Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American DetectivesMcWatters, George S.
General
Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives
McWatters, George S.
Detectives
A GRAND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION--DISTINGUISHED LADIES OF NEW
YORK AT ITS HEAD--ITS SCOPE OF SELF-IMPOSED DUTIES OF
BENEVOLENCE--ASSISTED BY AN ADVISORY BOARD OF THE LEADING MEN
OF THE CITY; OFFICER McWATTERS THE CHIEF AND MOST ACTIVE MAN
THEREOF--SUPERINTENDENT KENNEDY SECONDS OFFICER McWATTERS'
BENEVOLENT WORK--REV. DR. BELLOWS' WARM INDORSEMENT OF
McWATTERS' GOOD DEEDS--THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT JOURDAN
CRUELLY INTERFERES WITH McWATTERS' LABORS OF LOVE--DEATH
CALLS FOR MR. JOURDAN: WHERE THEY PUT HIM, AND WHO FOLLOWED
HIS HEARSE--OFFICER McWATTERS RESIGNS, AND LEAVES THE POLICE
FORCE, IN ORDER THAT HE MAY CONTINUE HIS HUMANITARY
WORK--COPY OF HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION--APPOINTED TO A POST
IN THE CUSTOM HOUSE--COMPLIMENTARY NOTICES BY VARIOUS
JOURNALS ON THE OCCASION OF McWATTERS' RESIGNATION. 50
=THE SWINDLING BOUNTY CLAIM AGENTS.=
OFFICER McWATTERS' RELENTLESS OPPOSITION TO THE SWINDLERS--THEIR
INFAMOUS MODES OF OPERATION EXPLAINED--McWATTERS' PLAN OF
WARFARE--HE ROUTS THEIR FORCES AND WINS A GREAT
VICTORY--SERIOUSLY THREATENED BY THE SWINDLERS--McWATTERS
APPEALS TO CONGRESS, AND GETS A NEW ACT PASSED--CHIEF MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS WHO GAVE HIM THEIR AID--PAYMENTS UNDER THE NEW
LAW--THE GRATITUDE OF THE POOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR
FAMILIES--"HOW A POOR MAN FEELS!"--THE NATIONAL CEMETERIES AND
THE DEAD VETERANS--McWATTERS' FURTHER WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS. 55
=HONORABLE TESTIMONIALS TO OFFICER McWATTERS.=
PRESENTATION OF A GOLD WATCH BY THE LADIES' UNION RELIEF
ASSOCIATION--COMMENTS THEREON BY THE PUBLIC PRESS--OFFICER
McWATTERS' GREAT POPULARITY--A RESUMÉ OF SOME OF OFFICER
McWATTERS' GOOD DEEDS, BY THE SUN, TIMES, TRIBUNE, ETC. 62
=THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL INIQUITY.=
THE RASCALITY EXPOSED IN A MASTERLY WAY--THE HORRORS OF THE
HOSPITAL PICTURED--THE WAR CARRIED ON THROUGH THE
PAPERS--OFFICER McWATTERS DIRECTS THE BATTLE--THE SCAMPS
BROUGHT TO TERMS, AND THE SICK POOR AT THE HOSPITAL NO LONGER
TREATED LIKE DOGS--THE CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION, AND ITS
CONNECTION WITH THE FIGHT--BENEFICENT RESULTS. 65
=CONCLUSION.=
OFFICER McWATTERS IN HIS CONTINUING LABORS OF LOVE--HIS FAMOUS
LETTER IN BEHALF OF THE POOR VETERAN SOLDIER ORGAN
GRINDERS--ELOQUENT WORDS OF SOCIAL STATESMANSHIP THEREIN--A
GREAT MORAL DUTY--WHEN IT CAN BE PROPERLY DONE--LABOR MUST BE
PROTECTED--PARTING TRIBUTE TO OFFICER GEORGE S. McWATTERS, THE
TRUE MAN, THE STERLING PATRIOT, AND PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPIST. 68
=THE ORGAN GRINDERS.=
A WORD IN THEIR BEHALF--LETTER FROM OFFICER McWATTERS (REFERRED
TO IN BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES)--A SAD STORY. 72
=TEN DOLLARS A MONTH: A STORY OF GRIEF AND JOY.=
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