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Show "BILL" FLYNN'S REPUTATION. (New York Sun.) Everybody knows, including a number num-ber of Italian crooks now doing their bits In federal prisons and iu Sing Sing, what Flynn nians by "My reputation." repu-tation." Many times whn the po'ice department failed to arrest murderers or catch gamblers, people have Jibed "Why don't the police hire- de'ec-tlves'" de'ec-tlves'" Well, that was Mayor Gay-nor'a Gay-nor'a reason for giving Flynn a $0,-000 $0,-000 job and unlimited authority over the Centrul office. Fljnn Isn't a politician poli-tician or a theorist or a job hunter. He's a detective who thinks that the principal business of a detective Is to detect. That's a short way of saying. "Get Ihe evidence along with the crooks " In eleven years' experience with criminals In New York city and th East, William J. Flynn has to his credit a remarkable series of convic tions. They nay of him In the secret service, "Bill's "a bulldog. He never lets go " Counterfe iters and killers and thieves have slipped out of his grip, but Flynn got them usually iu the course of years. His expedience has proved that counterfeiters seldom reform, often blackmail and rarely balk at murder. So In rounding up gangs of coiners be accumulated a vast store of knowledge knowl-edge concerning their side actMiies, and be has come to the rerue of the police department many times in puzzling puz-zling cases. |