The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-01
A Detective S
Renaissance
By NJ. QUAD
Copyright. 1915. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicafe.


after an experience of sixteen years
the public press and my friends were
pleased to say that | bad done excel
lent service. On the whole. this praise
was deserved. but at the same time.
in one case at least. | had shown
stupidity worthy of the greenest pa
trclman on London's police force. 1
had been at Scotland Yard for three
years when l removed my family to
Queen street. 1t was to IN apartment
house. and We took the second floor
On the floor above were married
couple named Hadan The man. as /
came to understand. was manufac-
turing jeweler in a small way The
Hadans lived very quietly and made
no display. and the wife kept very
much to herself. Not as a detective.
but as an occupant. learned that the
husband was home only two nights
a week
was set to watch in a general way
certain dealer in bric-a brac named
Saunders. His shop was a good three
miles from Queen street. He dealt in
all manner of art goods. secondhand
and it had been pretty well established
that he bought goods without asking
any questions In watching him | as
sumed another identity and became a
customer. We came to be on quite
| friendly terms. and | flattered myself
| that he had not the slightest suspicion
OF the part | was playing At one
| time and another | was the means of
enabling number of househoIders to
| recover stolen goods Saunders haa
| bought. but the man always evaded
| the law. | got to know that he lived
in Jane street, only a few blocks away.
where he had a wife and one child
| One of our men occupied room in
the same house. and in casual way
he had learned that Saunders was
home only two nights a week He
came and went as did my neighbor
Hadan.
year after | began watching the
bric-a- brac shop there were complaints
made about q certain merchant tailor
named Dawson. He was making suits
|
declared the goods must be stolen. As
a matter of fact. several bolts of cloth
stolen from a tailor in a town fifty
miles away were found in his shop.
but he proved himself clear of the law
by narrow margin. | became n Gus
toner of his. as | had been of Saun-
ders. There were times when we had
a glass of ale and a pipe together. and
from the very outset used my best eff
forts to get on to his little game. He
continued TO make suits to order far
cheaper than his rival. but though his
shop was searched again and again no
more suspicious goods were found
Dawson was full of talk and seemed
to be without suspicion. but | got no
information from him TO help my case.
+ early ascertained that he lived in
Montgomery place and had wife and
two children. BY the merest accident
further learned that Mr.. Dawson
was at home only three nights a week
Now. then. for six years | knew these
three men. and two of them were IN
der espionage. talked with them. ate
with them. drank with them and never
the biggest fool in the world. One day
man who was in a machine shop not
far from detective headquarters was
killed by accident. ] happened to be-
: almost the first one on hand. | recog
nized him at once as the tailor. and the
3 body was taken home. While doinl
+ his work the undertaken found tha
the black hair and mustache and war
that he wore were all false. This wa:
a revelation even to the wife. Th'
affair was published in the papers. ant
e in less than two days it was found tina
n Hadan. Saunders and Dawson wer'
/ one and the same man He had pad
/ ded his body to increase his size ant
: apparent weight and false tooth
whiskers. mustache and wart hat
done the rest You win say ought t.
have detected the cheat by the voice
|. In an ordinary case. yes. but this ma
e had made a study of Disgusting hi
!, voice
! You will say that a good detecAF
ought to penetrate such shallow els
glliSes as false whiskers. In answer
that let me say that whiskers or mus
I tache can be made to look so genuin
y that no living man can detect tn
# cheat The wart was a new dodge an
one | was not up to. 1t was SO we
r done that ! had seen the man pick
with pin and cringe little as he di
I it. | should have felt bad enough @
being fooled even had there been n
case in ii. but there was a case. Th
2 silversmith was a fence" for Thieves
!, the bric-a- brac man was another. an
& the tailor was third He was ma
ried to three different women; be live
,s in three different prts of the city; b
!, carried on three occupations; he rel
resented three different men. All tn
he did successfully for six or seve
years and but for the fatal accider
D. might have gone on for years NOR
During his career he had made 70
s, tune and never a person had suspec