The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-06-27
Notable MAN HUNTS
o,,w,NALs HAVE BEEN CHASED
/" ~ THE ENDS OF EARTH.

o,.,ng Counterfeiters'
- have been many long pursuits
.,n,inals. great in the distance traV'
tba obstacles overcome and the
-, ,..onco Of the pursuing officers, but
- sergeant Wood of the Natal
b ~ Africa police is doubtless a
I'D breaker. The man sought by
~ Ut wood was charged with en-
inc large sums of money at ne
moritzburg. lie got away from
18TH Africa and went to New York.
.Ithough the detective had informal
os +o where his quarry was ND
. vet he had first to visit London to
- the necessary eXtradltion pa
Then he hurried to America and
+bo assistance of the United States
Z prco ran down his man. BY the time
II had reached Maritzburg he had been
zinc hard for nearly three months
H. hod covered nearly 21,000 miles.
90 n the sternest chases of recent
avs was after Logs Darrell, formerly
- in the Seventh United States
- Darrell enlisted at the begin
T. Of the Spanish-American war and
#stincuished himself at Cuba. There
Il feT in love with a pretty Spanish
IT, and beggared himself in buying
- for his sweetheart. To obtain
ore money he robbed and murdered
i companion in arms named Crouch.
He then fed
detective named Dupuy was put
No. the murderer's track and, finding
il Glow. started for New Orleans. He
- RIGHT in his surmise that Darrell
H. zone there, but when he arrived
h. bird had flown. He had left on a
british mule transport for South Afri-
A Dupuy took train for New York,
hst boat for southampton, rushed by
hi across Europe, caught a boat of
h. German East African line and
fnallv arrived at Beira. in Portuguese
East Africa.
q There he waited like spider for
H. and lust as Darrell was fancying
himself safe from pursuit he pounced
mon him. Later on the detective de
bosited his prisoner safely in Castle
William Jail in New York. He had
travelled in all $1,000 miles and spent
A go i'm the chase.
4 one of the most astonishing Grim
halls England ever produced was
man named Benson, who began oper-
ations in London with two cOnfeder-
Ates He organized a series of swim
dling companies in the city, while he
himself, pretending. to be an invalid.
hved in the greatesNuxury in the Isle
b Wight. He posed as a great phi
lanthropist was foremost in charitable
works and went into the very best
Society. BY dint of bribing certain
oficers 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
b. Portsmouth Jail.
No sooner was he out than he was III
bis old tricks again. These eliminated
b. Switzerland. where he managed to
gain the affections of the daughter cf
BIZ English officer. Through her he in.
luced her father to trust him with the
Investment Of his entire capital. some
$4,000. He bolted with the money
CHASED across Europe, a detective
caught him at Bremen. TO avoid sean.
dal the victim promised not to prose
cute if Benson would give up the
money, The latter did so and left for
America. Hardly was the vessel out
Cf sight before it was discovered that
Pie bundle of scrip the thief had
banded over was worth at most S1G0
Followed across the Atlantic, Ben
Bon escaped to Mexico, where he made
10000 10y passing himself off as Nine,
PATHS agent and selling forged con
pert tickets. BY this time his photo
graph was in almost ever police bu-
feau in the world. Yet he lodged and
twisted under Il dozen aliases and was
beard Of in almost every South Amer
lean state before a clever New York
detective ran him down in Rio after &
two years hunt.
Even then he cheated justice. Land
ed III prison in New York, he walked
upstairs, chatting amiably to his jailer
Suddenly he made spring and jumped
clean over the banister. He was picked
Pr with a broken back and died that
hight.
The police never exhibit more relent
Jess energy than in hunting down a
colner. y coiner's crime is against
government, and so the whole forces
ol the state are against him. The
united States suffers far more from
colners than England does and is
pfoportionately keen to run down such
ouehders. Early in 1900 a man named
hastings was surprised in his work
shop, from which he had issued many
thousands of small silver coins, but he
was TOO quick for his would be cap
tofs and escaped. No fewer than seven
secret service men were put on his
rack. The remarkable fact is that
hastings never attempted to leave the
States.
LlIier, one of the detectives. got a
llht that stranger was in the woods.
re took a blanket and some food and
hid himself in a thicket. Very early
~ the morning Hastings passed, carry
lns q bag of food. Ellfer tracked him
70 ms refuge and saw that the forger
was armed. He waited some distance
nWay IN hiding. When night came,
hastings came out with dark Ian
Iern and searched every bush near his
hldlng place. At last he was satisfied
hilu went hnaly Go .oa,, oc IHIIfo,. folt