The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-31
# GRAND FORKS n. D, MONDAY, MARCH 81 1918.

Telephones in the places where the
clerks gather and Installed detective
stenographers at the switchboard on
the other side of the party will. They
know now who has been stealing.
Pretty o they will spring the trap.
1t began with the dictagraph. De-
tectfve William j. Burns first recog-
ntzed the value Of this aid to inquiry.
Now the detectaphone has supplanted
the dictagraph in his practice. The
mechanical and technical ~differences
etWeen the two instruments are Of
no interest to the reader. The point
Is that the use of the detectaphone is
no longer monopolized by the man.
hunters. In n of the two greatest
s~kyscrappers which front that gap on
lower Broadway where the Equitable
building once stood a prosperous law
yer has his office. 1t it arranged L.
fashioned. His desk is at the crook
OF the L.. Bookcases are strung on
the long leg.
Il get the other parties to a threat
ened suit to come down to my Office
and talk it over" said the lawyer. "I
tell them to find chairs on the long
leg and agree. on what they'll do"
Every greedy whisper is gathered
oy the detectaphone into the ear of a
small. blase s~tenographer. who is cim-
ply marvellous as q gum-chewer.
Well demand $4,000" they agree.
But we'll take what we can get. Our
evidence would turn gren in the sum-"
So they come back to the lawyer
and he thrusts u his jaw at them.
II wanted to see If your dare go
this far" he storms. "Your witnesses
are perjured to their back teeth. We
Will not give You a penny and if you
bring suit I'll land you both in Jail"
Think 1t isn't done? There isn't a
day In the week hat stunned would
be litigants do not falter out of some
lawyers office into the bright light of
day and wonder feebly who put him
wise. In the case quoted the detecta-
phone Is hidden in the bookcase. An
other lawyer has the disc of the de.
tectaphone in the ink we'll on his
desk.
The disc isn't much larger than a.
silver dollar. But if it is placed in the
drawer of adesk and the drawer clos
ed the man at the other end of the
Wire can hear every word of the con-
Versation in the desk room. In the
aldermanic inquiry in Detroit, Burns
hooked h transmitter to the bottom
or the chair in which he majestically
revoIved, as the president of a rail-
road he had just thought of. As fast
as the aldermen talked, their words
We're Transcribed by the hidden de-
tectives. Burns got "the office" as he
stepped into the hall. He threw off
that cloak Of the railroad presidency.
THE game" he observed in the
time-honored phrase, els considerably
up. I am Burns. the detective. Will
you aldermen confess, or do you pre-.
Ter to stand trtal?"
A big coal operator here in New
York had been engaged in various
forms OF forbidden skuldugerry.
When William Dickson, who is Burns
office manager here, began reading the
transcription Of his conversation the
frightened but Inundated.
THE next time that I want to talk
business" he observed, ruefully, me
and the other fellow will go down to
Coney Island and swim right out to
sea-"
sanitariums are now equipped with
detectaphones, So that q certain class
OF patients may be watched" when
they least fear It. Not long ago a
very wealthy old man engaged quar-
ters in a cure not far from this city.
was being deliberately feeced by a
pair of relatives. He communicated
with the other members Of the old
mans family, and in a few weeks
enough evidence had been gathered
through the detectaphone to send the
thieving relatives to states prison.
They were let off, Of course when
they returned their loot, and the old
man altered his will.
A number of high officials in the
federal service have equipped their
nf11oQ with 1ofoafo rh4~4o Ry4k I1-~
ago a get-rich-quick operator was
called to heel by a postal inspector.
They sat themselves down in the mid
die of the inspectors large office, and
the swindler leaned his lips against
the inspectors honest red ear and Of
fered him a bride that would keep the
inspectors worried little wife out Of
tangles all the rest Of her life. 1t