The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-05

it's told at the trial We don't want
anybody arranging any alibis in ad.
vance.
zone thing that puzzled us was the
fact that no one answering the de-
scription of 'McGraw' of the Peoria
explosion had been working on the
Los Angeles explosion; yet the two
bombs were exactly alike. Then there
was a difficulty that never arises in
the detective stories of fiction; the
money wasn't readily forthcoming to
carry on our investigation. The Mayor
had been paying me, as he had prom
Used, for the work; but there were
Others in authority who did not trust
me any more than they trusted other
private detectives. And l didn't
blame them. Private detectives, as a
class, are the worst lot of blackmail-
ling scoundrels that live outside of
prisons. l have stated in all my pub
lie utterances that to follow the call
ing man should first fortify himself
with a reputation for honesty and in
Itegrity-then he need not care what
people say about detectives.
THE authorities wanted me to
make daily reports of what l was
finding, so as to show progress; but
/ was resolved not to report anything
: to anybody until l had caught the
terminals, because l didn't know
where there might be a leak The
Mayor was even called before a grand
Jury to report what had been done
in the way of getting evidence; but
had not told him anything, and so he
had nothing to tell. Our Los Angeles
manager was also called to appear;
/ but had been handling the case my.
self, and he knew nothing of it. Our
office was broken into that night, and
the desks and the filing cabinet fore
ed; but all our reports on the case
were in safety-deposit vaults at Chi
cago.
THE end of it was that l had to
go ahead and finance the investiga-
ton myself. 1t cost me $4,000 before
landed the McNamaras and McMan-
Iigle, but l knew that l could get them
and l was not worrying. l knew that
our operatives in Indianapolis were
watching the right rat-hole, and l in
TENDED to keep them there as long as
could raise the money to pay their
wages.
"Now see how simply my theory
worked out 'McGraw hadn't been
concerned in the Los Angeles affair,
and he didn't know that every one
hadn't forgotten about the Peoria eX-
plosions, so he came back to Indian
: Mcnamara, the secretary treasurer,
and our men recognized him as an
swering the description that we had
of 'McGraw,' and they proceeded to
tail him. They took him back to
Chicago, where he had his wife and
family. His real name proved to be
McManigle-Ortie McManigle, - and
we Investigated him and put another
squad of operatives to watch him and
his house.
"One day he took a train to a place
called Kenosha, in Wisconsin, and our
men followed him and saw him meet
a man who answered the description
of j. B. Bryce of the Los Angeles
trail. Bryce turned out to be Jim
Mcnamara, brother of the secretary,
treasurer, living with his mother in
Cincinnati. And after that, wherever
those men went, night or day, singly
or together, they had body-guard OF
Operatives failing them.
"TaiIing" the Suspects.
And there's the trick that solves
most of the detective mysteries in
these days-the falling It's the thing
the operative has to learn before he
can move on a case at all. He has to
learn to follow a man on the street
in railroad trains, on street cars, in
hotels, picking him up and dropping
him and picking him up again, without
ever really losing sight of him and
without ever being seen or suspected
himself. We kept track of McMani-