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Show THOMAS BYRNES IS ' CALLEDJY DEATH Was in His Day Probably Best Known Thief Catcher of the World. Bv Lea-scd Wire to The Tribune. "NEW YORK, May J.-Thomas Bvrnos who as the henrl of -the jsev, Toli detective department came to be llcnown all over the world as ono ot the greatest thief catchers the world has over known, died tonight fiom chronic inclicostion and caBtritis. Death came while Inspector Byrnea , ns sur rounded by Lho members of nJ a,nli; Mr. Byrnos has been ailinc for some time. A few mouths ago he was ro ported as dying. Ho rallied, ftwever, and was able to leave his sick, bed Two weeks ago. however there was a re-lanso re-lanso and he was put to lied l"11: So arrangements We been made lor the funeral. ' reared, by Underworld. Probably no man was better known in the world of pohco nnd no one moro feared in the unDerworld than Thomas Byrnes. It was whilo l c M inspector in charge of tho detects e bureau at police headquarters i in ALui berrv street that Byrnes won Jus greatest great-est r?amc L Prom Wdate Byrnes became a mombcr ot tnc ioiw "i -"vr' 1867, until he retired m Maj , . lSJb. Inspector Byrnes was a thief catcher first of all, t was as such that he bocamc a real servant of the People-Thirty People-Thirty years ago the city was aver run with "thieves and thugs. A reign of terror had spread over tho town Tt was at that time that Byrnes was called to Mulberry street and told to organize a detective bureau. In a c i short time ho had organized what was known as tho central office of detec-tivel detec-tivel and assigned to that bureau were tho best thief catchers in the depart-1 mBvrnes was a man of striking personality. per-sonality. He was tall and well put together. Ho woro a big moustache, and never talked in a loud voice, ex-Sot ex-Sot when he wanted to let people Sw that he would stand no more trifling. Byrnes was a very rich man. Ho was said to have been many tunes a m llionaire. His greatest friend was tho late Jay Gould, father of George Gould and through his stock speculations specula-tions under Gould's guidance he .laid the foundation of his fortune. |