a hop, skip and a jump into
fame. Upon the front page of the Bridgeboro Evening Record was the
following headliner:

MURDERER FOUND IN SCOUT CAMP. SENSATIONAL SEQUEL TO BOY SCOUT
ENTERPRISE IN OLD CAMP MERRITT.

Claude Darrell, a Canadian fugitive of many aliases, was
discovered yesterday by County Detective Slicksby Ferrett in old
Camp Merritt where he was found working with a troop of local
scouts, tearing down some of the old buildings of the wartime
concentration camp. Darrell is wanted in Quebec for burglary and
murder.

His discovery and prompt identification by Detective Ferrett was
due to an alarm sent to Bridgeboro of an accident at the old
camp.

The information being uncertain, local police officials and the
county officer accompanied the ambulance to the camp, where it
was found that the young man, who is a stranger to the scouts,
had sustained injuries to his head and body. The hospital
officials say that he will recover.

His injuries were caused by the falling of a roof. The fellow
was of a rough appearance, his clothing in the last stages of
shabbiness.

Detective Ferrett's skill and long experience enabled him to
judge at once that the fellow was of the criminal class. He had
been palming himself off on the youngsters as an unfortunate,
out of work, and they had been helping him.

An inspection of his coat label and comparison of his face with
a police alarm picture which the detective had, enabled him to
make the identification. Owing to the almost emaciated condition
of the fugitive and to his injury, it has not been possible to
verify the identification by measurements, but there seems no
doubt that he is the man wanted by the Canadian authorities.

These have been notified and Dominion detectives will visit
Bridgeboro as soon as the patient has fully regained
consciousness and it is possible to compel him to confront those
who know him face to face.

Detective Ferrett, whose skill and shrewdness and remarkable
memory enabled him to bring this brutal criminal within the
reach of justice, warns parents not to let their children play
in spots unfrequented by their elders, because of the numerous
thugs and desperate characters cast adrift by the war and the
present period of unemployment. These, he says, are usually to
be found on t