Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-16

honest men, He undoubtedly is, but he
has the same passions, the Same weak
nesses. and he is susceptible to the same
treatment.
There is method, too, of working the
thirty-third degree orally on criminals
that is generally successful. BY orally l
mean that the person is suddenly accused
of his guilt when he is least expecting it,
instead of being confronted by an evidence
of it. / have tried it any number of times
and rarely has it failed.
"A few years ago was sent out to Iowa
by Byrncs TO get II man accused Of forgery.
The journey back took Us three days, and
during them we had tho pleasantcst kind
of a timc-playcd cards, drank, laughed
and smoked-aDd all the timo ! never
tried to gain his confidence and studiously
avoided making him feel that there was
any method in my friendship other than
to relieve tie WEAKNESS of o long trip on
the cars
$50 sprung my accusation when the
trip was only little more than half over.
We were taking breakfast in Cleveland,
where we had to change cars, and were
chatting away over our meal about little
fight that had happened in the sleeper the
night before when l suddenly remarked,
Cad, Pm sorry you've got to go up the
river 1t was so unexpected, SO irrelevant
to the conversation, and he was SO totally
unpreparcd for it, that he wilted like a pa
per collar. He gave mo just one startled
frightened look and then dropped his eyes.
so am l. he said / knew l had him
then, and so l changed the subject, told
him it was not an agreeable thing to talk
about at breakfast, but let him digest it
just the same along with his breakfast,
and wheE we were in the train on our way
again he told me the whole game-gave
me the names of the persons whose sigma
lures he had forged and the banks he had
victiniZed, and l never once referred to
the subject after had made the crack at
the breakfast table.
Another time l used the same trick on
forger that l had gone way to Antwerp
to get. He was an old bird and had been
put away before so naturally he was on
his guard all the time, and l had to use
some variations. knew tlpt he had some
evidence in his clothes that would 90
against him, and that he was anxious to
get rid Oft. l staid with him so close,
however, that he had little or no chance to
dispose of it.
I'VE had been out three days, and was
just congratulating myself that l was
handling him nicely, when as we were
walking up and down the deck one after.
noon he stepped to the rail and dropped
something overheard 1 couldn't see what
it was, but it looked like an undershirt.
l said nothing about it; never let him
know that had seen him, but it kept INC
guessing pretty hard all the time. Before
We landed had made up my mind that ii
, really was an undershirt he had thrown
over, because That was the most natural
garment he would use to hide anything,
and had u plan fixed up to fool him.
| Just after we landed and had jumpcd into
| a cab for headquarters and he was breath.
| ing easy pulled n parcel from my over
| coat pocket wrapped up in a newspaper as
an undershirt might be-in fact, it was
| an undershirt, one of my own-and, hold
| ing it up SO he could see it, said: It's
| too bad, Jake, that the wind blew this
shirt into the second cabin deck instead
| of into the sea. 1 don't see what show
| you've got now. Do you:'
We'll, sir, you never saw a man collapse
so suddenly and completely in all youl
| life. He Just stared at that parcel as If III
couldn't Keep his eyes off it, and when ht
| got his breath he asked me to stop and lei
him get drink, and then knew hat
him. We stopped. and while we wert
drinking he gave up all he knew and hat
nothing 10 do but turn him over to tn,
chief when we reached headquarters.
| Women are harder to deal with thai
men. They arc mere cunning, more sus
| picious and have moro courage of a certain
| kind. Gentleness doesn't affect them a
Pmuch, and they have enough hrayado t,
carry them through a pretty stiff dose 0
bulldozing- The best way is to let ZEN
| alone. Their endurance generally give
ont and they talk inst because they can
help it."