in a thicket. Very early
in the morning Hastings passed, car