The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-15
METHODS
OF NOTED
YARD MEN \!
GREATEST DETECTIVE
BUREAU IN THE WORLD
TO FERRET OUT CRIMES

New York. oct IA Scotland Yard
is the greatest crme-detecting or
gailizaton In existence Any person
yersed In detective work viii admit
as much No country hns more et
fectiye bureau. The New York Cen
tral Office Is not lts equal certainly
not It's superior, taken as whole
It's men have many CHARACTERISTICS
which seem uniting -eyen absurd
from an American viewpoint, hut III,
things they accomplish are great
In n word. prevention Is the key TO-
much Of the work of Scotland Yard
That wonderful police machine bends
all It's energies to prevent crime, 80
tlat Il win not have to 90 to the Off
fort of hunting down the criminal al'
ter the wrong has been committed,
Scotland Yard has number of
stool pigeons and informants, None
cf these Is ever known as being in
the employ OF "the yard but they go
their accustomed way, mlngling with
their own sort, be they murderers,
thieves. anarchists, or what not, and
from time TO time they give the po
! lice hints Of what Is goine TO happen
and tho police see 10 II that the plot
is frustrated
! Meetings are held In Hyde Park,
and Socialists make violent speeches
4 There are ALWAYS few agents OF
/ Scotland Yard IN the audience. They
pre no those tall, square shouldered
square toed fellows, such MS a soph
iSiicated New Yorker can picl, out OF
almost any street crowd as plain
clothes men, They look like all the
others. Perhaps one of them Is that
very hothcaded who Is going to get
TN presently and make q speech suS
costing that the king he hanged ano
that the Parliament building be burn
q. TO the ground He Is the fellow
who, II plot Is ever formed 70 pul
his advice into effect will inform Su
Iperntendent Forest secretly in tim,
to have the rngleaders clapped into
irons
Cwarfs And Hunchbacks Useful
There are hundreds, indeed. prob
ably thousands. of these informanti
in the nay of the crown, although
cir names never appear on any pay
roll. The existence Of this great star
of stool pigeons is one important din
erenee between the London and th'
New York police systems.
Mayor Gaynor. early in his admin
istraton, made n remark which al
people did not understand. lie SAT-
that the need Of the police depart
ment was not for tall, straight men
but for dwarfs and hunchbacks. TIT
idea seemed grotesque: but q persol
las only TO draw mental pictuf'
of gang of East Side tougha plan
ming an assault and then imagine th'
effect II tall. broad.sh0uldered MAJ
with heavy black mustache SHOULD
at down with them In the BalooI
where their plot was Matching and tr'
10 oyerthear their scheme by pretend
Hing he was one of their sort.
II Scotland Yard were operating II
New York II would have half dozei
barkeepers on the Bowery II wOul,
have q dozen foreign-born Informant
In eyery quarter: II would pay some
body In every circle of criminals, o.
curative CTllnlHdlS, w cOHtilue nlA ~
sociations with those criminals, taxi
! part IN their crimes II necessary. bu
, keep their conndence-and betray II
/ Scotland Yard Is under the home oil
flee OF Great Britain. and the crow
| pays its informants literally. So
: comes to pass that most OF the crime
in England never take place At all
: They are headed Of and the crlmlna
, seldom knows how the police foun'
out what was afoot
/ Difference OF Two sides OF Ocean
The Scotland Yard man often goe
about in top hat and excellen
) clothes In order to look Ike the AZ
erage Londoners with whom ne mus
mingle. He Is probably, on the who'll
rather better dressed and OF bette
! appearance than the New York do
. tectye lie takes his work very sci
+ icusiy, almost solemnly.
, The practice OF the police In rt
/, gard TO mysteries has been RADICAL
/, different on the two sides of tn
} ocean Scotland Yard has always mai
I tanned the most stolid silence o
cases in which II was concerned, gl,