Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24

portant part she had played IN the job for
which she was wanted in New York Finally
she travelled back TO New York with Jim
Capone" thus preventing an extradition fight
leave to the readers imagination the picture
of her CONSERVATION when she found that Jim
Capone" had led her to the once OF the chief
inspector of the detective division in New York
City. Certainly q shadow could not have &C
complished this featl
Woman operatives are expert In the roping-
in process, possibly because Of their sexs skin
in the use Of attention attracting artiAces.
They sometimes pay heavily for their expert
ness. Frequently, On cases where diffcult jobs
of roping-in were required, have used women.
One such was Myrtle. an Irish-Canadian girl.
notorious Canadian bank r0bber end killer
had Imred her young brother into his Arst
crime. She went out locking for the bank
robber and In this way was brought to my
attention. She roped him in properly, and he
was hanged in a Canadian prison for the killing
of q bank messenger.
But the task left It's mark on her. The
fear was always present in her mind that some
member of the bank mob whose leader she
had turned in, would get her. When she called
at my once, which was On the twelfth floor OF
a large building, she walked both up and down.
She had tried the elevator once and her nerves
went loose. She tainted. Nevertheless, she
climbed the stairs twice a day to make her
daily reports to me other operations upon
which she was engaged.
without hickey birds" which Is the de-
tective's polite way Of saying stool pigeons
many crimes never would be solved. The
stool pigeon system is an older Institution than
the police department-in fact. almost as OLD
as civilization itself. Police officials used to
be reluctant to admit that they employed stool
pigeons for the practice Is regarded as repre-
hensible and dangerous. But nowadays wise
and honest detectives openly admit employing
them, for the simple reason that the old dodge
of explaining that 1--WE simply trailed our man
and caught him" has q hollow sound when it
is obvious that trailing is mostly non-prCduc-
tive Of results In this day Of the motor car and
telephone.
Moreover, stool pigeons are costly helpers.
They have 20 be paid In some way for theaf
treacherous service. The only way the police
can pay them Is 10 grant them some conces-
sion, zach as running speakeasy or q gambling
joint without molestAtion or TO forget some
crime they have committed and for which they
have never been apprehended Arnold Roth
stein In his youth was q stool" He got many
concessions for the services he performed. and
Ia the end he became greater power than the
Detectives he helped This is one of the great
dangers of the informant system. It builds
creatures and machines that grow more power
fun than the police.
THERE are some detective jobs wheae the
shadow b stan essential The Secret SerV-
ice division of the Treasury Department sus.
pected that the outside man Of q gang q
cOunterfeibes was living In house Ia the
lonely outskirts OF m Eastern city. It hap
pened DO be the only house within radius og
six blocks. An operative had no cover for
his operation. He couldn't stand &ny place
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