Show SHADOW ALWAYS I I NEAR AT HAND How Detective Keep Their Man Under Surveillance Sur-veillance NO DOGGING FOOTSTEPS QUICK WITTED BOY IS THE BEST SHADOW Suspects Followed Through Long Journeys nail in Crowded Cities antI Never Lost Although They May Many Times Have Disappeared Disappear-ed From View Woric That is Difficult ficult BY CLEVELAND 3IOFFETT Copyright 1S03 by S S McClure Limited Lim-ited One of the most valuable mea on the detective force is a firstclass shadow and he is also erne of the most difficult 1 men to find for the art of shadowing is one in which few excel A shadow must be able o go without food or sleep for ir any hours must have an eye like a hawk so as to follow his man two blocks away and not lose him in the crowd must have patience to wait in the street for half a day or half a night always watching watch-ing a particular doorway from which the person shadowed may come forth at any moment must be able to endureall kinds of weather and all extremes of heat and cold and must ba fertile in espeUients and always on the alert so that whatever happens the man who is under surveil lance will not escape Detectives arc often called upon to shadow shad-ow for weeks at a time some notorious criminal or respectable citizen fallen under un-der suspicion It is only a few months since one of the Pinkerton shadows kept a famous express robber for five weeKs on a stretch never losing sight of him night or day although the man during dur-ing that time was constantly moving ahout and made a journey from Louisville Louis-ville to Lexington Ky Her waf respell sioihty of thousands of dollars resting upon one modestly paid man who had but to fail in the least degreer in vigilance or I faithfulness during say twenty hours of each day and the bird would have flown But he did not fail and the express robber rob-ber was arrested when the time was ripe The bodily fatigue involved in shadowing I shadow-ing a person even under the most favora ble circumstances is very great The man may visit forty places in a day may take street cars and carriages may lose himself him-self in the maze of a great office building or visit some theatre dry goods store or railway staltiom from which there are numerous nu-merous exits Wherever he goes or what ever he dOE tie neverresting snaoow must be near him at every moment without with-out allowing his presence to be suspected He must do this and does do Jt even though tho person shadowed suspects thai he is being watched and is taking every precaution to baffle his pursuers Detectives Dont Dog Nor Wear False Beards As the popular ideas about shadowing are ludicrously incorrect it may be well to begin by stating what the detective engaged in this work does not do He never dogs the footsteps of the man he dog is pursuing and Indeed remains behind him n little as possible his usual position posi-tion being some distance in front and on the opposite side of the street A person who imagines himself under surveillance instinctively looks over his shoulder fox some one behind him but larely thinks of searching for th shadow in front Whenever When-ever Ithe shadow places himself in the rear he takes care to b at least a block b I hind the person he is following and never on the same side of the street On a street car he never occupies the same platform a his quarry nor would ha think of springing up behind a cab which the littter had taken He would simply take aiicither cab keI I rl j Nor does the detective have recourse toI I mysterious disguises in accomplishing his difficult task of shadowing When engaged en-gaged on a long job he will put on a different dif-ferent hat and a different suit of clothes about once D week just as ordinary cit sins do but as for altering his appearance appear-ance in any other way he never thinks of I False beards false mustaches queer goggles and lightning changes of clothes I and character only exist in the imaginations imagina-tions of writers who in their books and stories have made of the detective a crea ture such as never existed on this or any II other planet and one grotesquely unlike the real article Not only are such theatrical theat-rical disguises unnecessary but they disgises would defeat their own purpose and result in the detectives immediate betrayal for there never yet was invented either on or on the stage any makeup involving of stge I false wigs false noses etc that would not be detected by the casual observer as surely as he would detedt the presence of I I a cork leg In some passerby I A QuiclcAVittcil Boy tIme Best Shallow So far from being the sharpfeatured lynxeydd sleuthhound fellows they are generally imagined the shadow detectives imaned tectives are commonplace in the extreme in their appearance In a great many instances apperance stances they are not men at all but lads of or so such as lounge about on eighteen street corners 11 Pinkerton has had some of his greatest successes in shadowing shadow-ing with boys of 1 or 15 who are able to I crawl through a knothole and are never I suspected by the parties they are following I fol-lowing even when seen stealing a ride on an express wagon or staring into some shop window wag looking boys have I brought more criminals to bay and been instrumental in the discovery of more crimes than would be believed I crime w I On one occasion just to settle a friendly i friend-ly wager Mr Pinkerton gave one of Chi cagos great editors a practical illustration illustra-tion of the ease with which a shadow may i do his work and yet remain undetected It was agreed that for a week a shadow should make a complete daily report of I the movements and doings of a young lady typewriter employed by the editor during her absence from the office The idea was not to pry into the young ladys life which was quite exemplary but merely to furnish a practical test whose truth could be easily verified Culd I Accordingly the report was rendered every day as to where the typewriter took her lunch what she ate what persons per-sons she bowed to what time she reached home how she spent the evening etc The editor himself took occasion to wait in front of the building at such hours as I the frat young lady would be entering or leaving leav-ing the office in order to watch the operations tons of the shadow in which he was interested rJons in-terested But look as he might he could never see the shadow He even walked several blocks behind the typewriter on various occasions scanning every person near her but he never caught a glimpse of the shadow And yet the reports were in every case absolutely correct a he was able to verify I Finally very much perplexed and exceedingly ex-ceedingly curious the editor went to 11 Pinkerton and asked him to show him the shadow whose presence he was unable to detect Much pleased at the success of his experiment Mr Pinkerton walked down the street that day about lunchtime lunch-time accompanied by his friend and a ithey passed the typewriter he pointed out a young negro lad who was moving along side of the way lazily on the other wa I There Is the shadow who has b < e turn i the week ing in the reports all through The editor was astonished He admit ted etor had seen the negro several timp hut had never thought it possible tmp that such an unpromising looking lad could be so clever That is where you make your mistake mis-take answered the detective Some of our best shadowing is done by colored boys like that one The very fact that for them to be no one thinks Jt possible detectives makes it easier for them to do their work How SniyectB Look Ont For Shadows One of tire most JmportanJt features of ehadowing Is the changing of the shadow as soon as 13ngng reason to believe that the person followed may have suspected Ihh Lt often happens that a professional criminal they being lays the mat difficult case to follow fol-low will take measures t find out whether anyone is following him or not < 1on For instance h will jump on a streetcar street-car at one corner and jump off again after having hidden only one block Then he will waitoh to see if any one else gets off and will then repeat the operation with the following car It ds impossible for even tine cleverest shadow to continue operations in the face of such o move and tub only thing for a Qetective to do in that case would > be to remain quietly on the car Said telephone I tel-ephone the office at the earliest possible i < I moment that he has lost the scent and to have another man put on By remaining re-maining on the car and not allowing his presence to be discovered the shadOw will probably have set at rest the mans suspicions and it will bs easy for the new shadow to pick up the trail again a few hours later or certainly the next day by going to the criminals horns or to some of Ms familiar haunts whiCh are usually well known Shadows Last Measure With a Suspect Sus-pect I happens not infrequently however that a shadow cannot afford to allow his man to escape him even for a few hours Perhaps he is pursuing some desperate des-perate criminal pending the arrival of requisition papers or in the interim of making out a warrant for his arrest Should such a man by a clever expedient expe-dient force the shadow either into unmasking I un-masking himself or giving up the chase the shadow if he understood hAs business busi-ness would meet this difficult situation by a trick that a been employed with success more < than once by the Pinkerton Pinker-ton detectives Instead of concealing himself any longer he would come forward for-ward boldly t the man he has bEen following and deliberately pick a quarrel quar-rel with im Perhaps he would address ad-dress him in an insulting way or were that insufliciemt would strike him in the face Then a scuffle would ersue between the two men and the outcome would be that both would he arrested I and taken Ito the nearest police station for disorderly conduct There the detective de-tective sorderl reveal his identity and the reasons for wIshing to nave the man reasons or he might preserve his incognito I and allow himself to be pqt in a cell over night along > with his fellow prisoner oner At any rate no matter what the cost there are cases like the above where the shadow would not hesitate to take the law into his own hands or even to break the law in order to keep the man Tie had been Instructed to I guard as he would his life I A Change of ShadowS Every Day In man cases there is a change of I shadows every day This daily change I is easy when the man remains in one locality for then it is only necessary to send a new shadow from the Central office very early each morning to replace nfo g EI the one who rufl e man to bed the I nigHt before But the problem is complicated com-plicated when the man to be kept insight plcted sight is constantly on boats or railways perhaps sleeping in a different city e ery i i night Without a netjwork Jr agencies including large and small bureaus es I tsblished all over the United States ibis flying Shadowing would ba impossible I i impossi-ble As i Is nothing is easier i i Take for instance ithe case of Schwartz the notorious express robber and murderer who was followed east from Chicago some years ago by Pinkerton Pinker-ton shadows He spent several days in Buffalo where his actions were reported hour by hour unitil he bought his ticket for PhiadelPia As no took the train afresh a-fresh shadow did the same securing a section in the same sleeping car and taking his meals at the same time as Schwartz either in the dining car or at 1 Satz intermediate stations N 9 sooner had I the train left the station than the Pinkerton 1 Pink-erton representative sent the following cypher uispach which illustrates u sys tem in constant use J R Linden 411 Chestnut street Philadelphia adelphia Anxious shoes sucker Brawn morales man other dropping eight arrives put grand fifty marbles articles along or derby coat sWo very tan seer wearing these have and is ribbon ink oust central cen-tral Tuesday for dust to rice hat and paper Vest yellow dnk get must jewelry morning depot 01 D ROBERTSON Thus the most important information regarding criminals 1 constantly beng flashed over the wires with n danger leak A sepatate code is of any leli seart prepared pre-pared for every importanlt case And thus from one city t another and through every part of the country any criminal may be Shadowed today as this < one was shadowed iht years ag one set o detectIve relieving another i every twentyfour hours and the mans every word and action being carefully noted down and reported without his having town faintest suspicion that ins movements are being observed Most Difficult lUnd of Shadowing As for the actual shadowing thug the streets of a large city Ihs work Is entrusted t men specially skilled in the art fa at i an a of seeing without being seen This cia Itself d one of tile most difficult task a detective is called upon to perform and the feW who excel ex-cel in it are given little else to do In all important cases where a criminal crim-inal like Schwartz is being followed upon whose final capture much depends jlc l two three nazi even four shadows are employed simultaneously one keeping in advance one in the rear and two ot either side Th advarjtase of this multiple mul-tiple snadowmg is that one relieves thC th-C her by change of position thus lessening lessen-ing the chances of 5uS Con whale of course it is scarcely po < 3wtble for several shadows to be simultaneously thrown off the scent An adroit criminal might outwit = 8 wit a single shadow but he could knot j outnit four shadows In cases of dong d-ong on trains the detective arriving with the suspect in a strange city uses some prearranged method of signalling olef ln like aP handkerchief in the left hand to reel himself to the shadow waiting to relieve him I |