The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-22

% trap gang OF cnunterieiterS. Aoub
terfeiting is a risky business, and those
engaged IN Il are therefore extraordi
nariiy wary. They must have a place
Ia which 70 manufacture and 70 gel
rid Of the stun when manufactured
10 DO both Of these without getting
caught Is difficult. and IT makes them
very skillfu 10 covering their tracks.
eBlain told me that a certain dis.
triet was being flooded with spurious
| coins and notes. was 20 SO and 10.
4 cate the plant | didn't know how to
begin. SO be told me to find out some
/ persons who had recently come into
the nelghborho0d was also to 60
TO the postofiee and learn II any mail
was being delivered to any suspicious
person. did az / was told and after
several days hunt was discouraged I
went to Blifin and told him there was
but one person who had moved into
the district. so Far as / could find out,
and there wasn't anything suspicious
about him. He lived alone, It IS true,
IN a small house he had rented and
had put 10 what furniture he needed
On the installment plan Since be was
the only newcomer had watched him
especially in the matter Of bis mail
lie went out ia the morning after the
postman had delivered his letters.
rending them on the street. and when
be bad finished would tear them up
and throw the fragments anywhere.
picked them up put them together and
read them. There wasn't one 40 which
there was anything discriminating.
Let me see some Of them, said
Bllain.
Il showed him two or three letters
bad pasted together. lie looked them
over and said:
There's your man.
what do you mean BY telling me
that one who doesn't care who reads
his letters is my many
Two OF them have been written hy
himself TO himself He has torn them
up aud thrown them on the street to
be picked up by greenhoru detectives
"Tou could have knocked me down
with a feather ] didn't say anything
! went back and rented d room across
from whore the suspected man lived
One morning rose rather early and
stood at my window. A mnkman
drove up 70 the house opposite and de.
livered a quart Of milk. A cook took
the milk and handed the miikman the
can he had left the day before.
watched the house for week. then
went 10 BiHin and told him ] hadn't
got any further lie was working on
some papers at the time and without
looking up from them asked me to tell
him anything had seen. I mentioned
the mlIkman
You mean the poatman. said the
Inspector
No the miikman
"rhats the why the man you're
looking for gets his mall
- said milk
eAnd J say MALL
"'How did you come 10 think Of
thatY
"0h, experience, suppose. You'll
End the milkman is a newcomer
y went back 70 my room TO think
out plan for capturing some Of that
mail But | couldn't find q way to do
this except nv letting the young man
know fl This would spoil my game
concluded to capture the outgoing
mall watched for my man 70 60
to letter box to drop "a a letter
When be had done 50 / stood by che /
box, not permitting any one to drop /
ID anything more. and when the post.
man came along ] showed him my au +
thority and demanded the letters In the /
box There were ten 81 them, ana I +
took them to my room, steamed them
and found one agreeing to turn over
green goods 10 a eonntryman kept I
this letter and dropped the others ID
The box.
THE countryman was 10 call at q
certain house not far from where the
young man lived at d certain hour on
a eertain day. Bllfhn told me that In
the house referred to the stun was |
made. why he thought so / didn't \
know He seemed to see things ahead
without even thinking about them 4
would have sworn the plant was IN
the house where the young man lived
THE matter at this stage was taken
out Of my hands Blifin sent a man
10 the house where the countryman
was to cell for tue queer supported
by enough men ID surround the prem
ises They captured the gang. finding
the machinery Tor making the money
Another force went to the house OF the
young man I had been watching and
captured him also Among other
things taken was one az the mink cans.
It was made with false bottom, "a
pabIe of containing quite q stable
mail. The milkman was not captured.
but Of course he was one Of them, as
glidln had predicted His milk wagon
didn't belong g amy especial firm.
though he ala carry some milk iii It.
@This wns the beginning Of my iu-
struction under Inspector BHlin
gained more Ia one year under him
than | would have gained ito ten years
alone But It took me many years TO
know things instinctiyely without
stopping 10 reason them out One
thing / learned On that case Ever
AFTER If q suspect tried to act as IL he
didn't care I felt pretty sure he die
care. II he didn't be would act like
my other person under similar cireum
stances.