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...Robert A. Magowan and Norman Smith, partners in Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, helped run messages on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Vice President John Haskell headed a detail that cleaned up the exchange at night. Curb President Truslow and Chairman Edward C. Werle padded around as night watchmen. In a, day or so, the exchanges were operating almost normally, though the makeshift staffs sweated to keep up with the heavy trading...
Something Old. People have always needed policing, but they have not always had policemen. Medieval watchmen were supposed to cry out if evil was abroad; the folk tumbled out and did their own law enforcing. The very word police (in its present meaning), like the institution it stands for, is no older than the 18th Century...
University House watchmen work on a system of rotation with one regular man for each of the six Houses. On the regular each of the six Houses. On the regular guard's night off a swing man takes over the shift. And at 12:45 o'clock the night janitors go off, end the University police shoulder the whole burden of keeping order and guiding high-stepping students to their cubieles...
Meanwhile telephone operator Welter Braun was busy in the basement of Lehman Hall receiving the required hourly calls from watchmen and University police. "I don't mind putting in nights," says Braun, who works from 5 to 1 o'clock in the morning every other day and from 1 to 9 o'clock in the morning on the remaining days...
...among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables were amateurs serving a term, and parish watchmen were aged criers, of small use in chasing or collaring villains. Novelist Henry Fielding, while a magistrate, founded London's "Bow Street runners" to pursue criminals- the catch being that the criminal had to be reported before he got out of sight. The professional "thief taker...