The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
FEARS NO ENEMY
SECRET SERVICE MAN LAUGHS
AT PERIL.
Threats Of Criminals Whom He Has
Been Instrumental In Putting
Behind the Bars Have No
Terrors for Him.


THAT threatened men live long, Ii
an adage as true as 1t is DID," re-
marked an ex-chief of the United
States secret service, who is still ac-
tive in the detection OF criminals.
~ don't know how many rogues I
have arrested and sent, to jail, neith-
or can recall how many OF them
have threatened to take my life as
soon as they were Free"
why don't they?" was asked.
Don't they hate you more when they
get out of jail than when they went
in? Think Of the months and years
they have to treasure up their wrongs
and plan their revenge" t}
yes, that's all very WELL an
swered the detective, but it's very
desperate man indeed who Is not
cowed and tanned by Imprisonment.
Were you ever In prison and did you
ever see. the way that discipline is
enforced? There, Is no Please do this
when the keepers speak to the prison
ers. The commands they give are In
the superlatively imperative tense. II
they were not, few guards could not
hold in check for five minutes hun
dreds Of convicts. The average GRIM
inal Is no gentleman. He Is as cow
ardly and as fierce as q tiger. Only
fear and force rule him. But his spirit
Is usually broken, and his inseparable
companion Is fear when he comes out
into the world again. / don't mean
that he won't fight when he can't get
away, but, as a rule, he doesn't hunt
for trouble"
But late at night and In lonely
streets don't you take the middle OF
the road? Isn't there the chance that
some day one of your many enemies
will kill your"
ago, was scared, or, rather. startled
for moment by one of those fellows
I had, secured the evidence and ar
rested a man for counterfeiting. He
was subsequently sent up for term
of years-I forget how many-but
remember that he cursed me in the
courtroom while I was giving my evil
dence, and threatened, In the most
dramatic and bIood-curdling manner
to kill me when he got out The az
fair had passed out of my memory
when a man came to me one day years
later and told me that this counter.
feiter had been released from Jail and
had been heard to repeat, In the pres.
ence of at least so persons, his threats
to kill me on sight. l was cautioned
to be wary, and not to give him a
chance to do 1t.
1.-TWO or three months afterward
got off street car late one night In
Philadelphia. had a heavy bag In
| each hand.
"And who should see coming
toward me, but the man himself.
recognized him first. My first thought
was for the contents Of the bags was
arrying-counterfeit plates that had
seized and was bringing from Wash
ington to New York. didn't want tc
get killed and lose those, naturally. II
was two blocks to the station, and
couldn't very well run.
1T was only few seconds until
me the man face to face. ! was JUS
automatically about to drop my heavy
valises and pull my revolver when the
ex-counterfeiter saw and recognized
me. He stopped short for an imper
ceptible instant, and then he turned
tail and ran as IL the devil was after
him, like the coward that he was
Why did he run after he had threat
end over and over again to kill me!
I've told you. Further, he knew that
would probably have shot him frac
ton of a second before he could spring
at me-"