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...Coal & Iron Police were organized under legislative enactment of 1865, extending to railroads the privilege of employing private officers to protect property from theft, trespassing, malicious damage. Next year the act was amended to give collieries, rolling mills, furnaces the same right. Six years ago the privilege was granted to light and power companies...
Pale, pop-eyed Erik Berggreen stood at the bar of a Swedish court last week charged with robbery, to wit: the theft of a number of watches, pieces of jewelry. As the evidence was reported, Swedish travelers for the past six months on the crack Norrland Express, between Stockholm and Narvik in Norway, tingled at the thought that they had been riding on a train driven not only by a thief, but by a madman...
...Reviewing a decade of Prohibition they found: 1) Enforcement got off to a bad start which has crippled it ever since. 2) Reform organizations like the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. abandoned all efforts to win public support by education and tolerance. 3) "Bribery, extortion, theft, conspiracy, perjury, forgery" among enforcement agents gave the 18th Amendment an irreparably bad name. 4) Without more public support Federal enforcement ? so far a failure ? was impossible. 5) Abolition of the saloon is Prohibition's one demonstrable triumph...
...witness is called and comes forward with damning evidence no less than 13 times. In every case it is easy-going old Colonel Braxton ("a mind on him like a whip, suh!") who does the calling. Nothing fools him. He can get to the bottom of a murder, forgery, theft case by glancing at a pane of glass, a parchment, a piece of poplar wood. If you are tired of new-fangled fiction-detective methods, if you still have a warm spot in your heart for the school of Sherlock Holmes, you will give Colonel Braxton your friendly attention. Otherwise...
...some time during his competition, almost every candidate has some experience which he never forgets. It may have to do with a backstage interview, or it may concern something of more general interest. A few years ago, a prospective editor discovered the mysterious theft of blueprints for the present new gymnasium, and spent hours inquiring at all police stations as to the identity of the man who had stolen these plans from the seat of a train between Wellesley and Boston...