THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 31, 1940
REAL LIFE DETECTIVE TRIUMPHS
"SOMEWHERE ON
SULLIVAN STREET"
followed,
bulky package. He was placed under arrest
and searched.
William J. Flynn, the late chief of the United States Secret Service, had many triumphs to his credit, but one The package contained a batch of the of his most brilliant Jobs was in freshly-printed revenue stamps. Holving the Sullivan St. Mystery.
A few minutes later when Flynn Some years ago officials of the and his men broke into the place Government found that $2 internal the presses had stopped running. revenue stamps were being circulated | Three men were found in the wash- on a large scale.
It meant a loss of room. The detective picked the leader hundreds of thousands of dollars and at a glance. it was imperative that it should be halted and if possible the gang broken up.
"What have you done with | plates?" he shouted.
the
mean,"
"Me no know what you Chief Flynn made a minute ex-stammered the man. And despite re- amination of the counterfeit stamps peated efforts that was the only re- and finally got a tiny clue. The al-ply they could get. The most im- most perfect stamps had one flaw. portant thing in running down The paper on which they were printed | counterfeiting conspiracy is to had an excessive gloss.
ob-
The detective and his assistants made a tour of all the paper houses of New York and vicinity. Flynn found the house where the paper was made. It seems that the last of it- an odd lot-had been sold to an Italian about a month before. Sold at bar- gain, but it proved to be bargain for the purchaser,
a sorry The pa- per had been delivered to a printing shop "somewhere on Sullivan St."
HE PLAYED A HUNCH While his assistants were trying
-By
GEORGE BARTON
tain possession of the plates and to see that they are completely destroy- ed. The arrest of Carlisi and his confederates would only be a partial victory.
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given something very much like the third degree but they would throw fan and began to wave it to and fro. As he did so he gave a shout of triumph.
No wonder, for the six plates were had been hidden by the fan! on the side of the desk, where they
no light upon the whereabouts the missing plates.
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SALESMAN SENTENCED
Fan Chu-fai, 36, salesman, was brought before Mr. R. Edwards. a the Central Magistracy this morning charged with embezzlement of $82, received by him on behalf of his employer on December 23.
Detective Sergeant Cullinan told
the Court that defendant was, em- ployed by Lo Siu-wan, master of a printing press. Defendant collected two sums of $50 and $30 and spent the money.
A
fine of $100 or two months' bard labour was imposed.
STREET SLEEPER AND
REVOLVER ··
"If you had brought the revolver to the police instead of trying to sell you would have received more money and would not have been involved in this trouble," said Mr. E. Himsworth of this morning to a street sleeper, Lam Sul-lan, 22, married woman, who Chief Flynn sat down in front of
was charged with possession of a a flat-topped desk and thought and revolver and five rounds of ammuni- ON THE SIDE OF A DESK thought. He hated to confess de- tion without a licence, She So Flynn ordered his men to make feat, but It looked as if the crooks placed on a $50 bond for one year. a thorough search of the plant to had outwitted him by destroying the Det.-Sgt. Dowman said the woman find the plates. It was a most pain-plates before his men entered the was arrested when she tried to sell staking investigation but it proved building. It was fruitless.
a hot day and the revolver, which The three prisoners
she picked up were Flynn picked up a large palm leaf on the hillside.
was
!
made
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to locate this shop, Flynn thorough study of the counterfelt notes. He admitted afterward that it was nothing more than a hunch, but look- ing down at one of the stamps he seemed to see the faces of Joseph and Tony Carlisi, two experts in the art of counterfeiting.
In 24 hours Joseph Carlisi had been located and from that time his every movement was shadowed. One morning the man went down-town and walked into a shop. It is no wonder that the heart of the detec- tive beat faster, because it was the suspected printing shop on Sullivan St.
Carlisi went to the shop often. The clerk of the paper house who had- sold the excessively glazed paper was - told - to- take a peep at Carlis! - while the Italian was not looking. He was Identified at
as the purchaser
of the paper.
once
the
CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE The shop was watched day and night. The detectives who went in, snooped around, found nothing out of the way. But Flynn made an Im- portant discovery. It was that plant worked regularly on Sunday afternoons. One Sunday Carlisi went into the place and remained for quite some time. Flynn was convinced that the time had come for action. He had six men surround the shop. Pre- sently Carlisi come out carrying
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