The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06
Scotland Yards Greatest Detectiue About Retire

them all, said the head of the PinlSer- ton agency
 Tom 0'Eren never asked for anything easy" said Pinkerton. He WAS 9 game man and ne wanted the hardest there was and got away with f until Frankie here landed him, and how you kept him from putting a bullet In that fat stnna. mick of yours T don't know finished the American detective admiringlL beaming on his famous friend.
 To let daylight through Froest was precisely what OBrien had Il "doped out to do when. after escaping from custody in the United States he to k refuge in Paris "He had never for given me" said Froest. for getting him at Albany, and he was in London before I knew it. and two English pals of his have told me that they stopped him from finishing me in Regent street 1 by pulling him into d doorway. After that ! got busy and dropped on otBrien l while he was tackling a good English 1 Porterhause steak and chips in Gatsi's restaurant in the strand. He saw me ] coming. added the detective. and got ont quick and he thought he'd given rs l the slin but was behind him in the street before he knew it. and as we were too many for him to have any ehanee i in heht he threw up the sponge. That's his Colt over there. Yes wicked gun.
 'Frankie here sent o'Bren back 10 Paris said w. A. pinkerton, and there, you know. he killed another ! American crook named Reid Wadde at the North station, and they wanted te l heheaa him, but the authorities there ! decided that as he had merely wiped odt another bad man he'd only get 'lifer', so they sent him to New Caledonia
 Talking of Froest at the Hotel Cecil later on. Pnkerton said: "l have lSnowa every superintendent of the criminal tn- vestigation department of Scotland Yard In recent years and there has been 10 one to approach him in ability, He is as game man and as clever q one as ever l have known in the detective bus mess"
 As fact. Froest's admirers do not know which to admire most. his porthos- like strength. or his shrewdness. which is that Of D'Artagnan. 'rhe secret of detective work" he said to me 'is the elimination of the unnecessary" and l'ise Rouet ablle in "The Mystery of 'he Yellow Room" he always has taken hold of "the right end of his reason It was under hls direction that Scotland Yard drew the net of evidence tight around Crippen, another American, by the way, and of the scores of stories they tell of his shrewdness one may be recalled because il is rather funny.
 Near a bungalow in the country man was found dead. head down in water butt There was an ugly bruise on hls forehead, and as the local police believed there had been foul play ln- spector Froest as he was then, went down to investigate. He looked over the scene and his eyes twinkled. This is not a case of murder" he said, That | man was a tramp He hurt his head h climbing through the fence-he probably was going to break Into the house and went to hathe 1t in the water=hutt. ] As he put his head down he slipped and fell in"
 | It was like sherlock Holmes featuring I.estrade and Gregson, but one of | Froests hearers was not convinccd- | "Impossibler he cried, and to prove that it was impossible he leant over the water-butt A second later his heels were in the air there was a splash and If Froest had not fished him out promptly he surely would have provet the superintendent theory to be right.
 In his active service" days, Froest was a master of disguise and makeup and could dress any part at few n'o- ments' notice from pedlar to priest, such a priest too-as would convince tho , Pope himself of his innate saintliness. Since then he has trained many pupil, and from the big brick building on the embankment you will see go toftn at various times City men In silk hats, carpenters. racing touts. and men who look like doctors-all of them tho super
 ntendent's henchmen, and each playing his part in the amending fight with crime while up in his office sits Froest, Ike Bunty, pulling the strings"
 When he quits definitely next month he is going to take pleasure cruise tp the West Indies, and then will look In on YOU in Gods country for a bit vls- iting his friend, Big Bill" Pinkerton, and perhaps Colonel Little of Baltimore, Md, with whom he worked In the Moore case, and who still writes to him at the beginning of every new year. After that he is coming back to settle down in the west country and fin the season indulge in his favorite hobby, which is shooting dn preference to being shot att Meanwhile he will rest-whieh he has a right to do if ever man had.
 HAYDEN CHURCH.