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William John Burns was a second son and third child of Michael and Bridget (Trahey) Burns, was born on October 19, 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland. While he was still a child, his parents removed to Zanesville, Ohio, where his father continued his business as a merchant tailor, moving a little later to Columbus, Ohio.
William, having received some education at parochial schools and a business college, entered his father's business.
When the elder Burns became police commissioner of Columbus, William grasped the opportunity to try his skill at detective work. He proved highly proficient and aided the city police department in solving some of its problems. His reputation grew to such an extent that when notorious election frauds were committed in Ohio in 1885, the state solicited his aid and he solved the case.
In 1889 he joined the United States Secret Service, being stationed first at St. Louis and then at Washington. Here he made a notable record. Among his achievements was the conviction in 1894 of a clever counterfeiter named Brockway, who for twenty-five years had baffled the authorities, producing amazingly skilful forgeries of money and just as skilfully avoiding detection.
In 1896 when Costa Rican malcontents sought to foment a revolution in that country and began by counterfeiting the money both of Costa Rica and the United States, Burns obtained evidence which sent the leaders to prison. When five prisoners were taken from a jail at Versailles, Indiana, and lynched by a mob in 1897, and local officers failed to apprehend those guilty, the Governor of Indiana appealed to the federal government for aid. Masquerading as an insurance agent, Burns went to the scene and obtained a list of the perpetrators.
In 1903 the Department of the Interior sent Burns to investigate gigantic land frauds in Washington, Oregon, and California. He pursued the trail remorselessly, proving city, state, and federal officials, including a United States senator, John Hipple Mitchell, to be involved. He was then called to San Francisco, where for three years he probed the corruption of the city political ring under the boss, Abe Ruef, and finally sent Ruef to the penitentiary.
In 1909, in partnership with his son, Raymond J. Burns, he founded the William J. Burns National Detective Agency in New York and set up branches in many other cities of the nation. He unearthed evidence so convincing against John J. and James B. McNamara and Ortie McManigal of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers that they confessed and were given long prison terms. Burns took a hand in the Atlantic City and Detroit municipal graft cases in 1912, and in the same year helped to solve the murder case of the New York gambler, Herman Rosenthal, with the result that a city police lieutenant and four gunmen were executed. The agency at once took over the protection of the 12, 000 member banks of the American Bankers' Association. Burns was asked to bring to justice the labor-union dynamiters who had for several years past maintained a reign of terror in the building trades, with great loss of life and property, the climax being the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910, with the loss of twenty-one lives. He unearthed evidence so convincing against John J. and James B. McNamara and Ortie McManigal of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers that they confessed and were given long prison terms. Burns took a hand in the Atlantic City and Detroit municipal graft cases in 1912, and in the same year helped to solve the murder case of the New York gambler, Herman Rosenthal, with the result that a city police lieutenant and four gunmen were executed.
In 1914 he presented strong evidence to prove the innocence of Leo Frank, charged with a murder in Georgia, and narrowly escaped death at the hands of a mob in Marietta, Georgia, during his investigation. Burns was at times severely criticized for taking questionable measures in obtaining information, and on several occasions he was himself in conflict with the law.
In 1917 he was found guilty of a misdemeanor and fined for entering a law office in New York and making copies of letters which he turned over to a client.
In 1921 he resigned the presidency of his own business and was appointed by Harry M. Daugherty, President Harding's attorney-general, as chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
His administration of the bureau did not enhance his reputation. He gave up the position in 1924 and returned to his agency, though in a less active capacity. When Harry F. Sinclair, oil producer, who was one of his clients, was on trial in Washington for contempt of court in 1927-28, Burns was convicted of "shadowing" the jury and sentenced to fifteen days in jail for contempt, but he was freed by the court on the ground that no overt act on his part was proven.
In 1932 he died of a heart attack at Sarasota, Florida.
William John Burns founded the William J. Burns National Detective Agency in New York in 1909 and set up branches in many other cities of the nation. The agency's major achievement was that it was able to take over the protection of the 12, 000 member banks of the American Bankers' Association. Burns also contributed many articles to magazines, and in collaboration with Isabel Ostrander he wrote a novel, The Crevice, in 1915. He also wrote The Masked War (the story of the labor dynamiters) in 1913, and Stories of Check Raisers and How to Protect Yourself in 1923.
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William John Burns was married on July 5, 1880, to Annie M. Ressler of Columbus, Ohio. She with four of their children, Florence, Raymond, William, and Kathleen, survived him. Two sons, George and Charles, predeceased their father.
