Show NEW SCOTLAND YARD London's Detective Headquarters in Fact and Fiction Writers of Romance Have Attributed Wonderful Feats to Marvelous MarvellUs' Sleuths Sleuths Like Like an American City H Hall 1 London Scotland Scotland Yard the most famous detective center in the world o owes cs Its Us fame to fiction Plots fa far more involved ed than the mysterious Doctor Crippen Crippe case have been worked out and the solutions credited to this institution by a host of ot story writers led ed by hy Charles Dickens Writers of good and bad have had a aland hand land In creating Impressions of secret passages massages elaborate disguises and superhuman superhuman su suo su- su powers of deduction Stealthy sleuths glide forth into the highways and byways to recover necklaces neck neck- laces aces of incredible value to find abducted abducted abducted ab ab- ab- ab ducted maidens and solve the dark and bloody puzzles of at impossible murder murder mur mur- der mysteries This Is the Scotland Yard of fiction The Scotland Yard of fact is a handsome handsome handsome hand hand- some red brick building elaborately trimmed rimmed and very much like an AmerIcan American Amer- Amer Ican can city hall in appearance Nowhere within its door Is there a hint of sensationalism sen sen- The building was d do- do signed to afford a headquarters for tor forthe forthe the vast police pollee business of London and It is business from Its foundation lon tion stones to Its weather vanes Technically the present Scotland Yard fard of present police fame is new Scotland Yard Old Scotland Yard opens off Whitehall midway between the he present police headquarters and Trafalgar square II long bygone days the he detectives had three little rooms in n the old yard littered beyond belief bellet with papers papers dirty dirty and like ike It was these three rooms that Dickens Dickens Dick Dick- ens knew Detectives and police pollee were under separate administrations then and It was only when the police made madea a failure of d a case that the detectives were called Anyone who was willing willingto to o pay the cost anywhere in the United Kingdom had a right to call a detective from Scotland Yard At present a Scotland Yard detective Is not allowed to leave London except on rare occasions It was from the old force torce that Dickens Dickens Dickens Dick Dick- ens drew material for the detective sketches that all Dickens readers e r rY Y y w r 1 1 The New Scotland Yard In London know enow Inspector Weird a man of portly presence with a large moist knowing mowing eye a husky voice and a al l Habit of at emphasizing his conversation by the aid of a corpulent forefinger which was In constant Juxtaposition with his bis eyes and nose was In reality reality reality reali reali- ty Inspector Field whose memory still Is green Field also was the origInal original original inal of at Inspector Bucket In Bleak House Inspector Stalker one of at Dickens' Dickens characters was Inspector Walker Valker In real life ute A few years ago there were many men on the force who remembered Thornton the man whom Dickens changed to Dornton the sergeant famous for pursuing the Inductive process and from small email beginnings beginnings beginnings be be- ginnings working from clue to clue until he bags his man However the Scotland Yard is said to be overwhelmed as the hub of detective detective detective de de- de- de skill It would not be fair for tor foran foran toran an American correspondent to Inti Intimate mate that the constables In London are up to the American standard of efficiency and Intelligence In police duty Much less Is expected of ot them I as a rule and they have a much less troublesome class of ot people with which to deal The London public even In the worst quarters of the city has hag a greater fear of at the police than has the New York or Chicago public From the constables are recruited the themen themen themen men who compose the aristocracy orthe of or the detective force torce These are the themen themen themen men who eventually handle the big cases |