The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-21

said a secret service man who was
transferred recently to the New York
Office, myself and four of my asso-
ciates were detailed on a battling case
Of counterfeiting. The state had been
flooded with spurious coins and some
less cleverly made bank notes and
later 1t appeared that the same stuff
was gong into all parts of the country
We could not locate the plant and 1t
was evident that the work of manu-
facture and distribution was being d.
rected by a master mind that was wise
enough never to go near the plant.
There was a suspicious newcomer
in small town on the Mississippi river
who attracted our attention He was
man of some education, and very
reserved. He lived in fine style in one
of the best houses in the place. We
watched him for nearly month. There
was nothing to give any force to our
suspicious but we kept him under
eye. He never got a letter at the town
poStoftice that he was not willing that
anyone should see. In fact, he very
frequently read them on his way home
and then threw them carelessly into
the street. They were innocent-ap-
pearing notes, all of them, containing
not a clue.
Every morning at about o'clock
young millSman went to the mans
house and left a quart tin of milk.
The milkman was a newcomer, too.
He had arrived about a week before
the other fellow and had bought out
a small dairy with money which he
said he had left him by his father
upon his death. A stout cook at the
fine strangers kitchen always took the
can of milk and handed the young
mllkman the can that had been left
the day previous.
THESE cans, as we learned after
ward, had false bottoms, in which let
tiers were placed-letters to and from
the Incorporating newcomer. The let
tiers were from the men who were
operating the plant, which we subse-
quently uncovered in a town eighty
miles away, and from agents in various
cities who Were Showing the queer
The answers were the master minds
instructions. The milkman and the
cook were faithful accomplices. The
milkman had been set up in business
there for the sole purpose of deliver
ing the correspondence that directed
the whole works"
The operator of a notorious get-rich-
| quick concern eluded the police when
a raid was made recently upon his es-
| Establishment upon complaints of a
score or more of persons in several
states that they had lost many thous-
| and dollars. He secreted himself I'M
der plain DISCUSSES in a tenement
house in Elizabeth street, not more
than'a dozen blocks from police head
| quarters. Several postoffice inspectors
and central office detectives were
searching for him. The fugitive had a.
number of friends who wanted to pre-
vent his capture, one of their reasons
being that his trial would bring out
| their names and show their completely
in the unlawful scheme they had
| worked.
These men, however, were known to
| the police and 1t was impossible for
| them 10 communicate with the man in
| hiding-who may be called Logan.
Much more was it out of the question
| for them to visit him. But they
agreed to keep watch on developments
in official circles and to serve Logan
| in whatever way they could. Within
week danger was lurking near for
the fugitive, and one of the watching
gang learned of 1t. He sent a servant
to a telegraph Office with this message
to friend in Chicago:
"You- Aunt Helen died to-day"
| Mastering his grief with an effort,
the nephew went to a telegraph office
and wrote this message, addressed to
| a clothier in the vicinity of Houston
street and the Bowery:
Deliver at once to Henry Prescott
| (Logan's alias, at Elizabeth
street, six pairs plain black sox."
With this the Chicago man sent a
telegraph money order for an amount
sufficient to cover the cost Of the
articles ordered
The socks were delivered to Logan
that day. When night came he disap-
| peared from Elizabeth street. The
Chicago man had told the fugitive
when and in what direction to go-the
| firm chosen, the article, their number
code which the hunted man under
| stood.