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D L L. 1 mills is a counterfeit stor story It Is TIlls JL written about men who draw pay paychecks paychecks paychecks In Inthis Inthis Inthis because counterfeiters arc aro checks this prosperous country It Is about the shoed gum-shoed delegation deles representing the United States treasury department They Th y are arc common commonly called secret service ser ice Ico men Therefore anything told In InthIs Inthis inthis this article will lave have a secrecy tinge to It and should bo ho treated as such It Is Is hard to think of r anything to men They em say about secret d dont don't nt HUo 1110 publicity The They wont won't tell toil Anything of ot their past pat present or fu iut iu- iu t ture rc n An ordinary citizen cn could play poker with a no secret service man for a i I whole poker season and never or notice that the operative was constantly straining his cars ears and listening for tor spurious purI us dollars Gold n Reveals cnN nJ Truth Tho best beat wa way to tell a secret service operative o Is to look for tho thu gold old star lle Jn to wears This star Is big and bright 11 1 easily seen Ho IIo carries It In a aleather leather leathor case caso In one ot of his pockets When hen an operative I Is fully dressed fourteen pockets bulge front from his clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing inS not counting the ones In his over over- coat Besides that one Identification an the fact that secret service men then are arc all n. n noncommittal the tho operative Is much 1 like all other earth beings For lor some somo reason renson a a. man who Is 15 an operative for the tho treasury department seems to be ashamed or something ot of othis t his profession Vero a person to ask him about lt his profession ho would blush and den deny the fact On the other hand persons outside e the tho secret er I Ice clique have havo been arrested for pretending preten pretending pre pre- I ten tending to bo members of oC this secret society As a group the they might b b. easily mistaken for a n. selfish bunch I Are r Not Ot overt man can C. bo be a n. ecret secret serIco servIce service ser I ice Ico operative A person who likes lIkos to tosco tosco seo his name In the paper should never ne enter tho service er Detectives cR even make maJc intentional misstatements to tho the tax collector about their profession and H. H L L. L Polk and his cU city directory always got Sot misinformation from front of operatives es In as ns few words as possible a secret service operative Is la a man who spends months trailing co counterfeiters until ho lie hohas has absolutely proved how when and andI I where the they are going to make maJo much bad money moner It Is th then n that this serious serious seri seri- ous looking man who might have been seen een at a certain place every night f for fora r ra a a month goes to his office straps on his Colts slips sUps a pair pall of Irons Into his pocket J kisses his wife wHo and but and but rl right ht hero I Is a good time to show why Secret se secret se- se cret crot service operatives are arc so sa unlike other persons The They do such absurdly unnatural thins things s. s D c Informs Inform Police After Arter all nIl of or tho the necessary events leading up to the thc gun sun stage the tho secret service man Is a J. J regular motion picture star detective Instead nf or bOtnI go go- to the tho lair of the gang ang and capturing capturing ing Ins them ho he proceeds to the police pollee station station sta sta- tion and whispers something In the tho oar of the chief and and clang clang clang clang clan call can tho the reporters tho the police have captured captured cap cap- a no bunch of or counterfeiters I Then comes conies tho the n necessary ry pictures es 0 of the tho prisoners with the alwn always s 's on the tho job police captain who le leads ds the charge But nut there never is iR seen a pic pie- I tore ture of or the stuff sturt taken in the raid That f is one of or tho the strange o secrets o of tho the organization of secret service men num The They do not want tho the public to bIO seo what they have done If the tho s secret service Ts mentioned at all It Is burled buried awa away down In the middle of tho the stor story I Despite tho the seriousness of ot their job nearly ne all secret service men have vo a aMark aMark I Mark Twain vein of humor In their anatomy One of oC their favorito Jokes Is to go So to tho the window ow of tho the paying teller t In a bank banI mid crud whisper something something some some- thing In ht tho the ear car of oC the youth who so- so 2 se seriously 0 tells tho the operative that ho al always always al- al ways watches carefully and that no counterfeiter could pass any money through his liis window Teller IN Victim of Joke The fhe operative praises the vigilance e and tells tho the youth routh he lie will Mill Inform the tho president of ot tho bank about abouO his hla ability ability abil abil- ity He then asks tho the toller toiler to give him change chango for Cor a 5 note which the future banker does docs The rho operative e rushes to tho the president presidents private and tells him to rescue fescue the tho counterfeit note noto ho he has passed on 01 tho the man at the window The Tho president does AS is s the tho se secret secret secret se- se cret service operative e bids bid and a ten minute school of Instruction to the young youn J Pierpont nt at the window William I D. D Dav Davenport Is at the tho head of or the secret service office In Salt Lako Lake His Ills Is on tho the second floor loor f Federal building His phone number is Wasatch From outward appearance ap ap- learance tho office might be a n. fence fenc or a n. dive or something To gain aln admittance admittance admittance ad ad- a person pelson who desires to see sec Mr Ir Davenport must enter on one door and nod tap on another Prett Pretty soon a little opening of mysterious us beginning and locomotion gives gl n no partial vi view ow of the thc In interior Mr 11 Davenport likes to have vo the public public pub pub- lic como come to his office He has his desk so arranged that a a. p person r on who gains admittance Into tho the office cannot get Jet geta a R clear view vie of the des desk Tho The view Is partly parth obstructed h liy by the desk Itself and mostly by hy a bunch of or papers There Is never anyone In n the office besides Mr 11 Davenport Da at nt least not when a caller comes He lie 1 orla orl H Despite Life Lifo is not all roses for tor the operative Usually when tho the worst snowstorm of or orthe the winter Is raging the tho operative gets Sets a mysterious telephone call that someone someone someone some some- one has passed a counterfeit Liberty bond on the landlady of oC a rooming house on West cst Temple street The op operative operative op- op finds rinds the tho number but Is 18 told tho the landlady Is out for tor the evening He lie waits wails In the doorway across the street At 11 o'clock tho the landlady returns Tho The operative c tells his business While the woman Informs the operative operative oper oper- that a man who had been roomIng rooming room- room In Ing at her establishment gave ave J tier lier er tho the valueless bond In payment of oC his room rent she Bho Is busily engaged ed in digging the document from the bottom of oC her trunk There It Is she says And before his eyes ICS the thc operative sees nothing more harm harmful cuI than an ordinary emblem emblem emblem em em- blem announcing that the owner owner had hall subscribed to the fourth Liberty loan Incidentally this Is one of oC the thc facts of t f this stor O aln T f C Such i i V a i did 1 n y J J 1 b u t p pen In n Salt calf Lake not l long n g a ago o. o I Shrewd 1 i JI MOM Men n I Feared I Strange as as the tho statement might seem the real counterfeiter does not fear foal the secret service ico men as much muchas as they do tho the keen business man than If It Ifa Ifa Ita a person who spends his nights mak- mak ink molds from which to press worthless worthless worthless worth worth- less dollars goes Into a cigar store ex expecting ex- ex to pass pas some omo of or his production and the clerk casually rings each pl piece co of ot coin Coln on tho the counter before beCore he puts It In the drawer something something- is going going- to happen The counterfeiter IsI is I going to get out of or that place Just Justas as If he had had a prison vision Islon It Is tho the ring ring- of or the thc marble marblo slab that counterfeiters dont don't take to kindl kind kind- l ly The They always alwa's tr try to pass their wares where whelo the ring or tho the weight o of the c coin ln wont won't toll on them All that a counterfeiter can hope to get t. t out of oC his Ills wor work Is the difference difference dif dif- ference forence between the amount of his purchase and the amount of oC his al alleged alleged al- al coin Later he gets also a term tam tamin In the I fed federal ral prison Young YonDA Man elan Seized An eX example of ot th th j kind of or game a counterfeiter Is contending against was wag demonstrated recently when a n ayoung ayoung young man mon with a family In count county is said to have tried to make mako hIs living b by printing counterfeit 10 bills It is charged that after aCtor paying S 40 for tor n a craftsman outfit he passed one bill blU He landed In tho the count county j Jail Ln In S Sa t Lake A gang ng of or counterfeiters attempted to operate with headquarters m in salt Halt alt Lake On December G 1918 1915 their first worthless dollar was reported to tho the Salt SaIt Lake office of the secret BenIco service service Ben ice Ico and on January JanuaryS r 28 S the second one appeared Two days later Inter tho the men were arrested Since Sinco then tho the entire gang gan has been roun rounded ed up tho the two dollars are tho the only ones which have e been passed At least six men will go So to io the federal prison for this offense it is said Th The secret service men worked swiftly and without any publicity ItIs Itis it itIs Is admitted that a duo clue dropped b by a counterfeiter Is Isery very ery rare If It an amateur amateur amateur ama ama- shout should wish to seek men who make mako bad money noney ho he should look Jook for metal stains on the suspects suspect's trousers It Is suggested that the th amateur should got familiar with the suspect and oVen o offer to trado pocket knives If It the thu suspect Is a a areal real honest holiest maker of bad coins his knife will besmeared bo be smeared all nil over P with plaster parts paris After the tho trade has been ma made e and I the tho amateur ha hat has examined thu knife I closely he should get the tho suspect down to the this federal build building InS InS' under some pretense pretense pre pre- tense then yell for tor Davenport Prisoners Prisoner 11 Treated Tho secret service men praise themselves them them- selves upon the fair rail treatment they give their prisoners Not Ool that the they want thorn then to como come back hack again but It IM is one ono of or the tho mysterious codes to which they tho adhere Masonic A foreigner was arrested recently by II IIo o operatives on aut suspicion ot of being con con- I I II with a gang of counterfeiters Ho IIo was lodged in the tho county count Jail A lawyer lawer who preys upon foreigners de declare do- do clare dare secret service men gained admittance admittance ad ad- into the thc jail and b by threat made tho the man sign a note for tor 50 50 It itis IB is charged although the lawyer la knew the prisoner was Iwas to be released within two hours hourI Later It is said suit was vas filed against tho the man who came to tho the se secret secret se- se cret service for assistance to keep the lawyer lawyor from Crom closing l. l his shop A lawyer lawyer law law- yer cr for tor the man who wh ha had been arrested 1 was secured and anti a promise to carry tho the matter Into court with a possibility possibility that the case would be brou brought ht before tho the Salt Lako Bar association was wn made b by tho the secret service The Pho American people are aro Justly proud of tho the federal secret service It never hover sleeps Is efficiently managed an and 1 does the most Creditable detective work worle But for tor the vigilance of oC the tho secret service tho amount of or counterfeit counterfeit counter counter- feit relt money In circulation would be ba enormous Many Inn counterfeiters counterfeiter and their plants are aro captured each eich month though the public never knows Deep Thinkers J It Is as aN sure turo as day that a counterfeiter counterfeiter counter counter- feiter who continues his hla nefarious work will be captured Although the secret service Is 18 made mado up of the deepest deepest deep deep- est thin thinkers leers the tho government can get tho they cannot think for tho the public As Asan Asan Asan an Illustration few persons know that all genuine federal reserve resene notes or federal reserve reser bank banI not notes bear the tho following portraits 1 1 Washington 2 Jefferson 5 Lincoln 10 10 Jackson 20 so 0 Cleveland 50 50 Grant arant 10 Frank Frank- lin In An Any others are aro counterfeit or most likely raised Though federal secret service Ico operatives operatives opera opera- tives theft are most thorough In their business business busi busl- ness and are arc keen observers of men and their habits they must patiently and cautiously shadow suspects and CoHo follow clues sometimes for Cor fora a la a lon long while whilo wh 11 e. e before getting evidence enough to warrant arrest arresting ng tho the person whom they are arc going to charge with a crime Seldom docs does a suspect s arrests gl b by tho the secret service escape conviction for forthe forthe forthe the reason that arrests are arc not made unless there are the best of reasons for tor confident belief that the tho suspected person is 15 guilty Judging from the evidence evidence evi l dence In the tho possession slon of ot tho the secret service A counterfeiter or raiser of notes Is Isa Isa isa a despicable coward and sneak and Is deserving deer of no pit pity either on pIe plea of first lr t offense or any other excuse It would bo be bettor If ft when proved guilty the culprits wore p punished to I tho the full tull extent of or tho the law Jaw being sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- to long terms of oC Imprisonment and also tl heavily fined Just ut at present In different parts of the country raised notes of oC many varIeties varieties va va- are h being circulated and It Is 15 the dut duty of oC every overy person to do what ho can cnn to aid In running down tee makers of these raised raiDed notes This can bo be done ono b by giving Information to tho secret service |