Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-23

q like China
town. live 5
its own life.
a and. like Chi
- nat town, II
nm '' NN" has It's faSci-
nation il only you can see il.
\ It's a little world with sights
/and odorS OF IT'S own. old cronieS
sitting hour after hour in the
coffee houses reading their
newspapers. restaurants that
cook their meat-and-rice mix
lures in enormous kettles. the
pungent odor of roasting coffee
from a wholesalers establish
ment--and peddler with his
cart, selling ice cream 10 the
urchinS in the street.
TWO BLOCKS distant IL
police headquarters. In stern
gray stone. On the fourth floor
II the room where the final acts
are played out in any citys
most dramatic crime-murder
II IL the homicide bureau, pre-
-Sftrt over by Inspector John
Whitman.
Homicide detectives, as
class. are inclined To he taci-
turn, not given To unnecessary
talk. Almost without exception.
they are solid, powerfully built
men with the rugged look Of
men who have spent their lives
In police work.
But woe 10 the killer who
mistakes their silence. Possibly
no other profession calls for
such mental alertness, such
studied use Of psychology, in
tuition and even acting.
Detroits most recent murder.
that Of the young beauty Mary
Gallian, was broken by De-
teCtveS Lawrence Sheehy and
Arthur Glover, who have
teamed together for half a
dozen years.
Before tho girls stepfather.
FmyrS Richards. confessed. the
detectives knew they had tho
right man which would have
. surprised Richards He thought
Ne had committed a perfect
Vcrime.
lie cleaned away all blood
stains and every clew-so he
believed from the scene OF the
crime. Oddly that betrayed
him. The killer reasoned the
deteCtives) must have been IA
miliar with the house and
known how long II would be
before any one else would get
home. ANY one else would have
been afraid 10 wait long enough
10 clear away the telltale signs.
Richards betrayed himself.
Glover and Sheehy know
thousands Of such methods Of
reading hidden signs. Next
comes the heart-breaking strug-
gle TO elicit a confession.
you have to know people"
they say. Sometimes, YOU
have 10 he tough. and some
times you have TO he sympa-
thetic. You even cry along
with them, sometimes.
Many skilled homicide men
can work themselves up 10 the
pitch Of shedding actual tears.
In highly emotional state.
many a killer will blurt out a
confession.
Sheehy once got a confession
from a woman on Alfred street
who had killed her own baby,
a poor, spindling. underfed in
FAINT, because It cried. Sheehy
wept right along with the un-
happy mother. moaning over
her troubles. Then. he turned
husiness-like and demanded
confession. She broke down and
admitted everything.
THE JUDGES and lawyers
did n marvellous Job with their
soapboX bond campaign, but
Sammy Dibert, who took his
orchestra out into Times Square
IN help the campaign at Judge
Frank Picard's corner, had this
10 say:
cit wasn't the people buying
$4,000 bonds that you watched
lit was the ones who bought
little ones"
One woman, an immigrant
from Poland years ago. drove
up in an ancient Ford. with
bags OF potatoes hanging on the
tenders. AL ,Bigelow, the police
man, let her double park while
she stepped up and bought her
S2S bond
II need new COaft," she
said. "but ! guess the country