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.
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