Show CAREER OF A KI Detective ete tI Golden Ge in New York World Wor When Wen Mark Ka who got got over overby the Ocean bank of by b robbing te en bk this thi city cliv is i discharged from Danne Dume Dannemora more mora mOl orison on Oct Ot 10 II next he will wl willand find and 4 Robert RObrt Pinkerton the detective welting waiting at the te prison gate Kte He wilt will wi be b taken t to prison prin In Con Concord Concord i cn cord N H B to serve a term ten of nine nineteen nineteen teen te sears Drears is 67 old and i now no G years vears year he doubtless in Jell Jail ji it is scarce scarcely ly Jy that he e will wi live lve to be b 86 26 Mark ak or Maximilian a is the th most meet successful bank bk robber hi in h this thi country countr He Ke Is of line fine physical proportions proportion five feet fet eight or 01 nn Jah in height belt built bui like an a ath athlete ath athlete lete weighs pounds pun and d might pass for fO a professor When Yen I first frt knew kw him he h had black bk hair luxuriant lent whiskers a full ful handsome face fac blue eyes ee and a a deep dep I in his bi chin was wasI a good meanS mans m an of o Identification He told tod I me once that that he be had ha consulted the best beet bt I l Hh a view to having it I re removed reme removed moved me came to t this country countr early erly In tie the Ue sixties stes He went to live lve in Mos Moe Moscow cow cw Pa P He quietly quily made m e observations and am determined to rob rop Hannibal Hannib But Butler Butler al ler a a storekeeper r who lived near by He went to Mr Butlers house and entered enter the room rom In which that gentle gentleman man mait ma slept Without disturbing him the there rogue took tok the keys keYN from the trousers pocket re of the sleeping man men and made me wax impressions He then set cot t to work to make duplicate cate keys ke l eys One dark night night ans opened the safe he be took tok out the neat net sum sm of O came to NT Nov York Tork He made his headquarters at Harvey Harey Youngs Youns gambling house hons avoiding the acquaintance of crooks This with the fact tc that he was wag wa always alway welt well wel dressed gave the th detectives de the impression he was a gamblers gambler r 5 rn in h the fall fU of o 1864 1264 18 he planned panned another robbery that of the th Savings Suin bank in lit i New Hampshire HJ ir He took as ashi a hi his hi confederate George Gere Miles Mie He man managed ml managed aged to secure of the keys ale to the t bank vault On Nov Nor No 24 4 1861 1861 he M entered eter the bank without difficulty and secured 0 He changed change the combination sur of the t safe fe and the n next morning moring the cashier cashler was wa unable una le to open the vault ul The The bank officials sent ea for loran an expert expert who finally opened the thes s In March MII 18 1865 Colonel Bellows Belows chief chier of ot the staff of the nIp governor of New Hampshire received notice from the treasury department that a stolen t bond ond had ha been received rive from the Second Na National Naton NatIonal bank bek of Scranton Colonel Col nel Bel Bellows Bellows blk lows ton came cre to Ne N New w York and consulted John Jon A Kennedy Kenne chief of police That Is how I came into thease the a The Th chief told me to t go g to work on this case c It I was wa the te hardest job of my life Ufe I started for Scranton and held a a consultation on with wih the bank officials The Te represented himself himsel as asan asan an agent ent for trees I hired a sleigh and a driver who R wo knew kw the country countr For twenty days d ys I went ent among amon the farmers endeavoring to find the man who had been selling trees tres I finally got hold of an old far farmer farmer farmer mer near Moscow who had purchased trees tr from just such a person I asked aked for the Invoice nt rid 11 saw W that the th trees tres came ce from fr m a nurr in the neighbor neighborhood neighborhood hood ho of Rochester On April Apri 10 III 1 I went to Rochester The Te next I 1 drove over ever to the nur nursery nursery mOnn 1 I sery st I the proprietor that I want wanted wante ed to purchase trees tree of the agent who had e through Luzerne county Pa PaThe PaThe I The rh agent was wa James Jaes Cummings Cumming whose father faUber ke kept t a a nursery at at The re next dav mv I secured a handsome I carriage I bought a new silk sik hat new gloves glove and ad a spring overcoat to look I like a a wealthy welthY man I who neede needed a land landscape 1 d dS S gardener I On O reaching Irondequoit I I told Mr Mc McCummings Cummings I was wa looking for a land landscape scaRe gardener Why gener exclaimed me h he my son sn James is the very ver man ma you need ned I I ake asked to see s his hl son sn Sis shouted the old man man and as a a ayoung ayoung young woman appeared at the door he le younK said sid Where here was wa James ame when we last heard beard hr of him bm No 4 Grand street Williamsburg burb L 1 I replied rUe o the girl Next day dav I was wu horrified to read of ofU the assassination of or President Lincoln I U took tok a a train trin for New N w York and went ent over to The front of ofte the te house hOUR was draped in mourning but there ther appeared no indication of ten tenants tenants ants except a doctors dolors office on the parlor floor or I hailed haie the te doctor dolor one morning and asked ake him whether there were any an tenants He said there had been two families but on hearing hern of Mr r death they the left lef for Wash Washington Wah Wahington ington He added ade that at the tailor shop down the street I might get in f I told tod the th tailor I was wa a friend and andaI as I 1 wa was as going to I Wahington Washington he be had asked ked me to bring a og the mail mal There Ter was only a I I newspaper the Scientific American I From rm the list I learned leare that s new new address addres was box 34 Saratoga Springs Spring Mr Kennedy KennEy designated James ames Kelso Kels afterward superintendent of police to help me In Saratoga art J I sent for James Jama Case Oase C officer of the town I tol l him to ascertain who wh ho rested rented box 36 The box had bad been rented rene by a a New Ne York broker brokel There Ther was a show in the halt hall hul and and the banker was there An oil i painting I of ot the te banker was wa then ten on the balcony I of the American hotel I recognized whom shorn I had supposed to o be I i ionly only a professional Rambler gambler Now No a anew anew oly lf 1 I new idea ide came into mt my head he What if he be was the man maa who had robbed the i hank bank hankI bankI I ordered Chase Cha to watch CI went inside but bt missed mis his man man However came cae out out He had hada a big job iob on hand handI I bg jb Iz him at once and before he lie knew k what was 1 UP he was wa a pris prisoner pr prOe once oner I took tok him to the town hall ball hal for or safe Oe keeping When I searched sarche him I in the outside found a 8 big biK bi derringer pocket of his ove t I also als found seven sven bonds of the te Boston Concord railroad each eh valued value at 1000 10 and a alot alot alot lot of coupons all al stolen slen from the Wal Wai Walpole pole bank There Tee was wa no cell cel in the theton town ton hall ball bal odly a 8 wooden cage no place for who could have bave cut plc his way out ot with his teeth before morning I engaged two men giving each eh l to watch wac enge until morning e Then Keso Kes and I went out to the Gilbert e farm far the home Mt of o the th banker discovery On We made an a amazing mae of the the u uDor oer floor fo we found foun one most complete workshops that tbt I ever mOt saw sw There Ther was wa a a bench twenty feet fet long with wib two rises ie i s attached att he and brass and steel stel plates We Ve found bank vault keys and a cigar cpr box hox filled tle with wih wax X impressions and ad three completed ete keys I took tok the t first train trin to New Ne York with th prisoner i was always alay re squeal 1 f Through him I soon sn got gt Cummings There were three men en engaged enIn engaged in robbing the t Walpole Yaple bank task to find the third and ad it i was my m in tk man ma I ascertained that one George Gerge M JI White had been getting up upa a gift git en enterprise enI enterprise h at Walpole about abut the time of I the tWo bank robbery I swore out a warrant for the arrest at atI I of White te I then went to Fitchburg I Mass M where White le had ha a a store and He doing business livery lver stable was wa I with the th proceeds pres of the he robbery managed maJ e to t escape epe from of his sentence the jail on the night Cummings jf was Wa discharged a as there him was W not sufficient proof against a bad two wax wa taken ten from fro the foe Cheshire County Count bank Keene N R El f had made mate up his mind to loot lot that tt concern Find FindIng Fin Ing lug that Mr Tilden the cashier was i awa aay ay with his family b climbed to the th seni emd story of nf the thep p thiers hires home found the th keys took tok an impression and walked out ou of or the front door TT TIe found the servant girl t I i sitting rn the stoop and ad stopped to reprimand her tot for her carelessness c in Iii i leaving leving the te house hou so S unguarded was stopping at the Che Cheshire Cheshire wa shire House Houe pretending to be an agent for a cigar cig r firm He found out o t that a company building a railroad n d deposited large sums of money in this bank The following Sunday he went to the bank and found He concluded that there was danger of being observed if he be carried carrie away the money and quietly left the bank b Before leaving he locked the safe and no one knew that he had h Deen a vis visitor visItor visItor there until I told the cashier shier c later had bad scarcely driven away way a from rom the bun buH Has in hi his hill buggy bugg before Mr Tilden cattle cale c e down the street told me after I I arrested him in Saratoga of the affair and said that he had only remained in Saratoga to take the midnight train and secure the His arrest was was a mighty lucky thing for the Cheshire bank bankI 0 t 0 I heard nothing more of oC after his escape until February 1896 On the night of the of af that month he be and his gang ng attempted l to rob the bank at t St Albans Vt VL but they were fired upon by a strong guard The burglars dropped and ran They boarded a train to t go to Boston went to sleep in one car and andone andone nd one of the jurymen who tried him for forthe forthe the bank robbery recognized him He was Jailed again at Concord Feb 27 2 He had confederates who cut a ahole abole ahole hole bole in the big wooden gate and filled fined It k up with dirt and putty plit On the thi night of Dec 3 1866 1896 passed pass d the gate made a flying leap and went through the hole heed head first His con confederates confederates confederates federates were outside with a swift team In 1867 he was arrested for the rob robbery robbery robbery bery of the Delaware Del ware Hudson Canal at t Pa Here he secured but was cap ap There was ws no prison n in the so the officers two rooms in a hotel one on side of the hall hail was handcuffed to toone toone toone one officer The other took hi his clothes and shoes with him locked the door and retired had a steel teel r pen nen en under his tongue The officer to whom he was handcuffed was tired and arid went to sleep used the pen to unlock the handcuffs dressed himself In the officers clothes tore a sheet into strips and let hi lf down from the window 0 S Some tim tima after that was arrested on lower w y for jor the robbery of a The police of that city Were yere tere notified and and Shin burne ar ved ced that he l was w s willing to go to tey ey e City c t So the officers took look him U L t Jersey City He was ac accompanied accompanied companied by his counsel Stewart Once in Jersey City the law lawyer yer demanded by what authority they tl were taking a citizen tl r City without a warrant The Th officers were compel to k allow e to t 1 I I I I I I Shortly afterward followed the rol bery of the Ocean ean O bank this city ci I The bank was on p the southeast south corner of Greenwich G h and an d streets r ets The Tl fe officials some time before the rented the basement of they bull din William OKell Oell who ho s s rf id he lie I 5 the place for an exchange office A days before the robbery he sublet the back room to t a man by bythe the name of I Charles K Cole The gang Kant cut a hole bole in the ceiling the floor of the bank b on the night nl ht of Sunday June 27 2 and entered the room of Mr Martin the president through this hole They opened the vault In Inside I side they found a bunch of keys These keys admitted them to the treasure chest and oyer over was s secured cured s I The following morning the colored janitor found a nice mess In Inthe the vault va all alt the tin boxes were lying on QI n the tl th i I floor fl pr The oliCe found that the i I hd bed overlooked a bag containing I Im II m fn fit gold old lying on a shelf and i in clearing house certificates j I left for Europe purchased the title of baron and bought a country II I seat with a castle c fb 0 4 The money was squandered and at I the end of I thirteen years he be was com corn to seek aid of his crooked I I friends A wealthy fence of Lon Lor don grew gre tired of loaning ng him money and told him that he knew a Belgian Bell n bank that could be cracked With a confederate enter entered ed cd the bank one night in 1886 and the thc two were working at the he safe when they were surrounded by b police Shin burne fired at a policeman pOll eman but was vas overpowered He and his nis partner were convicted the latter receiving a sen tence tenee of twelve years while was given sixteen and years rears I The fence had given the men away I The confederate died in orison In 1892 1802 an American crook was ar arrested arre I rested re ted at Liege Belgium for i i ing to steal The authorities a were w anxious to know his identity i Shin I I burne in prison at Viviers read an ac account a I I count of the arrest and recognized his I betrayer He wrote to the Belgian I government stating statiUS that he h e knew the I criminal and would reveal his identity on condition that he was given his re rel release lease leane l from prison He was escorted i ito to the Belgian BeI frontier by the police and was IUS told to clear out i ii o it 0 i turned up in London I where he would make occasional trips out of t wn On one of the trips a i small bank in Scotland was robbed of i Circulars were sent to the New Nev NewYork i York police I was satisfied that Shin I burne borne had been at work again The I only way jn in which the thief could be traced was bir by b means of the numbers on the notes was in jail at Schoharie this state afterward for attempting to rob the First National bank of Middle burg Just before belore the trial I met Rob Robert Robert Robert ert Pinkerton who told me that Shin burne denied his identity I went to Schoharie and identified him at once He was sentenced to to hard labor at Dannemora prison While in the jail at Schoharie Sch harie the jailer an old man brought in his sup supper su super supper per one evening as usual who saw that the jailer had left the outer door ajar ran to the door The jailers wife was about entering She grabbed the fleeing man and managed to throw him to the floor and then sat on him He squirmed but as the lady weighed wei hed over OVir 50 pounds he was fast fastened fastened fastened ened as S though In a vise vi e eOn On Oct 10 18 next time will have ha ve expired exited ex but as 8 soon as he emerges he be will ill be arrested by Robert Pinkerton who will take the prisoner J to the jail at Concord to serve a a term of nineteen years ears as it is the custom in that state stat to double the term of a prisoner who escapes from jail There Us lii an Indictment pending |