NOT SO SIMPLE AS HE LOOKS
America’s great detective, William I. Burns, who has tho New York police scandal in hand, is the son of a tailor in Ohio, and himself began life as a cutter. He was the best man in tlio Secret Service before lie started an agency of his own (says the “Chronicle”), and was immediately employed bv tlio largest single client in the world, the American Bankers’ Association, to protect its twelve thousand banks. Burns lias the invaluable asset in the detective business of not looking like his job. He is stout, florid, and prosperous-looking, 'with a candid ear that hides concentrated reasoning powers, amounting to imagination. Hence bis preference for a clever criminal. .“Deliver me from working against a fool.” he says. Even imagination cannot help one to reason like a fool.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3660, 23 October 1912, Page 3
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137NOT SO SIMPLE AS HE LOOKS Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3660, 23 October 1912, Page 3
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