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Show H ; ' Inspector Kincaid, Arch Enemy of the Get-Rich-Qufck Schemers, Says That in Nearly Every Case He Investigated a Woman Was-the ,?'$ m H , t Brains of the Concern Tells of His Experiences with Lowly Yeggs and "High Brow" Crooks '" m B nr, frnnrrisht. 101" bT the New York Ilcnild Go. All rights rcfcrvH.i ., 1 B BT ". VER sinco the authorities nt B I Washington determined to plncc H Tost Offico Inspector E. IT. Kin- B caid in charge of tho fraud cases H under investigation in New York H city and vicinity there has been H something doing in the camp of that H brniid of swindlers who use the Hl mails to dff mud the unwary. That was six years ngo, and as a rc- H Milt of his ctivitles nearly a thou- H sand of these concerns hav been investi- Hf ' piled nnd upwnnl of kcvcd hundred put Hj out of existence. There arc others still Hf thriving, but the net is fast closing about H them nnd their existence, according to the B federal sleuths, is only n question of H week?, or months at most. H But from now on th work will bi in H other bauds. For after twenty years of H aotive service, in which have been crowded H adventures4 of' every possible description, B Kincaid has' tired of tracking criminals' j nnd resigned his post on February 1 last, H to associate himself with his old cronies, H T, M. Reddy and William M. Kotebnm, Hj both tried and seasoned Post Office in- H spectors, who nro now members of the H . Fcdcml Advisory Commission. H Kincaid has trac!:cd and captured H every class of violator of the postal laws Hl from the lowly and vicious yegg to the H fur coated nnd diamond bedecked Wal- lingford who lures millions from an un- H suspecting and confiding public. Every B big mid that has been made here on these H get-rieh-quick artists in the last six yea re B has been engineered and personally con- B . ducted by Kincaid. No man ever left B the-.ostal service with more successful or brilliant record behind him. Iiis work Hj has taken him into every State in the H Union, and he has taken his life in his Bi hands on a number of occasions when he B went where duty called. From tracking Hj down petty postal thieves in tho New H England district his scenes have shifted H to the mountains of Tennessee and adja- H cent States, culminating in his appoint- H ment to the most important office in the en- H tire country, and there becoming the B active head of its most important de- H parlmcut. H ' Some of his experiences read liko dime B novels of the Old Cap Collier type, but H he has facts and figure- to Mibstantialc H every one of them, and his scrap book is Hj n curiosity iu itself. Referring to this H. ) , ' bcrap book Inspector Kincaid said: m "Before I came to New York I used to Hl get all the papers that contained rofcr- H enccs to the cases I worked up. All wcro Hj neatly clipped and pasted in nn orderly H and consecutive fashion in my scrap H book. After I got bury here, however, H on these get-rich-quick cases I found I B didn't havo time to read tho papers, let H alone clip them. And if I had I would H have gone broke buying scrap books to H paste my clippings in." B Scanning some clippings fonnd in an old H crap book Inspector Kincaid broke into H a hearty laugh, saying: H "Here's a queer case. Way back in 1002 H I was working in New England. H "One of the points in my district was H Sherman, Vt., a veritable deserted village. H -There weic only three families living in H the town, a hundred or more having moved H away. The department's records showed H that an unusually heavy number of stamp H -cancellations were reported from this M office, eo many in fact that St entitled the H postmaster, Drury A. Sherman, to .in H annual salary of $1,000. I made a quiet H investigation and ascertained that large H quantities of stamps were ordered each B month by Sherman, and that all were ac- H counted for. That is, his accounts wcro Hl straight, but the stamps were reported H cancelled as well as sold. H "He conducted :i general store, which H was patronized by residents of an adja- H cent village. There weren't enough resi- H dents in his hamlet to justify his open- M ing a shop. By hustling around I found H that Sherman bought and paid for all H his groceries with post ago stamps. lie H would order a biz bill of goods from a H wholesale grocer and pay iu btaiups, H 'These he would report cancelled. His H actual outgoing mail didn't average two H letters a day. In fuct, by closely check- H ing up, I learned that the total business H done by his ofllce for the year was a H shade uudcr seven dollars. Yet that old H ,scump was drawing a thousand dollars a H year salary. It didn't take long to put H him whero he belonged, and that office H was wiped off the map until more busl- H ucss ctimc its way. I neglected to add H that I arrested the old man, and when M 1 reached tho lockup with him, where H he was searched, three fully loaded re- H volvcrs and a box of atrtridges were H found iu his pockets, What he could have H done to mo would have been a shame. H He, looked so meek nnd mild it never H occurred to me to search him when I H placed him under arrest',' , H "Just prior to comiug to New York," Bait B the one -time inspector, ''I was engaged in H running down n number of post office H . frauds in New England. At that time i there was seemingly an epidemic among small town post offices to swindle Uucle i Sam. As in the case at Sherman, Vt , ; these postmnKters, by making a showing of a hig stamp sale and cancellation, not only had themselves advanced a grade in the : postmaster class, hut in some instances succeeded in procuring free delivery for . their respective towns. The maximum . salary for a third class postmaster is $2,000. that for second class is $3,000 and those of the first clnrs go up the scale until 'they receive sums as high as that paid the Postmaster of' New York. "I learned in Boston that a number of merchants were buying stamps in large quantities from the postmasters of surrounding sur-rounding towns, and in many instances at a good discount. In one case I recall tho stamps were sold at ninety-two per cent of their face value. A girl telephono operator opera-tor whom I had pressed into service informed in-formed me one day that the postmaster of a nearby town had been called up by a big fuorcbant of Boston that night and told to come to the city the next day with stamps to the value of $000. Ho was to pny $5S0 for the bunch. "When the postmaster stepped off the train in Boston I was the first to greet 'him. I look him nt once to the post office 'ami there questioned bim. He was amazed when I told him just how many stamps he had in his valise, and even more so when I told him tho name of the firm ho intended to sell, them to. I made him go through with the deal, and when the transaction was consummated I arrested him nnd the merchant too. The postmaster post-master was ran out of the service, but tho merchant escaped conviction. Unearthing Stamp Frauds. "That led to a sweeping investigation, and before we were through with tho Massachusetts postmasters we had reduced re-duced thirty or forty to lower grades, and, furthermore, the government recovered nearly half ft million dollars which it bad paid out in excess salaries due to the stamp frauds." Kincaid recalled another peculiar case in New England. He had been bent to check up the ofllce at Gloucester, Mass. An aged widow was the general delivery and stamp clerk, and she was noted for her painstaking care and general devotion devo-tion to business. Oncp every month, when tho office's affairi were checked, she always remained until the last to assist the postmaster and his nuditor with tho -work. This usually kept them there vntil tho early hours of the morning. "I dropped in to superintend the work this month," said Kincuid, "and soon found thero was a shortage of $173. 'Wo went over the books, cash and stock time and again, but couldn't get the accounts to balance. In one of the compartments was stored the office's stock of postal cards. They were done up in packages of 100 each, and all told there were a million on hand that is, the books showed that many. "We counted the pile up and down nnd all'axound many time3, nnd apparently it was all right. Then an idea seized me. I begau to sort out the pile, and I hadn't proceeded very far when I fouud that instead in-stead of being solid tho pile was hollow, and no one bad had the foresight to un-rack un-rack it and count the individual packages, "Tbo total shortage amounted to $1,300, and the elderly widow confessed after sweating her for three days. She had juggled her accounts from month to month for two years, and that is why she al-ways.remained al-ways.remained on hand to help the audit. She told me she had used tho money to permit her sou, a worthless ne'er-do-well, to mingle in the society he craved. But, poor old soul, that didn't iavc her." Tbltr caso recalled still another in which a woman figured. . '.'Complaints reached the Boston office," Kincaid continued, "from the publishers jofa magazine at Salem, Mass. They declared de-clared that 'letters, containing money for subscriptions, daily failed to materialize, and they were certain It was a post office, or inside job. "I soon had decoy letters deposited at Boston, nnd then I watched the Salem office. of-fice. Nouo of the test letters rcached'tbeir destination. The postmaater's bister was in charge of the delivery department She wns a beautiful girl, ono of the belles of the towu, and her brother reposed the most explicit confidence in her. It wasn't long befoie I knew the little sister was the thief. Then came the showdown, and I a Treated her. "I couldn't search her, so I sent out for two women. I wnntcd to ascertain what had become of tho teat letters abstracted from the inaSI that day One by one she produced ttyc letters five in all which she drew from various hiding places about her ' person. Then she confessed. I went to her rooms, and fouud upwards of .five hundred letters she had rifled. She hadn't 1 even taken the trouble to destroy them. t "In thd course of her confewion she told ( me her father was old 'and ill, and D or- t 'i i ii.j .dcr to provide blni with the little delicacies deli-cacies and luxuries ho crncd she evolved llu schemo of rifling (ho magazine publisher's pub-lisher's mail, well knowing that the majority ma-jority of letters addressed to them con-' tnincd currency." Balked by Three Boys.. "Were you ever uudcr fire?" the report-l er nsked the former inspector. i "Many times," was tho reply. "The first experience of that kind occurred in Tennessee. A post office had been robbedi It was Hack Jn tho iiiountuius, about fiftj miles from Obion, nnd Jeff Loveil, Obion's po!stpjastcr, and I started out on horse -I back to irivptigato. It was a hard trip,' aud wo .duln't 'each our destination until lute that night. , "The next day wc learned that three' boys whej lived like savages In a Hut on tbo mountainside' were suspected. Their, parents had deserted them and they were ckiugJouV'n baic,oxistenco as best they; could. The eldest was less than uiutteen years old.' ' - l'Jefl hnd I diStcrmiiied tt pny them a. visit. Wo approached tho hut, and pus,h- rIMil ivlimil iS I NIkIp III' ul 1 "I Reckon You All Has. Been Here About Enough, and It's Time You Gets Started on Your- Way." v -. i? r ' . ing. opeu'k 'door' found a boy. lying on n buudlo of rogj in a, corner. 'Ho told m ho was suffering from typhoid fever, und he looked it. He- wn? the most pitiable and emaciated object I had ever floeii. "As wc left the hut to lool; about the picnlies another .of the brothers came from behind a barn, lie ihirtcd into the lroiibe, and ini flsh wu puKide again, levelling an old sawed down single' bar-relied bar-relied gun at us. Ho was the eldest ot the trio, and a more determined looking little rascal I never saw. "NeithiT .luff nor I had had tlmo to draw our.guus, so he hnd us dead to rights. "From a safe 'distance Wo questioned' him, but ho" disclaimed all knowledge of the robbery. Me.mwbile h'o kept edging toward us, nnd finally when within three feet of us, I managed to got my pistol out. "As I covered him hq drew a bead on Jeff nnd coolly remarked; 'You cau shoot me as quick as ypu damn please, but if you raise that, gu.fi I'll blow. th(, tpp of Jeff's head -off.' He httd Jeff covered all tho time. r - n "Finally be made1 the-proposition that it I threw my gu llow" i0 tuc, srouuil he would do likewise, and then wo could talk wntters over. I fell fd'it and( tobslug' M ' EL'MER H. KINCAID. iny pistol ns-ldo, ho did likewise Wc chatted chat-ted for about live minutes whqn ft wens-ened wens-ened little voice piped "up and said- "'I reckon'Jyouifill has been here about long i-nongh, and it's time you gets started on yolir waj Now, git, while you got a chance ' "It was the third brother WI19 spoke. Ho was perched oh the limb of a tree un. der .which we we're standing. -He bad a murderous looking'rifle "trained on us, nnd his command was.given in such an iuiperu- ,17 H" ' . . tive tone' of volcelihat we siuuk away as ignominious!' as. possible. - u . '"The second boy,t;n(hcrcd np-hls gun and my. pistol, while Jiis brother 'in . the tree kept) ua.cove'red. Then ho -'sot his r'sick brother 6ut 6f tlicjbouse, and the way the throe of them scuttled away up the mountainside moun-tainside would have made a jack rabbit turn green' with- envy. ' "We had to drivo ten miles before we could renew our stock of firenrmb uud ammunition, am-munition, aud by' the time we returned and took up the search not u trace of the toys could be found. They got away all right, and they made me look like a veritable veri-table amateur, the way they whipsuwed meJ' '' t-f Kincaid! "Jby' this -time, c'ouchfded that he had talked enough about his adventures outside o'tNcw I'brk.'biit h'e conscuied to fell souieUynV of tLc get-rlqh-qufck rni'ds he conducted here. "When I came to New York," said Kincaid, "I know I hud mj work cut out for me. Of course,, like all other inspect ors trnusferrcd to the 'Big Town,' T felt that my big opportunity had come, and I determined to make tho best of it. New York, as wo all know, is honeycombed with graft and grafters, and it lies within with-in the province of the Post Office Department Depart-ment to root them out neck and crop. For tho first few months I did littlo else but familiarize myself with conditions here, nnd what I learnod amazed me. "There were many concerns under fire at that time. While no specified complaint com-plaint had been lodged against many of them, it was known within tho department depart-ment that the majority of them wcro conducting con-ducting theic affairs along Hues thati smacked of fraud 'and swindling. In' nearly every caso I ascertained that in j each concern there w.is a woman who, in 1 reality, was the brains of the outfit. Tho men u,$socla7edj with her wore but tools 1 and they werpJthe Duffers ihcones who must moot and tlceqc the -public while the woman in the case remaiued In tho background and directed op'erations.j Bight then nnd thero T made it a rule e. - when looking over a got-rich-quick concern con-cern to ascertain the nnme of the woman in the case., and this done the rest came easy. A Woman's Revenge. "One of the first cases I was called on to investigate was on a tip that came to mo in 11 peculiar manner. The Mutual Grain Company opened a sumptuous suite ofoillces in Wall street, nnd from the day it opened Its doors its mail was abnormally ab-normally heavy. This in itself aroused suspicion, inasmuch as it isn't customary cus-tomary for a new concern to daily receive re-ceive a batch of mail double in volume that of competitors who havo been established estab-lished in business for yenrs. One of the principals of this outfit came originally from Cincinnati, but, try as I might, I couldn't lay my hands on any circulars or other literature they were sending out that warranted summary action on my part. Suddenly it occurred to me that1 There was n woman in Cincinnati who knew, all the ins and outs of grain con-' corns. whose transactions were more or less shady, o I got in touch with her. , "My lead proved a good one. In a few, days she wrote me telling mo-ull about tho principals in the concern I was shad-j owing", and adding that the scheme vwns, originally Iters', but that ono of the members mem-bers of tho firm had stolen her Idea, put lief out of tho business and opened the New York brauch. In addition to this information she sent quantities of the. firm's circulars and other literature. t "The next day T visited tho Wall street offices anil saw the three members of the concern in one of the private offices. All .were in their shirt sleeves. I scut my card in. by the offlce boy, who nt tlic command com-mand of one of the firm closed the door to the private ofllce. I waited a few minutes, min-utes, and as the boy didn't return I made iny way into the private office. All three bad 'llown the toop,' escaping by another an-other exit, not one of the three , tarrying loilg enough to get his bat and coat. They left towu tho next day, I afterward after-ward learned, and were not heard of again until tbo ship they embarked on touched at Liverpool. But that ended their opera tlous in New York, for I seized Iho book and papers and everything else of value In rh6 office, and thats about all 1 tho creiliton. bad to divide among themselves. them-selves. Ono of the uiumberc of (his con- 1 c6rn committed suicide in Cleveland a few months later. , "I expect the raid on the Burr Brothers' outfit wns ns Important arid tens.itioual as any I pulled off," he said. "Our depart-ment depart-ment had beeu flooded with complnlnts j against this firm, and it didn't; take me long to learn that money was simply pour-1 ing in on them. I tried in many ways to get bold of their literature and at last .xucccdcd. Their prospectuses were as glowing os nnj thing you ever saw, but, of course, cheat and fraud were written between be-tween every line. "It wjs a ca3e of getting busy at once, and it took tnc some time to learn the names of all the principals. I was also handicapped by the fact that the partners 'spent moit of their time travelling, and it was essontinl for our purposes to nrrcst 'all of them at one nnd the $nmc lime. Finally I found a likely young chap who knew the confidential secretary of one of the partners. She wns a pretty girl and was fond of little dinners, the theatre and late suppcrr. It was while supping with tnjs chap that she told him where the partners were. Both Sheldon C. and E. H. 13nrr ierc in New York. Preston Burr was somewhere on tba Pacific slope, supposedly sup-posedly in Spokane, while C. II. Toboy, another partner, was in 'Michigan visiting visit-ing relatives at their farm. I We pot the wires busy. TVc tipped off th Spokane inspectors nnd ordered others I from Portlaud fo stnrl toward Spokane I in, the event of our bird flying away. In-1 In-1 spectors also started out from Nevada, I and as it turned out our precautions were wisely taken, for Preston did jump from Spokane and was caught in Portland. Tobey was caught at the farm and B. II. Burr we gathered in at his office, together with his books and all the records in the case. Sheldon we found in the parlors of n Christian ocicnec reader, where be was engaged in n very earnest discussion with her So we got them all and at virtually tho same time. "That firm cleaned np more than five million dollars In their scheme nnd sold upward of $30,000,000 of stock. Their victims came from .all parts of the country, coun-try, and for a time they had a bonanza. As their clerks told us, the victims simply clamored for the stock, so alluring was tho literature which coaxed their savings from the banks." The biggest nnd most glaring steal ever perpetrated in New York, according to Mr. Kincaid, was that of Dos Estrcllos Mining and Development Company. This outfit was composed of Louis Prince, long known as the bucket shop king; J. Walter ia-baree, ia-baree, who once fnlled for half a million dollars when he was running a chain of bucket shops and George W. Emmanuel, Prince jumped his $0,000 bail nnd Is now Ining in Pnris, getting rich from hia moving picture concessions In Spain. La-baree La-baree got two years in the Atlanta Prison and Emmanuel was sentenced to n ycai nnd three months In the "pen," but is oul pending an appeal, "Our attention was first directed tc this concern by the nvalancho of mail that poured ia on it each day. It wns n concern new to us and the big mail if was receiving sent me scurrying aboul to get hold of inside information. Some of the incoming mail we intercepted, nut, try as wo might, none who wrote sub. scribing . to the stock would heed 0111 warning or send us the prospectus they had received. Salted Mine Scheme. "In about a week I ran across a mac who had onco been in Trince's employ and who was later turned down by the bucket shop king. I knew he had a nidge ngainst his old employer, so I asked him if he knew anything about the concern. . " 'It's a salted mine scheme nnd even worse than that,' he said. 'That hunch dug a little hole in the ground about eighteen eigh-teen feet square near u stamping mill n( Tiixco, Mexico, a'hey had photographs taken of the hole and from these enlargements enlarge-ments were made which gave the impression im-pression of a mine of fair proportions. They also made photographs of a flourishing flourish-ing .stamping mill which was in full blabt not far away, and this they represented as being their own. On top of this, the Mutual Trust Company of Mexico was 1 Incorporated, which concern, the prospectus pros-pectus said, had guaranteed the stock of the mining company, on which the promoters pro-moters claimed to pay two per cent a month dividends. The stock was further guaranteed, according to the circulars, by Speycr & Co.. of .Moxh'o. This name was so similar to that of the New Yqrk bankers that the unsuspecting public foil for it without a quibble and stock is selling sell-ing like hot cakes.' "This information came so pat and wns" so startling that I was stunned. We immediately sent. Inspector Hamilton Hamil-ton to Mexico, while J camped on the trail of the promoters here. Meanwhile I procured a sqt of their, literature and learned that all my informant had told mo was true. All the time letters were pouring in on tho promoters, and from a clerk on the inside, whom I had won over, I found that they were getting money and checks in every mail and that already thoir receipts ran close to a million. "Within a week Hamilton Reported. It wn8 even worse than, my informant had represented things. The little hole lu the ground hadn't 11 semblance of ore Iu it, and the photograph of tho stamping stamp-ing mill was of one belonging to another concern. The trust compauy had no assets, and its headquarters consisted of J a tiny room In an obscure building in a back street. "With this information at hand we knew it, was time to proceed, so wo got busy. We hadn't the faintest idea that Labareo was in auy way connected with tho concern, as we had thought he was employed by tho Quidbo Gold Dredging Company. Wc made our ra(d late one Saturday afternoon, and as wc swooped down on the olfices. taking Prince and '. Emmanuel into custody, Labareo came 1 strolling in. We thought if best to tuke 1 him along, too, although he dcchirqd ho was a customer of the concern, Later 1 vyo found out he wns as deep in the mire I is. thq,ret, so he was 4bcld for trial and 1 convicted witji tho others 1 ,,','An amusing' feature of tho raid was 1 the number of young women who came 1 to Post Otllce headquarters later, seek- M ing letters they had written Trincc, They H had learned that all tin mall, together with tho private papers, had been seized, H and they were anxious to get their let- 1 tors back, if they were still in existence. From the nunilicr of callers and the ( number of letters of that character we H found it was easy to assume that Prince 1 kept up nn interesting and animated cor- M respondence with n acorc or more of H mighty pretty young women." M Just about two years ago the post office H at Richmond. Vn., was robbed of cash fl and stamps to the value of ?90.000, The K JM inspectors got busy and ascertained that -JfJI three yeggmen had ojened three safes in ill the ofllce by what is known as the "plunge and squeeze" method. They further M learned the stopping place of the three H cracksmen while in Richmond and that JH three trunks had been shipped from their M (hotel the morning, after the robbery. Of H course inspectors all over, the country B wero instructed o he on the lookout for l the yeggs and their baggage, and Kincaid l hlid O'Crien. the latter recently trans- jM ferred from Now York to Chicago, were (H detailed (o take care of the New York end. In telling about this case, Kincaid i said; "O'Brien nnd I got the first tnngl- H ble clew that the yeggs either were in New H York or expected to arrive when we found two of the trunks, which had been shipped H by a circuitous route Trom Richmond, ' here. By impersonating baggagemen at jH the Ponnsylvnuia Station wo kept con- tH stant watch over the truuks, and as one 1 wns transferred on an order to the Grand rjH Central Station I followed it, while H O'Brien mounted guard over the other jjB one. Late the same afternoon the second B trunk came to the Grand Central, followed jB by O'Brien, nnd then -wo laid around for 'Bi the owners or whoever should call for '7Hl them. Wc had searched both, and they l were filled with stamps. ' JfH Have Varied Experiences. 74W "Well, to make a long story short, we uB located two of the yeggs at a hotel in fV Loxingtou avenue and Thirtieth street, 1H- whore they had registered as Frank dies- 'hB ter and Ferd Cunningham. Chester wns Bj, better known as Charles J. Adams. Later K that evening Chester called at the Grand H Central Station for his trunks. He sent H I a boy iu with the checks while he waited H outside in an automobile. Detective Joe H Dailey, disguised a J a baggage smasher, l followed the trunks out and seized Chts- I H ter. Just then Cuuningham, who was 9 ; approaching from a side street, saw the j H ' I scrap and took to his heels. O'Brien and jH I were after him and soon overhauled him H J The third man and the third trunk wo ' I got later, nnd that solved one of the big- I ' gest post ofllce robberies In recent yean." 3 H ;. The experiences of a post office inspec- IB I lor nre quite as varied as those of Secret H r Sen-ice men and their investigations fIB cover a wide range of crimes and offence? iB r Kincaid relates an experience he had 'IB r : shortly after coming to New York, nnd by iB a strange coincidence some of those con- JB i corned in the case were daughters of old IB i,-, I friends at his boyhood home at Corry, Pa. SS r I "It seems that a newspaper at Wheeling, IkH ' W. Vn.," said the inspector, "started a ISSu correspondence chain among its young girl IK ! readers. The Idea proved very popnlar. IS? H I and scores of young girls began correspond- JR' ' ' Ing with other girls they had never heard r 1 of until they beenme acquainted through J the columns of this newspaper. At about y ' 1 this time a man by the name of Fred U 1 crick L. Stockford, who w.is travqlling J- " through tint country for a New York W firm, got into this correspondence game, JHj 1 aSMtming a girl's name, and before long ; M was in correspondence with a dozen or V nore yo.ung girls. As the correspondence ' tv- .ft ripened this supposed girl told each of her J 7. .girl friends about a nice uncle she had in j Now Yorlr who often visited that part of p, 'fho country and that she wanted her new Artl found friends to meet him when he next 'j enme South. She ndded that she would -tim give bim letters of introduction to hei .'j&Ef new friends. ei? "The scheme worked out according to -" schedule, and the "uncle," Stockford. ar- &". rived upon the sccno In due course of tlme, presented his letters of introduction fisT-and fisT-and met the youug girls. Some were lip ' more confiding and guileless than others, I 5,"' and teveral of them left their homes and I fc' came to New York. Others who remained 1 " J at homo had reason to, regret to their. 1 ( dying day ever having met the New York f 1 "uncle." "" I 5tlh I "The .rostmastor-aCorry, Pa., wrote I 9 I me about the.,cuso and I started au in- I '' vestigation.. Tt wasn't 'lon before I had a tfLTx Stockford in tho toils and the names of 3 vl , about a dozen- yotfag girls, none more 1 kil than sixteen years, old, whom ho had . . f lft duped. There, was so much indignation "31 Stover St-over the caseihat wo knew if we took 71 ' 8 2 him South for trial he would,, in all prob- - 4--. ability, have been lynched within forty- .'t. eight hours after bis arrival in the midst ''Vfe of that outraged it of fathers. He was i-Jjjr tried here In -New York and is now round- 'liT ing out his seven years' term iu the poni- L -. tentinry. IIo was one of the most de- l qY J praved and unblushing bcoundrels it over .' IPec; fell to my lot to run to earth." v'-- Before coucludiug his interviow Kin- ilHlei caid remarked that the greatest hand!- ? c Cap po&t olfico inspectors labor under in I New York is the political pull eo many I 8, J criminals enjoy here. fcfc,. "Thero have bcun numbers of cases I : worked" on," he i-aid "where I had my " p-, evidence pat and I was all ready to land , Jg my umn when a stop order would come j, "' and I would be assigned -to some other frij e case. After a lapse of a weck.or,sjo 1 -Ulji h would resume work on my original cafe AfC' JV to Dud that my bird bad flown, or-elso he Wli had quietly shut up j,hop and j-tarted in 'ftj w'h some other business. The average get J J1 enrich en-rich quick artist starts out with pockets "Wfen well lined and he spends hi? money ,;di- s?Vtllfari 2iously. Result is he has made powerful , -335 friends, and when wa get him with the , !L joods on him some of these influences $ w Jiunifcst themselves and our suspect is flflKlT illqwed to -fade away from sight." jj .Vniui |