Silent Worker

NZ Truth, Issue 1148, 1 December 1927, Page 6

Silent Worker

TO meet for the first time DetectiveSergeant John Bruce Young, of

Christchurch, is to form the impression that he is a man of many sorrows.

His sharp -featured face is a 3tudy m enigmatical expressions — alternating between the pensive and the doleful.

That is the impression before you have spoken to the man, but when you do his face changes as that slow smile of his spreads across his countenance. No; there is nothing doleful about John Bruce, oven though he does take himself a bit too seriously.

A silent worker, he does not tell his shadow what he thinks about a case or how the inquiry is going. Mum as the proverbial oyster and getting on with the job are the guiding principles he follows m tracking down criminalß.

And he has brought many a score of crooks to justice m his time. Big crimes are his speciality — the bigger and more mysterious they are the brighter shines the star of his talent as a sleuth.