Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-09
Makes Police Feel Cheap

Commissioner McAdoo made the same
statement in New York city. He looked
and felt like 80 cents when it was
proved by his own detectives that dur
| ing the entire of the time l had been at
liberty in Manhattan had maintained
a headquarters at No. 24S West Thirty
eighth street-right in the heart of the
Tenderloin.
Chief of Police "Tom' McQuade ap-
peared equally foolish before the Pitts
burg public when he publicly declared
was not living in Pittsburg during the
time 1 was at liberty in that city last
summer. Ten minutes after my capture
in front of the Pittsburg postoffice de-
tectives from headquarters were going
through my headquarters at No. 184S
Ann street, which is located within five
minutes of the central district on the
street cars.
Director Potter and Superintendent
Taylor of the Philadelphia police de-
partment both felt like taking a long
vacation when it was established be-
yond any shadow of doubt that dur
ing the time 1 had been at liberty in
that city 1 had lived at No. 5O45 Arch
street.
1 could recite several more instances
Of this sort, but lack of space forbids.
OhdIiOISSo DCICOhlNS
1 have refrained from bothering the
police of Los Angeles for the simple
reason 1 know pretty we'll that your
department here is handicapped to
remarkable degree. In the first place
you have not sufficient men to properly
police your town and the detective bu-
reau is so crowded with work that
chances are few that the the men at
tached there could devote but little time
to my capture.
However, this must not be taken as
an indication that stand in the least
bit of fear that a member of the Los
Angeles police department will ever
catch me. 1 have never been caught
by professional detective attached to
police headquarters in my history as
THE MYSTERIOUS MR.. RAFFLES,
and 1 did not come to Los Angeles to
break this uninterrupted record.
This entire story is directed at three
detectives attached to the detective bu-
reau, and 1 will watch with consider
able interest the haste with which they
will advance to The Herald office to
take me up at my word, and cover the
wager l propose.
Los Angeles is without doubt the
easiest place l ever operated in and
those who are after me here must bear
that fact in mind. l am working here
in precisely the same manner as / have
operated in other places, and for you
to capture me and win this money you
Will have to exert yourselves equally
as much as have others in the differ
ent places where the reward has been
gathered in.
Sees Mayor Harper
1 cannot "slow up" for an instant
while working among you. 1t would
simply spoil me for further work at this
game. / am among you twenty-four
hours of the day am eating and sleep
ing in Los Angeles every day and night,
and am daily giving you chances galore
to capture me.
This shows you just how easily an
escaped murderer could hide himself In
your very midst, were he to take even
half the precautions against capture
surround myself with. THAT IS SOME
THING FOR ALL HANDS-MEM-
BERS OF THE MALLET CLUB IN
CLUDED-TO PONDER OVER.
L carried the game to the steps of
city hall yesterday for the simple rea-
son that my business partner tele-
phoned me just before l started on my
story that 1t was declared about city
hall that l would not dare to operate
within a stones throw of that build
ing.
Why, such a thing is ridiculous. I
could even get inside the building II
l cared to and waste an hour In the
rotunda, as possibly l have done be-
fore this The answer to the thing was
my appearance in front OF city hall
yesterday, where had the pleasure OF
IN Raoss VrIuaN