Show DETECTIVES GOOD LUCK Even the halftrue yarns recounting the exploits oC detectives rarely make reference to the almost weird streaks of bullhead luck which all of us occasionally occa-sionally have In snagging people we go after said a noted New York sleuth who came down to Washington to look I around during the typos session I myself have received a vast amount of credit that I never deserved since I became be-came a fly cop although of course I am bound to say that Ive always token to-ken these undeserved honors with a proper degree of blushing modesty havent found It Incumbent upon me to narrate to my superiors the lucky circumstance cir-cumstance In connection with captures for which I have received the most praise Only three years ago I made a haul for which I got the glad word in the newspapers all over the country and yet it was a piece of Work that any eighteenyearold boy with a pea shcped head could have pulled off given giv-en the same amount of 1000to1 shot luck that drifted my way In connection with the capture A young New York chap the manager man-ager of a sizable brokerage olllco In one of the uptown New York hotels got into the speculative pond over his head during the absence of his employer em-ployer In Europe On the day before his employer was due to arrive in New York from the trip abroad the young fellow gutted the plant taking not only a large amount of the old mans cash but several tens of thousands of dollars dol-lars belonging to customers of the establishment es-tablishment Then he made a sudden duck of I His employer found the works up on a kite when he got off the steamer on the following day and scorched to headquarters In n devil wagon to tell about it I was well acquainted ac-quainted with the absconder as the hotel In which the brokerage office was located was a hang out of mine and so the chief tossed the case over to meAt me-At the very outset of my preliminary Inquiries among tho embezzlers intimates mates I ascertained that the young fellow fel-low had often expressed a desire to some day visit Japan Nine men out of ten have in their minds a certain o country that they hope particularly to take a look at when things come their way and it Is strictly the Initial stunt o n detective sent In chase of a fugitive fugi-tive to find out from the latters pals If he can the name o the country for which the jumper had In his expansive conversational 1 moments expressed a desire to visit This young fellow as I say appeared to have had the Japan bug bad and although I had no other clue of the slightest value to his 1 movements move-ments I determined to take a chance on the presumption that he had It In mind to convey himself and his hastily annexed wad to the land of the rick has on the steamer which was scheduled sched-uled to sail from San Francisco six days later So T made the quick hike to San Francisco I got there at about 10 oclock at night dog tired and had myself driven to the Palace hotel figuring fig-uring on taking a long sleep before beginning be-ginning the scour on the following day for my little man I found the hotel Jammed with the lobbies still in an uproar even at that hour The annual convention of the Native Sons of the Golden West that coRe corporation of the Californians was on and the toy n was in the hands of tens of thousands of excursionists from all over the Slate The night clerk of the Palace a man I knew well gave me the connerlng grin when I scribbled my name on the book I Howd like to bunk with you lee up another an-other man the night clerk asked me genially < Just as soon sleep with a wet dog 1 r pled Why Cause youve got to chum If you are going to stay with us this time he I replied House Is stuffed and cluttered to the roof Were slamming em Into I rooms In sets of fours and theyre I sleeping on billiard tables in the halls on top of the stationary wash tubs and in the sink But I can put you in a room where theres only one other duck New Yorlc follow be Is KO you will probably be able to make on better with him than you might with what Juniper you conceited Manhattanltes call a I murmured a few phrases to the night clerk about the hnnkypanklness of an alleged town that couldnt give an oldtime guest of a hotel a decent nights rest without doubling him up with a rank outsider but the clerk only beamed under my grouchiness and told I me that he was doing the best he could for me which of course was the exact = act truth But I told him that Id take a poke aroundtamong some of tho other oth-er houses to see if I couldnt got a room to myself and I started out I of the other hotels were In a wore stampeded stamped-ed state than the Palace and the beat that any of them could offer me was a chance to turn In with four other more or less riotous Native Sons So I hiked back to the Palace getting there at midnight Still got that vacancy with tho civilized New York maverick I asked tho clerk and he told me that the vacancy va-cancy still existed And you neednt take It so much to heart old man the night clerk said tail you hear the beef the New York duckll put up when hes gently requested to move over and make room for another The night clerk sent me up to the room occupied by the New Yorker with the head bellman to help ic In making an entry to the preempted room The head bellman banged on the door deep snores were proceeding from the roombut there was no reply until the bellman had slugged the panel for about three minutes with all his might Then there came a voice What the devils coming off here And I guess perhaps I didnt stick my ears forward when I heard that voice The man I was after had something some-thing the matter with his pipes and he spoke In a high raspy shrill tone that could have been recognized anywhere once heard by anybody The voice of the man Jn this room was the voice I would have bet a million of the man I was after But I determined to do just a little more listening for Safety Deys a gemman hyuh v ots gwlno tub sleep with yo nil1 called out the bellman Ill be dd if there is came back that piping voice from the room In atone a-tone of considerable wrath Aint no help fo It I sub sung out the bellman Du duk he says de gem man dun got tub sleep with yo all Open de do please sub Open nothing shrilled the man in the room Go chase yourself and give us a rest nobody backs Into this still while Im in 1L I reached out and yanked the bell man away from the door Then I put my shoulder to the door and in it went wlih 1 crash Then I made t jump for the electrolier l turned on one of tho lampsand there was my man sitting up in bed regarding me with natural enough amazement Hello Freddie I said to him Youre It And thats about all I occupied tho same room with him that night but I didnt go to sleep anyhad em send me relays of black coffee so that I could keep my lamps open The young fellow saw that the dance Aas all up and he consented to come back to New < York with me without the papers and just eleven days from the time Id started from New York I had my man back there and in the Tombs They havent got through hurling words of hot air praise Into me yet for that achievement and yet as you perceive per-ceive it was just about equivalent to the stunt of the woman who sticks a pin in a race programme and lands on a COO to 1 shot that proceeds to spread eagle his field after shos put her e2 note on Washington Star |