Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-17
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Tony. 1 have never been a member or
the regular police, and hope the van
ity will be pardoned when l say tnat
consider my occupation above that
grade; since it must be evident to any
one that an inferior person may De-
and often is, a serviceable policeman
while a detective has no chance OF sue
cess without a ready perception and
close study of human nature. l am in
tuitively possessed with the faculty OF
imitation, which 1 have cultivated 10
be of great service in my business, as
il enables me to assume in very de-
ceptive manner the disguise OF almost
any character l please; indeed, so
MANY different parts have played,
and in such various company nave 1
mixed in the pursuit of my calllns'
that it appears serious problem 10 me
at times where my proper position IN
society lays.
So much of myself I have said, that
what l am about to narrate may De
better understood. The same reason
will excuse me in announcing that my
person is called handsome, and that
nv manners are polished and agreea-
BILE at will. The secret of my success
may be in part explained by directing
the attention to two facts that nave
borne in mind, and long practiced upon'
which are: first, tnat all human ac-
tions have intelligent motives, ana
that when the motives are not appar-
ent the actions are suspicious; ana
second, that every human creature
must have an income from some
source, which, If hidden, is likely 10
be unlawful. The application Of these
rules has enabled me to discover zeal
of crime where it was least suspected
and upon their observation my repu-
tation for many miraculous exposures
is based.
| have a partner in business, whose
real name l have no right to make
public. He is a coarse-featured per-
son and is capable of converting him
self by the assistance of dress into one
of the most rough-looking and repul-
sive Of men. While in one OF the
meanest of his disguises he obtained
the soubriquet of SLOUGH from low
marty of Bacchinals, and the term, SO
repulsive and only used by me at first
in innocent pleasantly, has become
modified and softened by frequent use
so that now in our intimacy it Is the
only name by which l address him.
have great respect for my partner
for he has a noble heart beneath his
uncouth exterior, and it gives me pleas
ure TO acknowledge that his unwaver-
ing courage and lion-like strength nave
in more than one instance rescued me
from great peril, if not really saved my
life.
SLOUGH has a remarkable faculty OF
reading crime upon the face. HIS con-
clusions are generally correct, yet now
he arrives at them has always been
mystery to me. My own suspicious
are mostly the result Of some theory,
and will freely confess that my imag-
ination has often led me astray; but
il is different with SLOUGH. A single
look at the suspected person seems
enough for him, and he has often up
set for me a nicely woven tissue OF ap-
parently, corroborative incidents ana
facts, by a glance at the party suspect
ed q shake Of the head, and grutfy
and provoking no" Only one in
stance has occurred wherein L was
right and he was absolutely wrong;
but as its recital here would be dl-
cression, l shall reserve it for another
narration. We are sometimes to5eth-
er, and at other times widely separat-
ed There Is scarcely railroad or
steamboat route in the United States
that we have not travelled, but New
York is our original and principal
stopping ace.
Some time since the officers OF
banking house in the city of New
York gave information to the polce
that their notes had been extensively
counterfeited in a manner so alarm
ingly perfect that many of the spurious
bills had been passed through tnelr
own hands without detection; in tact'
the first information of the crime was
induced by the very perceptible lnha-
ton of their paper in circulation. once
discovered. il was very plain that no
other counterfeiting process could so
completely initiate the original but the
art of photography, and even in That
science the perpetrators must nave
been we'll skilled; for every line and
shade was reproduced in such work
manlike manner that without the ald
of a microscope detection was utterly
impossible.
SLOUGH and l set to work at once, led
by the incentive of a very large re-
ward, to discover the criminals. we
labOred for many weeks without sue
cess. An account of our manoeuvres
while endeavoring to get track OF this
business, although possibly interesting
10 relate, would too much extend the
narrative. Suffice it is to say that not
a single photographing establishment
in that large city escaped our visits
in disguise, and that in my zeal 10
succeed in the enterprise l studied the
process of the art from beginning to
end. Nearly three months had been
fruitlessly spent this way, when, one
evening. a messenger was sent to us
in haste from the cashier of the bank
desiring US to hurry to his room. Upon
an interview. he Informed us that TWO
tickets had been purchased that day
at southern steamship companys
office, every dollar for which had been
paid in the spurious bills; also thai
the agent had no recollection Of the
persons from whom he took the money
and that the steamer was to sail at 3
o'clock on the following morning.
SLOUGH and | took the matter into
consideration. and resolved. aided by
the request of the bank officer and his
offer to defray expenses, to take pas
sage at once in the same steamer A
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