Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1916 — Remarkable Catch of the Jacksonville Police [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Remarkable Catch of the Jacksonville Police

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. —Police activity, which leaped to 100 per cent efficiency here recently after sharpers who had been preying almost unmolested upon northern tourists managed to fleece two Jacksonville residents,

resulted in a remarkable catch the other afternoon. Inspector Joseph A. Faurot, head of the detective bureau of the New York police, and one of his finger-print experts, Sergeant William H. Haley, were arrested and taken to the city Jail. There is strong reason to suspect that the two added..to the enjoyment of a brief vacation by pretending to be confidence men for the benefit of the local Sherlock Holmes squad which assembled at the pier to

Inspect passengers arriving by steamship from New York. In the slang of the detective world, the New York men “made" the local detectives on sight. They kept their faces turned from the sleuths. They slipped past with guilt in every move. They became much guiltier in conduct when assumed that the local detective force was following, shadowing them. . . -. , J ‘ They did not register at any hotel, but moved about on the porches and in the lobbies, eying every man who looked as if he had money and might be parted from it. , When luncheon time approached they decided to bring the adventure to an end and pretended they were about to clofee down on a prosperous-looking man whom they had followed with theatrical evolutions from a hotel. Heavy hands fell upon both and gruff voices announced that they were under arrest. . “Why, I am a New York newspaper man down here on a big society story!” said Inspector Faurot. “Tell it to the cap,” was the unfeeling reply. “You've made a big mistake," Sergeant Haley blustered. “I am a traveling man.” “Very old that traveling man stuff,” one of their captors commented. They were marched to the station in the jail building and Joked their captors into wrath all the way. Arraigned in front of the police official on duty Inspector Faurot waited until he had been charged with “loitering, suspicious actions and probably a bunco steerer.” Then he announced himself.