NEST OF ANARCHY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 27, 22 June 1914, Page 6

NEST OF ANARCHY.

A PRIVATE DETECTIVE'S SKillY. In his remarkable -book "Tlie Masked War" (Hodder and .Ston<-'!iton) Mr. William J. Burns dew-ii'ibesi Iris visit to Home Colony, Taeona. Here, lie -ays, is "tlie nest' of Anardhy in the. United •States. Tliore are about 1-200 of thorn living there without any regard for a single decent thing in life. They exist in a state of free love, are notoriously unfaithful to the mate?! thus chosen, and are so crooked that even in this class of rogues there docs not seem to be any hint of honor. The. colony did have a pd;t of lice, but when Mc-Kiii-ley was assassinated the people of this community gave a celebration of the event ending in a debauch. The {Government took the post office away from them. They do ifliarc. towevar, in the rural free delivery, but the ordinary business of Anarchists is of such a nature that before depositing or receiving a letter, as we later found' out, all kiml\ of precautions are taken to present an outsider getting hold of any communication."

In five years from 11)05 to. HIM) the Labor dynamite outrage" '-» Wie United Slates, says Mr. Hums, caused She death of at least 100 person;. At the Los Angeles Times Office £1 persons were killed. The criminals were run to earth by -Mr. Burns, who is himself the head of a private detective agency. lie 'believes that it is probable 'that the vast majority of American working men, including members of the Union of International] Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, were ignorant that the crimes were committed in their eaiHc. ■Mr.- Hums tracked the Peoria explosion by M.iwdust: - some of this' was found near the explosion. Then the detective took a sample to a. place .20;) miles away, w-lu re J.ie bcilicved the dynamise was obtained. There he found sawdust of the same coarseness and same wood. He followed up the clue and secured 'hi* men. Criminalm .alwavs leave a "track'' behind, he holds. The author still receives threats from -mica light dynamiters. Politics, he shows,, cm-runt the American police in certain 'States so that Ms work of crime detection wan hampered by those who politically oppo-ed him at Los Angeles. At out' time his employers were induced by political pressure to cut off 'his supplies. But he went on just the same at his own charge until he ran the McN'amaras, at any rate, to earth. In Wisconsin Woods hi| own men were disguised as huntci's and trappersseeking human game all the time. Tu fact, they became parties in a gang which included the very men they were after, men who could 'shoot so straight that they could roll a tomato tin' along by meri'l;.- firing at it.