The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-05-09


in the morning the house would bur
down with complete loss. In thi
way they had got hundreds of thou
sands of dollars out of the insusanc,
companies.
When | was called into the cas-,
1t had been pretty thoroughly gon,
over by Pinkerton men, who had 10
Gated the suspects. The difficulty wa,
to get legal evidence. Jim French
who later fed to Honduras, after hav
ing served his first sentence, which
got against him, was the leader of the
gang.
The difficulty in all such cases IL
TO uncover the tracks of the crimi
nails while avoiding direct methods
Instead of going out to induce some
OF the marked men to come to the
'front.' with a confession, went to
them under the name of Williams
and told them that | had been sent
by the insurance companies to inves.
ugate the detectives that had been
working on the case who were &C.
cused OF Incorporating their ex.
pense money. While CARRYING on this
special investigation | was able to
gather around me all the gang. From
them | selected the one man who.
thought, could give me the evidence
ms Fellow, John Rudd by name,
never knew until the day that he was
called into the grand jury room tina.
ne had been aiding in the apprehen.
sion of the incendiaries.
Suspected informer Killed.
When all was ready went before
the grand jury and explained the case
The insurance agents told their losses
and then we called in Rudd and ex
planned TO him his part in the case
After indictments had been brought
In there was terrible uproar. Some
member of the grand jury told the
gang that a man by the name of
burns had come before them and told
The whole story. No one knew Burns
had been going under the name of
Williams, but the following night one
u the gang was suspected by his
elbows of being Burns and was shot
lead in saloon. They never knew
until the first day of the trial who
was.
Marshal Mcdonald was trying the |
'ase. was sitting beside him. When
tLdd was on the stand he was asked
IN cross-eXamination, to whom he had
lrst told the story.
To man who called himself Will
lams, he replied
DO you know his true nameY
understand now that it is
burns.
oh, this mysterious Mr.. Burns,
low long is 1t since you saw him
asst?
Just now.
Is he here now?'
Yes
In this ROOM?
He is sitting beside YOU was the
nswer.
rms was the first that Jim French
nd the rest of the gang knew of
he part ! had taken in the invest.
alton"
AS Burns sat at his desk TELLING
lie story he had the appearance Of
banker explaining deal in stocks
e Is us FAR from the dime novel do.
'ctive as he iD from the wonderf,l
+ sherlock Holmes of Conan
oyle's novels.
Chlet Wilkie or the secret service
ice remarked TO me-" said Heno,,
nat Burns was a man with a sixth
nse, who could tell as If nv instlnat
hen a man was telling the trntb
Id when he had told all he know
y experience with Burns bears tbis
It. once In the Oregon land fraud
SEES | thought witness was borS b
8 something back. Burns said ~ n
a told all he knew. and Burns was I,
'hI Al another time | Thought
thess had made complete copfes. ;.
H. burns said: Keep at b,r,p =
re enough the most incriminatiro =
ri OF his story came out afterwarI1 -
one thing that has surprised mo
Burns added Langdon, lis this
never wastes any time in blufBnS p
cry one here in town knows his a
tomobiie' But, do you think II he
nted you tonight he would ston lie
oiock away and send his macb,na al
tx? No. sir. He would go straIght re
your door loot. loot, and rjne II,
BELL ring
YER Wore Disguise. ca
Burns himself has this TO saw oh,,,. le
work as a detective: s.
repple seem to think that there is er
aething uncanny about detect,vs 81 -
rk' They imagine we go around s IS