Show THE CARSON MINT ROBBERY I 1 STORY OF ONE OF THE GREAT EST or OF GOLD STEALS jones rocketed pocketed bars of bullion and j substituted others with moro more sil ell vor ver heney took powdered gold A little over a year ago aco a united states deputy marshat marshal arrived in tho the city anti and in locating J IL heney who succeeded in lobb ng c a 6 united states slates mint mini anti anil clouding the hie officers for many months after his crime had been discovered hency clinic came to this state stat and for a lime lima found refuge in a little cabin in fit the llie lulls hills near breckenridge here he was follow ed by the law officers but a friend gave tho the alarm and ft hani tho the cabin was surrounded no one appeared in answer to tho the stern summons summon s to surrender and investigation avest athin resulted in fit the discovery that the he bird had biad no llon n later sicney cam came to leadville and through its his wife commenced negotiations tor for surrender on oil promise of leniency heney hafl himself self was vas enjoying tho the best that lc advil 16 could furnish in the way of food and but one day the lie officer arrived anti and I 1 letter was inas bustled oil off to prison tun till ROBBERY nin the ettory of the famous mint robbery la Is thus told one morning about a year and it halt half nito ago J IV adams superintendent of the mint of curson carson city lec elved a communication il ni from harris hard the he meller and refiner of the mint containing the rather startling statement that a cleanup of tho the refinery had bail revealed an apparent shortage in gold b bullion ilion ot of approximately SOW stun standard dard ounces superintendent perin adams apprised it 13 preston director of tho the mint abill at washington requesting that battle t competent pel eon be sent to carson city to investigate mr air preston selected 11 mr r andrew mason lupoi superintendent of tho the united states assay assar office in this city mr mason ma son d carson city on march at ardt 13 15 1895 the insult of ill his investigation was waa the trial and conviction of one man mail who hail robbed the mint ot of nearly and of another who nho had niolon about the anve investigation revealed leve aled some othor other things which may bring about radical chan changes gett lit in the conduct ot of all the ibe mints and in tho the appointment of 0 mint officials mr mason alason lias has just ie turned front lila its last trip trio to carson city and ul at ills home in ocanpo yesterday afternoon lift M told a sun still teporter ic porter an ail story lory ot of how the th thieves caught and finally brought to justice upon mr masons at ai rival in corso carson city lio lie took charge or of the and lell ners department H ho was informed informal b by tho the superintendent of 0 the llie mint that the he bullion in tho the robbery was wa that delivered to the inciter and refiner front from J june une to dee december aher 31 wa 1 I antiser am very y much fop your information f rm a tie n said mr nation manon to superintendent adams but it 11 you dont donet igind N kojl ai jim hai c A GENERAL CLUAN UP ot of all the bullion delivered to the mcle er and refiner between june itt and today that cleanup clean up begin of at once mr harris ls the and refiner was waa only too toe glad to have the cleanup clean up OB as tb thorough orough as pos possible bible tho the discovery of tile iho shortage shor tapo had bad nearly riven given him nervous prostration further than that he had assumed the duties of hla his ollace only a short I 1 time line before the shortage was discolored and that made him doubly anxious before lit his 4 appointment mr mi harris had been pr prominent c eminent in democratic politics in III carson city but knew little about tho tha wa work rk in a mint min t or of 0 any of department departments iti IM fl clowns ho was recommended to president cleveland clevela nd hy by the chairman of 0 the he D democratic c bocra lie state committee of novida nevada vor the actual management of tile the bu business driess ot of lila ills department mr harris relied upon john T jones assistant tho the aetta nl and rell bellner ner who nwe as a holdover hold over appointee of ex president harrlson harrison jones was really the acting ilent dent of tho the int ithie anti and refining department part ment the work nork of cleaning up had gone on oil for live fie days ono one day mr masan 11 had brought to him a number of the melts or bar baj 6 ot of bullion which had been delivered to the refinery tn in the period specified by the superintendent of the mint and which contained acco according riling to the stamps they bore s a lairo laige percentage ot of gold cold it was re assayed and showed only forty hix ounces ot of gold cold instead ot of 1141 mr mason was with the assayer during all the time that the was beinar made and when tho cho abmayer finally announced tho the result HIS WAS WHITE AS tn lit one melt alone at a theft of oc about 21 fisit bad been bt on disco vend who alio if any one connected with the mint would uld know about this bogus melt meic asked mr mason of this payer the man mail seemed not to hear tile the I 1 fuestion lu estion ile he was as dumb as an ail oyster 1 I have it nut ot discovered any defect et in your hearing so far ar my friend gleaso alca io answer my question que atlon bald ald mr fr muon well pir fir replied tile tha assayer 1 I mr jones must have known about it mr fr jones Is the assistant of the refining department yes yea sir bir would it be possible tor for this melt to have been assayed and stamped and put lull into tile the vault without mr jones knowing about it the assayer thought tor for a moment and nd then replied very slowly no a belr fr I 1 dont think it could be pos possible bible in fact im sure pure it could not 11 all tight friend replied mr matton mason y yu you u will say aay nothing about this discovery and we shall see what we shall see then a number of other melts were re assayed and the loss losa of 75 in rold gold was accounted tir fr other dl verles led to the belief that domn ONU OND HAD STOLEN from the mini between june 1 1894 1904 and march 15 1895 nearly lit in gold after mr maason had the results of the reas says officially onic lally submitted to him lie ho walked into the onie office ot if the assistant superintendent of the th refining department and asked aked for his book of 0 records of the he essays assays and refining certainly jahr lr ill pd got it from the safe aare arid and men acad it to in to you said jones jone ill not trouble you to do that jf if yo u if pet get it now new please ill take lake it alth 1 th me mr air mason responded jones turned white theft hla his face flushed anti and then turned palo pale alwin lie ho seemed to ame aae difficulty in moving in his bl chaar cli ur finally lie ho pull d blin blinkin kIf together and went to the safe for the boo hook it purlee the ih mr mason had what seemed to him to be a curious thedoor the dor of the vault containing ml all the melts lit in the mint was wo just ut at till the right if if Juu ftH derk dek and not a foot coot away from it IL after rummaging around tile bate for leomo time jones found the bonk bank that w v wanted anuil and gave it ft to mr muon ahen mr mason was waa able to make mak a careful examination of the book tile tho first thing that attracted bit attention wm was flat neatly ly tl a dozen pages had I acu een torn aut next ho he discovered in junes on liand writing the eltiy of I 1 the he rry ery incie lit in aich which by renay ing the lir lynst itt f iden of the thefts was disco vend it was wait entered as 03 having ben been d into the dult adult anti and charged charar cd oft off thon to 10 cover the shortage in gold eold and the bural in diuver tun SAME MELT wa inard il as baving b ban n ant nt it to the r biln ry anun again and aickin ell trl d ll a having li avlD lb n r 0 i ld d at tn vault in other othar wordy jn s had diu 1 I two iwo t n i trl tri i alvn hi h t ln k kh af f bom something ething ln ILL did 11 il i ho ti i i jaal i n uni d 0 t ut C r in n fit that th cw cm w T r nn irr ulu ul u it th 1 mini tnt and in if f th catin pi pa I 1 rr inid 11 4 1 fann m r f to thu lea fa r t statement ajmer hat ahat noth making the st ins ing definite could be irn 11 elj u L etab XI commonly supposed that had occurred oc cu r red in co the ta this statement st at ement fell under tile ey er ol of a 1 I man named inam d beck c k of th heno borbe works ork on oil rea beun re un kling tha th statement beek beck immediately told lold superintendent pert perin 11 adams that a man mail nam i jaillet 11 II idney ID ney who nho was a silver dissolver at ai the mint from december 1 1891 to it june jull 30 1893 had several months before sent to the lanct R lleduc tion works to be inclined and had tub sub t b e hold id to tie selby pelby smelling R anil nd lead I vail company coin pany of san francisco 2 3 0 o 0 0 oc un g C 1 J when this thin critelli g fienco e n c 0 N vaa tsan r eav e 1 v e d at the in mint I 1 nt the be books 0 its of the assistant impel of f tho refining department were gone over asala ind and it was waa round found whir jones in order to cover vu nu hla his own had boen been obliged to cover up till licile ys as well the evidence collected by sir air mason vas submitted to tho ali grand jury and botti both honey and jones were indicted bonty at the time wn not in billson city jones was wa a prominent inan in tho the town politically and ins HIS FAMILY benr PROMINENT socially great pressure was waa brought to heap bear upon tile the grand jury to take no notice of the case jones jona was waa arrested Arrea ted as soon as a the indictment was found and lie le gave ball herter was waa pursued by secret deice tives through california new mexico arizona Arlzo nai and was finally taken at al licad L ville vl ll isach each man went through two tn trials before convictions were obtained both jones and henry heiler were sentenced to imprisonment tot for eight years and to a fine of each jones accomplished hiis hla ity simply dimply melts from the vault said and then accounting account mi for his hertage by upon a melt that was sent to him subsequently figures to make up the amount of gold cold lie he had taken honey honer took its ills gold from the room when the silver ehver had been so tar far separated from the kold got as to allow the gold or powder to bo be freo fre from I 1 thet ho silver he it ouirl simply pick up lip a handful of the powder now and then and put it in his pocket leadville horald democrat |