The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-07

every morning and put nm 10 ped, as lle detectives say, which means that he kept on his trail all the time. Ulrich was test ing himself, that is to say he was testing himself that the government detectives did not know where he was. It was not | until the March after the November in | which he had reached Cincinnati that he decided that the secret service men had really lost him. and then one day he left his rooms without any baggage and walked to the depot. While passengers were going through the gate to the New York train Ulrieh scanned the face of every one and he was the last man to board the train
 | Ulrich came over to New York by the | old Cortlandt street ferry. and made straight across West street for the tele- | graph office. He took up form and wrote the body of his message. without | any address T have just arrived he had scrawed when he became conscious that somebody was looking over his shoulder. He turned around to face Burns, whom he did not know.
 Aha. said Ulrich you seem mooch interested in vat I am writing
 q am" replied Burns.
 Den, subbose you vinish it." suggested Ulrich.
 ''All right" said Burns. and he took the pen and wrote the name of the con- federate in New Jersey that Ulrich had | intended to write. Ulrich was taken completely aback.
 This is a pinch. Ulrch,' said Burns. We know what you were going to do. Now you can help us round up the crowd or you can go to jail''
 | Ulrich agreed to work with Burns, and the latter sent him to join the gang and through his assistance they got the whole lot in building at 542 Ann street. West | Hoboken. There the secret service men | found more than s2,0O0,000 in gold certih- cates and lot of Canadian sloo notes. This was the first time that the authori- ties had been able to convict Broadway. He went to Trenton jail for ten year sentence with Dr. Bradford, who died in prison, and Courtney. The last was celebrated forger who had been in coun- | terfeiting schemes for 20 years. | After this Burns was sent to Florida to | stop filibustering and he took Ulrich with him to protect him from friends of the Broadway gang. who had threatened his | life Ulrich died two years ago. having 1 reformed and become a useful citizen and leaving much respected family
 Burns came back to New York in 1898 | to look up that counterfeiting case which | was undertaken to promote a revolution in Costa Rica, the participants making | 100 peso notes, with the double object of | buying arms and discrediting the mone- tary system of the country Gen. Fred erico de Mora, grandson of the first Pres ident of Costa Rica. and another man served two years in Sing Sing as result of Burns's investigations. and then they went down to Nicaragua and started one of the predecessors of the present diff culty in those parts.
 The case of Taylor and Bredell in 1899 was one of the most extraordinary in the | .f were hit upon by a process of deduction l and elimination. for there were no clues 1 that could be used. The fact that the counterfeit note was absolutely perfect | indicated that camera had been used. Then the unusual excellence of the print | ing gave the inference that a steel plate 1 had been used in the engraving and that | whoever did the work was\ able to etch | on steel.
 Every man in the whole country who was able to do this sort of thing was | taken up and considered, and then the elimination went on until the list mar rowed down to Taylor and Rredel. Then it was found that their process was to transfer photograph to steel plate, etch the latter enough to bite the lines, and then engrave by hand-a feat that had hitherto been considered impossible. The scheme eventually involved 15 per | sons Two of them, Philadelphia lawyers, | tried to brbe Burns, but were sent to Moyamensng with Taylor and Bredell. While the latter were waiting in Moya- mensing to testify against the lawyers they were called upon by a man who | had visited Broadway in Trenton jail. Brockway had advised a proceeding that he had used on numerous occasions, which was to offer to give up plates in return for immunity. This the govern ment had always accepted until that Ho- boken case. Taylor and Bredell were not | in possession of any plates and their bail was s10O 000, and so they decided to try | to make them in jail. Taylors mother smuggled in the necessary tools and ma | terials and the two men engraved the | plates in their cell under d blanket with | the aid of an alcohol lamp. It took them two months to complete the work, but they actually printed the money. sent 1t | out and had it passed. When some of the money was shown to Burns he at once said that only Taylor and Bredell could have made it. He went to the prison and charged them with it and they l at length confessed.
 One of Burns last big pieces of work for the Treasury Department was the ap- | prehension of Dimmick who robbed the | San Francisco mint of s300oo. Dimnick had just been released from San Ouentin prison after doing nine years. It LOOK | two years to secure a convictlon Dnn- mick was assistant superintendent of the mint and he had succeeded in familiar | -~~~rr@rrrr A HK