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Like most hunters of skill and experience, tiny, deft-fingered Police Inspector Shimpachi Utsugi recalls his triumphs with nostalgic respect for his quarry. "In the old days," says Utsugi of the time when he first joined the imperial police force, "Japan's pickpockets were proud professional men who would never stoop to employ such tactics as cutting garments with a knife." They plied their trade with stealth, skill and subtlety, and to combat them, the young detective matched skill with skill and stealth with stealth. He soon became as good a pickpocket as the pickpockets. On busy days, like...
Last week, at 82, Pickpocket Tamotsu was back in the streets of Tokyo, presumably still plying his trade, but his old adversary was no longer on his track. After 40 years on the force, 68-year-old Inspector Utsugi had retired. "I shall probably meet Tamotsu again one day," he sighed, "and I shall say: 'Are you behaving yourself?' He will answer: 'Ah, yes, I am just taking...
This inspecting group will be composed of Colonel John Chalfont, the Inspector General of the First Air Force, his party of aides, and Associate Dean Watson, who will represent the University...
Pressed for a quick answer to give the press, the inspector settled back in his chair, puffed on a cigar, and said, "It's obvious boys. Schuster puts the finger on this guy Sutton. Sutton has him killed...
...when the inspector read the story in the papers next morning, he was so surprised at his own genius that he fell for the line himself and turned out every man on the force to look for the friend of Willy who killed Arnie. If the inspector had read further than the front pages that day, he would have found some curious facts on Arnie, facts that could have saved the department some frustrating weeks and perhaps drawn out something more, and something bigger, than the Schuster slaying...