The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-02-24
WERE AFTER A NURDER[SS
TWO PINKERToN DETECTIVES
SEARCHED NORFOLK RESORTS.
THOUGHT WOMAN WAS HERE
But They Failed to Locate Her and
Departed-Had Caught One Of the
Gang at Clinton, la, on Tuesday OF
This Week.

Gang at Clinton, la, on Tuesday Of
This Week.
Expecting to find murGcrcss IL
Norfolk, two Pinkerton detectives yes
terday searched resorts east of this
city, where they thought she was To-
Gated, but failed to discover the wo'
man and took an afternoon train out
of town Where the murder was com
mtted or who was the victim was
not learned. The presence of the de-
tectives in the city at all and the OBJ
ject of their visit was learned through
mere accident but the story is stated
upon unimpeachable authority.
The detectives stated while here
that on Tuesday of this week they
succeeded in capturing and arresting
at Clinton, Iowa. one of the gang with
whom the woman supposed to be In
Norfolk was associated in the crime
They had traced her, they thought, to
this city and felt confident yesterday
morning that they would have the
They visited all resorts in their still
hunt, being dressed as very ordinary
country citizens, but they left the city
without having arrested the woman.
Looked Like Farm Hands.
The detectives, dressed in their
plain clothes, resembled farm hands
for all the world. One of them would
be taken any day for a sheep herder
who had just arrived in the city on
train from the west with stock aboard
for the market He was, in the Ian
guage of the street a green" looking
specimen. He was clever actor,
however, and his art in the role of
half drunken man was perfect. He
would laugh a silly laugh, speak in
! sincere tone that made the listener
think he was unused to the world, and
could pass unidentified in any crowd.
Through this play acting he was able
to visit resorts incognito and be made
sport of by the women. And had the
woman been here, he would have
found her out before she realized that
he was anything but lubber
Each Man a Fortress.
Each of the detectives was for
tress in itself Each was armed to
the teeth, wearing guns handily on
his belt but having them so concealed
that not even by feeling along the
outer edge of the circle could one find
anything to suggest revolvers. They
were so placed that the right hand
might drop easily at the gun on the
left side and vice versa.
The Pinkertop men said nothing to
the local police during their stay in
the city. 1t is not their policy to allow
anyone to know of their presence and
when they need warrants or official
papers, they quietly secure them.
Had the Woman's Picture.
Together with other details Of de-
scription, the two detectives carried
picture of the woman being hunted
down, so that they knew definitely
whom they sought.
The accidental discovery of their
presence in Norfolk was due to the
fact that one of the detectives met
former friend early in the morning
and chatted with the Norfolk man in
the latter's Office for some time. lIav-
ing been very close friends at one time
in their lives the stranger in the city
had no hesitancy in replying, when
asked as 70 what he is now doing, that
he is employed with the Pinkertons.
The statement was at first ridiculed
by the Norfolk friend. 81 have pic
ture of you with Pinkertons," he
jeered.
At which retort, appreciating the
fact that the confidence would be TAX
en- in good faith, the detective pro-
duced his credentials, his star and
his battery of shooting irons.
my pal and are here today" he
explained. We're looking for a wo-
man charged with murder. think
we'll find her in a resort here. We
got one of the gang at Clinton yester-
day"
That was all the detective had to
say. The Norfolk friend asked no
questions as to the place or circum-
stances of the crime. And the pursu.
er of the criminal volunteered no in
formation. The fact that the two
men had been here was not made
known by the only man in Norfolk
who knew it until after they had made
! all their investigations.