Show BILLY PINKERTON He Says His Detectives Would i Starve to Death Here i iI I Ealt Lake is So Situated as to Mate It Ex j cstrtmglv Difficult for rltninals to I Escape Says the Sleuth I i Billy Pinkerton the boss detective I whose name is a household word to the American small boy and as universally I despised by the tinbucket brigade was in the city yesterday on a little business I connected with his profession Mr Pinkerton Pink-erton long as his name has stood at the j 1 head of a great detective bureau I yet a v I comparatively young man He wears 0 j moustache black as a ravens wing and 1 fierce enough for John L Sullivan and tj I his eye is as devouring a that of Billy i Mestayer in the character of the bruiser Ion ion i-on a Pullman car Ferreting crime and I I chasing criminals is not the kind of an occupation to cultivate sweetness and lghtH and Billy Pinkerton Is of tho gruffy roughhewedsort of man that gives and taKes hard knocks as part of his business busi-ness nessWhen asked as to the increase of crime the big detective said that what they most have to contend with now is daring train robberies He instanced the one where a desperado stepping into a baggage car nlled with men just outside of Council Bluffs blew brains Biufs pulled a pistol a mans out grabbed a big bag filled with diamonds jumped off the train and escaped You people of the plains and mountains will have to look to your laurels he said t referring to the numerous daring robberies v that have recently occurred in tho highly civilized sections The only protection for your banks in Salt Lake he said is the difficulty criminals J crim-inals have in escaping from your city In Chicago they can in a few hours go to i St Louis or Cincinnati and a man after committing a burglary in Boston can turn up in New York before tho police i have even a clue of the robberv But your officers in Salt Lake have plenty of time to head them off by wiring the officers j at Grand Junction Green River or other pomt to search the trains j When asked if he contemplated starting an agency in this city the veteran detective j detec-tive with a smile replied They would j starve your people are so good i It is not unusual for notorious burglars i burg-lars said Mr Pinkerton to come to me i and tell me that they have concluded to j quit the ousiness and ask that they be left t j alone When they do so I call all my men j in and after they have taken a mental j photograph of the man he is allowed to depart in peace It is seldom that an old criminal after giving himself up in this way will occasion us any trouble though j they sometimes operate in other cities I i is a standing joke that when the 51 Paul police arrest a notorious character they release re-lease him on his promising go to Minneapolis Minne-apolis I have a good deal of sympathy for tho poor devils who have been driven from pillar to Dost When broken in j health they sometimes come to me and ask for help I have taken many of them and introduced them to business teen telling them their history They are as a rule very chary of preachers who while advising ad-vising them to reform and lead virtuous lives are the last to offer them encouragement encourage-ment by putting their hands into their I j pockets or Dy helping them to secure honorable hon-orable employment j |