Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-09
COUNTRY DETECTIVES
MAKE MANY BIG ARRESTS

WV rural Ohock Combs mas
w got the city fly cop as
far behind him as the
six-cylinder Limousine has the veloci-
pede.'
The aged detective sergeant sat in old
police headquarters recently vacated. and
gazed reminiscently at the long rows of
criminal lOokouts'' which plastered the
wall.
THE seed spotter. hidin' behind his lit
tie tin star pinned to his lone gallus." he
continued. never overlooks a bet when
there Is a reward of even so cents. He
don't bother much bout clippin' poetry
from the Lone Corners Seldom Weekly
for his scrapbook. Not him. His long
suit Is building up a four-flush O GRIM
inology out of circulars that drift into
his town when the chief of police of some
large city let's a slick 'un slip through
the police dragnet and beat 1t for the
hoopskirts NV civilization. And the rube
never gets wise to himself that the COM
bined efforts of the police departments
of the country are apt to round up the
fugitive. Nor does the rube ever bother
about inquirin' If the newspaper reports
are correct when they chronicle the ar
rest of a thief or murderer.
Instead OF that. this long grass detec-
tive proceeds to put every stranger who
hasn't family tree handy under arrest
and then tries to hitch him up with his
scrapbook. Listen to this.
The old detective sergeant picked up
newspaper and read a dispatch dated
July . from Laporte Ind, the scene of
the death farm tragedies:
THE sheriff of Hillsdale, Mich. this
morning telephoned Sheriff SutZer that
he had captured Mrs. Belle Guinness and
local authorities. They refuse to send an
officer to Hillsdale. declaring that Mrs
Guinness lost her life in the flames which
destroyed her home"
The detective tossed the paper to the
floor and gnawed off thick piece of to-
bacco.
Touchin' on Dorsey Foultz.
Now that's what the police force are
up against he declared. Not that it
makes much difference. but it is funny.
And the Washington department has had
its share of it, too.
Now 1 really hate to mention the de-
partment's Oldest friend. Dorsey Foultz. in
connection with this because he's been
the shoulderstraps of the police. but any
how that was the beginning of the Wash
ington departments experience along this
line.
When Dorsey shook us cheerful day
day as he slid into a sewer manhole
that was the signal for the rube contin-
gent to make a noise like getting busy.
And they got.
Partner. If all the kilograms that have
come meanderin' in from Sheriff Catch
umquick. Deputy On-ther-trail and Chief
Aman Upatree were put end to end they
would reach from the Peace Monument
to the White House. He's been located
everywhere from the north to the south
pole and from East Infinitude to Judg
ment Day.
THE next dose the department received
was when Frank Funk. alias Fink. alias
Wilson, alias Nicholson. alias Edward
Bald murdered William H. Brooks. mu-
tilated him with an AK. nearly killed his
wife. Martha Brooks. and stole 5000. the
savings Of a lifetime. from the old
couples home. Ola 22d street northwest.
1T was the most brutal killing in the
criminal history of this city. and from
til six months later. when he was brought
back from Columbia. Mo, by Capt. Rob
ert NJ. Boardman and Detective Ned Wee
don, Capt. Boardman never rested in his
efforts to apprehend him.
Funk's Identification Marks.
This led to the most thorough canvass
Of the states ever made for an escaped
criminal. Funk had deserted from the
army. and from the recruiting station the
police obtained a chart of his body, with
the measurements and marks OF identifi-
cation.
Funk was convicted OF murder in the
first degree and hanged at the District
Jail November 10. 1900. All OF those six
months the detective Office was kept busy
investigating reports from all over the
country that Funk had been captured.
Sometimes it would come from the south
and again the west. and. to cap the eli
max. even after he had been executed,
the kilograms kept pling up.
1.-The most recent was from the sheriff
Of Waco. Tex, sent July 5, 1906 The
sheriff declared that he had Funk in GUS
tody, and until he received the message
from Capt Boardman telling him Of the
execution he persisted In the belief that
he had earned the $500 reward offered by
the Washington police.
Now. to come down to the next big
criminal canvass that the Washington po-
lice department made brings US to the
case Of Arthur Kemp. charged with mis-
appropriating the police funds. You could
pave Judiciary Square over there" he
said, pointing out of the window, III you
laid all of the little cards side by side.
They began to bring results as soon as
the country sheriffs began to have ideas.
and goodness knows how many kilograms
were received prior to his being located
In New Orleans.
But that isn't the point. Since he has
been returned here, with the papers as
full of 1t as they were at the time. the
genus county tracker is still catching
him. He has been located in West Vir-
ginia. Missouri and a couple OF western
states. Take my word for it, son, they'll
still be getting reports of his capture for
the next ten years.
Criminal Taking Is a Science.
But taken all in ALL it just goes to
show how criminal taking Is getting down
to science. and how efficacious a good
canvass is in catching a man who has
succeeded in getting away. OF course.
these fake arrests have been pulled off
all over the country on all Of the large
cases, and Washington has seen lot
more Of them than are written in the
Foultz, Funk and Kemp cases. But the
others were for men a good deal less
wanted by the local department than
were and are these three. and because
Of that the kilograms relative to the sup
posed arrest Of the wrongdoers have been
lost sight Of
I'm this day Of criminal Identification
by the Bertillon system, little is left I'M
done. but even when a man breaks into