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Show THE magazine section. 7 x-""- fC X iV x-- .j - ' - . i ijrt--- , a : .' -- . i. .j- - Mil ni r, nr.,, - 1 m V i ii a: VV s, niiritoJi,x-fc-iM- . i. Y - nskrft n ShrrlnrJc Holmr v.hirh f an th' most thrilling in his carcrr ion irouhl qvit 7: ' ,'' I - i- f , ...:. u ' . name naturally rxprrt .in to narrate ini-lut- . Jat, d' tf tivrs nficn hnxr-rc.iin- a bit IT . , ' : v ;4V V V.;V ., . .v. i t mo-men- "T5 1 j if an-tite- L- - 'SSr:;'r;Sfty JL.-lL-- -- rs William J. Flynn. I? When Secret Service Chief Flynn Found John Davis J. FJLYNW Is Uncle Sam's b!g chief of police, He 13 chief of the United States secret service. Several years aso a littl Itussian ualked Into a Grand street bank in New York and asked for exrhan-- o on rilO worth of Hani, of Knsland i nolo?. ten and Tho clerk to held thm the lirrht. and the water an. I beautimark showed rlcar-ci- t IT..LTAM m - In its delicate I' John Davis was arreted for - on of forgeries, and also that Davis had made the notes the Russian tried to pars in Grand street, and that the capture of Jacob Stern, reported by !hr,vhih?;-esentinel, had demoral- Inspector Dougherty and the T axi- cab Robbery o of the rv.rnt interesting mo-menfs in the ltfa of Ccorze S. was in the great . . . . taxtcao rooDery which occurred in New York in 1312. Two messengers were sent in a taxicab from the East Rirer Nat.cnal Lank to draw $2o.f0) in currency from the Fro duc Fxcnange National Bank at Broadway and Beaer street, in the downtown financial district, and Lrlns it up- . . i - While the cab was returning five rnA IV l. XX" XX.Vrxr ,,-- B,4U caustns , -- . nir in tne "a.n7eur ,. .i. .tuwruiaivj , " X . irom ot k. to 6lacken ir.vii, ua iwu doors. Two assailants were boosted ln and quickly beat the messengers into Insensibility, while their two helpers ran along on tho sidewalk, The fifth man climbed on to the seat the chauffeur, hold a revolver to his ribs, and ordered him to drive rast. At Park place and Church rtreet, after a trip of 11 blocks, the chauffeur was toUl to stop the cab, and the robbers got down, carrying the $25,000 in a leather bag. They nn Quickly to an automobile which xras waiting for them, and in a few moment were t,irone. That nas tao substance- ot the l-sl- - .. i ri -i V pow J-- , .... H.viei ....ovu .. liitia mrnt - which watch.It W -- ho called . 41,1 ei-ie- u ld p ' - 7 ; . -- - x, 1 VV V. William J. Burns. i X- - x'V x;" - J. nURNS says crim- WILLIAM caupht becaus(e they :aik too much. "As an illustration: Some years a?ot while I was engaged in the aldei manic graft cases in San Fran- Cisco I casually met a man who was then and ever since has been a mys- tery to me. He arrived only a short before from Honduras, for years the haven for criminals from the United States, because no extradi- tion treaty existed between the two countries. Z'n was fn f fi El'Pearance excellent educatJon and gave all indications of hav- - 'vbcpn , v - man of importance at , f, v nn w,unot te yott h name nor Indl r t . h, idpntitv X. Jt- VQa evident he had come to Honduras because of some troi ible t - flt homp Rfor lpft tho nUfst ion came up whether you would keep jour word to a criminal oncejou had given It. The newcomer expressed the opinion that you would not T .-- i ruuwi . . fln-er-n- rint mid i.ortrait Imported ' from iLl V"IU hjt' Pinkerton's Wholly Different Thrill the most memorable est effort to have Forrester reform, in the life of Will- - but he was incorrigible, iam rinkerton was the occa- "During, the convention of police chiefs at Buffalo, N. Y., several yeara sion of a visit of "Billy Forrester," was n ro?m when a bell- one of the most notorious burglars f-at knocked door and handed the boy of years ago, a former resident of me R nQte j opened u and fQund New Orleans. it was from Forrester. He was re- Questing an interview that evening "During the civil war," said Mr. at 7 o'clock. I had not seen him in Pinkerton, "he was a sailor in the yearg bQt readny racognlzed him United States navy. After the war as he entered. He was bent with he became associated with a gang age, his hair was white, and he waa As we took seats I asked of burglars, consisting of Dave Cum- - trembling. him he knew if the people wjo were mings and Frank Dean, and com- - consregated there. He replied that mitted numerous bank and jewelry they were policemen from all over robberies throughout the South. He the country, but that he had abso-wa- s convicted at Chicago in the lat- - lutely nothing to fear; that he was e&i a straight life, and had been ter sixties and sentenced to prison for the last seven years in OXF. . of 1 x-- x !; k break your word to a criminal, add' I . ing that he had known of a counter-ieit'in! f ' A . JX Nr case in which you had been . I engaged while with the United working States secret service, and which for 14 years. He escaped twice and BaffaIo confidentially giving me the convinced him you would not vlo- was recaptured through my efforts name he was known by and where jato Jour promise. and returned to prison, completing he was employed in charge of seven "This ended the conversation," conwatchmen. tinued Detective Burns "but from sentence. his ..The glgh(. cf that oU Vv i : x4 the few thing's said I at once ldenti-tim- formed at sentwo served afterward "He last, might seem to the ne,i the mysterious individual who 1 i i a rather individual had gone to Tegucipalpa as a man tences in Philadelphia, one in Rich- ordinary incident to a detective of Mnonplace with whom 1 had come in contact Va., and another at Albany. Jong cxper,ence bllt no narrow eg. mond, professionally in the United States, X. Y., and very likely others. My cape, no great coup ever gave me as He had been a prominent lawyer in I X father in his lifetime made an earn-- great a thrill." nn eastern city, but had committed , H 6 I then pieced this and that fl crime. a f r f3 , js t together and satisfied myself be- ' r " yond question that 1 knew who he I V was. Webster unwittingly had talked r jI , I too much, and so, too, had the man, ECEXTLY a quietly dressed ran through to Broadway. Like a who remained in the Honduran capL ital, and who had left a track by man hurried Into the lobby of shadow the bearded man sifted which he might easily have been Itl the entrance, ran through one of New York's smart H:rc-ugr '5 traced had I been Intersted In doing suitBroadway, and hotels ' planted a bright new so. Tho man did not think he had 3 turned toward ' "i " 1 corner vv where the case on the floor, axui bustled up to fjMe told enough to disclose his friend's ; v rv J n iutQ ypu M ' n '7t '., ' " I the registration desk seme SO feet tUj.0 of the clerk the quietly dressed identity, and was greatly surprised when I remarked that his last incar away. Apparently he had some dif- man with a Van Dyke stepped up ceration had cost him two Angers of in securing just the sort of c!os3 to the fugitive and crushed a ficulty his right hand. ftst under his Inspector Joseph Faurot. room h. wantea from- tLs derk. for far The silk "This only goes to show that fre- v.e , iouna mm ujing he stood with. His back turnea to me , - riAtT-r-. vv t- ti,- -' ouentlv- it is the little,' seeminlv- In- - our place. . . vug itllll room. the tall man staggered Diucnttiii, back into th significant things which criminals- around tne lobby ior several minutes. Iretleccew do that lend frequently to their deLeaning 'nonchalantly against a arms of the travelling salesman, who tection. although apparently deep ? quick as a flash had pulled his re- ...tvK3 no . stone pillar, vita a v.oman. the replied "Why, surrounds and their cases." volyer an(J pressed u mystery jn his hand it's the first time we have e en him a fcrmer.s chest Then they Jed him tall, wag en Mg Bilk .at loose. Peraaps I f.uh d to .ock his WfcU-- f roomed man. He around to the hotel where two husky d cage. But soasre the catch ia quit. policemen were waiting. J;vj thp ftttitade of one v:ho was "Blue-Nosehe Bill, or I'm a liar." Suddenly for somebody. ti,..rnSti walling aW 1PokeTd at the ctch andfondlt one l of mind them. with a jo ' I examined u under the fa 11.to III "Blue-Nos-strong. 9rP tv- ,D Ul vnaov Uy rrcn1 Tjnra on. i microscope. suitcase echoed the his left men," he other, position gesture r.tint couraging. I dropped upon it some straight across ?nra iew minutes later they were tak- cu liic 1UH.IU3V.U1J0 CeVeiOPing POWae.I IU WillHJ SUlr y the post, walked , , on everything in the house. I de- - stance which turns the faintest fin- - t e loDoy. PCKeGt. u '"Vn .was to L mug ed SWrlntei that' cided the burglar wore gloves, but into a " we was well de- arsuin5 my experience was that burglars who v "The finger-prin- t man" was uvia. traveling man m5 at desk, and waikea wore gloves usually find occasion in fined. It was the print of a man's was an. m.o one or tne door lie the dehouse the revolving " through the course of a visit to take them off. thnmh .. u tn in Tectives his s ue street. qisuisp As I was leaving: tho apartment I iInspector Faurot then, hurried i.ir.finn TolAah bird. 1 hack to police hcruur.e., and tlopp.il lo admire a . dis- - the clerk, and tho o suit air h.,,!SJ.V.,C, That s a handsome bird" case a in a 30 With cloak hrfra'ce6 conspicuous a quick fee, place like interest then of the "'Yes,' replied the wo was a all the irom desk to square-se- t a of part he cabmotion signalled Marching .for its mate in the ,ther night rvv whn ctnnd nlant The snuare-;e- t man ivitVi 'Got out?" inets. The mate wasn t to ue iouna, man wuu entrance of a d""X: store mtle Van Dvke was the chief " 'Yes,' she explained. 'He got out and presently the Inspector forgot idly at the it- -or were almost did. But that opened on the lobby, and wliicn aetecuve. a. u. uenntson. while the all 3 -- g f -- Mfyv e 1 , or v, v4" . t a rf i fc t. v - ' in F xx: ;y t - Dennison and the Suitcase Thief 1 -Vx 1 n. R J , . tto 3 i -. ; - . gold-heade- Inspector Faurot Wins with a Finder Print tnstru- uhnm th , hi3 "He parle system were L , , J v Detective Burns and the Man Who Talked Too Much nZ ni V ""'? V s :'! r I - George S. Dougherty. with needle. Paris. Mory. "One morning several years ago The characters were Oeno Mon- - hung round the suspect's neck. If fan! a taxicab proprietor; Wilbur the latter told the truth the needle burglars broke into a residence in '"'"i"-"-' umiiu init:r; uaun cmun. an potmeu 10 iruui, au riaioufii, of the portable off most As he if it to didn't a carried "Lie" it meenger; Warden, pointed they or alias was out It had the "Collins." of contents the alias Eddie dining room. I Kinsman, suspect's sight. -but could man; a strong effect. searched for finger-print- s Eddie the Ecob." a stick-uj. ' x l V V - . lnK .- a. r - - - 4 ing to Detective Dougherty, who, at the time was head of tho New York city detective division, occurred in tho examination of Jess Albrazzo. In this examination Detective Doug- Orr,U JUJIV JUOL,JU a few days ago the part the told had outside of proof, herty plenty finger-prin-t and he employed what he terms hi3 system played in thea In celebrated case. Insolution of dealing "psychological study." with a negro suspect some years ago spector Faurot was the agent through tv . ..-- . - Now the thrill in this story, accord- - Dnu-her- Xi - v- thieves; James . V - ' ' -- i.., X ' . y Pasquall. alias "Jimmy the Pu3h:" keeper of shady resorts, known as "20S" and "223" Robert Deilio. a X side partner of "J mmv the VPush . : Jess Albrazzo. a middleman, former- y keeper of the Arch Cafe, pal of .winuaui, ine cnauueur, Jimmy me Push" and Deilio; Matteo Arbrano. -- ,. r, "u" Vuu'rt,t:5 nuu. -naro. Known as tne liar3 'inreo ling- " a character on "d3 "Kin f nowerr. aweae Pd? nnie, a sweet- irie . . . , , pal, Myi Horn, and "Josle," a girl of the Chi- cago Levee district, The crime was cleared up after hard work, and the men sent to jail. -- lit p Rn V A. G. Dennison. 1 "Knowing that I wns a detective, said tome: 'Readan accountabout he Bill Keller, alias "Dutch," a stick-uyou while in Tegucigalpa, the capl- man; One Splalne. another of Honduras, which appeared in UP rcan; "Scot ty the Limb." a crook's tal a San Francisco paper. I showed it or "stall' . Inn I'm iAlnhia helper an to X X American who had arrived . . X .X iu asX.V, " ' fT from Unltrd States a few wceks the . a runner etick-Doughert- . C three months later, in another part son showed that so far as Greater of Flatbush, occurred the Staber New York was concerned the man murder. Mrs. George R. Staber was 'had no prison record. He was about killed by one of two burglars who to file the record away when he gave had broken into her home. In at-- the thumb print a last perfunctory tempting to save his mother the son glance. one of the pair badly. "Five minutes later,' said the in- Both were captured. The wounded spector, "I was catching a car for man. Frank Schliemann, alias John the hospital. I walked into the ward Smith, protested that he was not a wrhere Schlieman lay, and without a professional housebreaker. He said warning snapped a question at him. " 'Schliemann, he was an artisan out of work, who when you broke had been induced by his companion into that other Flatbush house three to join him in robbing the Staber months ago why did you free the home. It was his very first crime, canary bird?' he declared over and over again. "Taken by surprise the frightened Inspector Faurot hurried to the hos- - burglar blurted out the truth, " 'Say, on the dead, that's the first pital where the wounded man lay, I played kind. " and took his finger-printtime Compari- . t'x ii lei 'It X - ' f OXUil UhrJ , 4- - N'H ; ized t r. can?;. Davis, an artist with pen and brush, confessed. riomo time hiter tho socret service chif broke down the door of a house in Revero. a suburb of Hos- ton. and nabbfd a set of co'inter-fu- l the feiters and about the nearest perfect a plnnt that had ever fall n under tho clerk couldn't understand came to liave ?7'0 eyes of the f"deral agents. As the shabby stranger worth of rsnr of that sort, so ho door went down a little man with paoned to Hynn. Hynn, as lie n- - red whiskers burst out of tho tered th bank, saw a whiskered man kit hen. Ho ran into the muzzle o watching intently from the oppo-it- e FIjnn'3 rvo!ver. side of tho street. He kept the man Why. John Davis." said Flynn in mind, heard the clerk's Ptory, col- with a lauch, Molm Davis, you ou?ht jarea tne JCusslin who had presented to be ashamed of yourself." The the notes, and then slipped out to little man crumpled, and soon began capture the sentinel. He was pone to whimper. Scotland Yard had with 100.000 of spurious note3 in turned him with a hint for him Ms pockets. The man causht swore to lose himself in Belgium, but he he had found the notes in a wallet toon grew lonesome, hich he had picked from the gutter. "The old trame pulled John back." They were on the Dank of Kngland. said Flynn. "and he came hero to There was not enough evidence on print beautiful $10 bills.'' which to hold the man so he wan let His plant was ready to turn out go. A little later Flynn learned that $1,000,000 when Flynn broke in. Tint liov. tracing. ..s:;; , AS--- ' w- for wirio-irctm- .. tlve-ro-- 1 rvAjKvli) e W 1 ::":y " q prnntrtt or f.ml rnorr thnt is virimrn-liin a thrill of satisfaction. At all tfrntst Mr. Robert Krnndy, uho (urrd the folVraing intTvinr.s "if $ir famous tl'frrtirrs, found thr somru'hnt dijrrent from those he might have expected. - 1 X 1 M' -- X ' 7T Jo rithrr tr.kr . mST" rH W -- : :';': William A. Pinkerton. tnrladramati'-- . A a matter of 1 i v.;.-v-:- :;V ' W-: - ! f 1 vi1 El i v.;v a 1 if 1 ell of Incidents That Impressed 1 hern and Prove That t s Detectives amous r Not Always Melodrama That Most Interests a Sherlock Holmes. !. - . t MAGAZINE SECTION. 20, 1916. 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