El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-16

/ elisors named by Judge Dunn. Burns
! selected these elisOrs carefully. 1nsl
] were men he could depend on DAY
| after day, no matter what other mat
/ ters he had on hand, he visited HueI-
/ at first he urged him TO CONFESS men
/ Ruef held out he stopped taking
! about the case. He talked Of every
] thing else under the sun, until RueI
/ began to like him. Then he set or MS
/ plot
One Of Ruefs guards was a quiet.
! determined, self-cOntained man named
/ Mccarthy Mccarthy guarded san
/ Franchises chief crook at night Night
after night Mccarthy would stir an0ut
I in the room at a certain hour. ne
I never spoke to Ruef, OF touched MIN,
l but Ruef always awoke.
I did YOU call me2" he would ask.
Mccarthy would say he had not
Did you hear a noise?" Ruef would
ask.
The Third Degree
Mccarthy had made no noise, Night
after night Ruef was awakened at the
same hour by McCarthys skiltul
noises. At last he began to awaken at
l that hour through custom. Then NC
| Carthy sprung the plot.
you've been talking in your sleep,
he told Ruef
That interested man demanded that
/ he be told what he had said mccarthy
did not know, except that Ruef mad
I been talking of something connected
with the graft cases. Ruef began 10
worry about it. He began to fear TO
sleep lest in Inconsistencies he commit
/ himself At this time Ruefs friends
ministers, and those he had known as
a boy and others he felt would give
him only good advice-began to call on
him, sent by Burns. Each gave him
the same advice:
Confess
At last Ruef broke down. He could
not keep his secret any longer, and one
night he sent foTs Burns AID told him
all. It was to save his own life, as
he believed, that he repudiated the con-
fession. After that Burns had no
mercy on him.
There lies the clue to another trait
of Burns. When the time comes, ne
has no mercy. That friendliness that
formerly shone through his good-na-
tured blue eyes disappears They be-
come small and hard and unforgiT1ng-
he never threatens the man he is after.
He makes that man threaten hlmselI-
And when he finally determines that
the suspected man viii not take the
easy way. he demands that the law
limit be imposed upon him. The man
who meets him half way finds him
willing 10 tighten the burden. The de-
faint man only finds him hard, even to
the point of cruelty
Burns was a detective born His
father was once chief OF police Of Co
lumbus. o. AS a youngster, the tally
sheet forgeries. a cause celebre in Ohio.
attracted his attention All the best
detectives in the west were at work
on the case They detected in the good
old fashioned way which involved a
prodigious amount, of running about
and consumption of raw whisky. IWen-
ty-Odd year old Billy Burns thought
they were not going about it properly.
He so stated to the man in charge.
You" said the man in charge, are
little red-headed fool. What do you
know about detective work2"
His First Big Case.
So Billy Burns told him. He has
a way OF sitting up close to his sub
ject when he tells a thing, and resting
one hand on the other fellows knee,
and gimleting those small blue eyes
into the ether fellows brain, until the
other fellow gets uneasy. The man in
charge told Young Burns to 20 ahead
and DO some Of his fine-haired detect
ing II he wanted to. So he did. 1t was
his work that got the convictions IN
that case, and smashed a few political
regulations, and smeared a scandal over
Ohio that will never be forgotten I'M
til that generation wears out. When
he got through with that case, the
government wanted him He was given
a commission in the secret service
There he just worked his way up.
he got small cases at first, and larger
cases as he grew. BY and by, ne be
came known as Never Quit Burns He
would stay on a case until he died or
the other fellow did, If he had to. He
never worked eight hours a day, he
worked "a hours. In later years, when
he had become the head Of a detective
his men 70 do the same Now and then
he finds good material. This Is
sample of Burns's methods, although |
worked out by manage SCHNEIDER Of
the New York agency.
1t was in the Heidenan case in As
bury Park. Heideman has since been !
electrOcuted for the murder of a little |
girl. But at the time there was no /
ms In fnf al
pointed his way. He was employed by /
g man who believed his protestations /
Of innocence, and who protected him |
The detectives were not permitted on /
near Heideman to rope" him. So 1
SCHNEIDER had recourse to a Burns /
trick. In the greenhouse where Heide- I
man was employed, and where he slept I
at night was a big dog The green i
house was surrounded by woods At !
midnight every night 4 detective /
walked about the greenhouse and i
aroused the dog. Not much noise
at first-and then, being only a dog
and nervOus-he would howl. For 10 I
nights that dog awakened every night
and dismally bayed at the moon Then /
deideman's nerves gave away. For 10 ]
nights he had been awakened at mid
night and lying there sleepless in the
darkness had thought Of his crime. he
'ould not stay there any longer, and |
" men ne lrAL tuG pIOltGtlOu OF the I
greenhouse the detectives were on his
trail. tt was the easiest thing in the
world TO rope him then. The con-
ieEsion followed. Then came the cleo
-rocution
His Wonderful Control.
Another Of Burnss striking charac-
.eristics is his complete control of his
face and voice. On one occasion he
wanted TO locate a criminal He traced |
aim to a restaurant. and finally deter
mined that he was working there as a
waiter. To gain his confidence-and
hat cOnfessiOn-he took = job there
himself, as waiter. fOne day an old
riend walked in and took a seat at
3urns's table The old friend knew /
he detective through his disguise OF
/ dirty white apron at once.
Why, hello. Bill" cried the glad old
riend.
''vot iss?7 asked Burns in German
iialect
The old friend told him that he was
ecognized. Mr. Burns persisted in that
German dialect and mental expression
4 cOuntensnce. Finally he showed the
menu under the old friends nose.
'NOt ISIS this-kiddink2 he asked.
You want Something's to eat misder2"
So the surprised old friend accepted
Burns as a regular waiter and prob
bly thought no more of it, A week
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