Show THE REAL SHERLOCK HOLMES I He Is the Chief of Detective Inspectors of Scotland Yard arch I Tit Pit Bit Bits All thc burglar burglars forgers forge ann and an other othe eminent criminals criminal who conduct thir tl jr operation on a large largo scale Ecale and an are ard fer on the wanted anted list even een If only for n R very er abort short space of time will willbe willbe willbe be greatly gr Interested In an ment that has Just been made to tin thy effect that thA t Chief Detective Inspector Frank Freest has been appointed super superintendent of the criminal Investigation department While the criminals hate haft Mr rr Fro t as their arch arh enemy and the theman th theman man who is continually thwarting their schemes they have hae nevertheless the greatest admiration for his superlative cleverness and they the are arc as well ac al acquainted acquainted with his personal p character characteristics as aa they the are with those tho e of their own brothers The Th change may make a great deal of difference to them though thou 1 they are not net quit quite sure ure yet et in which way wa it will do so 10 As the chief of the thc detectives who went wen out to catch criminals with Uh their ovi ow hands Mr Froest Freest line has been regarded ns na one of the most tnt in Ingenious genious daring and d of the InC smart men who have hav ha come from Scot Scotland and land Yard Tard Hundreds of oC times has he risked hl his life In th execution of a daring scheme for tor the capture of o some criminal and amI on many man of ot these occasions it has looked ns its If the fates lates Rte decreed that there were ere to be bo no nomore nomore nomore more But he be h will tell you pleasantly that he has hn a lucky star that IP it always In attendance on him and that his hia life Is iA charmed He has h had d a r in l all of the great eat coups of Scotland Yard dur during log ing the last few tew years For the future tutu however hi his work will be more passive and ond less leu active for tor he will m not person personally personally erton ally go 10 out on the trail of the criminal any an more morl but will sit In an office attics m xu Yord Tord and anti think out scheme chem r for others to do so o He has hall been b en made superintendent of the criminal investigation investigation gation Atlon department and nd as such It will willbe willbe be his lii business to direct all the opera open operations lions Hons Of or the great Scotland Yard Tard ma mn machine rhine chine Superintendent Sup Freest roest is not exactly a n Sherlock Holmes in appearance Ho TIc H Is Isa s sR sa a R man of enormous strength with a small mustache and a abald abAld abald bald head although he IP is only 45 Iii 4 years tars of ot age ayre But such anxious times n t he h hhas has had do not conduce to the retention ret of jf the hair There Th re Is nothing mysterious or suggestive of or cunning in his hi manner mannet He is bright and and md is if al always a 1 ways wa s anxious to tel teU you Oll a g ory not Infrequently connected with romo fm of or his past experiences whIch have he havel l assed ed Into the of criminal ite tory ton and the telling of oC which does do hot mutter matter But Rut It Is the th hardest h t thine In Inthe Inthe inthe the world to get et him to relate a single le fat fact concerning con any an Scotland Yard job that may ma be lie in hand for the time He will vIll toil tell you ou that the work of his men is hard enough and sufficiently dangerous without Its ita it being made more so Sn by b that kind of or thins thing Dangerous Well Veil one of oC their most interesting curios at Scotland Yard con consists consists Istl of or a bowie knife knie which has hap lx Ix notches on It and if there had been a 11 seventh there would ho be no Superintend Superintendent ent Froest Each notch was made In Inthe Inthe Inthe the knife by b nn an American Am prairie cow cowboy cowboy cowboy boy on the occasion of a n murder that he lie committed with it After thes th r murders one after the tile other in Ameri America Am rt ca a the cowboy set sail In n a cattle boat bont lor England Scotland Yard was ap ftp apprised of ot the fact and an sent young oung Froest this was very er many man years ago ngo go almost at the beginning of his career cut ut onto the Job of catching the man manRe He Re went to Queenstown and for fori forthe i he the ship to appear In sight and when ho saw It he h put out In a small rowboat and nd up u the side of ot the ship There were several se men on deck and andas as ns soon as the detective found him himself himself self there he hc tried an old ruse which nas as quite successful Addressing one of ot them who looked the most likely he ho asked hron hn If it his name was as X men mentioning mentioning mentioning the name of the man who was wanted The Th man started back In sur cur surprise surprise prise What hat he said You have hae and then he remembered and corrected him himself himself self saying quietly Oh no my m name Is Ir not X But the Inspector knew now nov that It was Yes it is he lie said and Im a po police poUce lice Uce officer Instantly the cowboy drew the bowls bowie knife and leaped at him The two closed and rolled over oer and over oer on the deck the knife several times going through the detectives clothes without injuring him But after atter a 3 terrible fight the detective got the best of ot it it The daring and the resource of this young detective det th were discovered by br his superiors very e early In his hili career when he was one of ot those who were put on onto onto onto to a mystery m that was causing a deal of trouble In his hU theorizing upon the sub subject leet j lt he lie came to the conclusion that If he could come Into possession of a certain certain tain photograph Aph he hI could Id get to the bot hot bottom bottom tom torn of the whole thing But the plc pic picture lure ture was withheld 1 I However How vel ho Iu went to the office offic of ot the man who had hadit it saw that It was on his desk deek got the imn n out nf or n the Ihl room r n I n nJ l then quietly took possession posEs lon of the pho photograph photo photograph to raph In his hili absence All such things a ftc these the are art fair and legal in love loe and war and the th photograph photo aph proved to be bethe bethe bethe the key kO ke to th the solution of the mystery In the very er finest and most delicate kinds of ot rIme crime where hert there Is no rough roughness roughness ness n no 1141 violence and no suggestion u of ot the true villa II Superintendent Froest is 13 at It his best on the opposite side In a R kind of armchair In which he has not hot so much to hunt for clown clews as at atto asto asto to set his hi mind to work against that of his opponent and discover a Hn le theory on which hi h to act This Is the th refinement of the detec detectives d tc lives five business and ther thor was a very ory fine sample of what the he new chief of the criminal Investigation In department can do In this category in the famous case ca of the th man Marshall a provincial solicitor who a year or so ago when staying at al a West est End hotel declared that f bag ba containing worth of oC notes not belonging to him nit but ut to l a client of his hi hal baa b been rn n stolen from Ills his bedroom For a time it was the most splendid mystery that had ever rated the newspaper readers of Lon Len London Lendon London don but It was waR still quite young and at Its most intensely interesting point wh n Mr Froest after very little ac action action tion lion but tome some very ver hard thinking thought he saw the light He came to the conclusion that the notes notts had not been at all but that Marshall had appropriated th money more to 10 ls Is own on use Marshall was duly dub sent s nt to prison for doing doln so M |