Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-17
HOTEL DETECTIVES.
Kept Busy Watching Rogues and For
 getful Ones.

Kept Busy Watching Rogues and For
 getful Ones.
 You got no business here. I'll hike right down am tell Chief Hayes or Halpin you're loafin' in hotel"
 s'Git outr'
 Not me. I'm respectable man. I'm no bum, VI bull"
 "Git outv'
 Thinkin' t drive every honest man out uv every honest house in Kansas City. Yere up agin it this time, ye-''
 "Git outr'
 Not loud word. Not an angry gesture. The guests grouped and struggling in the hotel lobby were un- conscious of the little tragedy-tr ial, but still a tragedy-that was be- ing enacted by, the hotel counter yes terday afternoon. The one man, small, dapper, well dressed, his pink cheeks flushed with anger, his eyes blazing with excitement, stood in front of the
 
 hotel register, the pen twirling in his twitching fingers. The other plainly dressed, wearing a soft black hat, with quiet face and watchful eyes, seem ed satisfied ito repeat his brief ordor.
 For the last time. skin; get out!su
 The pen was dropped as a large and fiorid man hove up to the register and the dapper fellow moved softly away and backed up against the screen. He looked feline. He swore with fuency under his breath.
 What yer got to do with it amp how? I'll see Halpin. You were re duced anyway. know you"
 "That'll do. I'm not there now. I'm out. I'm hotel detective. Git!
 The dapper man said no more. He threw up his chin in defiance and pad ded across the lobby and then through the heavy doors into the cold, indif' ferent streets.
 The hotel detective lit cigar sHThat's the way of 1t" he said. Skin Murphy he was. Cleyerest hotel thief i'm the west. I've stalled him off here but he'll get into one of the other ho tels and clean up some of the guests jewels before the week is out, foi sure. Come all the wag' from Chicago to see the horse show and get busy I expected him sooner. He registers as an ordinary guest and looks quitf fine gentleman. doesn't he? But hs was inst A common slum child, kid of the Chicago gutters. Where he go' his refined looks from I can't tell"
 "Do. YOU get many of his kind ir hotels?'' asked his friend.
 "only wsDen shows are on Most oi our work is taking care of guests There are about a thousand Of then coming and going every day in rh' two hotels we look after. And tnei there are nearly 700 emplOges as well so you see it's a busy and wealthy town we live in- But the careless sas's' of people Is surprising
 An excited woman crowded up tt the counter and assailed the clerk
 aAfy coat, My coat has been stolen If was ftirlined and cost me-ah, S2O0 left it in my room. I'm sure dld 1t could only have been one ofsuur-
 The hotel detective interrupted her ssyo,1r coat is basind the counter. lady saw YOU leave it behind you in tn drawing room and could not foiioV YOU quick enough.
 The woman took the coat and saile' away. muttering angry deniais.
 ..That's how 1t goes" said the hons detective. phiIosophically. We're Jus a sgrt of male nurse girl for grown ur~-men as well as women onk | vestery1ay a traveiing salesman ln | burrv sIiuped around me screen an lasa a hlsck leather case on the desk It was locked and put 1t away safely He came back in tte afternoon an | ssked the bell captain. wsno kneF nothing about it. for the case: deciare tt was full of diamond jewelry- An nwas I gave him the case baek- dsdp-t hand out any advice Wha wss the ueer But you see. we're kep hus.u I,y one thing and another all day Aud the servsutss Well. to tel th trrrh. they give us vGy little troubi when you consider mat there an nearly 7O0 of Gem
 He threw hts cigar butt into cis pidor and moved avay- But l hkf better than ciIy Eork- A man zft ve-y tfred of inrur1ble cTimi1alsf- Kansas Ciu TInes-