There are detectives at the heads
of prominent agencies in this country whose pictures adorn
the Rogues' Gallery; men who have served time in various
prisons for almost every crime on the calendar."
This harrowing picture has the modicum of truth that makes
it insidiously dangerous. But this last extravagance
betrays the denunciator. One would be interested to have
this past-master of overstatement mention the names of these
distinguished crooks that head the prominent agencies. Their
exposure, if true, would not be libellous, and it would seem
that he had performed but half his duty to the public in
refraining from giving this important, if not vital,
information.
I know several of these gentlemen whose pictures I feel
confident do not appear in the Rogues' Gallery, and who have
not been, as yet, convicted of crime. A client is as safe in
the hands of a good detective agency as he is in the hands of
a good attorney; he should know his agency, that is all--just
as he should know his lawyer.
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