The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-04

nl NHlnil through the press ana getl
eb Impression of toe genuine plates
Then he had Ru eleeirntypc made
rom the tufoll suppression, printed
ihe hctes ara tilcmated tuem withE
sNch sueeess that the government
actually accepted $4,000 worth Of
/ them before IL suspected that any
tting VAS wrong Later on they had
q send for Charles tllrich AT old
Mc cpunlerEeitel9 10 nich the good
lr0in Tbs bad
/ Caught eroeiOv.S With Booty
llrich easeed 20 work with Burns,
send fhe latter sent MIN 70 Join the
laNns, and through his assistance they
arrested them an III building AL
a8g Ann street, West llohoken. There
1 the secret service men found more
+ than 81 100000 in gold certificates
Hand q lot OF Canadian hundred.aol-
I lar notes. This was the drst time
tnat the authorities had been able to
convict Br0ckway He went to Treu.
ltpn Jail FOR a tenyear sentence, with
/ Dr. Bradford, who died in prison, and
X courtney. The last was a celebrated
iorger, who had been Ia counterfeit
ing schemes for 80 years,
Burns nickname among tue police
of every big city In the United States
h Never Fail Burns
4 Il was more than % years ago that
Burns began his detective career
| and he attracted attention by hts
methods and his success from his
FIRST case For that matter though,
Re came naturally by his talent, for
his father was policeman before
him, chief Of police OF Columbus,
| Ohio and Burns, Jr, was brought MP
lin touch with police work. one might
say The gift of detecting crime
seemed to be born Ia him.
His first real detective work was
done IN 1885, in what was known as
the tally sheet forgery when in
The Ohio state elections IN Columbus
and Cincinnati tAe tally sheets were
lahcred. In ehe case a candidate get
ting 9S5 lnstead Of 2S5. Burns ran
/ The Guilty person down and got a
coAlesaion. His speciality has always
been the obtaining Of full admissions
lot guilt that GO far to do away with
the delay of probacted trials His
plan OF campaign is never 10 strike
before he is sure Of his ground
He Caught Dimmick
One of Burns last big pieces OF
work for the treasury department
gias the apprehension Of Dimmick
who robbed the San Francisco mint
VI $4,000 Dimmick was assistant
superintendent of the mint, and he
had succeeded in familiarizing him
self with the locks Of the vault 50
that he could stand at the lock with
the works exposed and determine
4 what combination another person
was setting, Here Burns again did
some eliminating and deducing, but
Il took time to get evidence.
Burns left san Francisco and came
5 East, and was preparing to take an
European trip for the government
when he got wire from Chief
Nilkie to report in Washington
MiIllie had been sent for by Secre.
4 tary of the Interior Hitchcock, who
! informed him that extensive land
Z frauds involving millions Of dollars
( had been discovered
d So they started Burns out on May
/ 1908, and 1T was not until Septem
/. Der 1906, that his task was finished
p ellesulting in the conviction Of United
! States Senator Mitchell OF oregon;
II Hyde & Benson, wealthy land own
j ers, Of California, and numbers o.
III others.
+ In addition to this work Burns was
!. al the same time investigating Other
4 matters Nor should his work ID
the Orchard case be allowed to pass
without comment 1t was Burns who
was largely responsible for that hor
llbly frank confession Of murder auo
outage-much like the latest tale o
atrocities he has succeeded in draw
ing from the Los Angeles Times dy
namiters
Before these lana eases had beer
disposed Of Francis J. Heney, whC
was attorney for the government in
November, 1905 In the muncipa
campaign in San Francisco, had made
the declaration that il called upon bi
the Eeone OF San Francisco he woult
undertake to prosecute Abe Ruel anC
the other gralters in the graf. gidder
town. Later on Fremont Older, editol
ar paper that had fought Ruef anC
he bondlers, came to Washington
representing a committee OF oitizenI
headed by Rudolph Spreckles ant
James D. Phelan, and asked Heney j
lie would come back to San Francis
co and carry out his promise. Ht
said be would on condition that Burn;
could be got to investigate and pro
cure evidence
Burns was allowed to 30 by Presi
Cent Rooseyelt's own order, and ht
dug about ia SAN Francisco for three