The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-12-24

SECRET SERVICE MAN LAUGHS
AT PERIL.
Threats Of Criminals Whom lie Has
Been Instrumental in Putting
Behind the Bars Have No
Terrors for Him.

THAI threatened men live long IL
an adage as true as Il Is old. re
marked an ex-Chief OF the unlled
states secret service. who is sim &C.
i've in the detection Of criminals.
] don't know how many rogues
have arrested and sent to Jail. Meth
er can ! recall how many Of taem
have threatened to take my life a.
socn as they were free"
why don't they" was asked
/ Don't they hate you more when they
set out Of SAN than when they vert
inf Think OF the moaihs and years
they have TO treasure ep their wrongs
and plan their revenge
Eyes that's all very well, an
swered the detective. "but It's q very
I desperate man indeed Who Is not
enwed and tanned by imprisonment
We're you ever in prison and did you
ever see the way thar discipline Is
/ enioreed2 There Is no Please do lhls'
when the Reonags speak 10 the prison,
ers. The commands they give ara Ga
She sHHerlauvely Imperative tense. II
taey were NOT a few guards could not
hold 10 check Tor ave minutes hun.
dreds o. cunWets The average crim.
inai is 10 gentleman He q as COW,
andy and as SERGE as a tiger. Ouly
fear and f0tce fuia him. Bat bis spirit
Is usually broken, and his lnseparahie
companion SIS fear when be comes out
nio the world agaa / don't mean
chat be- wont hsht when he can't ge
, away bnt, as a rule he doesn't hum
FOR trouble"
i3ut late az night and Ia loneli
( streets don't you take the middle o
the road? Isn't there the chance tha
b some day one OF your many cnemie
!. will Ria you?"
i perhaps J remember once, year
= ago J was scared OF. rather. startled
for a moment hy one of those fellows
had secured the evidence and Al
rested Q man for conu'or;eitlng. II
/, was subsequently sent up for terri
+, OF yoags--i FORGET how many but
I remember that he cursed me Ia d
|, courtroom While | was giving my ey
M denco, ard threatened. "a the mo.
IL dramatic and blood curdlinR mann,
90 Nh me when he got out The q
u fair bad passed out o. my memoir
IA when a man came TO me one day yeai
~ later and told me that this countc
u feiter had been released from jail ar
ar had been hoard 20 repeat IN the pre-
I euco 81 at least go persons. bis thrca
ma TO kin nae on sisht WAS caution,
.Is to be wury and not TO give him
M chance 20 do Co.
Two or three months afterward
got on a street chr late one night
Philadelphia I had heavy bag
each hand
We And who should see comi
NC toward me- but the man himself
lS recognized him FIRST My FRS, thoup
'l was for the contents 81 the bags I -
H carrying counterfeit plates char ! b
seized and was bringing from Wu
ia iueon 90 New YORK ! didn't want
ns ge, KILLED and Jose hose. naturally,
PIE WIS two blocks 20 Che station. and
nm couldn't very wen run
~ was only few seconds UNITS
ne mo the man face % face ! wa& a
'no automatically about 10 drop nay hca
'le vaHaes ana puI ms revolver when
~ oxcouucrfatcr saw and recosnil
~ me Ile stopped short for an iml
'Na ccnub'e instant and then bp turn
tail and ran Us n tho devil was az
him. Hke the coward that he v
Why I'D he run after he had thr,
asu end over and over aeaiu to kil q
IVY, wv. I've tol1 you Further, ne knew ina
~ would probably have shot him Fl
''e ton Of a second before he could spr
al me"
en-. GETTING THE CROWD iN LII
AXE
me. Glowing the Methods Of the Resoui
anne fa street Faket.