Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-13
IN DESPA AIR
BECAUSE HE
|SLONESOME
Mr.. Raff1eS Longs for
Capture and
Liberty
Stands in Crowd and Is
Amused by Talk
of Vidocqs
Man of Mystery viii Take Chances
at Noon Today with Amateur
and Professional De-

George Harris Donohue)


By the time this chase is over there
will be some people in Los Angeles
who will just waken up to the fact
that have been a busy member among
them.
And this is 10 joke, as you will dis
cover later on.
The way some of the newcomers in
the crowd at Fourth and Broadway
started after me yesterday convinced
me that in order for them to get on
any sort of reasonable basis in this
search would have to start matters all
over again.
One elderly chap, who really looked
as though he oug1t to know better,
entertained me for fifteen minutes inn
mediately after l o'clock with a re-
markable pen -cture of myself which
he declared he was able to portray so
faithfully because he and l had been
bosom friends in New York city for
years.
This chap said his name was Hol-
men and that he lived in Pasadena,
and that his only excuse for being In
the crowd at all was merely for the
purpose of saying "howdy" to me in
case ne ndppeIleu dCIOSS lle.
Entertaining Old Party
why" said this interesting exhibit,
George Donohue and l used to work
on the same paper back in New York
several years ago, and If he only hap
pened along here now l know he would
lust give me the wink and then I'd
follow him to some place where we
could talk. old times over"
If l had been a raw recruit this story
might have helped some, but the in
teresting old party was so much In
earnest that l hated to call him; be-
sides his conversation helped while
away the time and at the same moment
dispel the suspicious of policeman No.
223 who was taking things easy within
a few feet of where / was standing in
front of the Central bank building
Some of the newcomers entered the
crowd yesterday in open-eyed amaze
ment. They couldn't understand what
all the row was about until informed
by some ready information handler that
the crowd was there to capture Raffles.
Then followed the usual long line of
questions as to who Raffles was and
what the crowd was looking for him
for. etc. The Herald newsboys as a
result did land office business sup
pIying these latest additions to my
retinue of sleuths. and the way they
read the story made me smile some,
particularly as many were getting their
first impression of the game in the
midst of a bowling mob, all OF whom
were supposedly keen on my trail.
Long Beaehers Wake Up
Two chaps who happened in town
from Long Beach were all interest
when they accidentally stumbled into
the crowd at Fourth and Broadway,
nP tXUn
what the excitement was all about,
when he was suddenly jumped by half a
dozen ardent sleuths, all of whom
thought they had the Man of Mystery
cornered at last.
After five minutes fighting and ex-
planning his identity the man from
Long Beach managed to eXtricate HIM
self from the crowd and the next mo-
ment noticed him reading The Herald,
while his companion maintained a
sort of guard over his shoulder.
I saw the same chap held up three
times during the afternoon, all of which
must have convinced him that there
was something doing in this city with
which he was not at all famlllar'
You see, good people, that's what
comes of not reading the right news
paper. Read the Los Angeles Herald
on the level. 1t will do lot or you
world of good.
The unexpected having happened at
Chutes park Thursday evening when
] was not captured as | sincerely hoped
would be, II was up to me again yes
terday TO take chances with those VINO
are some anxious TO annex thousand
dollar note which the Los Angeles
Herald is good enough to offer to the
first man, woman or child displaying
intelligence sufficient to identity me
while working under your very noses
Challenge Them All
The chances 1 accepted in presenting
this game yesterday should have re-
suited In my capture. Had accepted
similar chances in either Chicago or
New York / would now be writing the