The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-29


Il went into Blifiin's office a green
hand. The first job he gave me was
10 trap gang Of counterfeiters. Coun
,erfeiting is risky business. and those
engaged in Il are therefore extraordi.
narily wary. They must have a place
In which 10 manufacture and 10 get
rid of the stuff when manufactured
To do both Of these without getting
caught is difficult. and il makes them
very skillful IN covering their tracks.
"Bhfin told me that a certain dis
trict was being flooded with spurious
coins and notes. was TO so and To-
cate the plant. | didn't know bow "a
begin. so he told the 10 find out some
persons who had recently come into
the neighborbood was also To 90
70 the postofiee and learn if any mail
was being delivered TO any suspicious
person did as was told and after
several days hunt was discours sed.
went TO Blifip and told him there Mas
but 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, il is true,
In small house he had rented and
had put IN what furniture he needed
on the insiallment plan. Since he was
the only newcomer bad watched him
especially in the matter OF his mail
He went out In the morning after the
postman had delivered his letters,
reading them on the street. and when
he had finished would tear them up
and throw the fragments anywhere.
picked them up, put them together and
read them. There wasn't one in which
there was anything incrlminating.
Let me see some of them said
Blifin.
Il showed him two or three letters
| had pasted together. He looked them
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 man.
Two of them have been written by
himself TO himself He has torn them
up and thrown them on the street Ia
be picked up by sreenhorn detectives
You could have knocked me down
with feather didn't say anything
went back and rented a room across
from where the suspected man lived
One morning | rose rather early and
stood at my window \ milkmar
drove up 10 the house opposite and de
livered a quart OF milk. cook took
the milk and handed the milkman the
can he had left the day before.
watched the house for a week. then
went TO Bliffin and told him l hadn't
got any further He was working on
some papers at the time and without
looking up from them asked me 10 tell
him anything ! had seen. mentioned
the milkman.
You mean the postman.' said the
inspector
No. the milkman.
That's the way the man you're
looking for gets his mail
''I said milk
And ] say mail
How did you come TO think Of
that
"'Oh. experience, ! suppose Youll
find the milk man is a newcomer
Il went back to my room to think
out . plan for capturing some Of that
mail. But couldn't end . way TO do
this except by letting the young man
know 1t. This would spoil my game
] concluded 10 capture the outgoing
mail watched for my man TO go
to q letter box to drop in a letter
When he bad done so ] stood 10y the
boz, not permitting any one 10 drop
In anything more, and when the post
man ca me along I showed him my an
and demanded the letters IN the
box. There were ten OF them. and
took them TO my room, steamed them
and found one agreeing to turn over
green goods 10 countryman. ! kept
this letter and dropped the others in
the box
The coautryman was to call al a
certain house not far from where the
young man lived at a certain hour on
a certain day Blifin told me that in
the house referred 10 the stuff was
made Whv he thought So didn't
know. He seemed to see things ahead
without even thinking about them.
would have sworn the plant was in
the house where the Young man lived
The matter at this stage was taken
out Of my hands BifHn sent a man
10 the house whore the countryman
was 10 call for the queer supported
by enough men TO surround the prem
ses They captured the gang, fuding
the machinery for making the money.
Another force went 10 the house Of the
young man ] had been watching and
ag Ylttred him also rqpuu other