PART I--DETECTIVE STORIES
FROM REAL LIFE
A Flight into Texas
The flight and extradition of Charles F. Dodge unquestionably
involved one of the most extraordinary battles with justice in the history of
the criminal law. The funds at the disposal of those who were interested
in procuring the prisoner\'s escape were unlimited in extent, and the arch
conspirator for whose safety Dodge was spirited away was so influential
in political and criminal circles that he was all but successful in defying
the prosecutor of New York County, even supported as the latter was by
the military and judicial arm of the United States Government. For, at the
time that Dodge made his escape, a whisper from Hummel was enough to
make the dry bones of many a powerful and ostensibly respectable official
rattle and the tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth in terror.
(The District Attorney\'s office in New York City is undoubtedly one
of the best watch-towers known from which to observe "Real Life
Detective Stories."
Arthur Train, sometime member of this prosecuting staff, has
opportunity to record several of these curious and exciting "True Stories of
Crime" (copyright, 1908, by Charles Scribners Sons). None yields less to
fiction save in the fact that it is true, and not at all in quality of dramatic
interest, than "A Flight into Texas," here given.