Knots untied, or, Ways and by-ways in the hidden life of American detectives / By Officer George S. McWatters.

  • McWatters, George S.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Knots untied, or, Ways and by-ways in the hidden life of American detectives / By Officer George S. McWatters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    c'RIOT WEEK, JULY, 1863. — OFFICER McWATTEliS IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHT. -rtlE STATE OF THE PUBLIC PULSE OF THE NORTH WHEN THE EIOT BROKE OUT THE NUMBER KILLED THAT WEEK IN NEW YORK ESTIMATED AX OYEU FOURTEEN HUNDRED ! MCWATTERS AND HIS FELLOW-OFFI- CERS FIGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE MOB INTO THE TRIBUNE OFFICE — MCWATTERS FELLED TO THE GROUND ; SPRINGS TO HIS FEET, AND DEALS DESTRUCTIVE BLOWS UPON HIS ASSAILANTS. . . 40 OFFICER McWATTERS AND HIS LITERARY ASSOCIATES. COUNTLESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC PRESS HIS UNPRETEN- TIOUS CAREER PFAFF's, A FAMOUS RESORT FOR AUTHORS AND ARTISTS AN INTERESTING SKETCH OF THE PLACE, AND THE HOST OF MowATTERS' AUTHOR FRIENDS WHO MEET THERE; AN ILLUSTRIOUS ARRAY OF THE DEAD OF THIS GOODLY HOST A MOST INTERESTING RETROSPECTION— MCWATTERS* AUTHORS* LIBRARY. . . . .42 OFFICER McWATTERS AS THE GOOD SAMARITAN. AS A PHILANTHROPIST OFFICER MCWATTERS HAS MOST DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEMON- STRATES TO HIM THE FOLLY OF FRAGMENTARY REFORMS ; YET HE CONTINUES HIS WONDERFUL INDIVIDUAL CHARITIES PATCHWORK CHARITY HIS VITALITY OF BENEVOLENCE — MCWATTERS IN THE RANKS OF THE HOWARDS OF THE WORLD. ...... 45 McWATTERS AND THE SOLDIERS. THE POOR VETERAN SOLDIER's BEST FRIEND MCWATTERS* GENEROUS ENTHUSIASM IN BEHALF OF THE POOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES HIS GREAT PASSION THE POETRV OF HIS CURRENT LIFE. . . 49 LADIES UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATION. A GRAND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION DISTINGUISHED LADIES OF NEW YORK AT ITS HEAD ITS SCOPE OF SELF-IMPOSED DUTIES OF BENEV- OLENCE 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 MC WATTERS' BENEVOLENT WORK REV. DR. BELLOWS* WARM INDORSE- MENT 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 IIUMANITARY WORK COPY OF HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION AP- POINTED TO A POST IN THE CUST03I HOUSE COMPLIMENTARY NO- TICES BY VARIOUS JOURNALS ON THE OCCASION OF McWATTEES' RES- IGNATION. . . • . .50 THE SWINDLING BOUNTY CLAIM AGENTS. OFFICER MCWATTERS' RELENTLESS OPPOSITION TO THE SWINDLERS THEIR INFAMOUS MODES OP OPERATION EXPLAINED McWATTERS' PLAN OF WARFARE HE ROUTS THEIR FORCES AND WINS A GREAT VICTORY — SERIOUSLY THREATENED BY THE SWINDLERS MCWAT- TERS APPEALS TO CONGRESS, AND GETS A NEW ACT PASSED CHIEF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AVHO GAVE HIM THEIR AID PAYMENTS UNDER THE NEW LAW THE GRATITUDE OF THE POOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES HOW A POOR MAN FEELS ! THE NA- TIONAL CEMETERIES AND THE DEAD VETERANS — MgWATTERS' FUR- THER WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS. 55