References
“A BROOKLYN DETECTIVE’S EXPERIENCE.
He Is Taken for a Suspicious Character by a Whitestone Policeman.
Mr. E. Lewis, alias E. A. Ebbitts, of Whitestone, L. I., was charged before Judge Walsh this morning with the theft of fifty numbers of the ‘Pictorial History of the World’s Great Nations,’ valued at $12.50, from Nanette Seixas, of No. 378 Degraw street. The latter states that he (Lewis) got the books under the pretense of having them bound. He gave a receipt signed ‘M. E. Lewis, agent, 89 Fulton street, New York.’
Detective Price was put on the case when the lady found how she had been deceived. He went down to Whitestone last night to look for his man. As he stood at a street corner a village policeman wanted to know his business. The detective said he was waiting for a friend.
‘Too thin,’ said the Whitestone Pinkerton, ‘we are on to you fellows from new York, and you can’t work any funny business down here. Unless you want to see the inside of the lockup, you had better be making tracks.’
Just then Mr. Negluteh appeared in company with the alleged Lewis, and on a given signal the latter was arrested by Detective Price. The constable thought this was a clear case of forcible abduction, and proceeded to exert his authority to prevent it. He retired somewhat crestfallen when the detective revealed his identity.
Judge Walsh this morning remanded the prisoner.”
– The Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, 13 Feb 1885
