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Title: Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Logan, Mary Simmerson (Cunningham), "Mrs. J. A. Logan,", 1838-1923
Subjects: Presidents Executive departments
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., A.D. Worthington & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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hey were men of brains and means.They w^ere also men of good reputations. They had UnitedStates revenue officers in their pay. Never before did theSecret Service more fully realize that it must have in itsemploy only men whom it could absolutely trust, and as thesequel proved it had good men and true in this emer-gency. The problem now was to catch the conspirators withsufficient evidence to lead to their conviction. Detectivesmust si 1 ado w them night and dav without once arousingtheir suspicion, and must spring like a tiger when the timewas ripe. The business of the Philadelphia engravers wTascarried on in four rooms, and the sharp detectives whovisited the place on business noted that the boy in chargeof the front office never passed beyond the second room.AVlien called, one of the proprietors usually came from theinner rooms and only after some delay. The outer officewas locked by a Yale lock, and it was discovered that theoffice boy carried one of the keys. In course of time and
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SKILLFUL DETECTIVE WORK. 287 apparently in an informal manner, one of the detectivesbecame acquainted and eventually quite chummy withthe office boy. Meeting him on the street one night, thedetective saluted him as usual, and after he had passed happened to think, so he told the boy, that a friend ofhis, a theatrical manager, was looking for a few smart boysto take part in an opera. The boy was interested at once.How much would they pay ? The detective named the sal-ary, which was more than the boy was then earning, andthe result was that the lad, brimming over with delight atsuch a fine chance, agreed to come to his friends hotel thatvery evening, so that the manager could look him over andsee if he would do. At the appointed time the boypromptly appeared. The manager (of the Secret Serv-ice) scrutinized him carefully and said he must see him incostume, whereupon he brought out a gorgeous suit withflaming red tights. The boy was more delighted than ever.He was taken to an adjoining r

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