Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-04
Tracing of Anonymous Letters by
Handwriting One of His Famous
Accomplishments---Forcing Confess
sions by Psychological Reasoning.


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ItueI paved ms part IKE an artist
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me- I'url Ieau nus IaIe"eIl auureSS
a Psychological Detective.
He told how he had started out in
life. u,bst Inc u,i,.orsit,. man had
! lnpod ~ a., ,,ll.i ,,,.,,.,,,,,a,,, ~.
e,,irc,,,lo, 60 ,,.r7,ii,ioSTs, 49,. an. he
rerited tha clairne 81 re ca,,,ii,,' ,,r,l',
him Their sickness since his arrest
ana tn,,. he had 49,, ~ ~, , t,l
from now on TO destroy the system
! that destroys men"
! Ihat was sample OF Burns as n
! psychological detective. He sowed
/ me seed Of distrust among the mem
! bers or the ring with consummate
/ SIKH, then appealed To the fears that
! grew out Of this distrust and induced
the underlings to confess, then used
! thelf confessions TO make his way on
! '' - 's''''' ''N'''''A'| "N''''H ~
| confess, but Bufns sent hlm 10 the
psnltentlafy without letting him con-
! leSs.
| Ana mere, cleaned from the pages
OF current Literature and Mc'iure's
MheaHlne, ~ the interesting sequel OF
| blHy burns ana Charley Ulrich, the
ernor's picture on an old circular saw
he found in the prison yard
Llrlch tried hard TO settle down,
but the counterfeiting fever got him
MANY years after he mad given up mis-
niue shop and fallen into evil WAYS
ana was being sought for cleaning
up $-po'Voo on fake commission
company IN Germany. Burns, then a
secret service agent FOR the Federal
Government was assigned to look
AFTER odd Charlie
How He Trapped Old Friend.
Eurre and bis ,,,ifa ,ool, -, ..,.,r4
ment across from i'Irich's ~ Cip"i,,
mai and watched dav ana nisbt for
nva n1onths hoforo IIlrinh star,ad -
Nau, WI, 70 az, ~ ,,,,i ''u ~
Of counterfeiiers p,irns liz 7', t,o
rest ''ie
"Wbeu we arrived i, Now yor,
CHARLIE, wont ip,o a toioaro,'b ar
ia ,,,{t, n t,i,cr,, ,'i,
he bod,' ~ 1ba o o,,''s'ei''',,S XIV,
writing tho name oS tbo r,orsar, ~
y, t,,r,e 'ne nam .. .''e person 10
".IJ,,,o ~. -
then realized someone was looking
over his shoulder He looked up at
me, ! looked down at him.
Are you Interested in this he
asked.
YES replied.
Well he said maybe you had
/ better write It.
"'All right | will ! took the pen
and wrote in the name and address OF
the fellow the message was to, and
| signed 1t with Ulrich's name
He Was Interested.
Charley sat back. looking at me.
You ARE interested. aren't you?'
| That was all he said
/ Yes. ! replied. and | want you
| TO come with me-
May ask your nance
Burns Is my name
'Burns2
Yes. ,urns
William j. Burns
Ives. William j Burns
Well, Mr.. Burns. | am very glad
to meet ou-but not under these cir
cumstances. know OF YOU, out have
never seen you befors.'
"'Are YOU quite sure that Won never
saw me before
Never in my life
Then R.,,sp,h.., ui.
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- Iou lvlllelIlp per. engraving
,,ircnlar saw bIa6o w 't'[ oi,, t,,et5 Oh
Yes. | remember Thai yerv we'll
very wen