From the Albany Evening Journal

A Famous Detective Officer;
or, How He Managed

The city of New York possessed an officer who had acquired a great reputation as an adroit, sagacious, and, better than all, a successful detective. His fame was in no wise “contracted within the pent-up Utica” of even the great metropolis of our country. It pervaded the State, and by the powerful instrumentality of the press, had permeated all sections of the Union. Not fame alone, however, had rewarded his efforts, nor was that the only recompense he sought. Wealth had been gathered in his coffers. He had been employed in very many cases when the large amount of property involved had brought a handsome remuneration for its recovery. The world knew little, if anything, of the means by which he had attained such eminent, and, in many instances, such singular success. The parties whose property he recovered, and who so gladly remunerated him with munificent largesses, may have had reason to suspect that he bargained with guilt to bring about such miraculous results, and such golden harvests, but in the fullness of their joy they did not loiter to make inquiry, or to seek discovery by the process of reason.

But the tide which, “taken at the flood had led him to fortune,” had begun to ebb. Others, quite as… Read More