Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09


In the various police stations
throughout London and suburbs a
corresponding tickerlike machine be-
gan to click out on A paper tape a
typewriter description of Jim Sully,
his appearance, his records, his char
acteristics, some Of his habits, the
kind Of clothes he usually wore, his
| associates, the places he frequented
and other information about him. In
| half an hour more than 20.000 boobies
and other policemen in civilian clothes
had his description fresh in mind, and
| the hunt spread wide.
| III another part of Scotland Yard,
| wholly unlike any picture usually CON
| nected with a police institution, a
| miniature newspaper office was at
| work Here are published two daily
| newspapers, one morning, one after
noon. the latter with several editions
| every day: one bi-Weekly, one weekly,
and several that are issued as occa-
sion demands
None of these is for the general
public and none for sale. The Morn
ing. Report is the morning daily.
| Printed Information the afternoon
paper, Both are illustrated with phU-
| tographS and carry the latest news
ed for Crime, I'm Custody for Crime, >
Property Stolen" Persons or Bodies
Found. Persons Missing" and Ami
mails Lost or Stolen"
/ Every TUESDAY and Friday there
| is published too, in that Scotland
Yard newspaper Office the famous Po-
! lice Gazette, which is sent to the
police chiefs of every city in the
British empire and to many others.
] &c flyn ha f,tI,
page affair, we'll illustrated with pho
| tographs, and has correspondents all
| over the world. On Tuesdays it LAYS
| stress on deserters from the army
and navy; on Fridays 1t devotes itself
exclusively to crime and criminals.
| Still another Of this string Of peri
| odicals is the Illustrated Circular,
| devoted to the movements of wan
| dering crooks. A certain gentleman
| who specializes in breaking into ware
| houses leaves Liverpool for Bradford.
The correspondent from Liverpool, it's
chief of police. whose interest in this
| gentleman's movements is considera-
| BILE. finds the story important enough
| to telegraph 1t TO the Illustrated Cir
| cular
When the Bradford subscriber to
| this periodical reads this item he, too,
| Is interested, even though the article
/ Ill uueSliOu IL DTjeI. HenTV BOIkS,
alias the Cardiff Kid, alias Punkey,
has left Liverpool for Bradford.
| Breaks into warehouses"
Still other periodicals emanating
from this unique newspaper office are
the Weekly List Of Habitual Grim
inals, devoted to names and descrip-
lions of that gentry just released
from prison; the Black List, issued
| for saloonkeepers and containing
| rames and photographs of those
| habitual drunkards to whom 1t is for
hidden to sell liquor; the Pawnbrokers'
| List and the Cycle List, circulated
among those likely to give informa-
| ton on stolen goods.
| The detailed description, an excel.
| lent photograph. full face and profile
Of Jim Sully, therefore, appeared as
| the leading story in several of the
| above newspapers. Bundles of these
| were thrown into small closed green
motor cars and hustled to all police
stations. Others were mailed through
| out. the United Kingdom. Thereafter
police had an actual photograph to
help them in keeping an interested
| eye open.
MEANWHILE in Dorking a sharp
eyed young woman, who seemed
| to live quietly, but in exceptional
comfort, without working, kept her
keen eyes and wits about her.
Wherever she went she made 1t her
practice to look into shop windows.
Now that is not a rema rkable prac-
tice for young women.
What was remarkable, however,
did not meet the eye. For this young
| woman's gaze, while seemingly and
naturally straying toward whatever
mirrors the shop windows contained,
was rarely concentrated on the image
of her pretty self. No one could
possibly tell that instead of admiring
herself she was on the lookout in
those mirrors for the faces OF others.
Kitty Pearce knew something about
being Swallowed by the police, and
still more about how to spy in turn
on her shadows. Just now she had
particular reason for being on guard;
less on her own account than an
others. But keen as were her eyes
and wits, and often as she stopped to
look at the mirrors in shop windows,
as we'll as in the pale reflections in
| windowpanes when there were no mir
rors, she saw no face that she re-
membered seeing often enough to
arouse her suspicion.
Nevertheless Scotland Yard was on
her trail; and If a bright intelligence
like hers did not recognize the fact,
1t was due to Scotland Yards system
of shadowing. Detective A was the
first to follow Kitty Pearce. Behind
him trailed Detective b. Behind the
latter followed Detective G..
Only A, however, kept his eyes on
Kitty. But when he saw her keen
interest in shop windows he was not
deceived So before his face should
become familiar he gave q secret sign
and dropped out of sight. At once
Detective B hurried forward and took
his place. He, too, knew the real
reason why Miss Kitty preened her
self so often in shop windows.
| So he stayed only a short while on
her trail and soon gave the secret
sign to Detective c and, in turn,
dropped out of sight. In this way
| none of the Scotland Yard men APP
peared often enough within range Of
Kitty's eyes to arouse even her alert
| suspicion.
But Kitty Pearce aid not trust to
the evidence of her eyes. keen though
they were. Much as she desired to
! see her sweetheart, Jim Sully, both
he and she found It wise for -weighty