Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-06
II They Are Not You Are Not IN
The Swim Or Up to
Date.
SOME HUMoRS OF THE CHASE

Are yon followed bv deteetIve7

# not. yon ere not among the
towns elite. Every man these days
should be followed BY a sleuth. The
experience is really pleasant and not to
be duplicated by any form of popular
amusement yet developed
II you cannot drop dark hints that
win make real detectives wonder
where you got them. hire detective
outright. There are three agencies
here that viii furnish one for mod
est sum, not counting the correspon-
1cncc school detectives in long rak-
ish ovcrcoo,s and dark. cut hats of
the latest dime novel style.
SPARKS ARE FLYING.
In the solution OF the Utah National
bank robbery, the wheels of investi-
cation are lying fasIer today than
they ever have before. With the
speed getting up to real rapidly.
more sparks than ever are beginning
to fly, and everybody who sees one.
seems to enjoy an Inherent right to
work 1t off on everybody else AS an
original discovery.
One result Is amusing. The detec-
tives, when they first came, picked up
the mass OF floating Information and
surface indications.
= w Al El4NNf VIZ
After they had worked this material
dry and strained IL of every live wire.
1t was loosened upon an unsuspecting
group OF near wise. and the result is
that today heads get together In every
uptown Office to trade important clues.
aud all OF them are of the discarded
class that were worked to blind ends.
SOME EXPERIENCES.
To the humors of the case. one good
source of levity is furnished by the
experiences of those who are sleuthed.
Here Is what happened to a young bank
clerk who had occasion to visit the
O s. l.. depot to meet some incoming
relatives He boarded the ear at the
Utah National bank corner and saw
his shadow get OH after him. Because
he wanted to have some fun with ms
shadow he cropped OFF the ear half way
to the depot just In time 10 board
town going car, and had the pleasure
OF shaking an affectionate farewell to
the diligent sleuth as he stood on the
street crossing horalessly left in ar
rears in his effort to get the new car
In the quick change.
INCIDENT AT WILSON.
A little happening at the Wilson a
sew nights ago illustrates how even the
best of detectives or near best, may be
drawn in to a show of their color.
During the time when Harry j. Rob-
inson was out at service as an amateur
detective his private sleuth, who was
Instructed to follow the Pinkertons IN
that vast combination of shadowing IN
which detectives Swallowed suspected
the reporters, and still other detectives
Swallowed the whole crowd, had an ex-
peIience worth telling. The sleuth
wanted to locate tho Pnkerton men In
"a lnl
with the head man. Lopdoner. He ac-
oordingly had confederate telephonv
the Wilson and ask to see Pnker-
ton.
THREE AROSE.
"Pinkertons wanted at telephone,
shouted the call boy. Up from the crowd
got three men and headed for the phone
Londoner sat still and unnoticing,
After that the private detective eds-
ed near enough to hear a mighty stin
calling down to three operatives and
another for telephone girl and a call
boy who shouted out state secrets.
II you have ever gone into a bank
of any size YOU have seen a little metal
signs hanging by a chain TO the re-
ceivlng or paying teller's cage. 1t
reads: Member. American Banking
Association The sign according TO
labor unions agitators, is the symbol
that the banks have "A union.
To n bank. however, it is n little
charm that will keep ii from all harm
and danger. II has II burning sig
nifcance to every crook in the country.
II means that he will either confine his
operations to banks that don't swing
the sign, on he will he hunted with a
ruthiessness that knows no ending
INDIGNANT CROOK.
one OF Salt Lakes older newspaper
men once met William Pinkerton when
he was here working ON n case, and
he told him OF capturing a thief and
upbraiding him for being such fool
as TO tamper with one of his banks
The thief Immediately took on a tone
~ injured innocence and protested that
there was no little tin sign longing
out" ana that therefore he had been
trapped and mistreated Investga-
ton proved the bank had neglected to
keep its little charm out In view
CIGAR BETRAYED HIM.
Stories OF this kind are being told
10 abundance now that sleuthing Is be-
coming a more than popular diversion.
Once there was a sleuth lying to in
low dive seeking a glimpse of two