Detectives and Thieves.
- 'The investieration by a Citizens' /Committee of the "Washington (U.S) PoHce ;) 'l)epartment has disclosed a ; baost extraordinary state of affairs This Ceinmfttee has been at work for three months, and it has discovered proofs of 'thV existence of a wide- ' spread conspiracy between. the detectives arid the thieves, whereby ■ the former .even went «o far as to plan ' robberies, aeod ifor criminals to commie them, and divide the profits with them The . Qpgunjtoee has secured the jidictweat -«f thirty-four persons, most ot .whom were detectives, and the.&bfliitipn also of the whole detec 'ti Jfc Jorce by Congress. The investigation has a national interest, ■ inasmtith as the unlawful combination it has disclosed operated in the interest of more prominent criminals than •6r denary ' thieves, and has seriously impeded '^He 'administration of justice in the courts.*
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 4, 19 June 1883, Page 3
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