Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-01-25
RACE FOR | :! A THE
wild Chase Through the Streets
. u the Heart Of London. .
4 DETECTIVES QUICK WORK.

a DETECTIVES QUICK WORK.
The Police Officer Was Not Only
Rapid Himself, But Compelled an
onF'sluspeetins Bystander to Join In
] the Mad Flight and Capture.
IN defending the London police from
charges Of incompetence a contributor
70 Blackwood's Magazine narrates an
incident in which he figured few
years ago, when he accompanied his
Wife to a Bond street jewelers., where
she went in to match some pearls and
nave some gems reset, he awaiting
her on the street, where he smoked
his cigar BE says:
Il noticed three well dressed men
30 into the shop and several women.
when suddenly one Of the well dress
60 men came out through the glass
doors OF the shop and pushed rapidly
past me as he turned up the street
At the same moment | was seized
violently by the arm by milkman
VINO had been arranging his cans on
his handcart just in front Of the shop.
quick. governor! he shouted. Aft
er MIN OF we lose him! Look; he's pass
ed the bag to d pair
Now, for the life Of me cannot
tell you what impelled me. I'm not
the kind Of man that you can picture
tearing up Bond street in the wake
Of an agitated milkman. But there
was something In the grip that man
took Of my arm that impelled me, so
that threw away my cigar and ran
after the man with the bag neck and
neck with the milkman, who exhorted
me to continue in my efforts by shout
ing:
Throw leg, governor! If we
lose him we lose him foreverv
I'VE tore up Conduit street. l don't
know what the passersby thought. l
had no time to think of them. When
we reached Regent street our quarry
Owed into the traffic like frog into
mill race. We went in after him.
How missed being knocked down l
don't know. The milkman took the
same risks. We were across almost
as soon as the man and sped after
him. don't know what streets we
doubled down. know that at this
period it flashed across my mind that
was making conspicuous ass Of
myself. Here l was racing down the
slums of Soho at the bidding of a
strange milkman. who never stopped
in his exhortahons to me.
"'Keep it up and Wen get him!
'Our quarry doubled and tackled, but
we stuck to him till just as we were
pacing down the very worst looking
street of the lot he suddenly slipped
into low house. of which the door
was open. Ny m1lkman never lost q
second He whispered hoarsely in my
ear:
Stop here. governor. and grab the
first person as comes out of that
house, no matter who be is! l know
the way behind
In flash he was gone He had
n1pped down an alleyway and disap-
peared. felt real fool. and the
whole folly Of my action rushed in
upon me. had left my wife strand
ed in shop In Bond street. had
lost my hat and my stick, and here
was in an almost deserted street,
standing outside door waiting with
orders from q strange man to grab
the first person that came out Of 1t.
In two seconds more l would have
left the place and gone to the nearest
But just at that moment boy of
about fifteen came out of the door.
Ny milkman must have left his spell
upon me, for l Immediately threw my
arms around him.
Lemme 60, governor! he shouted.
4 amt done muffin to your
''He struggled hard, and the more be
struggled the more felt impelled to
hold him. And then suddenly, as II
by magic. two policemen appeared on
the scene and seized my boy for me-
Ny milkman. wreathed In smiles, ap
peared in the doorway from which the
boy had just come, saying blithely and
quite respectfully:
!" You've done that very well, sir
+ We've got the other, two inside he
then added. I'll just put my hands
over this young Teller.
.sHe took off the boys battered hat
and out of the lining came a roll Of
ESQ in Bank of England notes. he
then went through the boys clothes
and produced out Of his socks pair Of
ruby and diamond earrings which, t.
my astonishment, saw were the very
gewgaws that my wife had taken with
her to have reset The detective. fol
my milkman was nothing less, then
pinched the boys ear and said:
- III where's the lady's bag7
:. .In the yard, sir he answered sulk
nv enough. 55