The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-22
t SHERIDAN SEES YOU
There's No Use Saying You
Are Somebody Else.
A REMARKABLE GIFT
TIE Chief of the Bureau of Idcn H.
eaton of the Metropolitan Pol &c
Department II the Terror If Habit
ual Criminals-iIiaacs and His
guiscs Are of No Avail.

guiscs Are OF No Avail.
When mans comrades say OF
him. no matter what position he may
hold. that they are unable to point
to a single mistake made by him in
twenty-five years of service the state
melt is sufficiently remarkable to
/ cause comment. There are few OF
whom i, can be said with truth.
Yet there is man in the Police
Department of New York who for
( that length Of time has been iicnti-
fyina crooks by dint OF his wo"derful
n emory and Inspector McCaGcrty
or any one of his $50 s'euths VIII
tell you that If Lieut.. William SherI-
dams memory ever played him false
| they never heard OF it. II is re-
Ii ted OF Lieut. Sheridan, detective,
that he saw picture tEvnty-oue
years igo, without ever setting eyes
Ct the original and corrected the
Policeman who made the arrest as
to the identity OF man locked up
ia Raymond Street Jail The ar
resting policeman had long ago
forgotten. He went to the jail and
had an hours Ia with the prisoner.
Then .e came away declaring that
for once Sheridan was talking
through his hat. Subsequently the
nan himself, b~ough before the
committing Mag strate for sentence
said
This man Sheridan is a stranger
to me, but whoever he is he is all
right am the man he says am
That was Sherdans most remark
able feat, and it is a long time ago
since IL happened, but after that he
astonished his associates many times
until they ceased to wonder and ac-
cepted his tricks of memory as some
thing that We're TO be depended on
when all else failed.
In 1886 Sheridan Joined the New
York police force and on July !,
1887, he became one OF Tom Byrnes
detectives. One day Byrnes called
Sheridan into his office just after roll |
call in the morning
Little Teller" he said that was
lis name for the detective" read |
this over" and he tossed MIN a copy |
cs a morning newspaper 1t was an |
account of theft Of $165,000 from !
the National Park Bank ny its as
sIstant cashier and his subsequent
disappearance.
Il want you to get after that
man" ordered the chief Don't
come back here until you find him.
Sheridan went out and Headquarters
did not see him again for six months.
He returned with tho assistant cash
Ter. He had found him in an out
of-tne-way place known as tGnstead,
Can, twenty miles from the county
seat, I, which he took him on
freight train.
Ten years later Sheridan and his
wife were staying at a Washington
Aotel. There was a clerk behind
the counter whose face was familiar
It was the former assistant cashier.
The detective greeted him. Il don't
know you" said the clerk Here's
my bill LOOK at the name and see
If you recognize it" replied Sheri-
dan. You've changed lot in ten
years, but | recognize you" The
clerk looked at Sheridan's name and
at once recalled the man who had ar
rested him.
As head o.. the Identification Bu-
-eau Sheridan has charge of all
the photographs of crimii as filed
away IN the Rogue's Gallery. There
are Thousands and thousands Of
hesc, the collections of many years.
i',eridan looks at the photograph
,nce, put it away and thinks no more ,
If it until the man is arrested again.
4 new photograph is taken. Per-
laps the man wears beard this
f.nt. Maybe he has discarded his ,
upee and mu3tache and grown whis- ,
iers. The sharp eyes of the little :
nan in the outer room of the Detec- 9
i've Bureau penetrates the disguise ,
It once. 6
DO you know him?" asks Nc l
'affe~ty. 3
Sure says Sheridan, that's so
ID so. who served eight years in c
lnnemOra., .
All right says the inspector /
lie never asks Sheridan if he is sure. b
lie knows he is. q
The Identification chief is the t
curt of last resort An old crook Il
With a record long buried may pass
he line of $50 sleuths at morning C
lineup without one Of them recalling II
is face-and to make themselves b
amiliar with the faces of crooks is
heir business He may even fool 4
he Bertillon experts who go by u
measurements only, accurate as o
hey are. But he never gets by the Il
Bureau. That's why
II crooks, big and little, would s
ather enter the lions cage at Bronx Il
ark than go into that little room in Il
he rear OF the Police Headquarters | h
uilding TO submit TO the scrutiny ! h
T the man with the camera eyes" a
hose brain might be said to be
oneycombed with pigeonho es in
ach one OF which there is a face