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Great Cases of Detective Burns By William J. Burns
THE AMATEITR DETECTIVE
LATE in the summer of 18 , as an
operative in the United States
secret service, I was following the
trail of a counterfeiter who had been
i '-suing $20 notes; and the aeent had
l come se warm tnat I expected to
make an arrest within a few days.
ut I was stopped in the pursuit bv
.. telegram from Washington orderiug
i ie to D , to meet a man named
lit us say) Fidd. who had an "impor
tant case" for me. I wired back to
v. ashington a plea of imminence and
"rsencj in the matter in hand. The Or
el, rs mere repeated. So 'I detailed a
man to pick up the counterfeiter's trail
where 1 had dPOPPed it and I took the
train to D in a cold fume of re-
btntment against Fidd.
I knew all that there was to know
about Fidd. Some years ago before.
J'idi had been soliciting: business for
- pr.oto-engraver whom the govern
u . nt agents suspected of having made
lates to print a counterfeit note. Fidd
i id secretly assisted the authorities.
ie had cooperated confidentially with
the secret service in proving his em
l 'jjer guilty; and he had impressed
innself with the idea that he had
t "wn a noticeable ability in the work.
He had since become an amateur de
ctie. without pay, operating by the
j 'ng distance deductive method on
' er case that appeared in the news
papcrs, specializing in the literature
of crime and the arm-chair study of
current "murder mysteries," and send
ing unsolicited advice and misinfor
Tnation to Washington whenever the
appearance of a new counterfeit was
reported in the press dispatches.
He had inherited a little money, in
tl t shape of two town lots, and he
had married a little more, in the per
v,m of a plump widow. With her as
sistance, he had set ud an office in
I ' as a real estate dealer, insurance !
solicitor, typewriter agent, and notary
public, with his desk in the window
f a plumber's shop of which he was
the landlord and his wife keeping
house upstairs on the experience and
the furniture of her previous marriage.
The latlew.
He was a very shrewd looking.
small man, with what is called a
hatchet face;" and he believed in pay
ing a good price for the material of
his clothes and having them made by
a cheap tailor, so that he was always
dresseo. in the enduring shabbiness of
misfits He wore blue-pal neckties.
I remembered him as hkvin- watery
blue ejes, like skimmed milk. As a
matttr of fact, his eyes were brownish
gray It was the necktie that put the
blue into my recollection of them.
Ker notice that about a necktie?
There was a story in the plumber's
snop that his wife had said he had
right pert little legs;" and it de
scribed them picturesquely. He wore
bicycle clips on his ankles, and stood
with his heels together, his knees
tight, and his calves curving out be
hind him "like the blade of a sickle."
Jt gave him the pertness of a sparrow,
.!! if he were about to hop. But there
the resemblance ended. He never
hirped. he was never cheerful, pub
nci. and his silence was extensive
. nough to cover all the confidential
ir formation In the archives of the
t cret service.
That silence was part of his acquired
equipment as an amateur detective; no
ore could ever have found out what
iue he was concealing. Parenthet
call the first thing a. detective has
t" be is a busy talker.
I had a deep feeling for Fidd the
ft fling that a fire chief has for a "buf
falo ' with a police badge, that the j
stage manager has for the student
of dramatic literature seeking "experi
ence," that the worried professional al
ways has for the instrusive amateur.
Fidd was a public spirited citizen. It
was understood that he knew how to
make money and save it. His wife
could not have been more proud of
him if he had been her infant prodigy.
He was admired even by the plumber.
There was only one thing the matter
with him. He was a blamed nuisance.
Htfra, Ge to Fidd.
I arrived in D in the afternoon.
left my satchel at the brick hotel
across the road from the railway
station, and found Fidd in his office,
writing a letter, as an insurance solic
itor, on the typewriter for which he
was the local agent.
He arose with the greatest "presence
of mind when he recognized me. The
piece o property that you want to see."
he said, in a voice to reach the plumber,
who was busy smearing himself with
red lead in the back of the shop, "is
abojut a mile'n' a half out the Sutton
ville road. We'll drive."
He had evidently rehearsed this
speech, in preparation, nd carefully
acted out in his mind an exact per
formance of how he was to proceed.
He had that look in his face the look
of an attention directed inward with
his eyes fixed on my chin.
"What is It?" I asked, "What 've
you been wiring about?"
He turned hastily to the door. I fol
lowed him impatiently. He explained
in a low tone, addressing the opposite
side of the street. "We'll be safer in
the buggy. There's no one kin over
hear y' in a buggy, see? Wait till 1
hitch her up." And he hurried off
with his head down.
It was the market street of D on
which I waited, and it was enjoying its r
afternoon nap. A farmera wagon stood j
was perking around in the cobble
stones of the, dry gutter. A grocer
across the road came out, in his apron,
and picked two cabbages from a pile on
a window bench, and thoughtfully
turned over a cantaloupe to conceal
a sore spot and went back in again.
I looked at my watch, as a man will
when everything else seems to have
stopped. I was anxious to get back
to my counterfeiter before the chase
ended, so as to be in at the arrest.
When Fidd drove out from a nearby
alley, with a flat footed mare strapped
to a shabby top buggy, I gagged with
exasperation at sight of him. I made
up my mind then that if he had
brought me there to tell me any ghost
atory !
A Talk is a Basrgy.
I clambered intp the buggy. Fidd,
with whip and reins, agitated the mare
into a bone-shaken trot. We rattled
down Market street, across the iron
bridge into open country; and the
horse relapsed into a chronic 'walk and
Fidd began his story.
Before it was more than well begun.
I had pushed my hat back from my
forehead, puckered one eye thought
fully for a moment, and formed my
"theory" of what was going to happen
to Fidd. I had also come to the be
lief that Fidd would not allow himself
to be saved from the path of disaster,
and there was in me hope that one
might be able to advise Fidd vainly
what he ought to do, and then with a
clear conscience stand aside and watch
circumstances avenge professional pa
tience on the headstrong ignorance of
the amateur.
I had pushed back my hat -when Fidd
was relating how one of the men who
had been implicated with his old em
ployer, the photo-engraver In the
counterfeiting which Fidd had helped
to expose had recently returned to
D , and met Fidd on the street,
and hailed him as a friend without
suspecting that Fidd had been In any
way responsible for his conviction.
"Are you sure of that?" I asked.
"Sure o' what?"
"Sure that he doesn't suspect vour
"Sure's you're born," Fidd gloated.
"I'll tell you why. He's offered to let
me in on a new game with 'm."
"I see," I said.
"Yes'r. He's round here under the
name o' Davis, an' he's got $2500 in
counterfeit bills, an he wants to sell
'tm to me for $150. Giddap!
"He's a-scared to cire'late it himself,
'cause he's a-scared that you fellers
are watchin' him. iee? So he'll sell it to
me fer what he can get. He wanted
$600. an' I beat'm down xo?250, so's to
look natural, so's he wouldn't suspicion
me. I be'n play in' 'm. Giddap. Dolly.
"I got the whole story. ItTs some o'
me money tnat tney made th' other
time, an' its be'n buried under a pita--ta-bin
in a cellar
"Have you seen it?"
"No, sir. He's too foxy to carry it
round on 'm. But he says it's goqd
lookln' money, an I needn't take it if
I don't like the look of it when he
passes It over. I needn't pay fer it; I
kn Jive it back to him an' keep my
"When is he to bring it to. you?"
Fidd Hears Harsh Ceiffimeat.
"He ain't goin' to bring it. That's
where he's foxy agen. Giddap, girl! 1
got to go down to J tomorrah af
ternoon, an' meet him at th" American
house, an close the deal. That's why
I telegraphed fer you. I gotta have
some one make th' arrest. Now here's
the way I wanta handle it."
"You're sure that he has counterfeit
money?"
Well, that's what I be'n tellin' you.
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whole story: I drawed it ont'
"How did you draw it out?"
"Why, I kep' quiet an' let him talk,"
Fidd explained, with pride. "I didn't
say nothin' to give myself away. I
played "m along good an' plenty. I got
the whole story."
"Well," I announced my decision,
"you're about as much a detective as
that horse in an antelope. I'm not go
ing to waste any time with you. 1
wen't go to J tomorrow, unles you
do as I tell you."
This was so sudden a blow to self
complacency that Fidd staring at me
in hurt amasement even pulled up the
mare.
"You're a Joke." I said. "You
wouldn't know a counterfeiter If vm
J found one in your porridge. Go ahead;
I what are you stopping here for?"
" wcuv Kuct&u. Riue, out seii-con-
j once that I was jealous of him that I
1 wanted to get the credit of arresting
I his counterfeiter, and intended to fix
I things in my way so that he wouldn't
s-i a. crance to iigare in the case at
all.
Fidd swallowed hard. "Well,' he
said, "I don't purtend to be a purfes
sional detective, but I got this feller
Davis so's we kin ketch 'm with the
goods on 'm, an' I ain't goin to fight
abcutTiow it's done, neither. There
ain't no call -"
"In the first place," I directed,
"you'll not take any more money with
you than you'll need to pay your rail
way fare."
"There ain't no call fer to
"In the second place, you'll not agree
to meet him anywhere but in a room
in the hotel, and I'll have the adjoin
ing room. Then, when he hands over
the money, you look through It and
make sure that the check lettem an
the bills are the same on all of them.
And. if they are, you take a fit of
coughing, and I'll come in and arrest
him. Do you understand?"
-on, 1 understand all right. You
think "
"Never mind what I think. You do
exactly what I tell you and you'll save
yourself a lot of trouble. Turn that
beast around and drive me back. What
train do you take to J V
"The 2:10."
"Does Davis know?"
"I guess he oughta. He told me to
take it."
"Well, do what he told you. Register
at the American house. I'll get the
room next to yours. Don't try to speak
to me in J .
He'll have some one trailing you. Let
me out at the bridge here. If I have to
walk. I don't need to be escorted by a
horse."
Burns and Fidd Take a Journey.
The 2:10 to J was an "accom
modation" train of uncomfortable day
coaches. It was hot and dusty, and full
of flies, and children eating bananas,
and impatient mothers and fat mn. It
seemed to me to move as slowly as
Fidd's mare. I yiped at a einder in
my eye, and added each fresh discom
fort to my debt to Fidd.
And Fidd some seats Jn front of me,
as excited as a child on an "excur
sion." hung out of the window eagerly,
audited the time table by comparison
with his watch at every stop, and
jumped up continually to reduce the
fever of his restlessness with ice wa
ter from the cooler. He looked fur
tively at me each time as he returned
to his seat. I remained stonily oblivi-
J- was a little "Jerk-water" rail-
road junction that sold supplies to a
neighborhood of prosperous farmers
and called itself the "Forest City" be
cause it had so many shade trees on its
streets. It was proud, too. of its lawns
It displayed a sample of them, beside
the railroad station, in a patch of grass
big enough to make a background for
the name of the town done in white
washed round stones.
I could read. I felt that Fidd might
have given me credit for so much edu
cation, and omitted the backward
glances with which he signaled that I
naa arrivea. 1 was loitering in my seat
purposely, to let Fidd go on without
me, for I had seen a suspicious looking
man in the station doorway watching
the passengers alight. But Fidd stuck
in the door of the -car, looking anxious
ly over his shoulder: and to get him to
proceed I had to take up my satchel
and follow.
I overtook Fidd at the foot of the
car steps, where the amateur detective
had paused again, on the lookout for
the counterfeit. He was blissfully un
aware of the man in the doorway
watching him. I rammed him from be
hind with my satchel, and brnahnd htm
aside wittw-the impatience of a perfect
stranger, and the man in the doorway,
stepping out to accost Fidd, let me
pass without noticing me. A glance
was enough to assure me that this man
was a confederate. I hurried off to the
American house in order to arrive there
nrst.
Fidd Xeeto the Confederate.
The American house in the person
of Its proprietor received me as a
commercial traveler indifferently, with
a grunt in reply to my explanation
that I would only register for supper,
because I did not know whether or not
I would spend the night in J .
I entered myself as "W. J. Burke."
so that Fidd might recognise the initials.
The proprietor retired into the bar
room and left me to dispose of my bag
myself. I put it behind the desk, and
found myself conspicuous in the pres
ence of empty chair, exnectam euani-
dors. and the plate glass of the front
window of the hotel "office." I went
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the street, and sauntered back toward
me station to "pick up Fidd.
The confederate was with him. and
Fidd came along with his chin on his
necktie, watching the street alertly un
der his eyebrows, and giving an atten
tive ear to the confidences of his in
tended victim. I stepped into a drug
store to let them go by. Fidd, in pass
ing, 'Signaled to me secretly to follow
them, pointing ahead with a protrud
ing thumb at the level of his hip. I mas
tered a desire to come out and kick
him.
They turned out of the business
street into Maple avenue, and led me
several blocks west to chestnut street,
where they stood talking on the cor
ner, r-iaa naa nis hands behind him.
Both his forefingers were pointing
own at the board walk under his
heels. I understood the signal to mean
mat, in spite of instrutions. Fidd was
arranging to meet his counterfeiter on
that corner. I felt sorry for Fidd.
The confederate had noticed the pass
erby on the opposite side of the street,
but I was innocently looking for a
house number: and. when I found It,
I turned up the pathway to a scroll
work cottage and rang the doorbell. By
the time I had learned that no one by
the name of Urquhart lived there or
was known to be in the neighborhood
Fidd and his "steerer" had turned
back.
A Xetwage From the Amateur.
I reached a cigar shop and "pool par
lor opposite the American House in
time to see them arrive at the hotel.
and I spent the next two hours watch
ing them. When they sat down to sup
per, I went to make my own meal at
a neighboring bakeshop, with an apple
from the Krocery for dessert It is one
01 me iuaiicauons or a modern de
tpotive that he shall be able to eat out
of hi- hand.
"T 'ri-rinil rrinltiin- itr inst ViA
promise of laughter to come with the
progress of events.
It was almost dusk when the pair is
sued from the hotel aga n. and Fidd
hung back and looked up an-I down the
street so anxiously that I made myself
conspicuous by crossing the road. Fidd
immediately smuggled an envelope from
his pocket and wlpwased n behind
rim. ihe fool hadn"t sense enojgh to
Kave it at the hotel desk for "W. .T.
Bt.rka." . vj
I bought a newspaper, passed Fidd
briskly, caught the letter from him
against the newsuawr mH wnt
ahead of them, still "shadowing" them,
Ull they turned into a livery stable.
Then I stepped into a convenient gro
cery store and read the letter It had
been scribbled on the back of the en
velope: Corner of Maple and Chestnut,
9 p. m. We drive past. Be there. Won't
come to hotel."
IlurBK Makes a Parehaise.
"What can I do for you?' the grocer
asked.
I blinked at him. "What did you sayT"
"Something for you?"
"Oh," I consulted the envelope as if it
had been a shopping list. "Yes; she
wants half a peck of apples, a quar
ter's worth of granulated sugar, a
pound of English breakfast tea. aad a
a market basket oh. a market has-
ket. Put them in the basket and Tit
take them with me. '
I saw Fidd and the confederate drive
past. When I came out df the grocer's
door, I had the basket on my arm and
my hat on the back of my head, and
I was on my way to carry my belated
purchases to a house near the corner of
Chestnut street and Staple avenue.
I luareed that basket 11 n nnH 4m
the side streets till nearly nine, eating
the apples and blessing Fidd. Thre
was a storm coming one of the vpnt
storms I remember and it settled
down itno a pitch-black night. I had
seen that there -was a hedge in front
of the house on Fidd's corner, and I
planned to get behind the bushes and
lie in wait for anything that hap
pened. The Man Vnder a Tree.
I came down Chestnut street with
the basket. The hedge was there all
right, and so was our man waiting
under a tree, in the snadows from the
street light. I passed him, with the
basket, and turned into th third erta
from the corner, and started haek
across lots to get In behind him.
There was a noisy dog took after me
on the first lawn., and It got in on my
leg while I was trying to climb over a
little picket fence to the next lawn, aad
I bad to beat it off -with the market
basket, and the blamed cur barked fit
to raise the dead. Some one opened a
door, and I dived under the hedge and
lay low. If I had had Fidd there, I'd
have fed him to that dog. limb by
limb.
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and listened in the doorway a while.
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out, to make myself less noticeable on Land then went into the house again.
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1 couia see tne man on the corner
inrougn a tnin place in the bushes. He
hadn't paid any attention to the dog.
apparently. He was still waiting, lean
ing against tne tree.
When he heard wheels coming up
the street, he took out what looked
like false whiskers from his pocket
and slipped them under his chin and
drew down his hat. The rig pulled
right up in -front of us. with Fidd and
the confederate. My man stepped out
and climbed in. and the confederate
gave the horse a cut with the whip,
and before I could get through the
bushes they were off down the road
at full tilt. I ran a block after them,
but. of course, that was useless. There
was nothing to do but go back to the
hotel and wait.
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The whole affair had been an exas- '
perating fiasco, and I waited in the
hotel "office," glowering at my news
paper and swallowing my wrath until
the thunder storm burst. It came with
a torrent of rain and a small whirl
wind. I looked out at the drenched
street swimming In a driven downpour,
and suddenly I began to laugh. The
idlers In the hotel office turned to stare
and grin at me. The proprietor came
over to me smiling expectantly.
"What's the Joke?"
I thrust the paper at him. "Here." I
chuckled: "read that. I'm going to bed.
Give me a room."
dark, fully dressed except for shoes
dark, fully dresse dexcept for shoes
and coat, chortling at the roar and
fury of the storm while the men in
the office down stairs were still hunt
ing through the pages of the newspa
per for the joke that had prostrated
me.
Tou see. I had figured out that Fidd's
counterfeit! rs weren't counterfeiters at
oil Ktit rfipfii'rncii mpn Thi-v TH.-n.Tl t p1
I tn coax Fidd off b himself "with his
' J"0 anil sr' t it am from him 'with
11 ii nipt ' t'ie 'ST ne i"l"! ruieo jranip That s
vague 1 TMiy I UlJ bim nut tu brln any r Nny
with him. And that's why I wanted him
tA mslr. tttAvn MnA tA th hnt.l mH
why I warned him to look at the
check letters on the supposedly ooun- j
terfeit money because, unless it 'was j
counterfeit, the cnecx letters would
be different o ndifferent bills.
He hadn't done anything that I told
him, except that he had come without
his $250. I was picturing what would
happen to him, out there In the rain,
when those two crooks found that he
had been bluffing them that he had
not brnu?hf his HtAftAV with him!
The Return of the Amateur.
My picture materialized in the early,
drizzling dawn, when Fidd made his
way back to the American House with
the aid of the town marshal He had
lost his hat, his coat, and one of his
shoes. The other was on his foot; but
the laces had been cut and he dragged
his foot in it gingerly. One trouser
leg had been spilt to the knee. His
collar was gone and his pale-blue
necktie hung down between his shoul
der blades. His shirt had been torn
cpen in front, and he held up his trou
sers by the waistband as he walked.
He was mud from his heels to his hair,
smothered in it. and as wet as if he
had been dragged from a fish pond.
Where the rain had washed him, he
showed blood and bruises. One eye
was swollen shut. An ear was skinned.
His nose had been bleeding.
Summoned by the proprietor in his
night clothes, I found this amazing
wreck of a man huddled shivering in a
chair, smearing feebly at his muddled
face with a torn shirt sleeve, and try
ing to get his stockinged foot up on
the rung of his chair out of the pool of
cold water that had dripped from hint
on the floor. He looked up at me pa
thetically. "You were right. Mr.
Burns." he said, almost with dignity.
"Tou were right. I am no detective."
And. with that, he began to weep.
I helped him upstairs, rolled Mas in
a blanket, and put him to bed. The
proprietor brought him a drink from
the bar. The marshal went for a doctor.
While we were waiting for tne phy
sician to diagnose his bruises, he toM
his story with his teeth chattering.
The two men had driven him out into
the country, in spite of his protests, and
when they had arrived at darkness and
desolation they demanded his money.
He said he had none. They tried to
seareh him. and he fought. They
dragged him from the carriage, bent
him until he begged for mercy, and
then stripped him to find whore ho
had his $254 concealed.
If the storm had not Interrupted
them they would probably have left
htm naked. As it was. they had
searched him to the skin, and when
they had satisfied themselves that he
was penniless, they had relieved their
disappointment by giving him another
beating and had driven off at full speed
in tne rain with most of his clot ho.
What FM4 Hada't ThoHgkt Hf.
When vou ico after criminals vou're '
not hunting Jaik r.ibhits u""-. iivmi;
to eut h pom th'nir more diner r u:
thin an iM h to 'h. is Fill
ladnt th..u,'u if It Tie tnd tin ,
usual liri that -nhn cu r in iun
your man you slap him on the wrist
and say "Tag!" And he says: "WeU,
I'm it How did yon know?" And then
you sit down and tell him how you did
it. And he says: "You're a wonder.
You've made me look like i cents.
Please let me hide my mortification In
the nearest Jail."
As a matter of fact, they hadn't in
jured Fidd seriously. They had dono
him good. They had cured him of the
delusion that he was a detective. The
doctor patched him up. and I took h in
back to D i I never heard of hl-n
afterwards. And I don't think the
secret service ever did.
(Copyright, 1913, by W. J. Burns.)
People who lament that they are not
appreciated would generally he worse
off If they werfc
I V!M.V4R,
m
IP "ATLAS WERE OJCEHRTH
HE WOULD IEC0!1rieNDJfew
TRTIT. IT I? LIQUID SUNSHWE.
IT IS WHAT YOU WNT TO PROMOTE
STRENGTH.
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