The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
LUCK IN DETECTIVE WORK.
How a Fleeing Cashier Was Found
Discovery of counterfeiters.
CPittsburg Dispatch.)

luck if the criminal gets away, ana II Is
luck if he gets caught. Fortunately Tor
society. the luck usually IS against me
criminal and on the side of the law.
One detective on the central stan wa
looking for a pickpocket recently, says
the Chicago Tribune, and was IN
fever of Impotence to get hold OF lIle
man that afternoon because II was
feared he would leave town. The pick
pocket could not be found at any OF
his usual haunts. He was known 10 DC
a baseball fan, and the detective, VINO
was the only man on the force that
knew the offender by sight, decided at
once that he was attending the game
II happened, however. that there was
a game that afternoon at both the pan
parks. It was a question of SOuthslue
or Westside, and the detective Tipped a
coin TO see where he should go. me
coin sent the officer west, and his luck
was with him. The piekpocket was 10
Gated in the grand stand and followed
and taken in custody as soon as the
game was over.
It is astonishingly easy to make
mistake in tracking down Il criminal l.,
and il is no disparangement to the po-
lice that a blunder, sometimes on the
part of the offender and sometimes on
the part of the officer, often carries the
hunter straight TO his quarry. \ re-
cent instance of this kind seems al
most providentiaL. The cashier Of a
grain company on LaSaile street HAD
been DlunginG on his own account anC
was behind in his cash TO the tune Of
several thousand dollars. His employ
ers complained to the bonding compd-
ny which stood responsible and at the
same time the cashier got wind OF the
exposure and bought a ticket for his
home town in Wisconsin and left on
the afternoon train. \ detective was
after him within two hours.
But the detective, to while away the
time on the train, engaged III a game
of whist with a party of drummers,
and before be realized IT was carried
two towns past the station where he
was supposed to change cars. CuTsins
his luck the sleuth left the train and
found by inquiries that he could not
get back to the junction point for two
hours.
He wandered around the village
streets and ran almost into the arms
of the fugitive, who, by cute trick.
was waiting there Tor d train TO take
him westward. Ii is such things as
this that cause detectives to believe in
luck.
Some time ago an odd piece of luck
enabled the city police to tip off a den
of counteTfeiteTs TO the government de
tectiVeS In raid on d poker joint d
young man who was known to the pO-
lice YVES captured with the other play
ers, and at the station it was decided
tn search him, just for luck Several
new half dollars were discovered in his
pockets, and these We're found to be
counterfeits of the cieVeTest kind, being
of good weight and ringing almost true.
The man was detained and his room
on Illinois street was searched. =
quart or more of the coins were fOunL
in the bottom of mis- trunk. but no die
or melting pots were discovered. II
was clear that the poker player wa
showing the queer" for d den of coin
eTs. Nothing was said about his arrest
but a government detective rented the
room across the hall and shadoWe0
every one who called to see the man
while ne was lying in the station
That night the plant of the counter
feiters was discovered in a basement
near the north branch of the river, and
the entire gang is serving time.
\ notorious French murderer was dis
covered by a lucky accident in cafe
at Hayre. \ detective who was dining
the-e happened to overhear u young
man making inquiry of the cafe keepei
as TO the formalities necessary to Sc
cure Dassange for America. on being
told that first of all his papers must b.
in order ne admitted that he had none
ilt uEltLl1NE lbOh min III CuEtDuN Oh
the chance that he might be d Grim
1 inal.
When he was searched documents
were found connecting him with the
Pantin murder, a bloody mystery which
at that time was creating an immense
sensation all over France. 1t eventual
ly transDired thar this yOuth-but
10 years old-had in the most cold
blooded manner murdered a family o.
tie hoard of money. The police had not
a single clew until the accidental dis
coveTy of the fact that this young man
had no passports.
1t was luck-and bad luck for him
that caused a Westside woman to write
a message to her criminal lover with &
hard pencil on a soft pad of paper. The
police had been watching her for Z
week in a vain effort TO discover hi.
hiding place. They knew she was writ
! ing to him, but they never could inter.
cept the missiyes. Then one day a de.
tective found the pad on which she haC
| just written. The sharp-pOinted hare
| pencil had left the address iDdented Oh
the sheet below.
A police officer on the northwest sid,
| discovered the body of a murdered CIR
some years ago, because he was lucky
| enough to have IA dog that insisted
upon following him. The girl disap.
peared and the whole country had beer
! searched for her and not the slightes
| trace had been discovered. The griev.
| ing mother insisted that the young wo.
man had been murdered. The polio,
thought she had run away The Officer
who found the body was walking acros:
the prairie, followed by his fox terrier
that refused to be left at home Tn,
dog. finding the body of the unfortu-
nate girl half buried beneath weed:
and rubbish, barked so loudly that hi.
master followed him to the spot.