Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-01
NO FALSE BEARDS OR BLUE GOGGLES
 FOR DETECTIVES
General Misapprehension in Regard to Uncle Sam's
 Secret Service


 It's strange how many persons pie ture a United States secret service op- erative as a mysterious, heavily dis guised individual, who goes about pry- ing into everybodys business, running down the fends in human form, who commit ghastly murders and doing oth- CT things the accounts of which bright en the pages of the dime novel.
 AS matter of fact, the government Cecret service man has but two things to do. One is to guard the president and the other to run down counterfeit CTS. A handful of men attached >to the Washington office of the bureau attend to guarding the president, so the other secret service operatives scattered over the country have nothing to occupy their time save the working out of cOunterfeiting puzzles.
 As rule, these men don' t solve the mysteries of their daily work by 'shad- owing" grotesquely garbed villains through unfrequented byways in the dead watches of the night. Neither do they spend their time ieetly pursuing mysterious carriages with drawn cur tains and masked drivers. It is sell dom that secret service man ever feels called upon to don disguise. When he does, the disguise always is confined to his wearing apparel.
 But it is pretty hard to convince the readers of the cheap story papers that the secret service man is not constantly doing the deeds which brought fame to Brady. Indeed, the very name "Se- cret Service" seems to carry an air of romance and a suggestion of deeds of daring, such as pursuing desperate crim- inals across the housetops of a great city in the small hours of the night, with revolver shots ringing out on all sides.
 There is little of this romance about the real work of the secret service. Ed ward J. McIugh of St. Louis, at pres ent in Topeka, working on local cOun- terfeiting case, is a typical representa- tive of this much misunderstood arm of the federal government. MT. McHugh does not wear disguises. Seldom does he "shadow' people about the streets at night. Not bit of it. For the most part, he does this work by simply ask ing questions, using reasonable amount of common sense and shrewd ness and then asking more questions. He looks and asks like an ordinary business or professional man. MT. Me Hugh goes after evidence in support of 1 his client $ claims, or as a newspaper reporter goes after story-he goes out and asks questions of persons who are | presumed to have the information he | needs.
 Industry common sense and luck, says | Mr McHugh, are the principal assets of the successful criminal investigator luck plays an important part in case. For instance, Mir. McHugh | several years ago was in Carthage, Mo-, on a counterfeting case. A man had been arrested charged with passing bad | bills. He was in jail awaiting trial, but the case against him was weak one and there seemed little hope of secur- ing a conviction. The secret service man was about to return to St. Louis, when he received a telegram from the headquarters of the bureau at Wash ington directing him to go to Coffey- vile, Kan, to look up some government witnesses who were thought to be evad- ing service. He went to Coffeyville and attended to the business there. It was some hours, however, before his train was scheduled to leays~ for the east, SO Mir. McHugh called on some of the bankers there to inquire casually as to any recent appearances of counterfeit One banker told him of GUS toner who had tried to deposit, among q bunch of other bills, a counterfeit silver certificate. He gave the secret servIce man the address of the GUS toner. McHugh looked the man up. Yes, the man said, he had received the bill through the regular channels of business. He also knew of a woman who had been victimized by similar Dill ',l tSNIst