The Yale expositor., 1911-03-09
THE VALUE OF
INSTRUCT TON
Bv DONALD CHAMBERLIN
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association


II went into Blidin's Office IA green
hand. The first job he gave me was
to trap gang OF counterfeters. Coun
terfeiting is II risky business, and those
engaged In ii are therefore eXtraordi
narily wary. They must have II place
in which To manufacture and to get
rid of the stuff when manufactured
To do both OF these without getting
caught is difficult. and ii makes them
very skillful in covering their tracks.
"Blitfin told me that IA certain dis.
trict was being flooded with spurious
coins and notes. | was to go and To-
cate the plant didn't know how tc
persons who had recently come into
the neighborhood. | was also to 60
to the postoffice and learn If any mail
was being delivered to any suspicious
person ! did as ! was told and after
several days hunt was discouraged.
went TO Blifiin 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. 1t is true,
in a small house he had rented and
had put in what furniture he needed
on the installment plan. Since lie 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 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 discriminating.
"'I.et me see some of them. said
Bliffin.
81 showed him two or three letters
l 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 MANI
1.-Two of them have been written by
himself to himself He has torn them
up and thrown them Oh the street to
be picked up by grrenhorn detectives
You could have knocked me down
with q feather. ! didn't say anything
l went back and rented II room across
from where the suspected man lived.
One morning | rose rather early and
stood at my window \ milkman
drove up to the house opposite aud de-
| livered a quart of milk \ cook took
| 10.
can he had left the day before.
watched the house for week. then
went TO Bliflin and told him hadn't
got any further He was working on
some papers nj the time and without
looking up from them asked me TO tell
the milkman
"'You mean the postman.' said the
Inspector.
"'No. the milkman.
"'Thats the way the man you're
looking for gets his mail
81 said milk
land ] say mail
"'How did You come to think OF
that?
"Oh, experience, | suppose. You'll
ind the milkman is q newcomer
II went back to my room to think
but 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 for my man to go
10 letter box TO drop in letter.
When he had done so | stood by the
box, not permitting any one to drop
N anything more, and when the post
nan came along l showed him my au-
.hority and demanded the letters in the
box. There were ten of them, and /
took them TO my room, steamed them
md found one agreeing to turn over
green goods TO a countryman. l kept
his letter and dropped the others in
he box.
THE countryman was TO call at a
certain house not far from where the
Young man lived at certain hour on
/ certain day. Bliffin told me that in
The house referred to the stuff was
made. Why he thought so | didn't
Know He seemed to see things ahead
without even thinking about them. l
would have sworn the plant was in
The house where the young man lived.
1.-THE matter at this stage was taken
,ut OF my hands. Bliffin sent a man
70 the house where the countryman
was to call for the queer supported
by enough men to surround the prem
ses. They captured the gang. finding
he machinery for making the money.
Another force went TO the house Of the
Ioung man ! had been watching and
captured him also. Among other
hings taken was one OF the milk cans.
It was made with a false bottom, ca
pable OF containing quite sizable
nail The milkman was not captured,
but OF course he was one OF them, as
Bliffin had predicted. His milk wagon
iidn't belong to any especial firm,
hough he did carry some milk in it.
This was the beginning Of my In