Private Detective Bureaus.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2905, 22 May 1888, Page 2

Private Detective Bureaus.

Said a prominent police official: More men and women have been ruined by means o£ these disreputable private detective agencies than any one knows of or ever can know, 'I know a young . man who clerked in a store who ran against tlio bank so often that Wot to feeling of his employer's employers suspected hira and put a private detective upon his track, who soon found out what was the matter, . The young man confessed and made • what restitution he could, finally ing back the entire amount of • embezzlement, He was trusted by hia employer who found that hia refoi'tnatiou was compUte, and not long ago hs

married an estimable young lady living on the west side. The young couple were as happy as anything be until the private put in an apjpirauce, It was the < old story, He wanted a loan, and gave the man to understand that if ho didn't got it there would bo trouble. No one but his employer knew of his one false steji but the young man lived in a mortal terror for fear the detective would disgrace him. lie didn't have the nerve to tell his wife or his employer, but Buffered himself tD be bled until one day his brain gave way and he shot himself. Every one wondered why ho should have done such a thing when he was so happily situated, but I knew. There is no use in giving his name, for that wouldn't do any good, but I'll just say this, that if any of those private agency fellows try their games on me or any of my friends I'll make it for them. 'I don't mean to say that all of these agencies are crooked, but the best of them, with one or two exception, have had a bad influence. If a good man works for one of them it is apt to spoil him, They're the curse of the town. Chicago has more of them in proportion to its size than New York. lis a ' wjfer how they all live.'—Chicago correspondence New York Herald.