Nick Carter Stories No. 157, September 11, 1915: A human counterfeit; or, Nick Carter and the crook's double.Carter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 157, September 11, 1915: A human counterfeit; or, Nick Carter and the crook's double.
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
In the main, his experience inside Windmuller’s place was similar to
what had happened at Dutch Louie’s. Once more he affected a bad
headache, and called upon the waiter to bring him a dose of bromo
seltzer; and when the white powder was placed before him, he made the
same use of it as he had done in the former instance.
Greatly to the relief of his two companions, he emerged from the place
unscathed, and laughingly assured him that he had succeeded in
snapshotting Patrolman Harrington, and had reason to believe that the
negative would be a fairly good one.
Compared with this exploit, the taking of a flash-light picture of the
policeman who was slumbering in a lumber yard at the northern end of the
town was not a difficult matter. Hawley succeeded in getting a
first-class snapshot of this sleeping beauty, and although the bluecoat
was awakened by the setting off of the flash-light powder, and,
bellowing with rage, chased the Camera Chap through the piles of lumber,
the latter managed to reach the automobile in time to make a safe
get-away.
Although he now had four snapshots of delinquent policemen, and Carroll
again pleaded that these were quite sufficient for their purpose, the
Camera Chap was firm in his determination not to give up the hunt until
the _Bulletin’s_ collection consisted of at least six negatives.
Parsons had reached his limit. He was unable to suggest where any more
members of the force whom he knew to be chronic shirkers might be found
that night; but even this fact could not discourage Hawley. He declared
confidently that if they rode around town a bit, and kept their eyes
open, they were likely to pick up a couple of random snapshots to
complete their night’s work.
So, while the citizens of Oldham slept peacefully on, in utter ignorance
of this enterprising effort that was being made to reform conditions in
their town--and incidentally to increase the circulation of the
_Bulletin_--the big touring car traversed the highways and byways in
search of more blue-coated victims of this relentless photographic
crusade.
This search was not unproductive. As the Camera Chap and his friends
rode through Main Street, they suddenly encountered the most sensational
and the most shameful spectacle of the night--a man in the uniform of a
captain of police so merry that he could scarcely stand.
“That’s Captain Alf Callman--the worst grafter and the biggest bully of
the department, barring Chief Hodgins,” exclaimed Parsons excitedly, as
he brought the car to a stop. “Don’t fail to get a good picture of him,
Mr. Hawley. This is a rare piece of luck. If ever there was a rascal who
deserved to be held up to public scorn and ridicule, it’s that brute
there.”
“Yes, Frank,” said Carroll, a scowl upon his face, “we want his picture,
by all means. A few weeks ago he beat up a crippled boy unmercifully for
selling _Bulletins_ outside police headquarters.”
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