Detective agencies of the first-class are engaged principally
in clean-cut criminal work, such as guarding banks from
forgers and "yeggmen"--an original and dangerous variety of
burglar peculiar to the United States and Canada. In other
words, they have large associations of clients who need more
protection than the regular police can give them, and whose
interest it is that the criminal shall not only be driven out
of town, but run down (wherever he may be), captured, and put
out of the way for as long a time as possible.
The work done for private individuals is no less important
and effective, but it is secondary to the other. The great
value of the "agency" to the victim of a theft is the speed
with which it can disseminate its information--something
quite impossible so far as the individual citizen is
concerned. Let me give an illustration or two.
Between 10.30 P.M. Saturday, February 25, 1911, and 9.30 A.M.
Sunday, February 26, 1911, one hundred and thirty thousand
dollars worth of pearls belonging to Mrs.
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