The scheme worked, for "Jarvis," finding that he could not use his key, went to the delivery window and asked for his mail.

The very instant the letters reached his hand the gyves were upon the wrists of one of the best-known attorneys in the city.
When the district attorney has been apprised that a crime has been committed, and that a certain person is the guilty party, he not infrequently allows the suspect to go his way under the careful watch of detectives, and thus often secures much new evidence against him.

In this way it is sometimes established that the accused has endeavored to bribe the witnesses and to induce them to leave the State, while the whereabouts of stolen loot is often discovered.

In most instances, however, the district attorney begins where the police leave off, and he merely supplements their labors and prepares for the actual trial itself.

But the press he has always with him, and from the first moment after the crime up to the execution of the sentence or the liberation of the accused, the reporters dog his footsteps, sit on his doorstep, and deluge him with advice and information.
Now a curious feature about the evidence "worked up" by reporters for their papers is that little of it materializes when the prosecutor wishes to make use of it.