The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-17

in exile in Windsor. Ont. across the
river from Detroit Vailandinghdm was
southern sympathizer Murray, sarbed
as a civilian. crossed 10 Windsor end
settled down to learn, first Of all. the
ways of Vallandingham and any ether
confederate sympathizers gathered
there. He observed closely all who
called on Nallandingham. Among them
he noted a dapper. energetic little fell
low who came and went at Valland-
ingham's headquarters. Murray learned
that his name was L. c. Cole, and that
he was reputed to be a confederate
agent Cole was about IS years old. 3
feet { inches tail, weighed 135 pounds,
with red hair and long mustache. and
gray eyes so small and sharp and
bright that they were the first feature
to draw Murray's attention to the sus-
pect Murray finally overheard a scrap
of conversation between Cole and VAL
iandingham that convinced him the
former was an important and danger
Gus person. He communicated with
Commander Carter and prepared to fol-
low Coles. trail If it led to the end of
the earth.
Cole left Windsor with Murray at his
heels. He went first 10 Toronto and
stopped at the Queens hotel. where he
was Joined by a number of other south
ern sympathizcTs. Cole was clearly
the chief among them, as they oil de-
feTred TO him. After several lung con-
ferences with his aids, Cole went to
Montreal, and Murray went on the
same train. Thus the chase began.
Murray was young, inexperienced as a
detective, unframed in the art OF shad-
owing a man. running down a clue or
solving d mystery. Cole. on the con-
traTy, was an experienced ana trained
agent. schooled in all the tricks of that
branch of warfare I'm which he was en-
gagged. His difficult task. however,
seemed simple to Murray; he adjusted
his faculties TO il from TIE outset 1t
serves to indicate his natural bent to-
ward the work OF a detective. A COIN
cidence of his career is that his first
visit to Toronto, where later he estab-
lished his headquarters in lis life work,
was as a detective trailing his man. 1t
was then that he learned the simple rule
which governs the shadowing Of a sub
ject: Keep your man i'm sight as much
as possible. and keep yourself out of his
sight as much as possible
When Cole alighted from the train in
Montreal. Murray was car length be-
hind him. Cole went to the st Law
renee Hall hotel and Murray followed
suit. There the southern agent was
Joined by a woman. The latter was a
big, stately blonde, magni6cently
dressed, a stranger to Murray at the
time, although later he identified her
as the celebrated Irish Lie" From
Montreal Cole and his female partner
went TO Albany. The impulse was
strong on Murray to seize them and
| notify Commander Carter. He thought
the matter over carefully. He pos
sessed evidence that they were con-
federste sympathizers, but lacked evil
lence as to a plot. or their plans. He
decided to follow them. half suspecti1s
that they would go far south before re-
turning to execute any desperate plans
I'm the north.
They stopped over one night in Al
bany, then went to New York, took the
train to Philadelphia. and thence to
Washington. They met one. and
sometimes two or three strangers in
each city. evidently by previous ap-
pointment. while Murray trailed them
patiently from place to place From
Washington Cole and Irish Lie wen;
to Harrisburg Pa, and from Harris
burg to Buffalo. and thence to Cleve-
land In the latter city they were
Joined by young man with whom
they had conferred in Philadelphia.
He was Charles Robinson, son of a