Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-03-25
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was lounging in the general Office
of the United States Secret Service bu.
reau In the Treasury building at Wash.
ington, reading alternate chapters from
Q description Of the Bertillon System.
a book called Criminal Characters
tics" and pamphlet entitled Eyes.
Ears and Noses of Criminals"
Reading a number of books in such
a manner is excellent training for de.
tective, in that his mind learns to
keep working on several different
trains of thought at once and can drop
one idea on the instant for another.
and second later pick up and resume
the first at the breaking-of point,
quickly and without review Of the
matter gone over before. A newspaper
man receives this training in his gen.
eral work,-a fact which probably &C.
counts for SO many ex.reporters in the
profession Their perception is keen.
they Judge relative values without hest
tation, and plan their actions far ahead
rapidly and accurately, making allow.
ance for a thousand unforeseen occur.
rences, with the result that they have
q remedy for every emergency. A good
detective is never surprised.
Somebody touched my arm. "Mr.
Wilkie would be pleased TO see you
al once"
reported to the Office of Chief vii.
kie. the man who holds his finger on
the button which starts that marvellous
piece of smooth-runnng machinery,
the Secret Service of the United States.
j. you have been practicing at making
copies Of treasury notes, you know how
that letter ~" with the trio OF IS"
behind 1t stares at you awake or
asleep. II you don't know, there are
plenty of men who do. and those let.
tiers are burned in the steel walls Of
many a penitentiary cell, first cursed
in anger, then beseeched for mercy,
until hope is succeeded by remorse and
despair with the realization that the
tentacles of the octopus have closed
until the debt of years in prison Is
paid off.
The Chief looked up as entered and
then resumed the examination of the
pile of papers on his desk, while he
Irs,rrotiors wiI oa,oh ,ou 7" .nd "a,
,I,, .na ro,,.o, ,,,a, la, -. -,
of work, especially in the Philippines.
Several months later found me In
NV spner,ors 6rish.d Tha s,oa,,a,
on which bod h,opod ,as.,,o n,orld
soi, ,n ,hroo da,s "a , do,ar1,,naa -
.nio, ,,ysol, ho,oro ,o.,,nr ,ho ,,,, %.
poIis Accord,,cIv I arraysd rovsaI, In
.n,,,.ss r,h,,o ona ,o,, ,,, 80, a.,
the waI,ed CITY on. oysnin. oross
cd tho pr,dgo ~ Sn,,r aua o,,orod
tho dis,r,ot ., p,ronao nassi,n don,r
Coilo posario on, ,,,r,,d a. r. ,os'
toward CaI,e San Eorrardo No, yish
ing TO appear n stranger assumed
that bored eypress,on common 10 tbe
Manila Yankee who has been In tbe
Philippines since the hattie Of Manila
Bay. Like the old skinner NJ the Nor
weeian scbooner I 600 evsrvtbi,g os
mass n but am tho lac, nerson a
casual observer wouId take for n man
sight seeing Won can SOC a thing Win
half an eve as readily as II vour month
were wide omen and your ewes nopn,np
out with wonder
NV tastes incline IN Robemia and n
Chinese restaurant attracted nv a.
tcntion ,Bobemians are a,wavs In Chi
nese res,aurants oooora,,n 20 a. ~
yelist). SO I entered and ordered a disb
of stomach.destroying cbop snev This
place was deserted excent for a connIe
OF smiling natives Of the Flowerv Kinp
dom. and after I was SERVED and tbe
shouting between kitchen and dinin.
room had subsidized wae aloha % oh'
sorb the mystery before me and watch
the crowds below.
Il noticed a small obiect or tho aoor
ma n,o,,oa q, 80 7. No.. s.,,,, g.,