Mr. William J. Burns, head of the Burns Detective Agency, will deliver an address in the Living Room of the Union at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon. He will discuss his "Experiences in Secret Service and Detective Work," and the lecture will be open only to members of the Union.

Detective Burns was for many years a member of the United States Secret Service, and in this capacity he secured the evidence which convicted a large and powerful gang of counterfeiters. While employed by the government, he also discovered the land frauds in the Department of the Interior.

A few years ago, Mr. Burns left the Secret Service in order to secure a larger field for his work, and formed the agency of which he is now the head. Since then he has been connected with a great many cases of national importance.

In the famous Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone trial in Colorado, he secured the confession of Harry Orchard which created such a tremendous sensation at the time. The San Francisco graft cases were under his investigation, and the evidence which he obtained enabled the state to send Mayor Schmitz and Ruef to jail.

More recently, Mr. Burns has been engaged in the Ohio legislature bribery trials, when he introduced a new element into detective work by the use of the dictagraph. He is probably best known, however, through the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case. He was employed by the Manufacturers' Association to investigate this and the other recent out-rages which have occurred throughout the country. He has secured the confessions and conviction of the McNamara brothers, and within this month a score of labor leaders have been indicted on information which he has obtained.