Show PLOT TO 14 1 V N v to hold the money king for 11 a ransom 1 f SAFE FROM QUICK PURSUIT t I 1 counted on being protected by fear of affecting the stock mar market ket 1 chief drummond brummond learned of it was their figure he was to bo be detained near hl his 3 shooting lodge and the plan almost succeeded ic t ill ft copyright 1894 ly by atchel choller er Jo johnann hirson I 1 1 Ba bachelder not long ago frank iff M mitchel the novelist N w rate rote an extravagant romance e in which the story of the sup posed ot of jay gould it t lad had a laige pale probably because it seemed Bee ined so eo delightfully preposterous rous any raw few pe people OPI e who lead it had any idea that dial it was ever likely to approach duplication in teal leal life the following art lele drawn from tile the experiences of ex chief clief of 0 the secret service drummond will L show how that fact some sometimes timea discounts even the imaginings of a brain las as fertile as mr alt I 1 chels this has never been even hinted at in print before and its details are calculated to create a sensation Nor norcross crost the man who tried to remove russell sage by dropping a bomb in the financiers rector street office because becaas 0 he be get a million dollars dolo delo on demand was the means of making the men ot of millions more cau cautious bous they hired detectives tor for a time and f were careful not to place themselves in a position where they would be at the mercy of cranks or crooks but tile the excitement attending ss attempt on mr sages ufa wore off and the financiers dispensed with their 4 1 Z I 1 I 1 1 k I 1 I 1 A r C I 1 ai 1 i I 1 11 va I 1 A I 1 ae AK 1 11 L 1 7 IY I 1 11 4 Z I 1 0 e george gould guards until the next attempt on their person or property Is made the story of the narrow escape one ne of their number mr goodge gould had ad from bee ming a victim of a gang 0 f robbers was lett learned lined of tin the office of ex chief of the united states tates secret service A L drummond t no 1 Earl Crow row the plot to kidnap mr lr goulty and hold him long enough torce him to sign r a check tor for as all but carried out some bome weeks rev tous to the departure of ill the mil ionalee to england to race them the 11 it was carefully laid by a gang lot of ex counterfeiters and bank burglars and rid according to ane one of their number mt it would have been a success it 1 it were not tor for the arrest of their leader on an old charge the roost most surprising tact act brought out by the tale told by a member of the gang Is that such a plot has not been laid before the air circum CUM stances stance s surrounding mr air goulds visits ito ito his bis ril english glish s shooting lodge in the catskills favoring the efforts of the robbers the aloi blowing ling open ex cx car on oil a virginia railroad the other day was wa a dilli cult matter compared with the seizing of the person of mr air gould among the mountains surrounding his furlough lodge ex calef drummond has run to earth moro more counterfeiters counterfeit ers than any other man for he saw twenty years of 0 service pervice as the agent of the government A counterfeiter he caused to be arrested several years ago reformed and settled down in this city ills his reformation was complete and lie Is now a bookkeeper in a downtown bubines a house ouse early last week lie he met chief drum i mond on broadway and told him how he was getting along it was the day tile chui coui conits is decided to give russell sage arin another thor chance in the suit brought against him by laidlaw who alle alleges gas mr sage used him as a shield ehlend when norcross NOT crosB threw his bomb chief da drummond u in was as to what ha had 4 lie bc lome come of other members of the gang lie he sent to prison the ex referred to tile the norcross or cros bomb throwing on en seeing the account in a paper 10 lie laid of the suit salt against russell i sage 4 FIRST NEWS OF OB THE PLOT 11 1 I heard said he that a couple of athe fhe f he old fellows were mixed up I 1 in a case similar to this affair 0 of o Nore I 1 roBi and sage only they wi r ere rc h going coins to gt get their money in a d different i freden freren t way they intended G george georgo could i kidnap george gould repeated ted chief drummond Drum roond interested at once t T 51 yes yea EO be one of tile the gang told me but the plot toll fell through owing to the carrest of tile lealer leader who Is now nor run bi a goods game over on oil long 4 taI IS 1 j lid chief drummond had occasion to as sian ii it couple ot of ills his detectives on day laid to do a service benice tor for a million 1 litre alre aud and he happened to refer to the lex ex story of the attempt to kidnap george gould rind and hold him for or ransom lie ho put tile the press man mail in n communication with his informant lailye lie did not wish to vouch for the ettory although as told to him it ft bem beem lid id likely enough according to tile the ex e iter who aho was wa aund found at a wholesale drug aliouse at welk on hla his books counter felting and safe bate cracking have bave deter borated greatly lo in the past few ew years yo so the baart brooki who used to to follow low ill those ose professions have turned to ather schemes for or money making irk in cooki looking ng about for a desirable v victim t he a fell leader or n of the me gang tuat planned to trap geoege gould learned that george gould could often visited hla his hunting I 1 lod edge in n tile catskills Catskill 3 unescorted HE BOLD LEADER OP OF THE GANG 1 this man said ald the press reporters informant 18 is ta a pot past grand mas matter ter in all it kinds of crime ile he started out in its ite as IL 11 henchman ot of jim flak fisk and tan as one of th the e men who were present hen r ex I MOrrI amey called on isk mk at the grand opral house m here isk had his ollice there wes was a debt t f to be settled and y ilio 10 vr was s brunni runni running a gambling house at lit he time wa wanted led ri a settlement he n weed reed flak to a hock check for tile mount alth although ou ah ha be wa was surrounded y a dozen men like chernan the man who got p this scheme to kidnap G but morrissey was benlow earl cai ad id would have made way with a uri nen men at the time after leaving V t I 1 0 N A I 1 aff j e 1 7 11 gm V mien w 2 W sv i iab I 1 1 a V 1 I n pi r c I r f A at n A e 1 r I 1 f 11 t I 1 T wl n ka Z I 1 tv U f l t F ae 1 1 11 aa A 11 7 g alf n 1 14 W ol 01 ar 41 0 X J ar q r P anif pa 11 P G f A 1 I 1 I 1 pa rt r t T 0 1 r IP 1 L 1 A zt 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 S lr ril M I 1 1 1 fa Z 9 11 1 r az Z zt N qa g 5 OR t 1 I 1 ez E edg 7 t za 1 ak Z I 1 7 george goulds shooting Shoo Sho otini lodge asks service the principal in tile could plot branched out into breaking banks ant and had for or a partner the notorious lyons of manhattan bank fame line next he became a counterfeiter and was at arresta arres ested td along with myself and several others in cincinnati and lou I I 1 grille by chief Di ummond lie Is only out of prison about a year and la Is desperate enough for almost any mud kind of a scheme one of his as associates told tile me how the plot to lilina kidnap P gould was laid As you perhaps know mr goulds Goul ls odge ge in the catskills is 19 faily nine billica over the mouri tainA from areme station on the Vei tern delaware P railroad all ane hunting hunt retreat of the railway milway magnate is situated among lie ilie most inaccessible highlands of delaware delavare county and the ride to hia chis mountain home la Is as dreary a journey as one could well weil imagine it my informant t tolls s the truth well ll it appears mr gould could was not as careful as he be mcgrit bo be on some of his big hurried visits to furlough lodge lie ile would often run don doan to new york for a day and return late tit in the evening with no jio more pro tertian than tan a pocket pistol or small rille rifle strapped across his bade back he ahia ill is traveled I 1 rp v over these mountains and valleys time and again in all sorts of weather tear fear but lie he took groat great chances indeed As near nebi as I 1 can make out it as was the coe intention of to take clr gould unprepared while making this nine mile journey to his hunting lodge it would not have been a difficult task k for them to do there were to be seven tuen men I 1 bellere bel feve in ease case ot of an emergency one was to accompany mr gould on uie the train and be prepared to bring word if tire the millon millionaire alre was joined Joine 1 by any one on the way up from new york jle ie was to alight unobserved at ark vite vale station and cover the Fi entreat nt reat ireat his companions more mere to lo lay jay for ter gould a few miles from the station after jie he was taken no violence was to tie be offered him and he was to then sign a check for that being the bile amount derided decided on A larger sum it waa wa believed bowd excite suspicion it if sir mr gould could refused refus ad to give the he check or waive identification on ti it he would roe ibe given ahe the degree made famous u by y su perin tend en t byr eq jn in other words the sang gan g aou would ll 11 use ue force with bilm one of I 1 the he members of the gang was then to be In trusted aith the check ile he vv was to get it cashed and return mr gould 01 d was riot not to be released ret ased the cho check k was cashed WOULD TAKE TWENTY FOUR HOURS houns the rhe gang had figured on the job taking about twenty four hours the distance from new york Is miles which could be covered in tour four or five hours the gang was to 10 have are horses in read readiness loess for the escape and so far as I 1 learned they bad ad the whole affair planned pretty neatly some days before the work was tobe to be done the leador leader of 0 f the gang was arrested by secret S service arvice officers and taken west on cin an old charge of counterfeiting I 1 in n illinois T r dont know what has lag been done with him the other fellows apparently backed out with the loss of the chief 0 the gang then besides he was the only one who could get the necessary money to make the thing thine a success ilene and trappings would have to be purchased and there would be considerable erable incidental expenses I 1 am out or 0 crime tor for good and I 1 think this might serve as a hint for mr gould to ba b more careful and not tempt te T pt daring and nals in hard luck when men will hold up buce successfully a a passenger train a few miles arille a out of washington you can readily see how easy a matter it would be for several men melt to seize a single alcele horseman in the wilds of tile the catskills on an a real road that traversed for weeks at a time and then only by members of 0 the gould fam family lly but as to the cashing of the check 11 1 1 I 1 cant see rat as there would be any a Y experienced in that A single angle t line ible or two from mr gould to the blink bank cashier could be secured under pressure pr gig as easily as th flit check there be danger of the disappearance appearance ot of the man mail who got the eier berk k cashed only a 1 man that could be ba trusted trus tedI implicitly of course would bo be spit selected at 1 I for that important task it if he skipped with a ith tile the money the chances are arc that lie would be dead inside of a 11 month for his co companions T ong would find him out anil and remove him WHERE MR MM GOULD WAS WAR TO ME BE nut where was mr gould to be held until the chook chock wag waa cashed did you learn that only in a general way I 1 under bland he was to be taken some three or tour four miles into the mountainous region where the gangs headquarters was to tie be locator in ill a hut or camp ot of course they were to make up as members of a hunting hanling party 81 as not to excite on use the way to and cretin the catskills iq mr gould has a telegraph instrument n ell t at his lodge and lie be after hla his release notify the railroad stations and the new york police before the ran sang could reach this city not very well the way I 1 under is tand it tor toe mr gould was to bo be securely secure cure ly bound in this cabin and his is friends would be notified of 0 his whereabouts after tile lie kong gang had reached their destination the men we would old have mattered watt ered 0 of courso they figured mr gould could would on only ly be in custody about twenty four hours hourd the seizure being roade made at night the th check cashed a after after fter be bank opened in new york I 1 in n ill thal morning ahe messenger returning at wion noon ind and the gang getting back to new boik or their intended destination at night WOULD DELAY tim THE but how about the alarm sent cent out mr gould was found missing ali ah that was the great point As a I 1 understand ander Stand it 11 that the gang figur figured ad on no alarm would be sent out not nor no i public announcement made until at least twenty tour four hours had lapsed elapsed C because of the effect mr G goulda ids disappearance carance would have on oil stocks blocks ou the gould shares would drop pretty quick if george goulds deab dea th or disappear ance an c a was wag reported so judging from w what hat I 1 heard 0 ot f the matter the gang figured on ahli s tact fact of tile the goulds keeping rilent alk nt until a search on the quiet hal had been made in the catskills mr george gould only smiled when I 1 told fold him ot of liow how the N new ew york crooks lad had planned to kidnap him i 1 I do not tear fear them diem wem was all ill lie he would SAV av |