Show PRIVATE detectives wl what mint a veteran police officer thinks of them and ami their work speaking of tho the professional detectives a veteran ex policeman remarked to me that they appear to have become as indispensable a necessity in tile the civil service as spies are in tile the military in time of war and then lie went on to say sav there are arc different kinds of detectives the lemit leit le it enate class clas are ill all well enough I 1 mean those officially emp employed loved and those of the reputable and honorable ollo rable detective agencies whose business it is to ferret out crime these appear to be a necessity and generally do mood good and useful work but there is another class of detectives se scandal tildia detectives employed by certain private agencies that ire arc simply villainous it takes a smart man to be a successful detective of the reputable kind but to be a detective of the private agencies I 1 refer to a man must have not only a certain kind of smartness but buthe lie must of necessity be a very mean a sneak anti and a hypocrite of the lie very worst kind A downright honest man mail cant be a detective of that sort no more than ali an a man of veracity can be a successful liar bar you see his very business requires him to ic be a rascal and a nian man of false pretense sl sf and for the reason that stich a detective must of necessity be a dist dishonest ionest man mail it is never safe to rely tuo too implicitly upon his word ile he is too anxious to make inake out a case a against aillet the nian man lie is secretly dogging and watching to qualify him for a t disinterested witness and the testimony of none of these private detect detectives ve should ever be taken in coutt or accepted anywhere else unless h wean can be veri red bed by that of credible witnesses vho aho are not detectives they are generally ene rally the t greatest liars out of jail T the lie good name of no a i reputable person should ever be placed at w the mercy of these private detectives and there ought to be a law for the protection of private character from froin their assaults assault ts the old yet vet then went on n to give n ive me many instances where detectives have been t guilty of Lr arross ay iy slanderous outrages upon wo worthy raby well TOPI and nd women by either inventing n falsehoods outright 0 magnifying fa facts acts ov 0 being A self de and closed his reni remarks arks with the emphatic assertion 1 I hate a sneak anyhow Flie calls himself a detective or a in tile the grass its all the same tiling thing chicago journal |