The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-08-22
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.

AAAANH ~ HAfNAa
"That threatened men live long, Is
an adage as true as it is old" re-
marked an ex-chief Of the United
States secret service, who is sill ac
tive in the detection Of criminals
don't know how many rogues ]
have arrested and sent to Jail, Meth
er can | recall how many of them
have threatened to take my life as
soon as they were free
why don't they?9 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.
Yes, that's all very we'll. an.
swered the detective, but it's a very
desperate man indeed who Is not
cowed and tanned by Imprisonment.
We're 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 superlatiyely imperative tense. II
they we're not, a few guards could not
hold in check for five minutes hun.
dreds OF conyicts. The average Grim
inal Is no gentleman. He is as COW
ardly and as fierce as a 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 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"
Perhaps. remember as.oe. years
ago. I was scared, or, rather, startled,
for moment by one Of those fellows
had secured the evidence and ar
rested a man for counterfeiting. He
was subsequently sent up for a term
of years. forget how many-but
remember that he cursed me in the
courtroom while was giving my eyi
dence, and threatened, in the most
dramatic and bl0od-curdling manner
to kill me when he got out The al
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 an(
had been heard to repeat. in the pres
ence of at least SO persons. his threat;
to kill me on sight ] was cautioned
to be wary, and not to give him 9
chance to do It.
Two or Stree mon his afterward
got of a sect car tate one night II
Philadelphia. / nad heavy bag ii
each hand.
And who should I see coming
toward me, but the man himself.
recognized him first. My first though
was for the contents Of the bags ] wal
carrying g-counterfeit plates that hat
seized and was bringing from Wash
ington to New York. didn't want t
get killed and lose those, naturally. |
was two blocks TO the station, and
couldn't very well run.
1T was only a few seconds until
me the man face to face was Jus
automatically about to drop my heay,
yalises and pull my revolver when thr
ex-counterfeiter saw and recOgnize'
me. He stopped short for an impeI
ceptible instant, and then he tuTne'
tail and ran as If the devil was afte
I 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
wouz probably have shot him frat
ton OF a second before he could sprin
at me"