Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-15
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HARVEY HUNT always claimed
- that he got more enjoyment out of
his war time service in co -oDeration
with the government agents than from
any other part of his career as q Grim
inal investigator.
at was free from most of the sordid.
ness that is insPparable from ordinary
criminal Investigations. he told his
friend DcKyne. IL hate that sordidncss
90 genuinely that l often wonder why
l continue the work. The only enjoy
ment ] get out of it lies in the fact that
1t is game in which wits are TRUMP
and in which there is plenty of excite
ment.
Il loathc contact with the criminal,
but If l am to play the game l must
take my adverSarics as l find them.
Now during the war it was diff
ferent. a great many of the men with
whom we crossed wits, in fact the ma
jority of those it was my fortune to
fight. were men with sincere belief
in the rectitude of their own cause.
None of them, of course. dCspised the
generous pay of the KaiScr's secret
service, but from their viewpoint they
were justified in what we chose to call
their crimes. The spy, you know, Is
always criminal in the eyes of his
enemy.
"The war service also gave pleas.
ant little variation every now and then
from the routine of following trails. A
fellow often had the opportunity of
blazing them himself. He didn't have
to wait for the crime to be committed.
He could take the offensive. blast the
plans of the prospective perpetrator
and land him behind the bars, or play
him along as the fisherman plays a
game fish.
There was. for instance, that time
when l had the chance to break up the
little Edgar Allan Poe stunt of a GER
tain Fraulein IIctzcl otherwise known
rs Miss Margaret Webbcr.
Margaret had certain documents the
government wanted. OF course, 1t
would have been easy. under war time
! powers. to have arrested Margaret and
| searched her, also to have searched her
| rooms. But that could not have been
done very well without putting Mar
garet and those to whom she reported
wise to the fact that the government
was on her trail. There were reasons
! for not wanting them to know that. If
| the papers could be stolen from her,
| that would be different. 1t would be
better StllI, II SHc SHOulu get tne I'M
| preston that they had been stolen. not
| by us. but by one of our Allies. Hence
whatever I did would have to be with
| out any official power or assistance.
"I finally arrived at the conclusion
| that Margaret had those documents in
her aDartment. ! visited it once in one
| of her brief absences. She never left
il for more than few moments. But
there were literally dozens of places
| where they might have been hidden. 1t
would have taken hours to make n
thorough search of that room. And |
knew that others Of Margaret's band
we're keeping watch on her safety,
| Long before / could have finished a
search, even il broke in and tied her
up while ! hunted, one or another of
| them would have been around inter-
so j framed little quick action
that left Margaret gaspng for breath
! One afternoon when she had slipped
! down to the delicatessen store at the
corner. ! picked her lock, and disturbed
every piece of furniture in the room.
Then. backing into the little kitchenette.
! watched through the curtains she had
| hung there. And when she came in
| grabbed the documents and ran. was,
Of course, disguised as foreigner.
but | thought you didn't know
where the documents were hidden" OBJ
jected DeKyne. Il don't quite get
you" .
Can pou see Harvey Hunts plan OF
action, and the reason for his strange
| bchGUiOri
the qnsOer ,oiH appear Monday,
| Copyright. 1920 by Public Ledger Coz