Secret Service in South Africa
, by Blackburn, DouglasNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780898753530 | 0898753538
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/2001
The Beginning | |
Early Secret Service in Cape Colony | |
Rarity of Cipher Dispatches | |
Consequences of a General's Cryptic Calligraphy | |
Colonials not Informers | |
A Boer Delilah | |
The Shooting of a Traitor | |
Affair of Schlaagter's Nek | |
Two Pioneers of Secret Service | |
The First Transvaal Secret Agent | |
His Doubtful Origin | |
His Disinterestedness | |
His Slanders on Sir Owen Lanyon | |
Smit a Religious Crank | |
His Slanders have a Reactionary Effect | |
General Viljoen's First Conception of an Englishman | |
General Joubert's Mistrust of Smit | |
Edgson, Lanyon's Intelligence Agent | |
His Futile Warning of the Bronkhorst Spruit Ambuscade | |
The Attempted Murder of Edgson | |
The Mystery of the Murder of his Proxy | |
Smit and the Stellaland Freebooters | |
Sir Owen Lanyon's Suggested Black Blood | |
Smit and Thackeray's Father Holt | |
The Illicit Liquor Trade | |
The I.L. Detective Department | |
The Liquor Scourge | |
Peruvians the Monopolists | |
Their Trade Methods | |
Enormous Profits | |
Attitude of Licensing Magistrates | |
Heavy Penalties Inoperative | |
How Prosecutions Failed | |
Some Mining Authorities Oppose Liquor Abolition | |
An Incorruptible Public Prosecutor | |
The Muzzling of Officials | |
Murder of I.L. Detectives | |
The Trapping System | |
Police-proof I.L. Canteens | |
Trap-Boys | |
Open Bribery of Officials | |
The Compound Manager | |
Huge Profits of Native Mine Police | |
A Night with an I.L. Poacher | |
The Kaffir as Ispy and Detective | |
Spying Uncongenial to Kaffir Nature | |
Natives Impartial Witnesses | |
Their Marvellous Powers of Detailed Observation | |
Cunning a Rare Native Attribute: Until Educated | |
Tom Malief Runs the Blockade at Ladysmith | |
Witch Doctors as Intelligence Agents | |
John Shepstone's Use of them | |
The Sandwich System a Guarantee against Native Risings | |
Rival Chiefs and a White Wizard | |
Finger-prints as Witchcraft | |
A Record Case of Kaffir Initiative | |
Native Tyrants as Policemen | |
Africanus of Krugersdorp | |
Fat Jim, the Thimble-Rigger Detective | |
Gun-Running | |
Abel Erasmus's Native Intelligence Organisation | |
Natives as Observers | |
Kaffir Telepathy | |
Magato a Great Chief | |
He Snubs Paul Kruger | |
A Calabash of Diamonds | |
Torture not Practised by Natives | |
Gas-pipe Rifles | |
Erasmus and Gun-runners | |
Magato's Ambition a Machine Gun | |
Walters' Attempts to Satisfy it | |
Mr. Hobson, Music-seller and Gun-runner | |
The Bluffing of Erasmus | |
Erasmus's Proposed Last Stand | |
"The Licentious British Garrison" | |
Dreariness of Transvaal Garrison Life in 1880 | |
The Safety Valve | |
Puritanical Boer Censors | |
The Concomitants of a Garrison Town | |
Two Female Spies | |
Owen Lanyon Impervious to Advice | |
Kruger's Estimate of the British Army in 1880 | |
Piet Joubert's only Score off Kruger | |
The Secret of Boer Charges of Licentiousness | |
The Excesses of Tommy Atkins | |
The Alleged Drunkenness of British Officers | |
A Hollander's Vengeance | |
Wholesale Desertion by Troops | |
Assisted by Women | |
Illicit Gold Buying | |
Difficulty of Detecting Gold Thefts | |
Who are the Thieves? | |
How Gold is Stolen | |
The Copper-wire Trick | |
The Illicit Gold Buying Gang's Methods | |
Trapping Unpopular | |
Swindling a Chief Detective | |
A Doctor as Receiver | |
Directors Suppress Facts of Robberies | |
Amounts Stolen Small in Bulk | |
A Blacksmith's Find | |
Lucky-bag Sales | |
Amalgam in Left Luggage | |
Police as Illicit Gold Buyers | p. 127 |
Native-Labour Agents | |
The Relationship of White and Black | |
Kaffirs Born to the Means of Livelihood | |
Conditions which Drive Some to Work | |
Magato on the Subject of Labour | |
Recruiting Native Labour | |
Coming of the Labour Agent | |
"Blackbirding" | |
Attempts to Stop the Illicit Agent | |
Unexpected Action on the part of the Police | |
Fugitives and Recluses | |
The Transvaal a Fugitives' Sanctuary | |
"Mr. Burton," alias ----? | |
One-armed Mao | |
The Retreat in Magato's Country | |
Boer or British Agents-Provocateurs | |
The Real Object of Native Wars | |
Who Supplied the Magatese with Arms? | |
The Solitary Life and Madness | |
The Clue of the Kippered Herring | |
John Nicholson Neil | |
Blackmailing Fugitives | |
The Capture of Tarbeau | |
The Long Arm of the Czar | |
White Kaffirs | |
Hidden-Treasure Quests | |
Stories of Hidden Treasure | |
Magato's Calabash of Diamonds | |
A Mystery of Swaziland | |
The Basuto's Diamond | |
Ancient Gold Thieves | |
"Charlie the Reefer's" Secret | |
A Priest's Find | |
The Treasure Cave of an Extinct Tribe | |
The Dying Grounds of the Elephants | |
Why Emin Pasha was Relieved | |
The Misleading of Carl Mauch | |
A Mountain of Platinum | |
Wrecked Treasure Ships | |
Kruger's Millions | |
The Yarn of the Dorothy | |
Von Veltheim's Story | |
The Search for the Jameson Raiders' Guns | |
A Krugersdorp Mare's Nest | |
The Strange Story of the Third Raad | |
Composition of the Third Raad | |
Who Supplied the Brains of the Confederacy? | |
Judicial Condonation of Third Raad Methods | |
The Audacious Cold-storage Scheme | |
A Church Committee used as a Pawn | |
The Nylstroom Farm Purchase | |
Nothing too Small for a Tribute | |
Third Raad Not Guilty on Some Counts | |
The Employment of Burglars in Purchasing Gold Properties | |
Forgery a Business | |
Photographic Evidence of a Previous Conviction | |
How Kruger became a Great Landowner | |
The Boer Secret Service Under Dr. Leyds | |
Chaotic Condition of the Secret Service | |
Dr. Leyds's First Press Agent | |
Leyds and English Sympathisers | |
Press Agents in Europe | |
The Pulse Feelers | |
German Secret Military Instructors | |
The N.Z.A.S.M. as Secret Service Agent | |
Mr. de Wilt and the Subsidised Press | |
Why Kruger was Prejudiced against Newspapers | |
Story of the Pocket Handkerchiefs | |
Dr. Leyds as a Diplomat | |
Leyds and the Disloyal Cipher Clerk | |
Leyds's Punishment of a Slanderer | |
Did Kruger expect German Intervention? | |
Leyds's Germanic Sympathies | |
Afrikander Officials Reveal State Secrets | |
General Joubert too Talkative | |
Old Boers Suspicious of Cipher Dispatches | |
Did Kruger Run Away? | |
Exploitation of Secret Service Funds by Uitlanders | |
How Tjaard Kruger Checkmated Bogus Informants | |
The Jameson Raid from the Boer Side | |
Were the Boers Prepared? | |
The Woman in it | |
Melton Prior, Stormy Petrel | |
The Arming of Uitlanders | |
A Pound a Day the Lure | |
Defection of Chief-Detective Trimble | |
Thieves as Armed Guards | |
Kruger's Scepticism | |
Withdrawal of the Johannesburg Police | |
The Black Peril Averted | |
Undecipherable Intercepted Telegrams | |
Kruger Prepares to Ride against Jameson | |
Some Kruger Apothegms | |
Rhodes the Leader | |
Kruger's Fear of Rhodes and "Groot" Adrian De la Rey | |
Sir H. Loch's Conciliation | |
Kruger's Opinions on Milner and Chamberlain | |
How the Raid Strengthened his Influence | |
Boer Preparations for War | |
Boers did not Arm before the Jameson Raid | |
Shortness of Supply of Arms and Ammunition | |
Commission sent to Europe to Select and Purchase Arms | |
Creusot Guns Arrive at Pretoria | |
Precantions for Secrecy | |
Did the British Government Know? | |
The Cabal against the Mauser Rifle | |
Hostility to English-named Burghers | |
Flag Signalling and English Bugle Calls Practised by Boers | |
Reorganisation of Magazine Master's Office | |
Boer Emissaries Visit the Neighbouring States | |
Adoption of the English Range-finder | |
Did Leyds Believe his Own Stories? | |
I.D.B. (Illicit Diamond Buying) | |
Scarcity of Literary Records of I.D.B. | |
Diamond Stealing in the Pre-amalgamation Days | |
Robbery by Partners | |
Story of a Faithless Wife | |
Kaffirs as Thieves | |
Colonial Hostility to the I.D.B. Laws | |
The 1882 Diamond Law | |
The Case for the Opposition | |
Illicit Diamond Dealing in Kimberley | |
An I.D.B.'s Luck | |
Weakness of the Diamond Detective System | |
The Diamond Law as a Weapon for Revenge | |
A Clean Detective Force | |
Public Sympathy with Criminals | |
Runners and their Methods | |
Natal Refuses to Co-operate in Suppressing I.D.B. | |
An Absconding Runner | |
Some I.D.B. Stories | |
Fifty Arrests of a Practical Joker | |
I.D.B. Chiefs and their Methods | |
Index | p. 375 |
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