Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-07-02 | Page 8 | Fiction Sleuths Given Rap by Pinkerton

FIGT1I SLEUTHS GlVOi MP BY ; PUERTO,. i. . Common Sense Play Bly-; Bly-; feat Part in Catching ' 1 : Crooks, He Declares . - BAN ntANCTSOO. July 1 (Br A. F V TjMestlv work consist) saalaty nalng mhibn mom, William A. Flnkerton, .'veteran chief of the mt detective bo-nu bo-nu which bears bu nam. declared here last tMt while attending th annual convention f Uia International Assocla-Uoti Assocla-Uoti of Chiefs of Folic. Qumshos detectives of fictloa war declared de-clared by Mr. Ptnkerton to b "bunk, pura an simple." Ha deedared ha navar had read a detective etory that read Ilka th person una wrote It km what h .waa talking about. "Theaa etorlee about detective tracing crime by scratches oa watcbee and all that oort of rot give poopl th wrong Idee, about th way we work." ha aald. "Any man with good common aaaaa can ba detective. I've picked u noma . of my man from atraatcar Job and otbar occupations and tbay usually hav mad good." "Luck baa omthlng to do with th work of detectives, Ptnkarton aald. 'Horns of tho rases I hava oloarad up and for . which I hava baan given eradlt aa having dona daver work, cam to sn by pur accident." b added. flnkerton voiced a proteet against crlm picture" on the films. "Home ""-tMetnrea eleeee Jener 01 bi.ii ly heir -ee eeee Bilt a crime. I certainly am protecting against thla practice and raaponatbla director di-rector and produoare hava already prom-laed prom-laed that no auch picture will ba mad la the future." The radio fllv-ver which eaueed atnuaa. wient and cBcltemcnt during the recent convention of the Shrlner In Kan Kran-claco, Kran-claco, haa been retired to a work ahop to be dismantled. The retirement eaueed bo regreta from the traffic pollcmn, aa moat of thm bav aklnned ahlna aa reminders re-minders of tha radio flivver's tour ot th city, and their attempt to atop a machine that apparently waa proceeding without a driver. The flivver mada frequent trlpethrug1l th crowded atreet and no driver wa VI I Die. A elan, on tha machine proclaimed pro-claimed that It waa Oeorgo W, Hough-eon's Hough-eon's radio flivver. An antenna of three atranda. property Insulated, waa etrung an the top of th Incloeed flivver end to all appoarancea the machine traveled through contrasted traffic districts without with-out a man at the eteerlng whew. Traffic policemen and dtlaen gener. ally attempted to atop the machine when It aeemed to ba mevlnf without a drives. Many of them leaped an tha running board and attempted to use the brakes and steering gear, but they refuaed ta function. . Th secret of the radio flivver waa that .a dupllcat control bad been placed tn j the Inclosed part of the car and the driver -waa hidden behind a dark curtain a that he waa lavtelble. Fifty -thoueaad first Ilea ware released one evening recently aa an "added attraction" at-traction" to tha Toklo peace exposition, according to advices from the Japanese capital. To attract vl el tore to the eahlbl-tlon eahlbl-tlon tho directors have been programing novel events and In their hunt for new ' "etunle" hit on the firefly flight Th result re-sult ar aald to bar Justified tb trouble trou-ble and capon .