All the finer work remains to be done
either by the district attorney himself or by the detective
bureau working under his immediate direction or in harmony
with him. Little order has been observed in the securing of
evidence. Every one is a fish who runs into the net of the
police, and all is grist that comes to their mill. The
district attorney sends for the officers who have worked upon
the case and for the captain or inspector who has directed
their efforts, takes all the papers and tabulates all their
information. His practiced eye shows him at once that a large
part is valueless, much is contradictory, and all needs
careful elaboration. A winnowing process occurs then and
there; and the officers probably receive a "special detail"
from headquarters and thereafter take their orders from the
prosecutor himself. The detective bureau is called in and
arrangements made for the running down of particular clues.
Then he will take off his coat, clear his desk, and get down
to work.
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