Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-13
SOME CROOKS ODDLY CAUGHT
ron the cleveland piai. Dealer

No pain leaIer
photographers and many q crook is
picked W On this way. I got noted
woman gem litter that way twelve
years ago. she'd turned two big Maid
en- lane tricks. and the jewelers. Pro-
tective association wanted her a whole
lot.
A sob that was a good deal like her
work was pulled OF IN a Denver gem
house three or four months after her
getting away from New York. and
was sent out there 10 prowl some. IL
looked poor to me after I'd been on the
Job IN Denver for a week ! knew a
number Of stool pouters out there. but
they couldn't give me anything about
her. The Denver flies weren't hep 70
anybody that looked like her.
Il was just about TO flag the Job and
crawl in with the poor mouth and the
tale of nix nix. when one afternoon
stopped at a Denver photographer
show case to rubber at the pictures a
new display which had only been tackled
up a couple Of days or 50. The middle
picture resting against the black velvet
was a big boudoir size thing, and II was
my woman. IN a fine. clean lace dress,
fun figure. with a fan in her hand and
looking like a somebody hostess receiv-
ing her guests for a pink tea.
Il made the photoghapher's upstairs
plant In three Jumps. and had no
trouble in showing him that ] had a
right TO ask him where the woman OF
the boudoir size picture was. The pho
tographs had only been taken month
or 20 before and he had only to turn
over a few pages Of his book TO find the
name and address OF the sitter. The
name was all right. She was living at
Manitou Springs. and there l found
her in her fat. pretty snug. with coin to
toss at the brier birds. She clawed me
up quite a few with her nails when
told her she was the one, but brought
her back. all right.
"But a sure enough billion-to-one
chance was pulled of by Chicago fly
a couple OF years ago. He was sent up
TO Minneapolis TO bring back yegg
who'd been grabbed up there. He had
to wait in Minneapolis a couple of days
for the extradition thing. On the first
day he was standing in front OF his ho-
tel watching the crowd slide by when
the postman came along. The postman
slipped on a little patch Of ice in front
Of the hotel and down he went, the mail
from his bag futtering all over the
sidewalk. The sleuth stopped and be-
gan to help the letter carrier pick up
his mail truck. One of the pieces of
II had been taken in Callao. Peru, and
II was addressed TO a woman stopping
at the hotel where the detective was
put up.
1T was a real nice picture Of Chi
cago bank cashier. who had damned
several years previously. with wad.
and who had settled in Honduras.
where there wasn't any extradition
treaty with the states. The Chicago po-
lice figured that he'd stay right there in
Honduras. and so nobody was sent af-
ter him. The detective recognized the
picture on the postal card at once. The
cashier would never have taken the
chance Of sending that postal to any
body in Chicago but he had thought II
quite safe to send il TO Minneapolis !
The detective didn't say a word to the |
postman. but as soon as he got back to !
Chicago with his extradited man he told |
the chief about the picture postal. and /
he was hustled right down to Callao. /
He got his man in Callao without a bit /
Of bother and pulled down the big re- !
ward that the bank had offered for him. |
The woman to whom the postal card /
had been sent was the absconder's /
wife. If was the longest shot in the 1
nabbing line that l ever heard Of"