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Show CAUGHT ON THE FLY. A Citizen Detective Makes Some Discoveries Dis-coveries in New York's Deadfalls. Dead-falls. New Yoek, October 14th. Curious evidence has been obtained by a member of the Property-owners' Association, now ! engaged in an attempt to clear vice out of the mercantile portion of Sixth avenue. Warned by previous experience that the policemen will testify, when the, cases under preparation are brought up in court, that the assailed establishments are not wicked, and that the excise laws are not broken in them, this earnest investigator in-vestigator has used a camera to some purpose. The rotten neighborhood is brilliantly lighted at night by electricity. The city's street lamps there are electrical, electri-cal, and these are reinforced by those hung in front of saloons. The interiors of the dance-houses, concert gardens and variety shows, too, are glaringly illuminated. illumi-nated. Armed with the pocket camera for taking instantaneous views, he has made over a hundred negatives, the prints from which show the character of bevond power of contradic tion. In every case the camera was used after 1 o'clock in the morning, when the sale of intoxicants is supposed to have stopped. The street scenes, showing throngs of men and girls entering and emerging from the doorways, were obtained ob-tained without difficulty, for only a second's sec-ond's exposure of the lens, like the flash of a dark lantern, was required in eacn case. Sixty of these were made without attracting any attention. Then he undertook under-took the more delicate job of interior photographing. pho-tographing. He got eighteen covert shots from the galleries and private boxes of the Haymarket, Sans Souci, Koster & Bial's Prospect, Alhamhra and Coffees, all in the region of retail shopping injuriously in-juriously affected by their presence, , . At this stage he was caught at it. He declared de-clared that he was at work for the Polge Gazette, which was fgoing to pubhsh laudatory accounts of the resorts, and thus in the guise, of "a special artist on the spot," he victoriously completed the workV It is expected that juries will believe be-lieve .the pictures against the word of tne police. .. - |
