The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . h go down together. OF A DETECTIVE 383 It is this threat that is responsible for the few prosecu-tions in so-called wire tapping cases. The most picturesque figures in the wire tapping busi-ness, as Detective Wooldridge found it, were O. and Archibald Donaldson. Both were solid-look-ing fellows, whosevery appearance wasenough to inspireconfidence. In thelanguage o f thegrafter, they lookedlike ready money. Stone was the manwith the brain andthe training in thingstelegraphic and Don-aldson was the manwith the front. Anincident co
The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . h go down together. OF A DETECTIVE 383 It is this threat that is responsible for the few prosecu-tions in so-called wire tapping cases. The most picturesque figures in the wire tapping busi-ness, as Detective Wooldridge found it, were O. and Archibald Donaldson. Both were solid-look-ing fellows, whosevery appearance wasenough to inspireconfidence. In thelanguage o f thegrafter, they lookedlike ready money. Stone was the manwith the brain andthe training in thingstelegraphic and Don-aldson was the manwith the front. Anincident concerningeach will illustratetheir when Detectivew a sfor evi-Stone his clues led hi minto the basement of the Trades build-ing. The detective was accompanied by three expert elec-tricians. Each of the men carried a candle and the bur-rowed for nearly two blocks on the trail of a wire whichthey had reason to believe had been laid by Stone. Insteadof one wire they found three and they were entangled with Wooldridgesearchingdence against. Oska M. Stone. 334 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK other wires in such an intricate manner that none but aclever expert could discover them. At places the wiresseemed to stop suddenly. Then they would appear again,doubling back over the same road the investigators hadtrailed them. The experts who accompanied Wooidridge on this subterraneantrip declared they hadnever seen so clever ajob of wiring. On another of hisraids Wooidridge en-tered the fake pool-room where the suck-er was supposed toinvest his money tofind Donaldson sit-ting calmly amid hisbunch of these men, whoare in reality cleverenough as actors tohold their own on thedramatic stage, wavedtheir hands frantic-ally, shouted out betsand eddied and surged about the man who was recordingtheir bets, old man Donaldson, looking for all the worldlike three hundred pounds of human benevolence, hiscigars ranged alongside of him and a fatherly smile uponhis white-bearded
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