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In order to be able to give comprehensive information to the Senate, President Roosevelt asks Postmaster General Meyer to send him information pertinent to the subjects brought up in the Aldrich resolution, especially any needs related to detective services and provisions for such within the department.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-22
In order to be able to give comprehensive information to the Senate, President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Newberry to send him information pertinent to the subjects brought up in the Aldrich resolution, especially any needs related to detective services and provisions for such within the department.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-22
In order to be able to give comprehensive information to the Senate, President Roosevelt asks Secretary of State Root to send him information pertinent to the subjects brought up in the Aldrich resolution, especially any needs related to detective services and provisions for such within the department.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-22
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs James Fraser he trusts the detective, Charles Heidelberg, but prefers the testimony of other men.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-28
James Sullivan Clarkson, Surveyor of Customs for the Port of New York, tells William Loeb that he will take the matter of Billy Wood’s potential employment up with collector of the port Nevada N. Stranahan when Stranahan returns. Clarkson also informs Loeb that he has arranged for James O. Wood to receive a three months appointment as special attendant, and encloses a note from James L. Gerry on the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-17
President Roosevelt poses with “his detectives” on the porch at his home, Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902
Theodore Roosevelt as Sherlock Holmes peaks through a keyhole in a door labeled “Congress.” Uncle Sam, as Watson, stands behind him, and a man labeled “Special Privilege” is looking through a window at the top of the door. Caption: Sherlock Holmes–Something devilish has been going on here, Watson!
At the time of this cartoon America was caught up in a Sherlock Holmes frenzy. The popularity of the original tales in England’s Strand Magazine overtook creator Arthur Conan Doyle to such an extent that, despite its commercial success, he killed the famous detective. Even so, public disappointment and clamor for more stories persuaded Doyle to revive the series. So, in the Strand and in America’s Collier’s Magazine, Doyle recounted “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” and the sleuth’s miraculous survival of a death struggle with Professor Moriarty.
Photograph of President Roosevelt and others superimposed over a photograph of flags.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-09-19
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles how he worked to fix the blackmail tendency in the detective bureau. He has finished his book so he can fully devote himself to being Police Commissioner. He believes they will try and legislate the Commissioners out of office this year. Roosevelt lunched with Bob and wasn’t able to meet sister Corinne and her husband Douglas Robinson when they arrived.
1895-12-29
Commissioner Partridge is afraid that P. K. Sweet cannot be assigned to the Detective Bureau on his return from the Philippines. There are currently more detectives then the Police Department requires and Mr. Sweet will be assigned to police duty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-11