Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-18
HAVE AIDED JUSTICE.
Pictures That Have at Various Times
Helped to Detect Criminals.


Tit-Bits.-For their success in secur-
ing their quarry the police at times
owe not a little to the enterprise of the
press. Percy LEROY, the murderer of
Mr. Gold, was captured through the
publication of his portrait in the Daily
Telegraph, which, coming to the
notice of the landlady of the house in
which he was hiding, was recognized
by her as that OF the self-styled en-
graver Park, who had been her ledger
for a few weeks past. She gave
notice to the police. who promptly
arrested the wretched man.
w. P. Firth, r. A., tells in his rem
iniscences of a friend of his named
O'Neil who was attacked one night by
a footpad and robbed of his watch.
The assault CHANGED to take place be-
meath gas lamp by the light of which
the victim saw sufficient of the thiefs
face to jot down rough sketch.
This he carried to the police who by
its aid soon afterward arrested his as
sailant
In the possession of the writer is q
water-color drawing by the late Will
liam Hunt which was the means of
trapping dishonest valet who had
robbed his master. The fellow had
eluded the vigilance of the police, and
the gentleman had given up all hopes
of bringing him to justice when hap
pening to visit a friends house, he
saw on the walls of the dining-room a
speaking likeness of his rascally SER
want in the guise Of an Italian shep-
herd. The following day he called
upon the artist, who, on hearing tue
facts of the case, supplied him with
the address of the original who was
duly arrested and received his just
desert.
Even more curious is the history of
the sketch of spaniel made by Sir
Edwin Landseer, in which a detective
who CHANGED to see the picture recog-
nized the property Of a man of whom
he was in search. The address of the
then owner of the dog was ascertained,
and the animal, being surreptitiously
taken from his custody, unconsciously
betrayed his master by guiding the Of
ficers of the law to the very house
where he was hiding.
Horace Vernet, the celebrated
French painter, was amazed to notice
the effect that the picture of brigand
had upon a lady who had called at his
studio. On his inquiring the cause of
his visitors perturbation the latter re-
piled that week previously her house
had been broken into by masked
man, whose eyes-so malign and ruth
less were they-had stricken her with
sickening terror-a terror which had
been strangely revived by the eyes of
the portrait before her. This story
so interested the artist that he COM
municated il to the police, who, acting
on his suggestion searched his models
lodgings, with the result that great
part of the stolen property was found
on the premises.
Many years ago the late George
Cruikshank told the writer that a
gentleman who was glancing through
one of his sketch books was so struck
by mans head that he, with visible
trepidation, inquired the name of the
original. Cruikshank, surprised at
his emotion, answered that the por-
trait, the result of pure imagination
aided by abstract observation, was in
tended to represent a typical crimi-
nal, and demanded the cause Of the
others so anxious inquiry.
"Only that it bears striking resem-
blance to my butler" was the reply.
'Tn that case your buffers assuredly
thief" said Cruikshank. Keep a
sharp eye upon him"
Which the gentleman did, with the
result that the artists statement was