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an^ place in this State by authority of any law of the 
United States or of this State or by order of any court, 
before the expiration of the time for which the same was to 
remain set up, is punishable by fine of not less than 
twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprison¬ 
ment in the county jail not more than one month. 
WHEN ANY OFFENSE IS COMMITTED NEAR THE BOUNDARY 
LINE OF TWO COUNTIES. 
Section 782 of the California State Penal Code states: 
When a public offense is committed on the boundary 
of two or more counties, or within five hundred yards 
thereof, the jurisdiction is in either county. 
Legal actions in property offenses will be in Federal 
court, if a Federal law or regulation is involved, and will 
in most cases be criminal. Civil action for the recovery 
either of damages or the property itself (replevin) is not 
precluded, and may be either in addition to criminal 
prosecution or as an alternative to the latter. But the 
expediency of damage suits is questionable here more 
often than in most other trespasses on account of financial 
irresponsibility of the trespasser. 
INVESTIGATION. 
GENERAL METHODS. 
Qualifications .—The greater a man’s ability the more he 
can accomplish in this as in any other work. Qualifica¬ 
tions peculiarly necessary for an investigator are observa¬ 
tion, common sense, industry. Nothing is so small as to be 
safely overlooked; a whole case may turn on what seems a 
most unimportant detail. On the other hand, many 
details are unimportant. The correct judging of impor¬ 
tance hinges largely upon the imaginative power to picture 
constantly in the mind the whole case and its probable 
development. Beware of letting anything go as unim¬ 
portant without thus carefully weighing it. 
Catching a crimifial is a battle of wits; the one who 
thinks hardest all the time wins. No stone can be left 
unturned, no reasonable theory left untried. Success in 
difficult cases requires special aptitude as well as 
