Connecticut western news., 1909-02-25
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ing crowd samples of how the craft
 ferreted out crime. it was a stroke of genius.
 "A message was sent in to our of
 fee by Abraham Hunker, a farmer, that he had lost his life's savings, some $1,O00 in gold. He had kept it in a stocking in his chimney, having talk
 en out a brick at one side, leaving a space just big enough to hold the gold. Gre day while the house was left ClCne some one stole the money. He asked us to send a man to work up the case.
 Dan Chadwick was in charge of the office Ut the time and arranged the plan on which the work was to be done. A few days after we got the message a man from the agency ap- peared at the nearest station to Hun ker's farm, hired a horse and drove out to see the farmer. He worked openly, talking about the case in presence of any one who happened to be about After several days spent in this kind of detective work he went away.
 Some of the people thereabout who knew q thing or two remarked that the fellow was a queer detective, let ting everybody know what he and his business was. He wouldn't be likely to learn much that way. The way to work a detective case was for the de tective to keep in the dark himself and put 'bullseye' on everybody else. They gave up any expectation of Hun ker ever. seeing any of his money again.
 "In about ten days another man from our office went to the neighbor hood, though this one didn't spend much time with Hunker. He went about among the farmers, told them all that he was a detective and en- gagged in hunting for the man who stole Hunker's money. This man didn't ask many questions. He didn't tell anything except what 1 have stated. Then he went away, leaving the farm CTS to talk about his visit and to specu- late from what he had noO said as to whether he was getting on to clew. Within a few days after his visit the news of it was spread all over the county.
 Ut was about two weeks later that another man appeared in the same To- cality. This man was more like what people expect a detective to be. He went ostensibly as an agent for steam blow, but he took so many peo- pie into his confidence that within week after his departure everybody knew that another detective had ar rived, detected and departed.
 "The next man that went on the job put on an air of profound thought. He stayed among the people several days before he let 1t out that he was detective. But by this time they had become wrought upon by so many de tectives coming among them that he had only to let the cat out of the bag to have the news go like a prairie fire nll over the country. He made no mys- tery of the matter. Indeed, he tRld Hunker that the discovery had been made that the money had been stolen by a man living in the neighborhood and it would soon be recovered.
 "'Why doesn't he get away with it?, asked Hunker.
 "Tf he should move he would ac- knowledge himself to be the thief. You wouldn't need a detective to tell you that any one leaving this region just now would be going to spend his stol- an money somewhere else
 "After that the farmers began to be ct of Thox- 6idnst talk any more about the case. They were uncomfortable about it. Every man felt that he was being shadowed No farmer could go into his house or put of 1t without fancying thgt some one stood behind a tree watching him. They began to wish Hunker had let the money go without subjecting them to such surveillance.
 About a month after the loss one Of the farmers sent word to the agency asking that a man be sent to him. When the detective arrived he found pale, haggard man who looked as if he had been keelhauled. He took the detective back of his house and told him to dig in a certain spot. The de- tective dug and brought up a cigaB-box containing the stocking with Hunker's gold in it. When the money was count ed every dollar was there"
 The speaker paused, and some one asked, "Well. how did it all come about?"
 '"The first man sent up did not ap- pear as q detective. He learned that 10 stranger had been to the house about the time the money disappeared. The gold had been kept in the same place for years, and knowledge of its location had doubtless come to some one of the community, who had been tempted to steal it. Chadwick. the greatest detective genius I have ever known, conceived q plan for forcing the culprit to confess. He sent the first man, who appeared openly for the purpose of spreading abroad the news hat the neighborhood was being watched, sending others to confirm his and to keep it in the peoples minds. By thus agitating tlfe matter 10 worked tbrOOOb oDyI,CJv- o11 o-