An unknown scallawag has bothered the police and frightened a good many people, especially women, by going about all parts of the city and spying through the window blinds of dwelling houses in the night season. . . . In one locality a vigilance committee was organized, the men in the neighborhood sitting up nights to catch him. . . . Yet he has evaded capture, and has at last been discovered by an accident. His name is William Jackson, and he is about twenty-two years of age. He was arrested as a vagrant on Sunday. . . . The police officers, who saw that he was half-witted, held some conversation with him, and he said that he was a detective, and had been sent here from Providence to find a woman who had left that city. He then proceeded to detail his mode of operation, saying that whenever he saw a light in a dwelling house, he always took the precaution to look through the window, lest some crime should be committed that it was his duty, as an officer, to ferret out. This admission led the officers to a further investigation, and the result proved that he was the man they had for three months been looking after. He has gone to the workhouse for sixty days. (“Arrested at Last,” 6 Aug 72, 2)