The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-28
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.

Ihat threatened men live long /.
an adase as true as 1t is old. re
marked an ex-chlef of the United
states secret service. who is still ac
i've in the detection OF criminals.
don't know how many roeues
nave arrested and sent to Jail Meth
er can recall how many OF them
have threatened to take my life a.
soon as they were free"
Why don't they" was asked
Don't they hate YOU more when they
get our OF Jail than when they went
IN Think of the months and years
lhey nave 10 treasure up their wrongs
and plan their revenge"
Yes, that's all very WELL an.
swered the detective but it's a very
desperate man indeed who is not
coWeu and tanned by Imprisonment.
Wee you ever in prison and did you
ever see the way that discipline Is
enforced? There is no Please do his
wren the keepers speak TO the prison
ers. The commands they give are in
the superlatiyely imperative tense. II
they were not few guards could not
mold in check for five minutes hun.
areds OF convlcts. The average Grim
MAJ Is no gentleman, He Is as COW
aidlN and as fierce as a tiger. Only
rear and force rule him. But his shirt
Is usually broken, ans his inseparahle
companion is fear when he comes ont
INTO the world again don't mean
mat ne 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
viii kill you?''
Pefhaps ! remember once. years
ago, was scared, or, rather startled
or a moment by one of those fellows
mad secured the evidence and ar.
'ested man for counterfeiting. He
vas subsequently sent up for a term
II years. forget how many-but I
emember that he cursed me in the
ourtroom while | was giving my evi.
ence, and threatened, in the most
famatic and blood-curdlng manner
o XIII me when he got out. The aft.
air had passed out of my memory
when man came to me one day years
ater and told me that this counter.
elter had been released from iail and
lad been heard to repeat, In the pres.
nee of at least so persons. his threats
o XII me on sight. | was cautioned
o be wary, and not to give him a
nance to do II.
TWO or three months afterward | (
Of on a street car late one night In | {
Philadelphia. had heavy bag In
tch hand.
And who should see coming
ward me, but the man himself,
cognlzed him first My first thought :
as Tor the contents of the bags | was !,
Frying counterfeit plates that | had -
lied and was bringing from Wash
ston to New York. | didn't want to
I killed and lose those. naturally. II a.
rs two blocks to the station. and / ~
uldn't very well run. fu
1T was only few seconds until
? the man face to face. | was inst
tomatically about to drop my heavy
Uses and pun my revolver when the
.couhterieiter saw and recognized
;, lie stopped short for an imper-
Dtble instant, and then he turned
! and ran as II the devil was after
n. like the coward that he was.
~ did he run after he had threat.
over and over again to kill me9 ..
told you Further. he knew that
uld probably have shot him a frac. "a
n Of second before he could sprjag Su
me"