Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-09-09
the DETECTIVE
NV REAL LIFE,
Thc Modern sSIeuth Does Not D;seu;.e
himself With False Whiskers or
Wear Gum Shoes.

How does detective detect?
Why's that an easy one. He ask
about what he wants to know ane
Somebody tells him.
But wait a minute, The sadetectiv
lslSs the right question
Surely anybody gan find out what h
wants to know ii3 he keeps en- askin
Jueshons ThatsBsjtlst What the detec
eve does. II tahesauesiion he asks i:
not the right s'iiss he Keeps on askini
uittff> he hfts upon the right one.
IN brief, the most successful detec,
i've is the one who makes use of curl
9sity and common sense the most con
kistCntly.
One thing is certain. the detective
hho starts out to use the methods
Sherlock Holmes OF Professor kennc
lv has no chance of solving his prob
lem.
Not infrequentIy a mystery will be
,oived by some. J,icky accident, SOM
,nance remark overheard or som
nannerism that betrays the person
sought. But the detectives who have
foDe records of successfully performed
asks are those who have worked ane
guessed and persefeed until they hav
struck "a lead that shows them the SO.
'ution of the problem i'm hand.
Intricate logical deductions are char.
acteristic of the story book detectives
Real detectives seldom know anything
about the science ofg reasoning. They
IRE too busy practning ii to know any
hing about it. Therefore they have te
lave more basic facts upon which to
york than Lecoq or the Thinking
Via chinn' f+and they generally have
hem,st too.
Detectites of note declare that the
Sc Of stool pigeons is all right when
he criminal involved is known to the
world of criminals. But cases of this
) ort are not regarded as the fsYl test
If the detectives ability. 3@$
New York has been noted for detec-
Ives who have accomplished much in
he way of running down evildoers,
md in the days when Inspector Byrnes
vas at the head of the secret service
f the city many wonderful captures
# criminals were made.
The success of Byrnes so Byrnes al
ways said, was largely due To the abl-
-ty of the men he had working under
i'm. Some of these men got nation
vide regulations None of these men
5 better known than William p. Sheri-
Ian, who has since left the Police De-
partment and is in business for him
elf. Sheridan had wonderful fac
,lty of remembering faces. 1t has
ieen said that he never forgets any
,lan or woman at whom he has had a
-soed look. Because of thfs retentive
lemory he is known all over the coun-
ry as Camera Eye Sheridan.
Sheridan believes that to be success
ul detective must learn To work and
5ait. What he has done by working
nd waiting is a matter of history
some of his accomplishments forming
he most thrilling chapters of the his
,ory of the New York Police Depart
'nent. He declares that the only third
egree he knows of is cross-auestion-
slg. He is emphatic in his statement
lat no innocent man ever has failed
- withstand this third degree, and no
uilty man can Withstand it.
Some of the chases and captures that
heridan has made sound like stories
t fiction writer's and very unlike hap
g enings of real life. But when they
re analyZed it is apparent that the
hunianneSs' of every circumstance
)nnected herewith is the principal
har racteristie.
About 80 Years ago Ludwig 3. Gold
orn, cashier of the Mannheim Insur
heridan chase and his capture plac-
H. -
rican detectives.
I Goldhorn lived in Fourteenth street
e had boarded in the same house
r 1cre fer several years. He was Il
J, uiet man, not at all given to dissipa-
"n. and enjoyed the esteem of his
mPloyers and aequaintances
One morning he failed to appear
II work. and an hour or so after the
avs latur mad begun "a telegram ar
wed from him in Philadelphia He
lid his hrcthers leg had been brok-
|. ana II his employers had no OBJ
sction he would remain away for "a
onpie of days until the brother was
1mfertablv fixed for his long period
f convalesence. OF course the en-
sloyers had no objection. They We're
lad to accommodate so capable an
mploye.
week passed but nothing was
ieard from Goldhorn. Then another
week went by. By this time the en-
.'loyers thought they ought to look ut
his books. They did. and they found
ioldhorn had taken $685. 900 with him
When he departed.
The matter was reported to the po-
ice. Sheridan was assigned to the
iase by Inspector Byrnes. The only
facts Sheridan lad were a photograph
Of Goidharll. the telegram fr6m Phila-
delphia, specimen Of Goldhorns 8
and a description of him.
The first thing Sheridan did was tn
go to Philadelphia i.lI take a look
about that city. He took thc tel. ram
With him, and after worf.iag TO. eral
lays he learned the sender had sop
,ed at the Bingham House. ,;;ohody
Knew where he had gone from there,
n what time of day he had departed.
So there was nothing to do but come
'ack to New York and begin the work
Ill over again.
Sheridan went to the Fourteenth
treet address and questioned the
She told SHERIDAN the day
hat Goldhorn left her house 1t was
do bte T.,