Show MAN WHO TRAPPED FRISCO BOODLERS HAS FINE RECORD CALLED KING OF DETECTIVES William J Burns f Most Clever of the Secret Service Agents Employed by Uncle Sam Has Earned Proud Title by Hs Many Suczeaacs in Running Down Ofen des Against the LawHis Methods Arc Shrewd Direct Di-rect and Straight Forward and He Has Yet to Record Failure in Any Case in Which He Has Bern Employed Land Grabbers Boodlcra or Counterfeiters All One to Him San Francisco William J Hums tho United States secret service agent who trapped every member of San Franciscos corrupt board of supervisors supervis-ors Into a full confession of their guilt Is called the king of detectives detec-tives Although Burns has this Intarna tlonal reputation as a detective It is hhrd for hid Intimates to remember always that Burns la a detective Thus Francis J Honey tho prosecutor prosecu-tor with whom hums has worked thrnh tho nnnn 1 D m u ua V U gon and In tho San Francisco boodlo cases finds his associate a sourco of continual surprise Burns amuses me said honey one dny recently as he looked out the window of his once In tho unburnt Western Addition of San Francisco r r r J liI1 i I Trapping a Boodler while Burns was whirling by In b f Automobile Look at him he exclaimed He Is as placid and dignified as a lord In his carriage Burns was leaning back at his case In the roar seat of the big tnnneau Immaculately groomed with a look of Imperturbable boredom on his face the lawyers associated with Honey In tho prosecution of Abe Huof and Mayor Schmltz were In the room at Ibo time and they fell Into a discus stun of the man Methodical In Everything What Interests mo most about Burns Is that be never misses a meal said Cobb Honeys partner I never saw him In too much of a hurry to take his hour for dinner at the regular time He Is methodical In everything It Is all In a days work with Hums and when ho turns In at night he sleeps like a top let no never procrastinates put In District Attorney Langdon I asked him the other night If ho thought ho could get n man we wanted want-ed and bring him to the olllcc In the morning Whats the matter with getting him now said Burns Taking down tho receiver from the phone ho called call-ed up it saloon His man was there Burns told him It would be better for his health to surrender himself at our office without delay The man I came at once What Interests mo about Burns put In J Dwyer another of the at torneys of the graft prosecution Is his personality He gets tho men lies lie-s after to like him Huef likes him now better than any of his own men Those two swap stories to each other until you cant believe Burns Is work Ing all tho time to land Huef in San Quentin prison Ho can mimic a Frenchman an Englishman a Dutchman to perfec thou and the stories ho tells sound like good fiction I believe It Is his magnetism as much as his persistence persist-ence that wins for him His First Important Case This Is the story of Burns first Important case as told by himself It was In 1890 In St Louis A num ber of firebug nad been burning down houses for insurance money They rented these houses then they put In velvet carpets elegant furni ture pianos and so forth which they Insured As soon us they had their policies they would move out the furniture Then they would light a twohour candle and at two oclock In tho morning the house would burn down with a complete loss In this way they hud got hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars out of the Insurance companies When I was called Into the case It had been pretty thoroughly gone over by Plnkorton men who had located lo-cated the suspects The dlfllculty was to get legal evidence Jim French who later fled to Honduras after having hav-ing served his first sentence which I got against him was the leader of the gangThe The dlfllculty In all such cases IB to uncover the tracks of the criminals crimi-nals while avoiding direct methods Instead of going out to Induce some of the marked men to come to the front ivlth a confession I went to them under tho name of Will allis and told them that I had boon sent by the Insurance companies to Investigate Inves-tigate tho detectives that had been working on the case who were accused ac-cused of misappropriating their expense ex-pense money While carrying on this special Investigation I was able to gather around me all the gang From them I selected the one man who I thought could give mo the evidence This fellow John Iluild by name never know until the day that he was called Into the grand jury room that he had been aiding In the apprehension apprehen-sion m of the Incendiaries I Suspected Informer I Killed When all was really I wont before the grand jury and explained the case The Insurance agents told their losses and then we called lit Kmld and explained ex-plained to him his part In the cash After Indictments had been brought In there was a terrible uproar Some member of the grand jury told the gang that vn man by the name of Burns bad come before them and told the whole story No one knew Bums f had been going under the name of Williams but the following night I one of the gang was suspected by his follows of being Burns and was shot dead In a saloon They never knew until the Hunt day of the trial who I was Marshal l McDonald was trying the case I was sitting beside him When Hiilil was on the stand he was asked on cross exmuulnntlon to whom ho had first told the story To n man who called himself Wil hauls he leplled Do you know his true name I understand now that It Is Burns Oh this mysterious Mr Burns How long Is It since you saw him last Just now Is ho here now Yes In this room Mile Is sitting beside you was the answer This was the first that Jim French and the rest of tho gang knew of the part I had taken In tho Investi gation As Hums sat at his desk telling thu story ho had the appearance of a banker explaining a deal In stocks He Is us far from the dime novel de tective as he hi from the wonderful l Mr Sherlock Holmes of Conan DoyJeB novels Chief Wilkio or the secret service once remarked to me said Honey that Burns was a man with a sixth sense who could tell us If by Instinct when a man was telling tho truth and when he had told all he knew My experience with Burns bears this out Once in the Oregon land fraud cases I thought a witness was hold lug something back Burns said he hud told all ho knew and Burns was right At another tlmo I thought witness a had made a complete coufes Mon Burns said Keep at him sure enough the most Incriminating of part his story came out afterward One thing that has surprised In Burns added Langdon is this me He never wastes any time In bluing Every one hero in n tnwn Jnn L automobile But do you think AuUWa If illS ho I wanted you tonight ho would stop a block away and send his machine ne back No sir He would go straight to your door Toot toot and the bell ring Never Wore a Disguise Burns himself has this to say about his work as a detective People seem to think that there is something uncanny about detective work They Imagine we go around disguised in false whiskers and wearing wear-ing blue goggles I never use a die Kulao except a change of clothes But I can take one of my men and let you talk with him then bring him In tomorrow and lot you see him and you would not believe him the same man Here In San Francisco everyone every-one knows meat least all the grafters graft-ers doso it would be useless to I trY a dlsl1ulse u Burns methods all through the Itucf case have been surprisingly open When ho started out to rapture Roof after his friends the sheriff and the coroner had been pretending to search for him In vain for a week Uurns assembled his posse In half a dozen automobiles In front of honeys olllce with Kucfs lawyers offices but I half a block away He had ten men with him but the open way with which he went about the job made I the attorneys for the grafter think It must be all a ruse and no effort was made to follow the party They went straight to the resort at the Troca dero In the outskirts of San Francium co where Burns knew that Ruef was In biding Burns had the house surrounded sur-rounded then he walked In and surprised sur-prised Huef at dinner He bad his man back at Honeys once within three hours Surprising a Drlbe Taker Of huts present work Burns himself days This San Francisco case Is one of the most interesting I have ever had Of course municipal graft cases are all somewhat alike You know who the men are who have got official favors The first thing to do is to single out the official who you think will accept a bribe and then get at him by Inducing him to accept what he thinks is a bribe Of course your money is marked Then you surprise him In the act After that you have him cold Through him you get at the bribegivers When I started In on this work in San Francisco I expected to get after each of the supervisors singly but one of the newspapers got wind of It and published the story how we were working on one man That spoiled spoil-ed things for us and I bad to resort to other methods What Burns had done was to Induce the proprietor of a skating rink who had fallen out with Mayor Schmitz to have an ordinance In his favor Introduced Intro-duced In the board of supervisors Then he arranged to buy the vote of one of them Lonergan by name for 500 Burns was concealed In the room when the marked money was passed Ho pounced forth at the psychological psy-chological moment when Lonergan was taking the bribe Take the money said the trap ped boodler pale as a sheet I am done i for Ill take the money and Ill take you too said Burns With that he scared his man Into a complete con < fesslon Previous to this ho had secured se-cured another confession from one of Lonergans colleagues who was 111 and thought be was about to die A Boodler Trapped With the Inside Information of these two confessions Burns got to work on all the other supervisors They were so scared that the whole 18 came through with a rush When Honey held out promise of ultimate Immu nity every man Jack of them was will Ing to squeal It looked easy All things are easy to those who know how Burns has not been doing detective work for nothing these 20 years Tricks of the Profession But how about the tricks of the profession that one hears so much about T naked Oh yes there are tricks i can let you seal a letter with your seal and I will take It out of tho envelope read It i and put It back and you can not tell that It has been opened In the famous hundred dpllar bill case In Philadelphia I Intercepted a letter to Taylor and Brlddell tire en gravers who had spent 100000 In copying the paper on which the goy ornment monoy Is printed They had begun by countoifelting cigar revenue stamps They made 200000 at that and then branched out into making hundred dollar bills In the letter I opened I found three of tho bills which were being sent to Taylor and Brlddell by Kendig Jacobs cigar merchants in Lancaster Lancas-ter PP with whom they operated I marked the bills replaced thorn In tho envelopes and remallcd the letter let-ter Later when Chief Wllklo and I d went to search Taylor and uiuuun n them under arrest I place and put drawer in their desk I pried open a found two of the three bills I had taken from the letter and marked Wllklo was standing beside moat mo-at the time and I said to him loud enough for the two men under arrest to hear Thats funny Jacobs told us there were three of these bills Brlddell bit at the bait Burns ho Raid how many men have you got under arrest in this case I named every man who was connected con-nected with tho case None of them was under arrest at the time Thats enough for me said find dell We dont make any more trouble trou-ble for you He gave me his full confession on the spot It was opening the letter that did the trick Of course Jacobs had told us nothing Counterfeiters Caught An Illustration of careful detective work Is Burns method In running down two counterfeiters from Central Cen-tral America They were den Freder Ico Mora and Ricardo de Requlsens These two men had been making counterfeits in the United States of I the 100 peso notes of Costa Rico Our government was asked to apprehend the counterfeiters and Burns was entrusted en-trusted with the job Others had worked at It before but all Burns had to start with was a sofa wrapped up In burlap In which 3000000 of the counterfeit notes had been stuffed for shipment to Costa Rica On the burlap bur-lap was tho mark XX 1C34 Starting from this Burns found that the burlap hud been originally used In packing a shipment of overalls from a factory In Newburg It was the shipping number In Newburg Burns wont over the books of the factory and found that those particular ovei alls had been shipped to a dry goods store In Long Island City There they told him that they had recently sold a piece of burlap to an old lady by the name of Mrs Chevlns It did not look promising But when Burns learned that Mrs Chevlns had a son inlaw one Ricardo Ricar-do de Requlsens who hailed from Costa Cos-ta Rica he thought the trail was get tin warm De Requisens was living with a young widow from Plttsburg at the house of his mother Mrs Chevlns Burns placed Do Requlsens and the widow under arrest Then he lie atone at-one of lily inert to the jail with an alleged I al-leged message to the effect that If he would produce the plates i of thocoun lei felt notes the government would abandon his prosecution After the messenger left De Reqtils ens was visited by his motherinlaw When she left him Burns followed her to her home in Long Island City U f r 8s + ers 1 t f I I tI Through a window ho watched I ter the her on I front room take off her hat and place It with a chatetlalne the table bag on Burns looked Into slid Into the house the bag and found there a letter In Its place he put a This dummy was easy as there dress ou the was no ad1 outside of the But this left Burns envelope In the whom It dark as to was meant for Later III I ho Ins afternoon Airs Chev came out and Burns She followed her crossed the army to New and went to Courtlandt York was turning street As she Into a sent one of 113 doorway Burnt Bo careful men to say to her lou are She turned being watcned and left Burns Immediately the entryway entered enough there and sure was Of rouise Burrs an engravers office Gan got tho plates Frederlco and Mora Keqilsouu and Ricardo are lIt > de uerirliig prU ii their terms lu |