The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-29
SLEUTHS
WHO Spy
ON GREAT


get your record If you don't watch
out.
Every hour OF every day of every
year adds 10 the unceasing record OF
information being secured by alert
and painstaking men and women re-
garding the honesty, integrity ad NOR
al character Of the citizens of the me-
tropolis and those who come within
the gates, who personally have no
idea they are under surveillance un'
til the crash arrives This perfec
ton scheme OF espionage goes into
every phase Of business and social
life enters the marts OF finance and
the trades, and even penetrates the
domestic and marital affairs Of those
whose names come under inspection
In this system is seen the signiil-
Icance of the existence of over seven
| ty-6ve regularly licensed detective
agencies in this city, employing many
/ hundred men and women operatives,
| to say nothing of the trained slauths
| OF the central office of the police de-
Ipartment, hundreds OF investigators
/ Tor credit indemnity, insurance and
casualty concerns, together with the
sleepless, activities of the dread
/ United states secret service and new
/ II organized bureau OF investigation
OF the federal department OF instica
The general conception OF such
! work Is detection of crime; but taele
| IS another phase OF equal and ven
greater inheritance, and thai is ne
lpteNchiCp cf crime In its inc nrtipn
and efirhings.
Gettirg 4, l. inc On The Manager
For irAaGce John Doe is contract
manager Cf big wholesale and cN-
pOl una house downtown. ilis CON
noc..lAl with ;!.e firm is Of loHg s.aot,
ing. his rt putati0n is implceahle
an his lie appears beyond ,nNesu.
ga,4u AM vet he is being ] resii
gated lust to get a line OF ioln
Doe his house calls in a dAte.hAe
firm md mis- name ana ad 'eso ire
ei eli With the request for a two
weeks iLsFection strictly under
cover."
Doe. at peace with the world and
himself, leaves his office at .. m
and takes the subway uptowa. he
4 decides to get off at Times Square
for a drink before going to his cluf
or his home. He enters a nearby
hostelry or cafe and. meeting con
Vival friends partakes Of two OF
. three highballs. That is all ighi
and II is his own business; but does
it 90 unnoted? 1t does-not! His
time of entering the drinking place
the number Of drinks, the description
Of the men he met and his time o
departure are carefully noted by one
or two men who are on his trail.
Doe leaves the place and suddenl,
decides to make social call. That
too, is surely Does own business
vet his argus-eved followers know tn
number of the house or hotel he ell
ters, and if not tFen, the next day 0
9 shortly thereafter to whom Doe pai
his respects
!. After making his call Doe may dc
eide to make an evening of it alon
Broadway He may go to the theatr
and thereafter to a supper party at
] lobster palace. He may get home a
. or 3 in the morning in reasonabl
good condition and that same morr
ing enter his office on schedule time
clear-eyed and alert for the busines
of the day
And yet despite his appearance tn
record of that previous nights di'
sipation, as we'll as that of othe
nights within the two weeks esploi
age. is recorded in black and whit
for the inspection of his superior
His actions may never prove que'
tionable so far as his integrity is COZ
cerned. but his private life has com
in question and may prove the ult
mate result of his loss Of position Q
advancement.
Due to New business Standards
Such surveillance was unheard
twenty or even ten years ago, Dl
there are new business STANDARD
since the insurance scandals and re
elations in high finance and Il
John Doe who would grasp the see
I. tres OF substantial achievement hel
must walk the straight and mario
path.
There is another phase Of the ma
ter-prevention. Cashiers, fecelVll
and paying tellers Of practically e
cry bank in the city, are under
least partial surveillance. The cai
r. OF Robin is an exception to the &c
eral rule.
During the course of every ye
: men of this type are investigated
10 TO their private life, habits and ehS
Y. acter fads, foibles and eXtrayaganc
il any. A two weeks line" is got
/; such men. Even if the investigate
proves a mans life exemplary t
espionage does not end Thr
months, six months or a year thel
after 1t is renewed and such case
one of hundreds similar Such ing'
he tigators in exceptional cases pro
the advantage Of the system, acco
ing to heads of banks, by showl
ay that certain men bear watching SIN
reports come of large expenditul
hd uptown or OF private speculate
on the street If such system b
been devised years ago, it Is claim
Alyord would never have been a
to rob the Chatham National bank
wo $750,000,
Credit investigators
Credit investigators are equf
searching, whether it be for the II
who wants a line of credit for
wife at a department store or
the operator who deals In stocks
would secure loans from the eli
banks, Many a man who has b
turned down" for any OF these Y
Gus requests probably never kr
that his private record, now in bl
and white on the card index sys
lble OF such Institution. has proven