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Show 'PINKERTON SCORNS DETECTIVE STORIES I BAfi F'TIANCISCO. July I. (JJy The Associated rr"--.- ) Detective Wprk consists mainly In using common com-mon sense, William A Plnkorton. veteran vet-eran chief of the great detective bu- 1 reau which bears his name, declared I hero last week" while attending lh' annual an-nual convention of the International I Association of Chiefs of Police. Gum-shoe detectives of fiction were declared bj Mr. Plnkerton to be Punk pure and simple." He declared de-clared be never had read a detective Mtorv that read like the person who wrote It knew what h wai talking about. These sto' les about detectives tracing trac-ing crime 'by scratches on watches and all that sort of rot gives people the wrong Idea about the way we i work." he said. j "Any man with good common ensc j can be a detective. I've pickod up some of my men trom street car Jobs nn.l other occupations and th'-y usual- ly ha v . mad" good " laif-k has something to do with the work of detectives. Plnkerton said. "Some rf the cases I have cleared up and for which I h ve been given credit as having done clever work came to me by pure accident." he added. Plnkerton voiced a protest against l nine pictures'" on the films 'Som ; I pictures show Just exactly how lo com-' I mlt a crime I certainly am protcst-l Inn against this practice and respon-j I aible directors and producer'" have already al-ready promised that no such plcturse will he made In the future." |