Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-05-11
GREAT DETECTIVES
life STORY IS
GRAINED WITH
ADVENTURES
w. ]. Burns, Famous Sleuth.
Who Is Responsible for Ar.
rest of McNamaras. Might
Be Hero of Dime Novel.
SECRET SERVICE MAN
FOR u. s. TREASURY

Washington, May il.--William !.
Burns. the detective who II rospon-
siblc for causing the arrest of J. !.
Mcnamara, his brother James aud
prtic McManigal. ON charges growing
out of the dynamiting uutragos IN Los
Angeles. CAT. is perhaps. one of the
best known slcuths at ia, present
Tune IN this country The story of
his lif" as "A great detective rivals
some OF the fiction stories told of
the Ptnkvrtons or OF pid KING Rrady.
the idol of the dime novel readers
His first detective work started
win the secret service branch of the
initcd states government la 1890.
when hc received AN appointment for
work IN The west. indian Territory ,
TEXAS. Arkansas ana the south with.
IN short time he was placed in
charge of this district and. ON accom-,
"i excellent work. he was trnnsfcrr.1
four years after his appointment 10
Washington. whore he was given "A
rowing commission. NJ Was put on
IN" famous I,rockway -Bradford-conrt-
ncN case In New York a counterfeit
ing ease
RfoCkwaN VAS celebrated couu-
tcrtciter His specially was counter
ic'ting notes az large d.nnm nations
one favoritr h'ing a 81 600 note He
obtained an impression OF this plate
through thu culpahiiity at woman
employee a. Ia, bureau uf engraving
ANA printing who ran sheet 80 TIN
ION through thu press whcn taking an
impression of the plate. H. had an
tsl,tHIgatk H.. ....
preston, printed the notes and cir
culat.d them with such success that
the government actually accepted
ss"."oo worth of them bcfor, Il suS-
pcctcd that anything was wrong
Later ON they had To- send FOR Charles
lrich, an old-tiuc countorfeitcr. 10
pck the good notes from ia, spurious
ones
Burns got tltich To- work on the
case with hmm He sent him to toin
the gang uf countorfeitors and
through his assistance the Officers
arrested nli 81 them u 20 huiding in
Yves, Hobokcu. y. ! Tho secret NrrN b
To-" men found more than 3@.inu. On0
IN gold certificates and lot 81 500
noirs This was the FIRST tim. that
th' authorities had bccn abb. 10 con
Wet BrnCkwnv Hc went tp prison
with courtney ana IN bradford ,uho
died in prison fer a tcn-Ncnr term
Burns con,cs naturally by Eis talent
OF running down criminals tor his
father was chief 81 police 81 Coinm-
bus. ohio one ui his rariy cases
WAS IN the elr,tiuns 10 lSN1. Ia CO.
mmbus ana Cincinnati. Onto. WHEN
the election tnlll sheets we're altered.
one candidate receiving as5 votes in
stead of 2N5 burns ran the ballot
box shippers down aud got a confos-
sion
soon after this hc Naa called into
- cas-" ia 81 Louis whore the notori-
Gus Jim French and n gang of fir,-
bugs had been getting hundreds al
thousands uf dollars out of Insurance
companies. Fr,nch was turnitur"
dealer lic would at up dwelling
houses with cNpenslv" furniture. in
SURF them 10 their tull value. rcmoN"
IN. furniture. substituting Junk aud
then set fire - the houN" other de-
t"ctivc agencies had been working on
these cas,s Tor wears Burns secured
enough evidence tn send French aud
his conlodtratsS to PRISON Tor five
wears, two months after Ia began
work on the case
Ia 1896 he was assigned a. a COIN