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"By OHARLES B. LEWIS (M. QUAD),
[CopYrig'ht,, 1893, by Charles B. Lewis.)
" In his ordinary-everyday walk of life
~almost every man is a detective, even
‘ though he fails to realize it. When a
celebrated case comes up, 99 men and
women out of every 100 theorize, de
duce and conclude and are detectives in
‘everything but practice. lam not there
fore different from the general run of
men in being somewhat interested in
detective work. The only difference is
that I frankly admit it while most oth
ers deny it. Indeed I will admit that I
am an unpaid and unprofegsional de
tective, sel%om coming in contact with
the police, but paying my own salary,
working under my own orders and fol
lowing such clews as I think best with
out reference to the professionals.
One morning not so many years ago,
while I was riding down town on a
Berdan avenue car, I had a seat oppo
site a young man about 24 years of age.
I hold that facial expression is an index
of charaetor, but the voice is the real
test. Where bath together: satisfy me
that a man is bad, a thousand men
might argue to the contrary without
- changing my opinion. In two minutes
I had sized this young man up as fol
lows: He was a stranger in the city,
though he had no baggage; he had just
arrived that morning; he had a place
- in good society, but was dissipated and
reckless; he was nervous about some
thing, for he kept his fingers going; at
first sight his face had a frank expres
sion, but after a bit you caught a fur
tive movement of the eyes which spoke
of slyness; a woman would have called
his mouth handsome, but to me it was
an index of hypocrisy, sensuality and
selfishness. But for a trifling incident
he would have been forgotten as soon as
I left the car. As I watched him with
out appearing to do so he slyly took
from his pocket a card, on which some
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thing was written in pencil, and then
immediately looked out to catch the
name of the street we were passing. In
ference: He wanted to get off at a par
ticular street, the name of which was
written on the card, and did not want
to ask any questions. He was looking
ahead of the car when we reached Beech
street, and as he roseup to get off 1 saw
him slyly glance around as if to note
whether any 6ne was particularly ob
serving him. 5
Beech street, as 1 must tell you, bore
a mest unsavory reputation, though here
and there was a respectable domicile,
shep or factory. On an otfhand deci
sion 1 should havesaid that my man
was a gambler on his way to ono of the
numercus dens in the street, but I was
not satisfied with that. [ left the car
half a minute after he did and hurried
back to find him standing on the corner
and slyly glancing at the-card again.
As Beech street crosses Berdan avenue
it is called Beech street East or West.
If he had a number on the card, it did
not give East or West, and be was
therefore puzzled a bit. In passing ]
ran against him and turned half around,
and three seconds later I was saying:
“**l beg your pardon, sir, but I came
near falling. Hope I didn’t hurt you?”’
““That’s all right,”" he replied, though
‘the frown on' his face disproved his
‘words. . i
%It was very awkward in me, but ac
cidents will sometimes happen. Can I
be of any service to you?"’
““No!’”’ was his curt reply as he turn
ed away.
1 had accomplished what I set out to
‘do—to catch his tonee. His voice and
face harmonized, sotospeak. Both were
against him. I don’t say that [ made
him out to be an outlaw or assassin or
even a hardened criminal. |1 simply
grouped him under the heading, “Sly
and Bad—Don’t Trust Him.”' He had
replied that 1 could be of no service,
and yet he crossed the avenue and made
inquiry of the old woman at the apple
stand and disappeared down Beech street
West. Why hadn’t he asked me? Why
hadn’'t he asked, the conductor before
leaving the car? Why did he ask the
apple woman when there was a police
man within 10 feet? Why did he look
back twice to see if he was followed?
At 9o’clock on that same night, while
I was on Berdan avenue, two blocks be
low Beech street, it began to rain. 1
had no umbrella, and as usual some
thing was wrong with the electric sys
tem, and the cars were all stalled. 1
walked rapidly to within four doors of
Beech street and then dodged intoa
doorway. A minute later a man and
woman toraed in from Beech street and
sheltered thamsslves onlv five feat awav.
AS tney came around fhe corner the gas
lamp gave e a glimpse of their faces.
She was a woman of the town and he a
tough/ They were talking, in excited
tones as they turned in, but the first sen
tence I caught was spoken by the tough:
“*1 tell yer, Sue, I've got to hev mon
ey, or I'll cut up awful ugly.”’
‘*What's the use to threaten, Bill?”’
she protested. T
*‘l'll do sunthin besides threaten if
yer don’t come to time. I want money,
and I want it tonight.”’
‘I haven’t got a dollar, and you know
it
*‘Then git a dollar—git 20 of ’em!
I’ll come around at ’leven o’clock, and
if you don't put $2O in my hand I'll lay
ye up fur a hull month. Mind what 1
tells yer. I'm goin now, but you look
fur me at ’leven o’clock!”’
She stood there for five minutes after
he went away, and I was certain that
she was weeping. By and by she turn
ed the corner into Beech-street, and as
the rain slackened a bit 1 took my way
up the avenue. Next morning I heard
of a murder on Beech street. A woman
of the town, known as Sue White, had
been murdered in her rooms. It was
supposed that she had been killed at
about 11 o’clock at night, but the deed
was not discovered until 7 o’clock in the
morning. At 8 o’clock, when I left my
house, I met the coroner on his way to
the house and accompanied him. A
professional detective was in charge,
and though he did his best to prevent
me from securing information I never
theless, as a triend of the coroner, was
granted certain privileges. There were
but two rooms—a sitting room and a
bedroom. The body lay on the fleor of
the sitting room. The woman had been
choked to death, but there was no evi
dence that her clothing or her rooms had
been searched for plunder. Not a chair
had been upset or an article pulled down
to prove that there had been a struggle.
The murderer had used only his right
hand. There were the prints of his fin
gers as plain as day, but thers were only
four of them. The second finger on
that hand was missing.
The rooms of the dead woman had
been reached by a publicstairway. The
bnilding was éntirely given over to wo
men of her class, and no attention was
l paid to any one coming or going. No
‘one had heard her cry out, but it so
happened that the woman across the
hall had noticed a tongh character nam
ed Bill Wheeler in the upper hall at
about 11 o’clock that night. This man
proved to be the Bill and the dead wo:
man proved to be the Sue I had heard
conversing in the doorway at 9 o’clock.
When arrested, he did not deny having
called at 11 o'clock, but he declared
that he found the woman lying dead on
the floor and hurried away for fear of
arrest. The first thing [ looked for
when Bill was arrested was the fingers
of his right hand. None was missing.
[ had heard him threaten the girl, but
was satisfied that he was hot her mur
derer. Tbe doctor said she had been
strangled, but no one appeared to see
whether there were five finger marks
or only four. The fact that no struggle
had taken place was a great point with
me, but the others made no note of it.
A professional detective should under
stand human nature. Bill Wheeler was
a tough, but not a eriminal. He could
bave no motive in killing the woman.
He might beat and abuse her, as I bad
beard him threaten to do, but he would
not plan her death. The murderer had
vot given hig victim she slightest warn
ing. Assoon as he entered the roomn he
<gized her by the throat and bore her
down. When he knew that she was
dead, he quietly left the place, and itso
happened that he was not seen. o
- You no doubt read of the trial of Bill
Wheeler for the muarder of Susan White,
though such trials are so common that
no one outside the police is interested.
Judging the man from my standard, he
was a ‘‘bluffer,*’ with no more courage
than a woman, [ went among his ac
quaintances and ascertained that he was
all bluff and brag and had never been
known to strike a man. Such a.cur
would probably strike a woman, but
he wouldn’t grip her throat and hung
thava whila sha died bv inches as if
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HE PRESSED THE TRIGGFR.
were. At the first sendofi only one per
son claimed to have seen Wheeler about
the house that night, and all the in
mates were certain that no screaming,
cursing or other row had taken place.
It wasn’t a week before four different
persons elaimed to have seen Bill, and
three others remembered of hearing the
woman cry out and ran around her rocm
as if to escape some one. Indeed, a wo
man came forward and testified thatshe
saw Bill when he left the room, and
thet as he went down stairs he mutter
od. “I've finished her and am glad of
There is no doubt that Wheeler was
seen and recognized by one person, All
the rest of them coolly and calmly per
jured themselvers. If you are surprised
at my declaration, let me add that one
of the greatest obstructions in the path
of the professional detective is the too
willing witness. A ecertain class of men
and women want a certain notoriety.
They want it said that they furnished a
clew, and they glory in being called as
| witnesses. At least half the failures of
the police to capture criminals inay be
set down to false information furnished
vy those who want to be mixed up in
the case. I may safely go further. Let
10 houses be robbed, and the inmates
or at least eight of them will declare
their loss to be double what it really is.
As a matter of fact, the robbers may
have been seen at only one house, and
yet the inmates of five or six of them
will give personal descriptions of at
least two midnight visitors. When 1l
saw the web being woven around Wheel
er, I sot out to find the guilty party,
believing the young man who came
down on the car with me that morning
[ have spoken of to be the man. You
will say I bad an advantage over the
professionals. It would have been an
advantage had I not gone to the super
intendent and related every incident.
‘* My dear sir, '’ he replied as I reach
ed the end of my story, ‘‘the theoretical
detective is as numerous as the leaves
on a tree and about as worthless. Bill
Wheeler and no one else murdered that
woman, and we shall convict and hang
him. Please don’t trouble yourself
about the matter.’’
I expected just what I got, but I went
to work just the same. The Berdan av
enue car line passed the O. and O, rail
road depot. The Boston express came
in at 7:30 a. m. It was 8 o’clock when
I entered the street car and saw the
young man, I remembered that he
yawned occasionally like one who was
still sleepy. I put in two days of hard
work and secured the following point
ers: He had come in on the Boston ex
press; he had occupied upper 10 in a
slecper; he was without any baggage:
he had taken a light breakfast at the
depot. Where he had passed the day in
the city I could not ascertain, but as it
was summer I believed he spent most of
the timein one of the public parks. He
had come trom Boston—that is, he had
taken the night train there, but might
live anywhere in New England. Iwent
to Boston with a clew to work on. |
had sized him up as more or less of a
society young man. His dissipated look
and good clothes went to show that he
was a high roller. He had a solid
watch chain, a fine diamond pin, costly
sleevebuttons and silk hosiery. That
signified plenty of money. It was no
task "at &ll to strike the trail of my
young man. I got track of himina
hotel billiard room, and before 11 o'clock
at night I found him lunching with two
other young men at a swell cafe. With
in two minutes after I set eyes on him I
had satisfied myself that the second fin
ger of his right hand was missing.
To satisfy myself as to the young
man’s identity I had taken a seat at a
nearby table. It did not occur to me
that he might remember my features as
well, and if 1 made any mistake in the
case it was right there. It was perhaps
10 minutes before he looked over at me.
He was drinking heavily and in a reck
less mood. 1 saw him give a start and
turn pale, and then I knew he had rec
ognized me. He doubtless believed that
[ was a professional detective and there
’to arrest him. His first ‘<oa, as | saw
by his demeanor, was flight, but he in
‘stantly abandoned that as useless. His
face took on a haughty, defiant look as
he gazed at me, and all of a sudden out
came a small revolver, the muzzle was
pressed to his temple, and before a hand
could be raised he had pressed the trig
ger and sent a bullet into his brain.
Who was he? The son of a broker, as
you may remember. The newspapers
said he had been disappointed in love
and was temporarily insane. Why did
bhe murder Susan White? Because he
was a libertine, and she was one of his
victims. He had hired her to go away,
not caring where she drifted, but she
loved him and was jealous of him and
was threatening his peace of mind. He
bad killed her to be rid of her.
I had all these facts, just as | have
stated them, and yet Bill Wheeler went
to the gallows. My facts were facts,
but not proots. The professional detect
ives laughed at me when I stated them,
and I could not go upon the stand and
prove a single point. Wheeler was as
innocent of that crime as the judge who
sentenced him, but the police still boast
of the unbroken and indisputable chain
of evidence which they forged and fet
tered him with, and I have heard them
even complain because he did not con
fess and thus make a clean case of it!
I Beg Pardon.
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