Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27

have children. Colonel Edwards has
made a plea for you, and ON that ac-
count I'll not make a charge against
you. Butyou will be dismissed from the
government service. and never again
be permitted to return to it. / hope
this will be a lesson to you as long
as you live"
took the poor fellow down, had his
picture taken as a record against him
II he ever came back, and let him go.
He was an honest man-as humanity
goes-but the temptation was too great.
To get back to h question Of mys-
teries. the finding of writer's of anony-
NOUS letters Illustrates only a little of
what l mean when l say there are no
mystrles. L don't care what the case
may be. every criminal leaves a track
ny winch he may be traced.
n criminal understands this after
you get him, though he has made his
mat the next time he will not be
caught. The next time" he will just
as surely leave a track-of another
klnd, perhaps, but a track nevertheless.
~ an seems SO simple-afterward. 1t
always seems that the particular track
lett might nave been avoided.
Here was the tcach-wide, broad and
deep-and yet. those two clever law
yers entirely overlooked it. Why the
necessity for such a clause? This sug-
gested suspicious circumstances and,
therefore. led me to make a close
scrutiny of the contract, which was
produced by Judge Tanner and was
turned over to me by Mr. Heney.
On investigation. / found a water
mark in she paper, n two misspelled
words tx the document: / also noted
that a dark ribbon had been used in it's
typewriting. And how simple was the
procedure that led to the undoing of
these men! My investigation dis
closed the fac that this particular pa
per had not been manufactured until
1903. While the date of the contract
between Senator Mitchell and Judge
Tanner written on this paper was
dated 1901. 1t was, therefore. a ply
steal im~possibility for this particular
contract to have been written at the
time stated by them.
Further investigation disclosed the
fact that Judge Tanners son was, at
the time of the investigation, acting as
the stenographer of the law firm.
therefore. 1t was fair to assume that,
II his contract was written as a de-
tense. this young, man had lone the
typewriting. He was Immediately
called before the grand jury. He de-
MED typewrfting a partnership agree
ment between his father and Senator
Mitchell.
He was asked then and there to
write a letter. dictated by Mr.. Heney,
In which Mr.: Heney used the two mis-
snip agreement-the word salary was
spelled "salery."' and the word CON
ltuen was spelled 'constituant."
q son m%isspelled these
two words just as he had written them
IN the partnership agreement.
When Judge Tanner was confronted
by this situation. he came into open
court and CnnfoSSo1 tn na-A,,ru
Again interested in the psychology
OF such a situation. 1 asked the judge:
How in the world is it possible that
you walked into such a trap-men as
learned in h law as you and Senator
Mltchell-especially in view of the fact
the high place YOU have held in
this community. having been a Judge
on the bench and one of the leading
attorneys of h barr"
He said: Mr.. Burns, that question
is easily answered: I was not a de-
tective.'
1t has always been my practice that.
when L a X up a serious ~investiga-
ton. first carefully go over all the
facts at band, and then formulate. my
Then, in following out the In
from time to time I NAV
find it necessary to change my theory
to make it fit the facts. but never the
reverse. 1t is astonishing, oftentimes,
10" SasAiy al apparent mystery may
be dispeiled. It frequently happens
that one is able to go over the facts at
hand and. without any investigation,
determine the identity of the guilty
to q crime.
I remember. when we were after
Brockway, DR.. Bradford, Jimmy Court
ney, and their gang of counterfeiters
not onnec Brockway with the case.
Three or o days before We arrested
BrockWay. A. L. Drummond, for a
short time Chief Of the secret service,
came out In a newspaper article in
which he said that Brockway was then
leading an honest life. and had been
for some time.
We a been watching these two SOL
diers Of fortune. de Requesans and de
Mora, for some time, knowing that they
were conterfeitfng the money of their
country, but lacking sufficient evidence
of 1T, when a sofa that had been ship
ped from New York to Costa RIGA fell
into or hands. 1t was an ordinary
sofa. wrapped in ordinary burlap, but
hidden In the back of 1t was over two
million dollars in the counterfeit notes
l decided that if we could find out
who shipped that sofa we would know
who was responsible for the
counterfeiting But there was no rich
ness of clues; the sofa might have come
from anywhere, and the burlap also.
After we got h sofa back from Costa
Rica, we could find nothing to indicate
where or to whom it had been sold
no makers name or anything.
On the burlap there was a roughly
printed figure ''2' and a double .X"
with q line drawn underneath, and the
figure "64"-lfks this: Xxx
Ga
Whore the Burlap Was Made.
l visited a number of dry goods hous-
es in order to determine what the
double x with a line under it and the