The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03
EAST SOLVES PROBLEM
Saws Police and Secret Work
More Difficult in West
Than in Gotham.


/ Leigh. for sixteen years engaged Ill
practical detective work, and mGn,,
/ Der ofFthc New York City detect'Ie
department Mr.. Leigh arrived In Halt
Lake on November l3, bringing WIN
him reuusition papers Tor Ernest IA,
Woollcv of this city, who IS cbarSeu
with grand larceny IN an lndictment
returned BY IA grand Jury ~ New oIN
city Mr.. Leigh was appointed iuc,lI
her Of the New YORK dePatLnePpI p.
Theodore Roosevelt when Mr- hoose'
Welt WAS president Of the board oil po-
lice commissioners Of New Aork.
Mr.. Leigh saws that in all of the SUP
divisions of tho criminal profession u,
the cast the types are constant anu
that a trained eastern detective can at
once place a suspect IN bls Class w
with almost unerrinG certainIY' non
1 ever in Salt Lake, he says, the eastern
crim,uologist is at sea; that sometime
the rancbman. the sheephcrier. inc
farmer and the miner mix with INC
hichwayman and the general thief ana
10 distinguish between the different
types Of criminals is all but imposs'olS.
Discussing this subject, Mr.. Lelgh
Study Of Types.
.Aftcr wears Of experience, and
Temporary. STAY in many of the large
cities in this country and Canada:
fnI myself III Salt Lake. where hnu
a wonderful city.
"Apd then turning to my profession
al bent-atter years Of dealings scioiy
with. criminals, j was immedlutciy
struck with the difference of the Grim
insl types in Salt Lake and those IN
unv other city in which ! have bcen.
The criminal types of Salt Lake are
more similar TO those types IN MINNIE.
paolis and ST. Paul than any others L
I have seen.
s.Of course, in the East we have the
great criminal element, ranging from
= the commercial swiudler down TO the
meaucst pickpocket But in oil these
subdivisions Of the criminal profession,
we have class in the East which is
. stercotypel. While the trained detcc-
tive in New York may not personally
know the four or five men that he may
see on the car. still thew are SO pro
nounced in type character. that one
could not miss them.
s.This applies TO personal experiences
in most of the large cities Of the East.
principally Boston aud Chicago how
much harder then. it must be, to. Judge
, the criminal clement in this city or
Salt Lake 7 have found myself tax
ing observations which were as often
right as wrong.
Would See tho Type.
'Ir in New York 7 were assigned TO
= case of highway robbery, ] would I'M
nediately 90 looking for the person
? Of the character of the highwayman
as we know him. I would go TO the
3 usual gun joint and to similar places
where men of this character rendezvous,
:, How much harder II must be here to
be sent out to look for a man who
= iQuitc likely dropped off "a railroad train
. yesterday and swings out tomorrow
'If everything else III the case ap.
+ pcared to be very blank. at home
D would probably haunt the various mag
{ istrate courts and bope through the
news medium We have within the de
: tcctiye bureau, to run across mau
charged with a similar crime. But
c again that opportunity is lacking here
cit was my privilege 10 accompany
Chief of Police s. NJ. Barlow into the
bn nscment lodging house at police head
's quarters, whore he, with extreme good
l. Judgment, selected eighteen out Of pos
g siblv fortv.fve evil looking characters
: whom he placed under arrest and ar
c raigued in the police court
''It was also nv privilege as spec
tator 10 await the judges final de
cision Of these cascs-with what re
isult9
"Not n single one Of those meu was
} committed 10 any penal institution. The
Judge talked with each one and found
:. out in the ma iority OF cases. that the
prisoners were not native here, were
Il on their way TO some other city. They
I were all discharged and admonishcd e
G leave town 1oat ted as it is callet
J; here. What a very unsatisfactory dis
q positiou' Arc there no state roads to bc
y bulti Is there no work at public in
: stitutious these men could he force,
y to dol Why shirk the responsibility
Criticises "Floater'' System.
: ~ spoke to one Young ltalia D
J. American among the prisoners. He Wa
l. Is years Of age. with all bis facuitie
2 strong and healthy. and he informc'
. me that he was d blacksmith 5 helper
and that ne had left st. Louis last May
r. had passed through this town in July
r. had been out 10 the Pacific coast an,
. was on his way east again.
" 81 asked him if he had slept in th
. basement last summer aud he told m
that he bad not. although he was her
for two weeks and had not worked. TX
bad slept around the railroad wards.
lit docs seem TO me that II be ha,
Y been arrested os vagrant when be wa
here before or had been given thirt'
ldavs on the occasion Of his moro re
= ccut arrest here, it is not likely tha
> he would have come back.
- 'What a pity that all of these west
IpNut NOlth tue I'zp'OplplilN dN'
y that the so.callod 'foater' system pre-
!" walls.
'e "Auother feature that | see in thi
:: citv that must make the work of tn
- policeman Very difficult is tho numbc
:, :, Of vacant lots or dsrh side streets. Sue
I vacant lots could not exist IL New York
the city ordinance requires that vacan
i lots be fenced in securely. What so in
ceutive to the highwaym5n and wba
- an inducemcnt 10 the badger molls :
- such dark unprotected lots afford
1r Drug Problem Solved.
at " Heretofore ] had always believe
III that where suffrage WAS afforded I
Tomen-in which AIN a firm believer