Show NEW YORK SLEUTH HAS BRAIN LIKE I A CAMERA Identifies Identities Lost Persons Saved Big 0 Tim From i Nameless G Grave ave NEW HEW YORK FORK April pl I 9 They 9 They call can It a photographic memory ho sees aces a person he ho never forgets him The man who possesses this extraordinary ability is named Peter and md his talent is 18 the means me-ans o of his livelihood Ho lie Identifies Identities lo lost loit t persons l Jn in n his little lIt lIt- tle office In the tho new morgue nt at the foot footo o of Eat East Twenty ninth street where as asa asa a R. member of the tho ell city police force ho he hohns has hns been stationed for tho the last ten years he 10 annu annually lly saves gaves hundreds of poor wretches from being burl burled d In tho the potters potter's potters potter's potters potter's pot pot- ter's field fled forgotten and unknown I haven't missed one since Ive I've been heen heenon on tho the job Sot remarked Mr quietly Once I see sea a person or a de description tie tie- tion I never ne forget Now take this book took book here here herer Mr r crossed to his de desk k and o opened ned a large larse le ledger Sr In which were wre thousands of written descriptions f like the following Name Rose Name Rose Edwards Arc Age Age 21 Brunette blue eyes ees dark freckled skin Scar car l between eyes Ces Remarks I Remarks Left L ft tt home ut at No n Avenue Ave Ate nue A on morn morning Ins of oC Jul July 14 for factor factory factory fac fac- tor tory James corset comet maker Grand Gr and Center streets Was wearing wear wear- car car- ing light blue serge sergo skirt white muslin waist I t. t black LL cotton stockings and light underclothing Number six shoo Rhoe bought at Rudders Rudder's No 6 63 65 Grand street lI Had lId d been depressed on account of III ill health heath Formulae Formula like tho the above are arc sent rent to the police whenever an any one In the big hi elt city of Now ew disappears or Is lo lost l Detectives special officers rM and private sleuths comb the m Is on such cases And nd along alon with ih tin th other notices sent out to tho the various stations about town is on one sent to Peter at the morgue a a. Twenty-ninth Twenty street for his place is tho the court of or last laRl resort rort l Identified Big Tim It was who saved M the beloved beloved be he- loved lover Big Tim Sullivan n from the potters potter's pot pot- lOl- lOl h. h ter's It field chI Tho The hC body hody I of tho the unknown man mall who had been heen run tun over O h by a train Ur upstate I te was lying in the old morgue at nt atthe th the foot fOOL of East T ent Twenty sixth street to he be l k taken n to Harts Hart's Island and burled Luckily Mr r happened to te see lle the bod body before fore It was taken In I spite of the tact fast that the tho face taco was unrecognizable through his hiM experience knew at a n glance glanc that l re J re was a man of ot some Importance I l never hail had seen Big Tim re remarked remarked re- re marked d Mr but I knew the theman's theman's theman's mans man's stature and general build and It struck me that the tho body hody in the coffin cortin looked a whole lot like him Besides the tho man mall was wearing we clothes of vcr very fine quality Dr Schultz an investigator In for tor the charities department hap happened ned to be on the dock at the time thus and 1 called him in Doc I 1 said that looks loob to me like Uko Big Tim Sullivan nn The Doc looked nt at shim for tor a couple lo of or minutes 8 and then he het said Id By 8 George I f believe youre you're right Mike Warren arr n a reporter who t ho knew Sullivan happened in just just at that moment and I told him I thought we had found Big Tim Warren said coati I 1 must be crazy but after arter he ho had taken lIken one look ook at tho the body he Jumped up and said it was BI Big Tim Tm We e examined the body thorough thorough- hI h- h ly I after afler that and finally established beyond be- be beyond yond an any doubt that It w- w was Sullivan sure enough Years On the Job dab Sometimes I cant can't convince people that t the bod body In m my poa possession eslon is really the person penson the they are searching for re remarked re- re marked markt-d Mr Mi Iv Put Purfield Ono time the son o of a n rich wine merchant up town disappeared and was later Jitter on ott picked up In the tho East river and brought here The Tho parents were eN summoned summoned summoned sum sum- and shown the body but both the tho father and a n. brother declared most emphatically that It was aM not that of ot the lost brother brothel Where did the young man bu buy his slices shoes I 1 asked them and the they told tod me I 1 showed them the trademark o oC of the tho shoemaker In one ono of the tho shoes Still the they were doubtful and it was not until I 1 had verified the tho name on the collar collar col col- lar of the coat with that of the clothing hou house e at which the young oun man traded that the they would believe me Peter Purfield has been em do ed b by the city for tor more than thirty years years Ilia Ills first Job was vms at Bellevue hospital where he h worked for seven sc years as night su su- su After that he hc worked at the insane insano asylum for tor four years curs and subsequently joined the city police force o of which he has been heen a member to for two twenty years the last ten in his present Ire ent capacity The They made me mo a first fast grade detectIve detect detect- ive lye after I saved saYed BI Big Tim remarked Mr Mr- eld But then tho the new administration ad- ad ministration came ouno in and I got Sot mixed UP In the tho shuffle rne Im I'm Just officer ril rt now an ordinary ordinal J |