The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-08
. It's a case Of pinch. UlrIch.' I said.

We took him or to quiet corner and put the
situation straight him Urlch I said. you take
your choice OF helping and going over to Jersey to-
morrow face that indictment that's been hanging
YOU for years. If you play squire with us
well do what to make 1t easy for you II you
don't you know we can get you and put you away
n long term. Now. which is III
"uc said he'd help Hazen didn't Ike 1t, but as
sized Urich up he was willing throw nis associates
Tor the sake Of leniency At my insiseuce Ulrlch
permitted nt orge and given free hand to take
part In the big countergeitng conspiracy which was
then nfoot
1T was n gathering Of the lights of the profession
and knew that we would need some like Ulrich
TO pin convictions the shrewd criminals who were
at work He sent his telegram took up his assigned
part In the scheme and was the inside When
everything ready We descended on the prim lit
tie house In Arm street Hoboken, which being
used MS the headquarters of the counterfeIters.
Booty Uncarthed
I'VE found 100000 worth OF United States gold
certificates OF $500. and 100000 In Canadian bank
notes OF 500 $50 and 500 all counterfclts They
were well made and the paper wns especially good.
Among those arrested were Big BIZ Brockway
Mrs. Libbie Smith William e. Wagner. and. later
the notorious Dr. o. F.. Bradford. Brockway who
was very slippery and intelligent old man. had q, en-
the government officials trouble and served various
prison terms since the 70s When II came to trial we
had nothing him at first except the testimony of
Ulrich who gave States evidence had the only bit
OF corroborntiye evidence
when searched the Ann street house came
upon a bit OF oIcloth that had been used as a
printers apron. The others had thrown 1t aside
but saved IT. When I raDsOcked Brockways room
IN avenue found the roll OF ollcloth that the apron
had been cut from. The piece fitted into the space
perfectly and that the thing that convicted old
Brockway.
another OF the band who got away before the
thing broke was jim Courtney. His speciality was
filling In the perforatioDs of drafts reperfornting
and raising them. l couldn't land him on anything
else so dug up warrant for him in Detroit thirty
years before. brought on two witnesses who ldcntL
fed him and sent him West lie was tried and
convicted the old count"
During Cevelnnd's second term when John G.
Carlisle was Secretary OF the Treasury Mr.. Burns
handled a remarkable little case 1t came to the
of the Treasury Department that the State Of
Mississippi was issuing debt warrants notes that
had been made TO resemble legal currency and were
passing such. The detectives sent to Inves
tigate and began by rounding up number of per-
ready to that they really bad been i'm
posed upon by the resemblance. This, technically
counterfetng, and Mr.. Burns to the UNI
ted States District Attorney.
81 want warrants for the arrest Of the Governor
the State Treasurer and the Auditor" he said.
The District Attorney offered TO call an ambulance
and have Burns examined to his sanity. Burns
thanked him and withdrew. Within few hours the
District Attorney received very telegram from
Washington ordering him to obey the Secret Service
agent. MI Burns got his warrants and the Grand
Jury was the verge Of 6nding indictments when
that had made the plates pleaded guilty,
the plates and the case dropped
When Secretary Hitchcock, OF the Department OF
the Interior. Grst received lntlmaton of the Of
land frauds In 1903 lie for Chief WlElc asked
for aid. Wllkc replied that he would detail him the
best he bad. That meant nothing to the Sec
rctary.
"Can he get proof, that's what want to know7"
III be can't can Mr.. Secretary" answered
Wklc and Mr. Burns given the mission.
After he had been work the difficult problem
for a few weeks Mr. Burns called Into Secretary
Hltchcocks office.
Have you made any progress?' asked Mr.
Hitchcock
Yes" said the other. "Ive gone far enough to
know that - is taking graft and has been chiefly
instrumental In protecting the frauds" He named a
man high in the department In whom the Secretary
had believed implicitly. Explanation was demanded.
We'll" began Mr. Burns. according to my the
ory"-
stop right there interrupted Mr. Hitchcock 'You
can't like that of such a crime on
theory"
Mr. Burns bowed himself out and returned In a
time with the TO whom he had referred
They sat down with the Secretary. Now Mr.. --"
said tbe Secret Service agent Just tell the Secretary
tu, story you told me" \ full confession was
tn, the real step 10 the investigate
bad been taken 1t was solely through the work done
10y Mr. Burns that Senator Mitchell. of Oregon: f. A.
Hy yde and others finally convicted In the land
fraud cuseS that attracted so much attention
In 1906 Mr.. Burns gave up his position with the
aud went TO san Francisco To help Prose
Heney in his fight against the corrupt municipal
ring. He obtained the confessions from members OF
the Board OF Supervisors and all the important ey.
dcnce that brought about the conviction OF Mayor
Schnitz Boss Abe" Rucf and others He it was
also. who discovered that the defence had managed
to get a former convict Morris Haas on the Jury at
the Rucf trinL
Hans stole into the court room day" said Mr..
Burns In relating his recent adventures 'and
got behind Hency and myself A policeman
grabbed him before he could mako a move and put
him He got back a few days later and shot
Honey through the head. Before Haas committed
orT.t1c In lon hc cnnfnc tbot bo