Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-08
GEORGE T|CHENOR
IN Los ANGELES
MAN WHO UNEARTHED GRAFT
OF FOUR SENATORS
GIVES UP DETECTIVES LIFE
Famous sleuth Says He Is Getting
Too Old to Endure Hardshps
and Exposures Of Pro-
fession
GIVES UP DETECTIVES LIFE

WIN was TIE tellIdl IlRuTB Ill Lflt COIl-
viction of the four boodling senators
Of the last Legislature, is at the IIol-
lenbeck
He has left the detective life be-
bind him, on the plea that he is get
ting too old for the activities and ex-
posures that make up the business of
hunting down and Furnishing evil
doers.
There is not half so much in the
business as the average person thinks"
said Mr.. Tichenor yesterday. "It is a
slow, earnest grind to work out the
details. Given the details and time to
work them out, in the average case
which comes to the detective, he should
have no great trouble in working out
the case. The newspaper given the
details insists upon it's men working
out a case within twenty-four hours
or at least a week. With us it is diff
ferent. We have the time and we are
expected to show results"
Has Sharp Features
Tichenor is not a large man. He is
VI lIltululil hClSllJ anu HIS IltllI 10 gray.
Dressed quietly and neatly he passes
for a well-to-do business man rather
than a man in the class of Sherlock
Holmes. There is nothing remarkable
about his features, excepting that they
are strongly cut. He has habit of
speaking slowly and in a low tone of
voice, as If he were afraid that some
cne were close by to overhear his con-
versation.
He does not talk about the cases in
which he has been participant in the
hunting down of law-breakers.
You will find them all in the files
cf the Pinkerton agency if you want
them and If you are able to get look
at them," he says
Then he mentioned a few of the
more celebrated cases without giving
the data.
do not know how came to take it
up, but I suppose I just drifted into
it. Yes, remember my first case, but
the details are not for publication. For
some years I was assistant superin-
tendent of the Pinkerton agency at
San Francisco. In that position 1
Travelled through Alaska, Canada and
down the Pacific coast into Mexico, be-
sides working in the western mount
ain states and at one time or another
visiting every city of prominence in
the United States where the Pinker-
TONS have, agencies
SeIby SmeIter Robbery
Eyes, the robbery at the Selby
smelter of $29S.00O several years ago by
one of it's employees had the appear
ance of developing into a hard case,
but the man Winters was landed
forty-eight hours after the theft. w.
B. Sayers, B. F. Kimball and myself
We're sent out by the office on the in
Vestigation.
winters was a trusted employe of
the smelter and worked in the silver
room. He worked for weeks construct
ing tunnel which ended underneath
the safe, where he used a drill and
ratchet to make an opening.
Shortly afterward, when a heavy
consignment of bullion was received
and which he had been awaiting, he
made an entrance to the safe through
his tunnel; was successful in his eff
fcrts and taking his ill-gotten gain he
dropped it into the bay about three
quarters of mile from the smelter.
"If Winters had not been a fool our
chase would have been n long one
When we rounded up the employees of
the smelter the next morning after the
robbery Winters was the only one
missing, and this directed suspicion
found a dark lantern and a shovel
with earth clinging to it. An analysis
of the dirt on the shovel and that in
the tunnel showed both to have an
identical composition.
winters in completing the robbery
went over to see a woman with whom
he was in love and who lived at San
Rafael. He was arrested at her home
and made a full confession. The
amount stolen was recovered intact
mo, have never worn a disguise.
7 have never had to do So" he said,
with laugh and with this sentence
he candidly admitted that he was the
inferior of Nicholas Carter, Old Sleuth
and the others who are wont to be-
come lightning artists in their pursuit
OF "Red Handed Ikes," Terrible Bills"
and other terrors.