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

riding, smuggling, peonage, white slav
ery, and a hundred other counts com
under their jurisdiction. In the worl
of all the departments 1T takes hol'
where Investigations point to c1me
There are investigating bureaus In mos
Of the departments. These amass tact
and figures but no evidence, The pro
vince of the new Secret Service is Il
procure evidence admissible in court II
any case where the government may
appear as the prosecutor.
This work was formerly done by
Chief Wilkie OF the far-famed Secret
Service Of the Treasury department
The province of this service was III the
beginning to prevent counteTfeitinC
sleuths they called on Chief Wiikle be
cause there was no other organized de
tective agency in the government serv-
ice. Chief Wilkie met these calls and
did his work we'll Then as an incident
TO battle between President Roosevelt
and congress the latter saw fit TO crush
fhe old Secret Service. The president
had intinlated that certain members OF
it were keeping a watchful eye on Ger.
tain congressman who were suspected OF
using their positions for the purpose of
furtherine their own fortunes Con
pressional dignity was outraged. Ven
geance was taken by limiting Chief vii
1lie to the narrow groove of counterfeit
prosecution and creating a new service
" ,th a wider scope than the old had
ever dreamed of. but which tacitlv un-
derstood the danger of fooling with the
congressional buzz saws. But the result
was that Of bringing system out of the
old chaos of the government 8 prose
cution OF crime. The new service has
the latitude it should have. 1t has de-
veloped the opportunity that was
offered it and today has the greatest
organization of them all.
Chief Of the Service.
Stanley ". Finch is the chief of the
new Secret Service which h-s the Off
cial name OF the Bureau of Investigation
of the Department of Justice Mr..
Finch is a Young man, incIslve, alert,
effective He was chief examiner for
the department before being appointed
to his present place. In this capacity
he travelled to all the judicial districts
from Alaska to Florida to determine G
whether or not they were keeping their
houses in order. He knew the game and
the country. He was considered the
logical man for the place For two
wears Stanley Finch has been devoting
his whole attention TO the development
of the force under him. He has built
it from nothing to body of men nearly
200 in number. He has woven it into a
dragnet that encloses the entire coun-
try and reaches out here and there into
the hearts of many nations. He has
reached the place where he feels him
self able to throw down the gauntlet TO
whoever may make so bold as to violate
a federal statute.
But the bureau is a new thing in the
sleuth business. It's members are mostly
lawyers, They are young men, largely
college graduates, preferably with a
wide experience of the world and of
business. The nature of the work be-
fore them calls for this class of men
Violations of the antitrust laws forms
a large part of the work of the bureau
Only lawyer would be able to handle
the jntricacies of those Investigations
Only lawyer would know what was
evidence in such cases Then the law
yer sleuth makes out the case so under
standingly that a vast amount of de-
tail is saved when it is brought to trial
The district attorney in those cases has
little TO do but hear the case
Death Grip on Night Riders.
The government got the death grip on
the night riders in Kentucky because
of this understanding of law on the part
of one of its Secret Service men All