Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-22

WhN I might hape seen that tor SnyseF" Yes, of course, but tthe reader hasn't done so until JMartin Hewitt pointed out the Awoy. And therein lies fhe chief Icharm of the detectives disclo- sures.
 ~1HOSE who retain any memory
 of the great law cases of f1f- teen or twenty years back will
 remember at least the title of 4that extraordinary will case Bartley versus Bartley and others which occu- pied the probate court for some weeks Bon end. The affair will perhaps be bmore readily recalled as the occasion of the sudden rise to eminence in their brofeSsion of Messrs. Crellan, Hunt &
 Crellan, solicitors for the plaintiff, a
 result due entirely to the wonderful liability shown in this case of building Np apparently out of nothing a smash Ing weight of irresistible evidence. dBut there are not many of the outside public who know that the credit of the whole performance was primarily due to young clerk in the employ of Messrs. Crellan who had been given charge of the seemingly desperate task of collecting evidence in the case.
 This MT. Martin Hewitt had, how ever full credit and reward for his exploit from his firm and from their client, and more than one other firm of lawyers engaged in contentious work made good offers to entice Hewitt to change his employers. Instead of this, however, he determined to work inde- pendently for the future, having con ceived the idea of making regular business of doing on behalf of such clients as might retain him similar work to that he had just done with such conspicuous success for Messrs. Crellan, Hunt & Crellan.
 myself first made Hewftt's ac- uuaintance as a result of an accident resulting in a fire at the old house ih which his office was situated and in an upper floor of which occupied bach elor chambers. was able to help in saving a quantity of extremely impor- tant papers relating to his business The acquaintance thus began has last cd many years and has become rath- or close friendship.
 q consider you, Brett" he said, ad- dressing me, "the most remarkable Journalist alive. You have never yet been guilty of giving away any of my little business secrets you may have become acquainted with"
 I This he said. as he said most things, with a cheery, chaflng good nature IRhat would have been, perhaps, sur prising to q stranger who thought of him only as a grim and mysterious discoyerer of secrets and crimes. h. ideed, the man had always as little Of lkhe aspect of the conventional detective as may be imagined. Nobody could ap- pear more cordial or less observant in smanner. although there was to oe seen Id certain sharpness of the eye. which might, after all, only be the twinkle of good humor.
 I did think it worth while to write something of Martin Hewitt's investi- .gations and a description Of one of his adventures follows.
 Y At the head of the first flight of a 'dlngy staircase lea-iing up from an ever open portal in a street by the Strand stood door. the dusty ground glass upper panel of which carried in It's center the single word Hewitt" while at its right hand lower corner. in smaller letters. Clerks Office" ap- peared. On a morning when the clerks in the ground floor offices had barely hung up their hats, a short. well dressed young man, wearing spec tacles. hastening to open the dusty door ran into the arms of another man who suddenly issued from it.
 'T beg pardon" the first said. 'Ts this Hewitt's detective agency efieey'
 "Yes. I believe you will find it so," the other replied fIe was a stoutsh. clean shaven man of middle height and of a cheerful. round countenance. "You'd better speak to the clerk
 In the listle outer office the visitor was met by a sharp lad with inky fln- gers. who presented him with Q pen and n printed slip. The printed slip having been filled with the visitors name ard present business and con veyed through an inner door. the lad reappeared with an invitation to the private office. There. behind writing table. sat the stc1tish man himself.
 Good ma-ing. Mir. Lloyd-Mr. Yer non Lgyd.- he said atTably, looking again at the slip. You'll excuse my care to start even with my visitOrs-I must, you know You come from Sir James Norris. I sec
 -Ies: am his secretarys have only to ask you to go strzizht to Lento7 Croft at oEce. if you can. on very i'm