Show TRU ii D r fROM AA Of OFA L A L I f MOFFETT THE NORTHAMPTON BANK ROBBERY A midnight on Tue da Jal 3 A I 18 live tIve men entered he house ot at John In Mass Mr r Wll s the cashier ot the North Northampton ti nal bank and WI was known to hive J hH hl the keys ot of the tho bank and the combination ton to the 1 1 Tk ik vault The lve men the theL L u wih with the aid ot of fale 1 t tt tc the sleeping lj i seven ot of the theMe them so Me gagging anti and binding s th vl resistance or alarm wa wan and andl andI I 1 Those worn Mr l I t ite Mr and Mrs rs T 1 B Cutler L MAtte ie White MIs Miss Benton and andt t girl I Tn rn bedroom ot of Mr and Mr Mrs t Ts Sf was WUI entered b by two men 10 to be be the eader ot of the tho band bandt t c wore vort a lon long linen duster button uly irly tH it the tho knees knee also ad and c fr the other wore a jAcket ad and andall all Both men had their tace faces and one or of ort t V 11 ri carried 1 n dArk i lantern On enter 1 g th room the two to men went i N the bed standing on either 4 f E and han cut Mr Ir j bi his wife Both carried r j j were much the tho same sameI A I h other fope seine dela delay and t the orere ordered the thC I 1 women to up and dress hen tho they had gt done s so they thoy wore rord or d together by ankIe and and wrists rist r f I taken laken into Int a a smal small rom where t th Were kept under guard by one of oft t V t band Mr fr Cuter Cutler als also was RS t d in the same wa way Then the two r i devoted themselves to Mr 1 They rhe told him bUn plainly 1 th they had come mo for tor the keys keya ot of oft ott t I bank and the combination ot of the theand h and that they would mako I it itI I t r for hint unless he gave He then them thenh h l t Ue they wanted Mr Ir re reIf If that I It WIS was useless to attempt 1 Int Into the tho hank aI as the locks h i to too strong tong for their efforts and andI I 1 i c uld not hi hIS trust At thi this t t Ian In the duster shrugged and sid said th they y would su see v 1 that y wa was then taken summoned to el d n stairS tah and agin again the tho keys key ASin Again lie he refu refused e v this thoman In the overalls put his l In the Mahlers cashiers trousers pocket ui dr drW forth a H key 1 I this the key to the bank he hen n iJ Tt It is the cashier 1 ng to gain time t ou lie ald said tn robber wih with t I 1 gesture at th same time 1 I the key itt In the lock of t the tho front l L cf t the which i It turned said the other lont bI pt sal 4 e siek h hs aski Mr I if he ha wanted a drink ot of L 1 rd MI Mr t l J ok hJ his Ire the Un lInes 7 1 I U I tH 1 i demands He td Sti the combination t the yaul vault 11 some ft pres I the rebr k wrote down 01 on a aI aJ J I t 4 o 0 paper Theme were era for the thet t f door loor ot of th the vault He demanded tp Vi for tor the Inner door loor t f I Mr gIt 0 him other t gilr Ha Having written these down t tle te amt close to his In it tr you t h figures atre correct 1 I will answered Mr Ir You Ton are aNI lying Iring R again It If the they are aret arec c t let lets hear you OU repeat them T r could not no do this and andi c i d that the figures were not nott t right OUM Number One Oue Mid the robber k his hill were re wast ime well have to teach him hini to toe f e yin I hp h spoke he truc Ua the sharp point C 1 l load pencil Into ti r t fit s violently as to make a wound t r follo folloWed this with several blows blos blosh C h body wI you tell us u now te ito a asked ked kep silent Then tb 1 Ii men eanie at him wringing his ear stakIng him b by the throat hurl Ij hIm to the floor and pounding t 1 Anea nees Into his hin chest hest For three 1 r this torture was continued f tha once the ruffians placed thc revolvers at t Mr l declaring the they would blow his out unless he be yielded Finally 11 did id yield the Buttering was 1111 too J the supreme Instinct InsUn t ot of self asserted Toward lock In the morning bruised l from to foot and worn orn be beyond Ud further ncE ho surrendered tn th keys 1 revealed the true tru combination ot of th vault ault T the robbers robber went away leaving t n or O th as lat to watch over oer th One of the Ule band ltd before J I Ii did not disdain to search Ai 11 and take hili hilia a n and chain ant H In mane mone maneT T i last at the band remained in the lu use until 6 and it w was a an Jour our later before Mr sue ue C fd eded In freeing himself from his l s qt t hurried it at once to th the bank ar there soon BOOn after atter j He t the vault door doer locked and Its t tali lah broken oft iO o that It was fi h at the moment to determine the f EXt of the robbery robber or indeed there lied had been an any robbery It t wai WA n to send nd to Ne New York tM n before th the vault could b be which was as not accomplished late that f twenty hours ft the attack has hatt been made Then It nl ci found that the had been on to successful having secured l U Y and securities at a ItU and a quarter Much of t Pits sum was as sat safe deposits and the J 5 or OC the and to some It vs the lone loM ot of their lr whole property At title time the authorities had no CIo riv to the identIty of th the rob robbers er though they had left leet behind th them m nu an evidences or of thel aJ u 1 ut n masks rs ov overshoes anti and the like escape 1 old ad been n mana managed god a am as m s the robbery itsel office and detectives did their heat lt days day anti and weeks I but their were in vin in The president of the bank offered a 1 reward of for tor tate tao apprehension ot of the I rs and the return ot of th the property I bu thEre wore were no discoveries a aL I rJ L When several Mon t ts 11 ha had elapsed the were wert called Into the cue case Thet began begal by carefully studying eer fair taim communications that had been re eved b by the ban bank dl directors from pr Sons sonK to have haYl In their thew J oses ion on the missing securities The fret nt P communIcations was as dated fI ew York Fe Feb b 27 7 lit iti about a month q ft e the robb robbery n It ran as t tm letters JEtters o of each went weed being carefully printed with a pen so that there was I chanca of through the tha Dear Sirs SIn Whet yuu IJU art arc satisfied with klI m 1 Ian tu nak a 8 to 10 u the holders holden and ic 11 t iI i ii I I i A f fv t I i I v 7 f i f ft fj t j YOU are liberal we may be able to do business bustness with you It If you entertain any such Ideas please Insert a personal In the New York Herald Address to and sign Rufus to which duo due attention will be paid To satisfy you that we hold papers we send Bend you ou a couple or of pIeces No Signature No attention had been paid to this letter Jetter two certificates of stock It which had un undoubtedlY Undoubtedly b boon en In the banks v vault Three other othor letters of a similar had been inter ro one or of these thea the tho bank people had sent ent a guard guarda d a reply which had called forth the following response dated New York Oct Q 20 1876 Gentlemen Since you have seen fit to recognize the re receipt ot of our letter lettera we a will now send you OU our price for the return of the goods The United States coupon bonds and mone money taken cannot be returned but everything olse bonds letters and papers to the small mall est eat be returned for It If th these se figures suit you OU wo we will make arrangements according to our promise and you may have the goods as soon lIoon as prell can be arranged fort for the safe conduct ot or the business If you OU agree to this price in inett insert sert ett In the Now York YOlk Herald personal column the thi simple word Agatha He Ha etc RUFUS The special value of these letters was In helping the detectives to decide which one of several gangs of at bank robbers then operating in the count country was most likely to have hae committed the crime Being BIng familiar with Ith the moth meth methods ot of each gang Robert PInkerton waa wa able ablo to o draw useful inferences from ev evIdence evidence that would otherwise have hahn been insignificant He knew for instance e that the notorious gang headed by bV Jumes Dunlap would be more apt than an any oth other et to thus negotiate for the re return return turn of aU all the securities ina in a lump since It was invarIable rule to insist upon personally controlling the proc proceeds ot of his robberies until final disposition was made of them On the theother theother other hand the gan gana headed U h bY Jimmy Rope Hope Worcester Sam and George BUns might have havo divided the securities amon among the members and then thon trIed to a compromise on the tho huli A A fact ot of much si Ul to the J was as the Jt Y ina interest t In the case and apparent fa Ca with it shown by one J 3 G GEans Evans Eans an expert in safes and vaults and the representative ot of one of the largest sate tn in the coun countr country I tr try The day after the robbery robber Evans had been at BrIstol Comm Conn in the interest of his ts firm who on receipt of the news had immediately wired ired him to proceed to Northampton His presence in Northampton was regarded as nothing strange for he had been there ther times during the months just preceding the robbery and once had the lack Jock and dIals of the vault of the robbed I bUlk What hat lid did seem a little strange however was as Evans Eans evident interest In the negotiations for a compromise i i On s dozen dOlien different occasions he talked with the president and other oUt officers corn cers of the bank regarding the robbery and nd insinuated quite plainly that lie he might be In Il a position to assist them in recovering thor lost securities A few months after th the robbery robber he even went so tar far as to tell one ot or the directors that lie he could name the members of the gang disposition ot of Evans to put him himself self In the negotiations had all the more to nobort Pin Pinkerton Pinkerton kerton from the tact fat that it had been rumored that a series or of daring bank robberIes lately committed In various parts of the country had owed their success s to the participation of an ex cx expert pert in safes and locks Jocks who vrho had been able through his po position or of trust to reveal to the robbers rs many secrets of bank locks safes and vaults tp to title this time these rumors had remained indefinite and no one ventured to name the he man It was wa known however that th the false expert was a man of high standing In his calling and generally regarded as above suspicion It was also alae known that there was great joel jeal OU In other othel gangs of bank robbers because ot of t the e amazing success of time thc I gang ng with whom this man was work working working ing and that overtures even had been made b by the leaders ot of some other gangs to win over OYEr to their own gangs this thi desirable Robert Pin Pinkerton Pinkerton I kerton had already concluded that the gang so ably assisted was the Dunlap gang he was now pretty wen well per persuaded also that the Northampton robbery robber had been committed d b by the Dunlap gang There was as every reason for tor keeping a sharp eye ee on the ert Evans Eans EvansA A he stu od the ease case Mr Pinkerton rO recalled a circumstance that had lien In the ran fall of On the night ot of Nov t 4 1815 the First National bank I of Pittston Pa had been robbed or of I Q and Mr lr Pinkerton had gone one there to the case He met mft meta a number of It being Ii a bust busi busin bustness n ness SS custom with to flock to the scene of mum IU Important bank robbery In ord order r to supply new nev safes for tor the ones that h have been wrecked While they wore were aU all the vault ault Uttered with debris of the I I the re representative resent the of one of the safe picked up a small used by bv the tho robbers and lookin at It critically remarked fl that he would have sworn tt It belonged to his bis fUd 11 he not krio know that was le The was he declared ot of ur CIE h hi his model one had been r I devised for tor a sp special purpose p pA A At t tb the time rr fr Pinkerton re regarded this all ac merely a eoln coincidence but now the memory to him as Jl flash fluh of tk U t th the man who bad re remarked remarked marked Ute the similarity In the Ule the same company pany that employed Evans ln n vi nf all t the h it Wa was decided tt in ut under the therlo closest He dlf dh not no deny that he had made unusual efforts to ef t treoN reoN reet the return of the securities but that It II was b cau o ht he ices sorry orry for the many peor people le who had been baen ruined the rob robberY robbery berY And he fd to believe iIse that he had been unjustly treated In inthe the tho affair just how and b by he would not aay To the de I J fl 5 4 il L Lb f ee a e r 4 b f 4 r i J i I 1 fi r i lit die 1 a ar fr a i 4 r 1 2 I t L 1 I a p pS pa pt cs a S j t f r ra a P was nip ap apparent parent that he was and and not at of In November 1876 George H Bangs superintendent of tIne tho PInkerton agen agency C cy a man po possessed ot of very remark remarkable remarkable able skill in eliciting confessions from suspected persons had an interview with Evans Hp U professed to Evans that the de lad heal s secured e danae clonee that cl elred ij Ue whole that they ther knew where aa the they still sUU only onty fed that the robbery h lied d been by the thc Dunlap and Scott gang that E Ev nina ans was a confederate that for weeks the they had been baen shadowing Scott and Dunlap which was true and could ar arrest rest them itt At any moment that there was no doubt that the gang had been trying to pta play Evans Eans false a very shrewd guess and would sacrifice him without th the slightest compunction and finally that thieve there w was s open to Evans one of 01 two to suffer arrest on a charge orb of bank lk rob robber robbery ber bery with ith the pros prospect et of twenty years ears earsIn In prison or save l and at the same time earn oarn a substantial money mone re reward war ward by m making a lean clean confession of his hia connection with the crime All this delivered with an all air or of eel certainty taint was more mOle than Evans could stand up agai against it Hl He bro broke e down clown corn com and told all hf he knew The stor story told b by Evans is ono one ot of the most remarkable in ill the tho history of crime Ht He admitted the correctness of Robert Pinkertons inference that the Northampton bank had been robbed by Scott and Dunlap and th their lr associates and in order to explain his lii own connel Uon tion with this formidable went back to its organization in 18 TA leader header ot of the gang was a JUm James s Dunlap alias James Barton who before ho he be became came camo a bank robber had hueI been n a brake brakeman man on tine tho Chicago Alton St Louis railroad His inborn criminal instincts Instinct led Jed him to frequent the tho resorts of In Chi Chicago ag and thus he met Johnny and aud a man named Perry who vho tool took a liking to him and taught him all they knew about break breakIng log Ing safes Dunlap soon outstripped his masters developing a genius for rob robber robbery ber bery and for fOl organization that speedily proved him the most formidable or of all tine tho bank robbers then operating In the country not even excepting Jimmy Jimm Hope the tho Manhattan bank robber Ho He had tu thu Jonh an and stubbornness 0 or his Scotch parents united with the daring and Ingenuity peculiar to Amerl Ameri ans In the tho fall of he organized the most dangerous and gang or of bank rob born belt that th the had ever known man was Robert RobertC C Scott alias Hu Bob originally a 0 deckhand on a Mississippi steamboat and afterward d a hotel thief Scott wan Va a big powerful man with a 0 determination equal to anything Their were ero what ono one might expect from these two Other members or of the gang were Thomas Thomac Doty Dot William Con Conroy Conroy roy Eddie Good Goody Joui Jom Perry James Gr 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