The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-03
THE VALUE OF
INSTRUCTION
By DONALD cLiAAiBERLIN
Copyright lslo. BY American Press
Association


n went into Blifin's once green
hand. The fi-st job be gave me was
70 trap a gang OF counterfeiters. Coun-
terfeiting is a risky business. and those
engaged in st are therefore extraordi-
parily wary. They must have place
10 which TO manufacture and to get
rid Of the stun when manufactured.
TO do both Of these without getting
caught is difficult. and il makes them
very skiilfui ia covering their tracks.
"BBfin told mr. that a certain dis
trict was being flooded with spurious
coins and nofes / was 70 go and 10
cate the plant I didn't know how to
begin SO he told me to End out some
persons who had recently come into
the neighborhood. ! was also to go
10 the postofiice and learn If any mail
was being delivered TO any suspicious
person. did as ] was told and after
several days. hunt was discouraged. 4
went 20 BIifin and told him there was
bur 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 be bad rented and
had put in what furniture he needed
on the installment plan. Since he was
the only newcomer had watched him
especially in the matter Of his mail.
He went out In the morning after the
postman had delivered his letter..
reading them on the street. and when
he had finished would tear them up
aud throw the fragments anywhere.
picked them UP. put them together and
read them. There wasn't one in which
there was anything discriminating.
Let me see some Of them said
BliHin
Il showed him two or three letters
| had pasted together lie looked therx
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 man9'
Two Of them have been written BY
himself to himself He he's torn them
M and thrown them on the street to
be picked up by sreenhoru detectives,
You could have knocked me down
with u feather didn't say any thing
I went back aud rented room across
from where the suspected man lived
One morning ! rose rather early and
stood at my window A milkmap
drove VI to the house opposite and dc
liyered quart Of milk. A cook toek
the milk and handed the tnilkman the
can be bad left the day before. !
watched the house for week then
went TO Bliffin and told him ] hadn't
got any further. He was working on
some papers at the tine and without
looking up from them asked me to tell
him anything had seen. ! mentioned
the milkman.
:" You mean the poStmap,' said the
"'No. the milkman.'
"grhats the way the man you're
looking for gets his mail
~ said milk
"'And / say mail
"'How did you come to think Of
thatg
"'oh, experience. I suppose You'il
dnd the milkman is q newcomer
Il went back to my room to think
out a plan for capturing some Of that
mail. But couldn't find a way to do
this except by letting the young man
know it. This would spoil my game
concluded TO capture the outgoing
mail. watched Tor my man 60 30
tO a letter box to drop il letter
When he had done so | stood BY the
box, not permitting any one TO drop
IL anything more. aud when the post
man came along showed him my au,
thority and demanded the letters in the
box There were ten Of them. and
look them 10 my room, steamed them
and found one agreeing 70 turn over |
green goods to O countryman. ! kept
this letter and dropped the others ID
The boz
The counuyman was 10 call at q |
,ertaiu house not far from where the |
young man lived at a certain hour on
\ certain day. BlifFiD told me that in |
.he house referred to the stun was
made. Why he thought SO l didn't I
Snow. He seemed to see things ahead I
without even thinking about them. |
would have sworn the plant was IN
.he house where the young man lived. I
The matter at this stage was taken (
lut Of my hands. Blifin sent man
% the house where the couutryman
'sas to call for the queer, supported
By enough men 10 surround the prem
seS. They captured the gang. finding
be machinery for making the money.
Another force went TO the house OF the
Young man had been watching and
captured him also Among other
hings taken was ore Of the milk cans
t was made with false bottom, GO
Fable Of containing quite sizable
nail The milkman was not captured
lut Of course he was one Of them "a
Rlifiin had predicted. His milk wagon
iidu't belong 70 any especial firm.
boush be did carry eome milk in t.
"rhis was the beginning Of my in
under Inspector Blifin. I