The Detroit times., 1911-12-15
Quartet Arrested After Carry
ing OFF Woman and Babe
From Their Home.
HIRED BY HER LOVER.
Love, Intrigue, Bigamy and
Bribery Figure in Case
Warrants Are Asked.

incident passions and elements--enter
or private sleuths, including one mild
hammered operative, who stands six
feet four inches In his socks. and the
inevitable triumph OF virtue over vii
iiany
Yubica Krakow. a geneTously-pro-
portioned Syrian woman, is the pivot
about which all the turmoil revolves.
and Thursday morning found her
weeping softly over her golden. haired
child of three, while the pathetic pair
occupied apartments in the matron's
quarters in the central police station.
In the cell block downstairs reposed
sara Krakow, the dark-visaged cause
OF all the trouble
In other compartments OF the cell
block, gnawing ceaselessly at iron
hars. are four operatives Of the City
Private Detective agency, the present
status OF which seems to be some
. what nil, owing 10 the fact that the
entire staff of crime ferreters has in
definite engagements with Chief OF
Detectives Mcdonnell
This last-named gentleman has the
situation entirely in hand, and in re-
Spouse to pleas for mercy on the part
OF the quartet OF private sleuths, he
calmly announces that IL il is within
his power. he will send the whole
crowd. excepting the unfortunate wo-
man and child, TO prison.
Overzealousness on the part oil
Hugh W. Schutt. the attenuated oper-
alive appears TO be the cause OF the
present dilemma Joseph NJ. Clinton,
3 proprietor and principal OF the City
Private Detective agency. lays con-
siderable of the blame upon Schutt,
al any rate
The seiZing OF the woman and her
child, the spiriting OF them away In
an automobile, the attempted bribing
OF a pair OF Police Commissioner
Croufs new patrolmen with 81 bill
--one of those crisp ones used in all
stage bribes-all these untoward do
ings are laid at the door OF Schutt
the flesh and blood rival OF the Ford
Building
Schutt's six. feet. four inches, didn't
At well with the air of contrition that
set of his features when he was led
before Capt Mcdonnell, Thursday
Genuine tears trickled from his eyes
His mouth dropped perciptibly at both
corners His lip twitched under his
real mustache
..My heavens, captain, quoth he,
with dramatic pose amt there no
way guy kin git out o this?
The captain couldn't think OF any
way Just at that moment and advised
Schutt that II he hadn't adopted the
detectives business as a profession
and then followed il so assiduously,
he wouldn't be in his present trouble.
Schutt, il seems, was merely stu
dent in the detective agency. he was
learning the sleuth business, and that
his instructors didn't overlook any OF
the finer points OF the game, is shown
by Wednesday nights affair, in which
half-clad woman and thinly-dressed
child were torn from their home with
out the shadow OF authority.
AS Il Is, the City Detective agency
has suspended business for a time, at
least There was nothing over in
their Offices, No. q Champlain-st.,
Thursday morning. but a group or
. hungry-looking messenger boys, and
rather forlorn appearing army
Springfield rife, which. fortunately,
was left behind. when the detectives
started after their quarry. Wednes-
day, night
Saya Krakow halls from Cincinnati
and is possessed OF considerable
wealth. The woman in this case ad.
mits that she lived some time with
him in Cincinnati and that be is the
father OF her child, but she strenu-
ously denies there was any marriage.
4 For some reason, she grew 10 dislike
him intensely and she left him. taking
her baby with Eher. He came here
after her and for several days, he has
been exhorting Capt. Mcdonnell 10
arrest her This, the police refused
TO do, unless he obtained a warrant
In police court. He applied there,
but was again turned down. He be-
came so insistent in police headquar-
tiers, that the captain, iu disgust. or.
dered him TO stay out of the building,
unless he had legitimate business.
He had already employed Adam Mo-
mich. OF the National Secret Service
agency, OF Cincinnati. and that worthy
man was working with the private
sleuths here.
"Wednesday night was the time -.
lected by him for the grand conn
they foregathered In the office NJ
the City Detective agency, and Gin.
Ton, the principal" gathered his
TRUSTEES about him and In a stage
Whisper, said. MY men, We must
60 dirty deed tonight"
30 on they went 10 the h0nIo ~ 10
woman. No 420 Frederlck.si They
round Patrolmen Frank A Rode ana
benJamin Whelan. whose beats a~e
IN the neighborhood and induced iboso
oihcers to come with them on tho nre.
text that everything was satisfactory
somebody all the others saw n was
Operative Schutt- slipped OBcer
Rode the crisp s. bill heretofore men.
Toned. Rode said 10 himself Blood
money and promptly returned n
Wherenpon Il was slipped 10 Oficer
Whelan Then the kidnapping was OK.
peditionsly AMI successfully carried
out
But Peter Retlionski No CT Kirbv.
ave. east. heFrd ~ the tHins>and sus.
pecting something wrong. notified no.
lice hsadguariers Patrolman Wbeian
eonfided e bel'orski about the 81
2he.1n lti "Iirt drop tbat ,oons,,
tls taHfed
Whcte ~ VheiaB ran all the way
a. ihe C1eae-st station and deposited
fhe s. vitt " erish haste mon the
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