El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-17
Great Cases Of Detective Burns---By William J. Burns
VII--- Some Burns's Plants

ness. I need. the money worse than SET
ont You don't know what DuSIuSSS
v-orries are AL Nothing you've ever
had on your minG keeps you dWaAS
nights the way worries aoout JUS
nesS'l do it. They're the llIlLt,, n 9IlL9
lob in the civil service looks IKE nedN-
en- to me sometimes You're on Easy
Streets long as nothing leaks, en- :
and YOU can bet your last potion uOI-
lar nothing leaks through me ID,
st s71nDose he does need the money,
Richardson explained to me ne 5
been buying stock ana Il&ihg up MS
place But I'm stuck That's the Jrou-
BILE He wants a couple OF nuuur eu
rnOre-and I haven't got Ii. told MIN
so And he got ugly about II L can
quarrel with him. ] don't know what
ne might do if he got sore; ne away 5
had a yellow streak IN MIN. But L
haven't got the mOeny-
Morris Gets Richardson's Legacy.
eve been lending him out OF little
legacy that i got from an aunt Jnat
died two or three years ago, and I've
cot q sister, back home, that / ought
10 help. Her husbands sick-in the
hospitaI-and they're locking to me. I
can't tell them the moneys all gone
They wouldn't believe me- maven
even told nv wife. And now here I am,
up against il. It's an awful temptation
for a matchmaking money, the way
I do, every day
How much has he got out Of your
ssTwenty-seven hundred dollars"
nodded. One sentence in Richard
sens explanation had suggested plan
by which j might handle the situation
II YOU aspire to compete with me in
my profession, exercise your ability by
finding that sentence. When you have
found it. evolve from it a way in which
il might be possible not only to stop
, the blackmailinE but to recover the
money already in MOrris's hands.
where is his shOp%' 1 asked
Richardson told me.
Well I said, III go and look him
over. I'll drop in to see you this after
noon. If he calls YOU up in the mean
time, put him off until 1 can have a
Burns Calls Upon Morris.
I went to find Morris's shop. It was
on a cheap street, but it was Itself
+ smart and prosperous looking, with
clocks and watches and eye glasses and
the beginnings Of photograph depart
. ment- Norris was bending over his
work. Just inside the window, his head
cooked on one side and his magnify
ing glass screwed into his eye He had
not the stOOp OF his trade; his shOuI-
ders We're straight; his clothes were
rev, and his face, which he looked up,
was well feshed and iEpassive. I in
trOdUced myself as a secret service
man; and Norris said, Yes?" in
4 wanted to ask you" I said, ''hOw
Al Richardson is spending his money"
Morris leaned back against his
shelves. How he's spending his money.
Why-l don't know. don't know Al
very well"
The shadow reports that he has seen
you with Richardson several times
said
-The shadow" The facial muscles
that hold a watchmaker's lens in the
eyepit contracted nervOusly in Morris
cheek. What's the natter
I'm not in q position to tell you
what's the matter I said, and / want
to warn you that If you speak to Rich
ardson of my visit here I shall have
you prosecuted for obstructing justice
1 simply want 10 know whether he's
spending more money than he ought
to"
Morris. shook his head. ct don't know.
don't know anything about his priv
ate affairs I don't know him very
well anyway
THAT doesn't agree with the infOr-
nation I've been given" I said colby.
I glanced around the shop with an air
Of Installation III be IN 10 see
you again 1 said And I went out
Burns Effective "PIants.7
This may seem TO have been a brief
and inconclusive interview, but it was
sufficient. II did not tell me much
about Morris but il told enough to
make me reasonably sure that MOTIFS
was the sort Of man 10 fall for" the
next development Of the aruflce- re-
turned TO Richardson to rehearse him
for the plant
That is the term Of the profession for
tia plant. When a detective has 20
find q man or piece of information that
can not be merely trailed and hunted,
he lays a plant and traps his game II
is by means Of plants that force most
Of the confessions in which my cases
end-as for example in the San Fran
cisco graft prosecution, where made a
circumstantial plant to catch the Board
Of Supervisors and then built 3
psychological plant for Ruef and talked
him into it. In the McNamar cases,
the finding of the dynamite that IlNe0
the guilt lndellibly was the result o. q
plant that kept one criminal bliss1ully
unwarned of the fact that the others
were in custody
The plant I made for Morris was as
simple as a lObster-pot. I went over It
in detail with Richardson. I have
him moving" I concluded, in the d.
rection that We want him to go You
lust have TO give him the lead, and II
he doesn't come through III drop IN on
him tomorrow and give MIN the final
shove. Don't OTeract-that s the CHIEF
thing. Let him do all the talking. Try
to look worried. and keep your mouth
shut"
I guess won't have much trouble
trying to look worried" Richardson
richardson COnfesses to Morris,
AT six o'clock that evening. tired. IN
happy. and not sanguine Of any pos
Sible success, Richardson arrived al
Morris shop. What's the matter, Az"
Norris asked at once.
Richardson looked guilty and hang
dog I'm in trouble, he said"
What's the natter What's up2'
''WeI-the government detectives
4 know" Morris said under his