Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
LONDON =. DETECTIVES
STORES AND ANECDOTES OF -FOUR CLUE.
FINDERS.


three dangerous American card sharp
ers, who had robbed him (the intro.
ducer) on the night before. The pleas.
ure of the eardsharpers at the intro
duction may be guessed.
Chief Inspector Fox, who is trying to
solve the tragic mystery Of the death
of Miss Mary Money in the Merstham
Tunnel, is one of Englands leading
detectives.
He it was who for weary weeks led
the search for Miss Hickman, the miss
ing woman doctor, and who, before
the body Of the Inflated woman was
discovered in the Richmond planta-
tion, has made it practically certain,
by means of keen but silent organiza-
ton, by patient, ceaseless probing, and
by the hundred vigilant eyes of his
unknown assistants, that Hiss Hick-
man was not in the land of the living.
1t was he who unravelled the tangled
skein of the brutal Deptford murders
recently, and by skillful methods, of
which the public know nothing,
brought to justice the two murderers.
Mr.. Fox is a man of forty-five, with
a heavy head, set close on massive
shoulders. His fair hair, healthy COM
plexion, his quiet, cheerful expression
and certain unassuming prosperity
about the man give him the look of
the well-to-do gentleman farmer. But
| the genial eyes are set far apart and
the mouth hidden beneath that fair
mustache can shut up like rat-trap.
1t was after Chief Inspector Fox had
for some days been investigating an
obviously brutal murder that two per-.
sistent pressmen waylaid him, and
begged him for some hint as to the
direction in which his suspicious lay.
They knew quite well he was laying
plan of campaign against the un-
known murderer.
He smiled genially and declared
there was really nothing to say.
They persisted.
He seemed to be debating with him.
self as to whether he should tell them
| anything, and then in an apparently
weak moment he determined to give
them a word. "Well," he said, with
the air of comforting a secret, "be-
| tween you and me, have you consid-
cred the question of suicide? Then
he hurried away to go on with his prep
arations for the arrest.
Then there is Superintendent Mel
vile, just retired from Scotland Yard,
whose exploits with anarchists would
make a fascinating and exciting book.
He looks like a middle-aged family
| doctor. ps~1
Once an anarchist traitor came to
SCOTLAND Yard and told him Of a sedi-
tious and strictly private meeting of
| anarchists in Soho on the night before.
He related how violent and threaten
ing speeches were directed against
| prominent people in his country, what
plans were made at the meeting, how
the anarchists quarreled among them
selves at the meeting and how after
promiscuous fighting with fists a re-
vOlver was drawn.
"Yes," said the detective quietly,
''but you are late. have here (reach-
ing up to a pigeon-hole, and taking
down a sheaf of foolscap) a full ac-
count Of all that took place at the
meeting, together with verbatim re.
port Of the speeches made"
The man left Scotland Yard fright
| ened beyond measure at the omnis-
cience of this remarkable detective. AS
matter of fact, Mr.. Melville had in
the meeting one Of his young detective
sergeants, who had a knowledge of
shorthand. The risk he ran may cas-
lily be magined.-London Mail.