The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28

They have fought appearance before
the courts of the District of Columbia
but are unable to avoid the inevitable
| Their trials will be held in the early
| fall and so absolute is the proof of
| guilt that the department of justice
| feels no uneasIness as TO the result.
'EFor rent signs are posted in all their
| Offices.
1t was the department s sleuths who
again found a still more effective meth
cd of putting those easy money brokers
out of business. 1t was found that all
their supposed information on the mar
ket must of necessity come by wire.
The mails had long been closed against
them. The telegraph people might be
held for completely. The cases against
the Western Union were brought up
and that company now stands indicted
on fifty counts. The telegraph people
will take no chance on any business
that shows the possibility Of them get
ting into trouble and the probabilities
are that they will never again lease an
other wire to bucket shop.
Change an Advantage.
Tho government is finding itself in a
far better position to prosecute the
law breaker than it ever was before
1t is performing with a force made for
merly had to borrow men, 1t is find
ing the change to its advantage. Among
the forces that the new service has alb
sorbed are the following:
The examiners into the official con-
duct Of federal courts
The force of assistant bank examin-
ers detailed to work up prosecutions
against defaulting officers.
The old secret service force assigned
1or
The department that invcstig gated and
punished violations of the land laws
The detectives who watched cases of
peonage in the southern states.
Those who pursued and punished vio.
lators of the naturalization laws.
The special examiners into violations
or the antitrust laws
Examiners into breaches of the neu-
trality laws
Besides the work of these former
classes, the examiners of the bureau cf
investigation are empowered to invade
the domain of the postoffice inspectors.
of the internal revenue officers, Of the
customs officers; in short, they may in
vestigate anything in which the Unit
ed States government is or NAV be a
party.
At the rate of progress that has been
shown in the past twelve months the old
professional type of detective will have
disappeared from the force in the course
of two years and the service will be a
highly trained, Homogeneous body of
self effacing investigators of marvellous
efficiency. The service cites the fol
lowing eases aside from those already
mentioned:
What Was Unearthed.
1t unearthed the plot by Antonio 7.
Nailariel and his associates. Serabia
Magoon and Monas, for tie invasion of
Mexico by a band of American desDer
ADDE'S In that country. All Of the lead
ers except Serabia are serving peniten-
tiaIy terms in Arizona.
There is the case of Albert Jones, a
North Dakota banker, who accord
ing to the United States authorities,
looted the institution Of which he was
president and departed between two
days. He went to Mexico and the now
service found him. He fled to Central
America and 1T reached him there. Back |
to Mexico, he doubled on his tracks |
and slipped over the border into Texas
on business Of some kind He had ,
scarcely stepped over the border when
a quiet hammered. inconspicuous young
man whispered something in his ear
1t was one of the new secret service
men and Jones, the banker, was q pris
oncr
The arrest of Henry Allen, Wiscon.
sin banker, who is charged with loot
ing 100000 from his bank, is a recent |
achievement of the service. There lis
a story Of the fsleeper trunk cases
otherwise known as the "crossmaker
cases. operatives of the Il
bureau unearthed a huge conspiracy to
defraud the government by a syndicate 4
headed by one Phillipson
Trunks brought from Europe by some
of the conspirators were held until the
last in the ships hold by counving
ship officers, when vessel would arrive