on his fiancee at her father's house. He spent the night at
his own boarding place. Next morning (Sunday) he was
arrested on his way to church, and all the securities (except
some that he later returned) were discovered in his room.
More quick work! The amateur's method had been very simple.
He knew that the loan had been made and the bonds sent to the
bank. So he forged a check, certified it himself, and
collected the securities. Of course, he was a bungler and
took a hundred rash chances.

A good example of the value of the accumulated information
--documentary, pictorial, and otherwise--in the possession of
an agency was the capture of Charles Wells, more generally
known as Charles Fisher, alias Henry Conrad, an old-time
forger, who suddenly resumed his activities after being
released from a six-year term in England. A New York City
bank had paid on a bogus two hundred and fifty dollar check
and had reported its loss to the agency in question. The
superintendent examined the check (although Fisher had been
in confinement for six years on the other side) spotted it as
his work. The next step was to find the forger. Of course,
no man who does the actual "scratching" attempts to "lay
down" the paper. That task is up to the "presenter." The
cashier of the bank identified in the agency's gallery the
picture of the man who had brought in the two hundred and
fifty dollar check, and he in turn proved to be another
ex-convict well known in the business, whose whereabouts in
New York were not difficult to ascertain. He was "located"
and "trailed" and all his associates noted and followed. In
due course he "connected up" (as they say) with Fisher. Now,