The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26


 great extent since it
 , in the person of the heroof
 in the Rue Morgue." Still
 ,ck Holmes turk in the
 recincts of his superheated
 suming tobacco and daily
 he insidious delights of
 imes taking refuge in the
 'ence" for which Poe's
 was noted, and emerg- M Ieries master of a new
 deductions warranted
 y to the secrets of any
 resented for his consid-
 even as Holmes followed
 ps of Dupin. countless litators camp upon the
 les, and we are forced to
 -elusioD that the type is pretty to be utilized by authors.
 he question naturally suggests it. Is the real simon-pure detective unto the member of his profession works wonders in the world of n2 Put this proposition up to Sn Murray, chief inspector of nNnal investigation of the depart, ! nYof justice of the province of / lario, Canada, and he will answer phatically in the negative, The ng of these seemingly inexplicable soleRls is a capital exercise for the sNecA but has mighty little to do p@eti6al police work. For crim- TO not drawn into the meshes
 official net by virtue of fine
 Neductions and opium-bred in
 Ions.
 dch would be Murray's opinion, 1 Murray knows whereof he speaks, he has been through the mill. r over 50 years he has been in pector and in that time murders by a dozen, burglaries by the score, mes of all kinds, totaling thousands, we been solved by him and the per trators apprehended His career is record of events outriyaling the de- 'ctive tales of fiction; for fact, in its lest scope, is stranger far than fic s He has followed men over two WiGents; he has pursued them over n and sea, from country to country, v Hemisphere to hemisphere, from A world to old world and back
 Ha has travelled over 30,000 f " in chase of single man. He mot and been shot. He has been sted in. desperate struggles when aelp came in the nick of time, and he .ahas fought grim battles single-handed, when defeat would have meant death ' His prisoners have ranged from men high estate to creatures of the - owest depths. The cases he has solved range through every variety of crime known to the police records of the world He has run down counter ,iters of s1,000,000 and more; he has travelled the mysteries of murder sZ %life was taken for eighty cents
 the counterfeiting plates, at S40,o00 as a trophy of the 9 SC and he has a rusty iron pipe souvenir of the other.
 N NJohn Wilson Murray was born in Vkhe city of Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 25, 1S40 He came of a long 2 line of seafaring men who had been sailing the globe for generations be- fore him. Early in his teens he went
 
 ! made(a voyage to the West Indies. Later he landed in Philadelphia, made his way to Buffalo and sailed for some time on the great lakes. On June 5, 1857, he enlisted in the United States navy, joining the U. s. s. Michigan, then in Chicago, although her head quarters were in Erie, Pa. He stayed aboard the Michigan until the civil war broke out in 1861 He was 21 years old then; there was shortage of officers in the regular service, and Murray was selected as one of the likely young fellows to be sent on to the training school at Washington He studied faithfully, and when the ex. ;.ninations were held he passed and 5 received commission in the United . States navy.
 Murray served through the civil war Ix6 the navy. He was in the Missis. pi, or Gulf, squadron a part of the LF e, under Commander Jewett, and sf sought under Farragut ard was in
 gber ef engagements including fight at Mobile. From service in 1 Mississippi and gulf Murray was #I d to the great lakes aboard the 4H Aigsn. He continued aboard her 0diil after the close of the war. and December, 1866, he left the Mich gan and the service.
 Thus at the age of g Murray had sailed the South seas and around the s,n. had stood the grueling of a six Sg nths' trip to the guano fields, had HAI through the pounding life aboard
 Vest Indies fruitess, had fought
 gh the civil war, and stood a erful, self-reliant young giant on lookout f9f his calling in life. He s1H as as strong as bull, a silent fel- VI slow to anger and plenteous in s&eance, once he was aroused. He z edyheither man, gun nor belaying
 He was faithful friend and a sntless foe. He was the last to Y a quarrel, but once it was picked
 asithe last to drop it. His asso-
 liked him. He was a silent, Kf8 selfcontained person, with a able gift for gaining the conf ' aeAof other men.
 rSst it's indelible imprint 8yx% k,oe .x1e, as it did on the life s# Nos \ man. It tended to W G oas SpnCb ms and direct them VI 50 SN what later became N aep ssN4is career was not asS 9sA Adread of hsfdship