New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
BURNS TELLS OF HIS
i TRAILING DYNAM|IERS
Detective Says His Work Alone
on Those Jobs Already Has
Cost $4,000.
CAN'T GET LIFE INSURANCE
That's What Worries Him, he
Declares, and Not About Be-
ing Killed-Flying Visit
To New York.

rsbsrlock Holmes" said Wiihem y
- ,,o...-d.v ~ the Hotel Belmont
--res very interesting character IN nc
ton tut in my twenty-five years OF eN.
rerjencA as q detective ! have never hd0
occasion 10 learn 10 play the No'n' u
e,udv tobacco ashes or 10 use magnify
Inc class Plain common sense Is all
bav. ave- had any Use Ter In any OF the
Gases VIE which 7 have been connected
TAKE for instance. the case Of these
6vnanoi,ers was called into that case
-. the McClintock-M Marshall Company al
rittsburg. after the dynanlVns o. t"e
reoria bridge last August magnitying
rlass' 4 pair OF opera glasses turneo
wrong END 10 and little common sense OF
the commonest kind were what was needed.
There were two internal machines used
~ that job One exploded and the other
ai5 not The battery of the second was
too weak We carefully preserved the ma
chine that did not explode. II was very
us.ful later. after the dynamitins Of the
los Angels Times Building.
Our first problem. though. was who
ro,,5 N interested in flowing w the Pc
rita br;dcc. II was on open shop JOB.
,,oksd no forty-fve or fifty other dynamit-
ires IN The last three years. and found that
+b.v we're ell open shop Jobs. Then l put
q watch on The headquarters Of the union
in Indianapolis.
.Afte- the dynamiting Of the Los An
reles Times Building we found another
bomb. The construction was exactly Ike
that Of the unexploded one found in
Peoria.
How MoManiasl Wa. Arrested,
we had already learned that few days
before the Peoria Job man who registered
ne John y. McGraw had been OF one Of
the hotels IN the town for several days.
We had cop,sd his handwriting from the
hotel register We saw Ortie McMsnigai
around the union headquarters. We got
ssrnrIe Of ns handwriting We arrested
him. Re confessed.
That's all there IS TO the detective bust
ness Mr. Burns concluded. IT'S Just
common sense"
How does It work out in the case Of
leeislstorsq" ne was asked. How about
t1s ohio LEGISLATORS? II has been charged
that Won sent your men TO Columbus and
induced the legislators TO take brioes.
Induced them 10 take brioes! he ex-
claimed. why. II those fellows heard that
: man with money was around ttey would
break down the door OF his room 90 get
10 him.
"One Of my men would go 10 Columbus
end let 4 be known that he was Interested
in certain bill The next dey member
of the Calendar Committee would be around
10 see him. and in half an hour the price
would be set for either passing or stopping
the hill whichever he wanted done. You
couldn't pass bin 10 stop the. plague with
on, bribine the Legislature
The third degree. though. You use that
10 get confessions. don't you? was asked.
Il never used the third degree in my
life" Mr. Burns said. 1T has been said
that ] used Mechanical as a stool pigeon.
That is not true When I got McManigal
md J. = Mcnamara 10 Chicago ] advised
Mcnamara that the charge against MN
vas so serious that he would better uot
talk. | told him thet anything ne said
would be used against him
Plain Talk Leads to Confession.
The case with McManigal was different.
spent about ten minutes with him, AND
told him everything knew about him and
What he had been doing. Then told him to
think it over and ! would be back in five
or six hours 70 see what he had 10 say. l
went hack az o'clock that night and he
made a fun confession.
Mechanical isn't a foo. He isn't dull
,rltted Nothing like that. lie is q shrewd,
Cennv man--an American for three gen
erations, but Of Scotch extraction. He
comes from good people in Tiff1n, Ohio.
His family is respected there and his
father owns stone quarry.
L would a thousand times rather work
v-itn an intelligent man than q fool That
was the way [ did with Ruef IN San Fran
cisco. He is a brilliant man with fine in
seUect He's teaching n Bible class In the
yenitentiary now. You can argue with
man Ike that. you know. You can argue
with him and prove TO him that YOU have
caught him. and then he has sense enough
20 see that the best thing for him 20 do Is
20 tell what ne knows
You see ] believe that if q man con-
fcsses and helps you, you should help
him"
You helped Ruef 10 tho pcnitentiary,"
vas suggested.
- Certainly Dir. Burns replied. AN
thieves look alike. II doesn't matter
whether they are rich or poor But the
rioh ones are the ones It pays best 10 catch
J. has more Of deterrent effect. AND
that IS where the good comes in catching
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