The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-14

With the world growing smaller
every year because of the improved
and rapid means of transportation
from one part of the globe to the
other the detection of crime and the
capture of great criminals is becom-
ing international in character. More
and more are the police officials of the
various great nations of the world
drawing closer together in the effort
to check crime and to detain the law
breaker, so that no longer is the Grim
inal of one country able to hide HIM
self within the borders of another
nation.
1t is predicted that some day an in
ternational police force will be estab'
and that New York will be the head.
quarters for this most intricate sys-
tenn of detective machinery, in fact
already that city occupies leading
position in respect to the policing OF
the world, and the new and magnifi
CSuJ noW UCluS COui
pleted will give her the accommoda
tons and facilities for carrying on the
work and the like of which no other
city of the world has anything to com
pare.
Built primarily for the needs OF
New York city alone it nevertheless
is of such size and its arrangement
and equipment so complete as to en-
able it to fill worldwide mission. AL
ready the police force of New York
city has taken first place for efficiency
in the capture of criminals escaped
from foreign shores, so that New York
has come to be the best place in the
world for the big crooks to keep away
from, and metropolitan detectives are
constantly travelling between this and
foreign centers, transferring wrong
doors and studying methods. Very
close cooperation already exists be
tween the various forces.
The greatest headquarters abroad
is England's famous Scotland Yard,
group of buildings which together are
larger than New York's new building
and which have the record of having
handled 100000 prisoners and ticket
of-leave men. But all of London's pc
lice work centers in Scotland Yard
whereas in New York each borough
has a carbohydrates of it's own
Combining the American headquarters
with the central stations of Brooklyn
Bronx, Queens and Richmond, yoI
have an aggregate unequaled in size
as the Manhattan headquarters is I'm
equaled in efficiency.
The cosmopolitan character of New
Yorks population has had much to de
with making it an international police
center. With it's criminals from prac
tically every country in the world, il
has been forced to employ men speak
ing practically as many languages ant
many more dialects and some mem
bers of the force are kept constantly
at some school of languages to equiv
them for special work among the for
eigners.
This alone has linked the depart
ment very closely to those OF most Of
the foreign lands. Within one hour
after the suspects in the murder o.
Father Kasper remembered as the
trunk mystery were known to the
New York detective bureau, the worlt
had been circled by cable with theil
full description. Within "a hours they
had been traced, and they were ar
rested the following week; one in
Marseilles, another in Constantinople
and a third in Algiers.
international police cooperation has
also gone far in the fight on the Black
Hand, Hunchakist, Malta and other
foreign organizations of criminals
Several European governments have
sent their detectives to America and
put them at the service of the Ameri
can officials in this work. This has
already resulted in the practical ex
termination of the Armenian Huncha
kists. whose outrages recently stirred