Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 34, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 May 1907 — Page 7

MAN WHO TRAPPED 'FRISCO BOODLERS HAS FINE RECORD

disguised in falsi iug bJue goggle

guls . MNpt a change of clothes Hut i in take one of my men and lot you talk with him, thru bring him Id tomorrow and let you see him an) you would not believe hliu the same

rhisk rs and .vear- f and then branched out Into making I never um a dia- I hundred dollar hills

"In the letter 1 opened I found three uf the bill which wire belr.g sent to Taylor and BrlddsJ) by Kendls A .I.t I-?), cigar men hants It: Lauras ter Pa. wuh whom the opersted I

CALLED KING OF DETECTIVES

VV HUam J- Burns, Moat Clever of the Secret Service Agents Employed by Uncle Sam, Has Earned Proud 1 1 tie by His Many Successes in Running Down Ofendeis Against the Law His Methods Are Shrewd, Di,i i f and Straight Forward, and He Has Yet to Record hailure in Any Case in Which He Has Been Employed

man. iure in ban, rraneisco every , marked the bills, r placed them In one knowa me -at least all the craft- ,he . nvUv .- and remalld the lotera do o It would bo useless to ter. try a disguise." U(r when Vhlof wk?e Än(J i Burns' methods all through the : went to Marek Tayler and BlltllTl Ku f case hare been suririiingl onen. puoe and put them under arrest ! U li n he atart.-d out to capture Huef ,,iied open a drawer lu their desk. I after his frb-ndB, the sh.riff and the found two of the three bllla 1 hal coroner, had been pretending to i taken from the letter and marked search for him In vain lor a week. "WUkle was standing beside me Hums assembled his posse In half a ! at the time and I said to him. loud dozen automobil s in front of Honey. enough tor the two men under arrest office; with Kliff s lawyers' offices but to bear: hal a block away He had ten men "That's funny. Jacobs told us with him, but the oien way with j there wore three of these bills.' which he went about the job made "Driddell bit at the bait, the attorneys for the grafter think It ! "Burns, he said, how many men must be all a ruse, and no effort waa I have you got under arrest In this made to follow the party. They went j ease?' straight, to tin resort at the Troca , I named every mat who was con dero In the outskirts of San Fiancls netted with the case. None of them co. whoie Hums knew that Ru f was was under arrest at tj.e time, in hiding. Burns had the house sur- "That's enough for me.' aald Brldrounded; then he walked in and sur- dell. Wo don't make any more trou-

TWO BIG QUESTIONS

THE "MORAL OBLIGATION" AND -OOES IT PAY?"

SHOULD BE CONSIDERED

Land Grabbers, Bocdlers or Counterfeiters Ail One 1 1 : 11 1,1

lo Him.

.incisco. William I, Burns, i two hour candle, and at two o'clock

States secret service agent d every member of San corrupt board of aupervisfull confession of their ill.d "tha king of deuc-

in the morning the house would burn

down with a complete loss. In this way they had got hundreds of thou sands of dollars out of the insurance ompanies.

When I was called into the case Hums has this Interna- i It had beo.i pretty thoroughly gone B as a detective. It Is over by Plnkerton men. who had lo-.i-intimates to remember rated the susp- ts The .llfflru!' was iat Bums ia a detective. to get legal IfUmi Jim French, eis J. Heney. the prosecu- who later fled to Honduras, after havWS Burns has worked i Ing served his firt sentence, which I :.ml fraud cases in Ore- ! got against him, was the leader of the i the San Francisco boodle I gng. I his associate a source of j "The difficulty in all such cases is uprise. to uncover the tracks of the criraiamuses me." said Heney I nals while avoiding direct methods. . utly. as be looked out the I Instead of going out to induce some his office in the unburct of the marked men to come to tho

front with a confession, 1 went to them jinder the name of 'Wiliama' and fold thorn that I had been sent by the Insurance companies to inves .1 . . I . . L. .1 I . . . . n

g j f I 1 1 K I U'WIIMS I IM WN I TWfimmmV ' f!-s,d of misappropriating their ex-

Ienso money While carrying on this special investigation' I was able to

man bark at Honey's

three hours.

office within

He gave me his full confession on

the siot. It was opening the letter I hat did the trick Of course Jacobs

An

Honest Answer te These Will Keep the Trade with the Home Merchant Every Tims.

(Copyrighted. 10. y Alrre! C. Clark.)

household, and that among the duties to hia family an to the heirs of his estate that of practicing judicious ecortuy buying where he can buy the cheapest and tojhe best advantage. And hiT brings us to the second point In the argument the paramount question in this commercial age' Will It pay?" A By most people aa affirmativ answer to that question Is accepted as ihe raTT ofduty'. As ä hiatter of fact? "Will It pay?" i aj '"l t. s to apply to any project or proposition. There are commercial, as well as political,

demagogues, and the man who it appealed to on the score of pattiotisut or profit, duty or dollars, can scarcely

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When the thrifty person or his wife ao netter man to sit aown uy alts dowa for the first time or any I and submit that question "Will it time with the mail order catalogue-pay ?" to his own best Judgment, and its temntatlons. th. re are two. I Provided always, that he goes U the

snd only two. points to be taken into consideration. one of these Is moral obligation.

very bottom of It. What are the relative advantages of buying at the local store and ordering

and the chances are that that will be from a catalogue house? Advantagea. dismissed as sentimental nonsense. understand, that figure In the quesThe other is Will It pay? and to Hon. Will It pay?-' Don't get away that the thrifty person will be In- j from that question. It certainly is cllned to interpret an answer from the very comfortable to sit down by your

prices quoted in black-faced figures in i own fireside and selec t a drees pattern

itiou" of San Francisco,

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Trapping a Boodler. a Burns waa whirling by in his oblle k at him!" he exclaimed. "He 1 Ifld and dignified as a lord carriage." ns was leaning back at his ease rear seat of the big tonneau. ilately groomed, with a look rt irbable boredom on hlB face iwyers associated with Heney I -r. sec'itlon of Ate Kuef and s I 'mitz were In the fOQU at and they fell Into a discus I Um man j cat in Everything. St interests me most about is that be never misses a said Cobb, Heney's partner, tw him In too much of s ..ke his hour for dinner at ciliar time. He is methodical rthiac, It is all in a day's

Surprising a Bnbe Taker.

Of his present work Burns himself uM UB says: "This San Francisco case is one i Counterfeiters Caught, of tho most interesting I base ever An Illustration of careful detective had. Of course municipal graft cases i 0rk is Burns' method In running are all somewhat alike. You know 0wn two counterfeiters from 0ss who tho men are w ho have got (,) na m.., ira They wore tien. Freder-

favors. The first thing to do is to j ro Mora an l Ricardo de Requisens single out the official who you think These two nun had been making will accept a bribe, and then get counterfeits la the t'nited States of at him by inducing him to accept what the 100 peso notes of Costa Rico. Onr ho thinks is a bribe Of course your government was asked to apprehend money is marked. Then you surprise ' tn,. counterfeiters, and Burns waa enhim in the act. After that you have , trusted with the Job. Others had

him cold. Through him you get at the worked at it before, but all Burns had bribe givers. I m start with was a sofa wrapped up When I started in on this work j jn burlap in which $3.000.000 of the in San Francisco I expected to get j counterfeit notes had been stuffed for after each of the suervisors singly 1 shipment to Costa Rica. On the burbut one of the newspapers got wind jap was the mark. XX 1634." of it and published the story how w- , Startii. from this. Burns found that were working on one man. That spoil- the burlap had been originally used ed things foi us. and I had to FSSOTl ,n pMfclsul a shipment of overalls from to other methods' a factory in N'ewburg. It as the What Burns had done was ?o Mhwe . shipping number. In Newburg Burns the proprietor of a skating rink who went over the books of the factory had fallen out with Mayor Schmitz to and found that those particular overhave an ordinance In his favor Intro : alls had been shipped to a dry goods duced in the board of supervisors, store in L ng Island City. There they Then he arranged to buy the vote of t old him thai they had recently sold

the catalogue. Neither of these questions should be lightly dismissed. Moral obligation is not sentimental nonsense, and black-faced figures sometimes lie. The duty a man owes to his own community and his obligation to trade at home are so often reiterated in t hecountry press that, possibly like some of the preaching, it has a tendency to harden the hearts of the sinners. What has your neighboring town

or a sulky plow fron, a printed description and a picture of the article; much more comfortable, in fact, than hitching up and driving to town on a raw day. A consideration more Important, perhaps, is that the printed price In the catalogue senis, in some cases at least, to be lower than the price quoted at the local store Isn't that conclusive? Let's see. The catalogue describee the goods and quotes s

gather around me all the gang. From ne of hem-Inergan by name-for a piece of burlap to an old lady by In tVi. oh.. ..,... ,,f Vl.-a r'hr.rins It riirl not

them I selected the one man who. I

thought, could give me the evidence. This fellow. John Rudd by name, never knew until the day that he was called into the grand Jury room that he had been aiding In the apprehension of the incendiaries. Suspected Informer Killed. When all ras ready 1 went lefore the grand Jury and explained the case. The insurance agents told their losses aud then we called in Rudd and explained to him his part In the case. After Indictments had been brought in there was a terrible uproar. Some member of the grand Jury told the eana that a man by the name of

$500 Burns was concealed in the the name of Mis. Chevins It did not.

room when the marked money was look promising passed. He pounced forth at the psy- r,ut sykea Burns learned that Mrs.

etiological moment when Umergan chevlna had a son-in-law. one Ricarwas taking the bribe. i do de Reinsens, who hailed from Cos"Take the money." said the trap- ta RIca h,. thought the trail was getped boodler, pale as a sheet. "I am fing warm. donp " De Requisens was living with a T il take the money, and I'll take ' young widow fiom Pittsburg at the you. too." said Burns. With that he nouse Qf his mother. Mrs. Chevins tca-ed his man into a complete con ' nurns placed De Requsens and the fession Previous to this he had se- W(dow under arreat Then he sent cured another confession from one of one of Bj8 nien to tnp jail with an allionergan's colleagues who was 111 and iPge(i message to the effect that If he thought ho was about to die. ' woui(j produce the plates of the counA Boodler Trapped. terfelt notes the government would With the Inside Information of these abandon his prosecution.

two confessions Burns got to work on After the messenger left, ue nequis

Burns had come before them and told supervisors Thev were ens was visited by his mother-in law.

so scared that the whole 18 came When she wt nim Murns ronoweo ner

the whole story. No one knew Burns

I had been going under the name of

WilPams. but ih.- following niht one of tlM gang was suspected by his fellows at being Burns and was shot dead In a saloon. They never knew until the first day of the trial who I was. Marsi.al McDonald was trying the case. I was sitting beside him. Wher. Rudd was on the stand he was asked, on cross examination, to whom he bad first told the story. T) a man who called himself Williams.' he replied. 'Do you know his true name?" T understand now that it is Burns "'Oh. this mysterious Mr. Burns! How long is it since you saw him last T " Just now.' 'Is he IHM now?' " Yes.' In this room?'

ihrem

rush

When Heney to her home In Long Island 01ty.

" He is sitting beside you, was the

Mums, and when ho turns answer.

Mglit he sleeps like s top." ' This was the first that Jim French he never procrMttnates," put j und the rest of the gang knew of Attorney Langdon. "I j the part I bad taken in the invt . the other night If he nation, it he could get a man we want a rturrts sat al his desk telling I .it-.ik him to the office in the ih, . b h.cl th. ir;'u f ig." a banker explaining a deal in stocks, hat s the matter with getting i He Is as far from the dime novel dem f said Bums. Taking down , tectlve as he is from the wonderful

from the phone he call Mr

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Sherlock Holmes of Conan

i up a aakmn. His man was the re, iwyiei novels. ' - IBM him It would be better for J "Chief llkte of the secret service alth to surrender himself at n e remarked to me." said Heney, "ffce without delay. The man ; that Burns was a man with a sixth me at once." j sense, who could tell as If by instinct What Interests me about Burns." j when a man was telling the truth. ' in J. Dwyer. another of the at- and when he had told all he knew, pi of the graft prosecution, "is My experience with Burns hears (bis I personality He get the men he out. Once in the Oregon land fraud . . . a- aas --- n tw X I I i.-..!. n m - 4 Ln.). mm mm I. .1.1

m better than any of his own men. ing something back. Hums said be T man Ja k of them was V

two swap stories to each other bad told all he knew, and Burns was , ing to squ;ai. hl II aell I ta m 1 - I 1 a 4 S m mm Ka to,.,. f lli .ioitil m. i It 1. .läf iA t A ft

g all the time to land Ruef in San I witness had made a complete con fen- ! to those who know how. Burn, has looked into the bag. and found a letter

no: been doing detective wor t " nere in us piace ue n i

held out nromise of ultimate Immu ' Thiough a window he watched her en

ter the front room, take on ner nai and place It with a chatetralne bag on

vii :i,i -ire . a-v the table. Burns slid Into the bouse.

ueatin irison &ion Burns said' Keep at him"

ll" can mimic a Frenchman, an i sure enough the noat ineiimlnating nothing the se 20 yesrs.

elishman. a D'itchman to perfec- part of his story rame out afterward." i Tricks of the Profession.

'ion. and the atories he tells sound

Mke good fiction. I believe It Is his magnetism as much as hla persist that wins for him " H.s First Important Case. Vhis ia the story of Bsras flrat Imr rtant case, as told by himself

" as in 189 In St Iuls A mini

One thing that has surprised me

In Burns." added langdou. is this. He never wastes any tinie"n bluffing Bvery one here In town knows his automobile But. do you think If he wanted yon to-night he would atop a block away and send his machine hack" No. sir. He would go straight to your door Toot. toot, and ring

Oer of flrohiioa

'he Dell aown hon for Insurance money. They rented these houses; then they! Never Wore a Onquiae

But how about the triras oi me profession that one hears so much about?' I asked. "Oh, yea. there are tricks. 1 can let you seal a letter with yuir seal, ami 1 will take It out of the envelope, read It. and put it back, and you can not tell that It has been opened In the famous hundred dollai bill' f.e in Philadelphia I Intercepted a

letter to Taylor and Brlddell the en

. . i ,,,, noA In

ut In velvet carpeta. elegant furnl i Burns himself has this to say about uravera wno nan spem . ture. t.t.n. n,t an forth hi. h ihn. I hi. .nrk t a -MmMfivS)! m.Ali.g tb paj-er on which me gov

Wed As soon as they had their I People seem to think that there Is enmiert money Is printed They had it,-:. . .... ... -w..... .... w,. hv counterfeiting cigsr revenue

Then tber would light a work They Imagine we go around aamws. They made $.KJ.D0 at thaL prison

This was easy, as the'e was no ad

dress on the outside of the envelope But this left Burns In the dark as to whom It v.as meant for. Later In the afternoon Mrs Chevins came out and Burns followed her. She crossed the feny to New York and went to Courtlandt street Aa she was turning into a doorway Hums sent one of his men to say to her: Be careful! You are being watched" She turned and left the entry way Burns immediately entered, and sure nough there was an engravers office Of ro'i'ie Hums got the plates and :;n Frederico Mora and Ricardo de !quisons are serving their term la

V

The fire of publicity is the medium the mail-order houses are using to destroy this community. It is up to you. Mr. Merchant, to fight the devil with fire. By the aid of the local press you can hold him over the scorching flames, and put a stop to hia devastating campetition so far as thia community is concerned. Will you not assist la the good fight? given vou Mr. Farmer? A market for ' price; maybe it gives a picture of th your produce. What has made i:, to article also, but you don't see the 50 iter cent, of the present value of j goods The local merchant shows you your farm" The accessibility of a the goods: you may examine them market You know wh-t your grand critically; he may allow you to test father did on that same farm? Drove j them or to call In an expert to advise histiogs and hauled his grain 3t. 50. ( you. Ia It fair to conclude that the maybe 73 miles to the nearest market ; catalogue article Is the cheaper just town, and received prices for them because the price is lower? that would make you howl about the An element that must enter into the trusts. And be hauled back the fam- comparison of goods and prices is. llv supplies for which he paid what that in any attempt to fool the cusAn would consider monoiiolistlc tomer. the loc al merchant is decided-

prices Do you happen to know what

the old farm was worth then" Well

It lacked a good deal of being $75 or $100 an acre.

Yes. the home town, with its handy

market, has advanced the value of

your property and made you worth

several thousand dollars more than vour grandfather was worth The

borne town affords schooling for your children, and perhaps social and church privileges which your family-

would not otherwise enjoy. The rural mail routes and telephone systems, radiating from the home town, as spokes from a hub. bring to your home the greatest conveniences of modem times. Have you ever notlcej that the first thing the settlers of a ne.aly opened reservation do Is to send for a wagon load of mail order catalogues Well. I haven't They lay out a town alte every six or eight miles, start two or three general stores, build a school house, a church, a blacksmith shop, a grain elevator, petition the department for a post office, and start a newspaper They know, from former experience that, with these things close by. life will be endurable, whatever hardships may come They know, also, that without them thy must live lives of isolation and endure an exist ence that is contrary to all natural human Instincts On the other hand. It goes without Mvlng. that the average country town

cannot exist without t?ie support of

ly at a disadvantage. He must show the goods, not merely describe them. His business depends wholly mmn the limited trading area of his town and his ability to inspire confidence within that Streit He rannot afford to make a practice of misrepresenting his goods. , The mail order house Is not so tied down to the maxim that "Honesty is the best policy." It has no neighbors, no fellow citizens, no mutual Interests with its patrons. Its trade area Is wide and always shifting. Naturally these conditions do not demand extraordinary vigilance in supplying honest-made goods. And where Vigilance is not a needed employe in the business he Is generally taken off the pay roll, which makes a saving In expense, as well as in the cost of the goods. If lower prices are quoted by the cata logue house, may not this account for it? Will It pay?" Ia It a matter of wnscmy to buy Inferior and damaged goods when the game money, or even a little more, will pay for goods of the best quality? Which course does a man s first duty to hla own household dictate? But to get at the bottom of that question, we must consider the farreaching general effect of .nail order trading. If single catalogue houses are to be capitalized at $10.000.000. they must be reckoned with along with Standard Oil. the beef trust and railroad mergers, if they are allowed

Its tributary terrltorv Then. If that I to suck the blod from our country

town affords the advantages for th rural citizen that have been enumerated, there exists whst we nttsy csll an Interdependence and a moral ohllga Hon between the two Are you. Mr

towns, your grandchildren will find conditions much the same as th8 of ..o.r grandfather's time Their markets will be 30. 50 or 7.'. miles away. The towns and villages will he de

Thrifty Farmer, living up to that ob- Merted. and the hubs " will be too dlsllgatlon when you do your trading : tant to send the radiating spokes of

with the mall order house? rural mail, telephone llnea and other

To this line of argument the farmer .nay answer that bis greatest obligation, his first d"ty. la to hin immediat

modern conveniences far Into ths

ooutitry. CHARl.KS BKADSIL W