![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He seemed resigned, directing them to the gun and some other goods, including a gold watch that he asked them to hold as collateral until he repaid what he’d spent. Dazzle could have read about Clapp’s loss in the Boston Daily Atlas newspaper.ĭazzle slipped his hand from under the sheets and brandished the bowie knife, then surrendered it to the detectives. Three patients had recently died in Boston hospitals, and, weeks earlier, Detective Clapp’s 27-year-old son was reported to have succumbed to the disease in New York City. The man’s sunken eyes and dry skin reinforced her opinion that he suffered from cholera, a little-understood disease that tended to claim victims in the heat of summer. A young woman fanned him and washed his temples with cold water. The detectives gained entry into Dazzle’s room, where he lay in bed covered in a sheet. ![]() And if they did not prove their worth, they could be the last. The five men in their special department not only were the first detectives in the city, they were also the first police detectives in the United States. Detective Clapp in an 1857 issue of Ballou’s Pictorial.ĭetectives Clapp and Charles Starkweather couldn’t afford a mistake on such a heavily scrutinized case, not with the lingering fallout from the previous year’s murder of a Boston watchman. ![]()
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