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Show " ' 6 THE SALT LAKE TIMES? SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1892. THETUNNEL Strictly first-clas- s in every particular. Has the best accom-modations of any resort in this inter-mounta- in region. Patron-ized by the best people in the city. Caters to the wants of the hungry as well as the thirsty. Contains 8 pool and 4 billiard ( Brims wick-Balk- e) tables. and all imported German Beers on draught, 42 and 44r West Second South St. Formerly Walker's Pavilion JOHN SuBEi, iiS MADE to ORDER-MA- DE to WEA3. SUITS: OVEKCOATS: PANTS: $ I Sic $50. $15 to $40. $3t3$l5. A Perfect Fit Gnaranteed. 239 W. SECOND SOUTH 81 BICYCLE ... SYLPH PaeBasHt and Cnsliica Tires. PHOENIX Passaatis ni Csstlsa TUes. ! IRgQU-P.I- CBshlee Tires. Call er rnd fir eafsiasaee. A tall Use of WHEELS of ail fradee. Special Prices to Clnbe on trden of thro or mere WUXELG for each. Cyslinf Soaeriee, OH, te. 8porting Qoos, Gan, AmmgilBn, BtMbill Qo!j, Cattery, Ete. U.n.ral Repatelag Ul Loekiiaitaing. M. R EVANS, tS-- S W. Id &., Salt F. Auerbach & Bro. DON'T LET GO THAT M I G HTY &OLLAR Until you have seen tested who sells Zb--e 'Oldestpest We olaim we do. We say to the people of Salt Lake City and Vicinity Investigate and study your own interests. BOYS' GLOTHiaG AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS. 1.00 Boys Plaid Knee Pants Suits. , ' 81 7 X Boys' Knee Pants Suits, Blue and Brown, Pin Check, I Worth $3.00 fUt AuC Boys' Navy Blue Flannel Waists, Our$L00Goodi O C Boys' D. K. Outing Flannel Waists. 1C Gents Ties in Assorted Colors, - Wortn25o Of) i) X Boys' Overcoats, with Cape, Worth $4.73 f) T?AT? 7 XC Men's Unlaundried Shirts, Reinforced Back, Double Yoke, J1 iO Regular 75e Quality (Wf AC Men's Flannel Overshirts, Worth 90c CiO )X Plush Lap Robes, t.,iO Worth $4.00 v' Boys' Astrachan Trimmed Caps. OJOr.C Seal Plush Caps, Worth 75c ' ' rc 0 Men's Linen Collars. - Suit Boys' Natural Gray LTnderwear. 81.00 Suit Men's Camel'a Hair Underwear, medium weight. " 1 A A JUU Boy's Long Fants, our regular first quality. O Boy's Knee Pants. 1 0 Men's Cashmere Hose. IT TAKES $2.00 ELSEWHERE TO BUY WHAT $1.00 BUYS AT AUERBACH' S. Our 90c Comforts cut to 50c CoL Blanket for 95c Our $1.25 Comforts cut to 90c b. " Blanket for $1.45 Our 1 1.50 Comforts cut to.... $1.10 5-l- Ker.ey Blanket for 2.15 Our $1.60 Comforts cut to 1.15 6-i- " Blanket for 2.00 Onr $1.75 Comforts cut to 1.25 b. " Blanket for 2.95 Our $2.25 Comforts cut to 1.50 10-- 4 White Blanket for 1.35 Our $2.75 Comfort for 1.75 11-- 4 " Blanket for ..1.75 OUR $7X0 11-- 4 WHITE BLANKET FOR 4.95 Domestic Drpartm knt. 20c. yd. Turkey Red Table Linen. 25o. yd. 54 in. Cream Table Linen, good value for 50c. 12 c. Huck Towels, size 44x20, extra heavy, a bargain for 25o. 4 l-2- e. yd. 36 in. Unbleached Sheeting. 5c yd. Extra Heavy 36 in. Sheeting. 18c. yd. 9-- 4 Heavy Sheeting. 4o. yd. 18 in. Twill Crash. - 8 l-3- c. yd. Heavy, All Linen, Crash. 4c. yd-- Fast Colored Prints. 7c yd. 38 in. Pine Cambric, 12 l-2- c. quality. 5c yd. 36 in. Bleached Muslin. 8 l-3- c. Lonsdale and Fruit of Muslin. 5c Apron Check Gingham. iw-- - $1.00 Doz. Damask Towels, size 31x15. r " 1 hi ' Agent for Butterick's Patterns and Hall's Bazar Form. '7, Son's Saw Bant k Trust Company. Noa. 1- -3 Main Street WTLFORD WOODRUFF, President. GEO. Q. CANNON, Vice-Preside- GEORGE M. CANNON. Cashier. Cash Capital, $200,000. Cash Surplus, $900,000. Zion's Savings Bank is the oldest and largest 8 a t i n g a Institution in Utah. We pay interest on sums from $1 and upwards. Interest com-pounded four times a year. Our d. poslta are greater than those of all other Savings Bank in Utah com-bined. :-- We Desire Yoar Accounts. -:- - WELLS-FARG- O CO.'S BANK SALT LAKE Buys an4 sells exchange, makes teleeraphlc trans-fers on the principal cities of the United States and Kurope, and on all points on the Pacldc coast. I feiios letters ot credit available in the principal c!ties of the world. Special attention given to the selling of eras and bullion. Ad-- 1 inces made on consiinimt'nts at lowest rates. Particular attention given to collections through- out Utah, Nevada and adjoining; territories. Accounts solicited. CORRESPONDENTS Wells, Farffo fc Co., London: Wells, Fargo & Co., New York; Na-tional Bank of the Kepnblic. Boeton; First National Bank, Denrer; State National Bank, Denver; Merchants' National l'ank. Chicago; Boatmen's Bank, St. Loni; Wells, Fargo & Co., San Francisco. J. Z. DOOLY, Cashier. IT COVERS A GOOD DEAL OF GROUND Dr. Pierco's Golden fprlpMetlictd Discovery. aSSlSiii5 And when you hear y?. that it cures so many jfM-y-k diseases, perhaps you think "it's too good U w to bo true." :r,S Eut it's only rea ps M sonable. As a Mood-- Jil cleanser, flesh-builde- r, and strength-restore- r, nothing like the " Dis-covery " is knoTm to medical science. The diseases that it cures come from a torpid liver, or from impure blood. For everything of this nature, it is the only guaranteed remedy. In Dyspepsia, Biliousness ; all Bronchial, Throat ana Lung affections; ev-ery form of Scrofula, even Consumption (or Lung-scroful- a) in its earlier stases, and in the roost stubborn Skin and Scalp Diseases if it ever fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back. t 1" EVANS. I 1 GOLLESE 6HA0UATE of EKBALMiHB. 1 li Special attention given to the Shipment of Bodies. OPSN ALL, NIOKT. Tel-- H ephone 304. tl4 Stat Street, lt Laka City. THE WALKER HOUSE Salt Lake City, Uiaii. r i American and European Plan, j ...... v . . J 11 Rates: $2 and $3 Per Day. J. J. McCLUSKY, EECHT0L fit SANDS, Prop'r Diulu Dept. Prop'rs Hotel Dept. THE MORGAN HOTEL 144 West First South. Central location. First-clas- s In all its ap-pointments. Rates $"i.OO and S3.SO per day. Special rites to theatrical and large parties. J. H. CLARK, Prop'r. The worse your Catarrh, the more you need Dr. Sage'3 Catarrh Remedy. Its proprietors oirer $500 cash for a case ot Catarrh in the Head which they cannot cure. . m m They Will Han It. The public demand through service when travel inc. It is to "change cars." On the through, solid vestibuled trains of the Chicago, Union Pacific & Northwestern line from or to Chicago, Omaha and Denver, there is no change. This is the finest and fattest service between the points named. M'CORNICK & CO., BANKERS SALT LAKE. Established 1878. A general banking bneinese transacted. Collections promptly made on all points in the West and Northweet. Careful at-tention Riven to consignments of ores and bul-lion. Exchange and telegraphic transfer on the principal cities of the United States and in Europe. CORRESPONDENTS New York, Importers' and Traders' National Bank, Eountze Bros. ; Chicago, Commercial National Bank; Oiraha, t'mnha Natio- - al Bank; San Francisco, First National Bank; St. Lonis, National Bank of Commerce; Kansas City, National Bank of Kansas City, First National Bank, American National Bank; Denver, Denver National Bank. City National Bank; Pueblo, First National Bank: Portland, Ore., First National Bank; London, Martin's Bank (limited), 68 Lombard street. . T. R. JONES & CO., BANKERS 163 Main Street, BUYS ORES AKD BCLLIOX THE NATIONAL BANK Republic 47 Main Street. CAPITAL (Fully Paid" In)' - $500,000 Frank Knox, President; i. C. Karrick, Vice-Preside- J. A. Earl., Cashier. Transacts a general banking business. Money loanei on favorable terms. Accounts of mer-chants, Individuals, firms and corporations so-licited. Five per cent interest paid on savings and time deposits. DIRECTORS L. C. Karrick, Emil Kahn, W. E. Smedley, Frank Knox, . 8. Holmes, J. A. ' Earls, George A. Lowe, H. L, A. Calmer, J. G. Sutherland. They Bastt tfc RoeortL The Rio Grande Western train which left Salt Lake on Sunday morning at 8 a. m. ar-rived at Denver at 7:30 a. m. Monday morn-ing, thus making the run between Salt Lake and Denver in twenty-thre- e hoars and thirty minutes, surpassing all previous records of any regular train between these two cltiss. The Rio Grande Western people claim they can make this time with ease, comfort and aafety, and were it any advantage to put passengers into Denver at an earlier hour they could arrange their schedule to do so. Their efforts for Improving the service be-tween Utah and the Colorado metropolis aould be encouraged by all classes of trai-lers. - - . Cultivated palates demand Royal Crystal Salt. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE I AND ARE SELLING GOODS Retail at Wholesale Prices. . All Ne-v- Stock, but "Everything Goes !" Come soon, and select what you need for your I own use, or for presents to friends. 72 mah, st UTAH BOOK AKD STATIONERY CO. R. STENZEL & CO. XAirUTACTlTRZItS OT 4 E. Third South Street CORNER MAIN. All furs made to order for the same price which yon pay for ready made goods. All goods made by us will be cleaned free of charge daring the period of one year. We repair and alter all kinds of seal garments into fashionable shapes. We carry the most complete line of Furs and Skins of any honee in the West, and guarantee prices as low as any house ki the trade. East ot West, quality and workmanship combined. I BLW0Y3 LOOK 1 ft: In this space for g Bargains In B PIANOS AND ORGANS. H SZ E. N. JENKINS' IS H Temple of Music 1 Successor to V. B. Warrca 5 g Mercantile Co. jr 72 w. second South St. COMMERCIAL NATIONAL, SALT LAKE. Capital (fully paid) $300,000 Surplus 43,900 General Banking in Ail its Branshss Iseues certificates oi deposit payable on demand bearing interest if lett specified time. dells drafts and bills of exchange on all the principal cities of the United State and Europe. Geo. M. Downey, President; W. P. Noble, Vice-Preside- Thomas Marshall, Second Vice-Preside- John W. Donnellan, Cashier. Directoiw F. H. Auerbach, Jno. J. Daly, D. J. Salisbury, Movlon C. Fox, Thomas Marshall, W. P. Noble George M. Downey, John W. Don-nellan. Edwin Kimball. UNION NATIONAL BANK (Successor to Walker Bros., Bankers). Established 1350. Capital (fully paid), $400,000: surplus, $45,000. United States Depository. Transacts a general banking business. Safe deposit vaults Are and burglar proof. J. R. Walker, President; M. H. Walker, t; if. J. Cheesinan, Cashier; L. II. Farnsworth, Assistant Cashier; J. R. Walker, Jr., Assistant Cashier. REDUCED PRICES IN LUMBER, ETC. a E. SELLS & CO. Are closing our their whole stock of Lumber, Doors, Win-dows and Building Material at Reduced Prices for Cash. Capital $250,000. Surplus $50,000. American National Bank SALT LAKE CITY. ORGANIZED OCTOBER, 1890. DIRECTORS James II. Bacon, President; H. M. Bacon, Vice-Presiden- F. L. Holland, Caehier; W. B. Holland. Assistant Cashier; S. M. Jarvis, F. W, Ross, Jadee J. W. Judd, Secretary Elijah Sells, Judge D. G. Tunnicliff, A. M. Grant, ; M. J. Gray, Judge C. F. Loofbourow--. INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS AND TIME DEPOSITS. 4 IMPROVE YOUR APPEARANCE By wearing Charles B. Gourlay & Co.'s Shirts. Where are you? Drop us a card and we will call and bring with us our samples and tape X . ,, measure. Ctias. B. Gourlay & Co. 303-30- 5 jlcCornick Bldg. X P. O. Box 492. The Popular Rom' To ALL POINTS EAST MHfc nly one chans9 of JffWpP- - ceura from Utah to vfeS Kansas City or St. WMMM Iuis Elegant HISIF Pullman Buffet m Sleeping Cars, and Free Reclining Chair Cars Be sure your ticket reads via MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY JT. C. TOWNSEXV, Gen. Pass. & Ticket Agent, St. Louis. S. V. DEItRAn, G. F. & P. A., 161 South Main. Salt Lake City. Chicago Short Line. A. Chicago, Milwaukee and St Ss Paul is the only line running Solid Vestibuled, Steam s J Heated and Electric-Lighte- d Trains daily between Chica-"- w go and Omaha, composed of magnificent Sleepers and th9 finest Dining Cars in the World. Every-thing Strictly First-Clas- s. Any further information will be cheerfully furnished by . JNO. S. TALBOT, Commercial Agent, T. F. POWELL. Traveling Agent. Room 22 Morlan Block. OLD BRANDS VS. HEW OPJSS- - While other manufacturers are having the nightmare to find and? select new brands I keep right on with my old ones, which everyone finds good enough. She reason of this is that the reputation is not made by the box, but depends solely on the goods that are in it. Following this principle and con-stantly upholding my standard in aqnudalithya,veI aam constantly kept busy steady, increasing de-mand for my justly popular and celebrated brands of cigars. Ex-cellence tells. Sam Levy,Cigarmak8r 171-17- 3 Main St. . i Fraser & Chalmers, (INCORPORATED.) HANTJFACrmtlES OF - linini ISiiery, Steal Engines anfl Boilers AND MACHINERY FOR THE Systematic Smelting, Milling and Concentration? OF GOLD, SILVER, COPFER, LEAD AND TIN ORES. ""' Cable and Electrie Baflway Machinery, IClestric Li$ht Plants, Blowing Ermines. Klectroljrtic Coppef Hants, all kind ei liininj Supplies, Ss --tiotial Machinery for Mnlehack TTaneportAtioa. FRASER & CHALMERS, Chicago & London!' L. C. TREEMT. General Vcstern Agent. Branch Howes at SALT LASS CITY, Utah, s3 HSLEKA, KoAtaoa. Buggies and Carriages. Geo, A. Lowe Ha received and tow sale a full line el the Lai est Styles! At the most popular preee; also a toll line of Afiieafthrei Implements and Hehsttier WlU. 148 State Road, Smlt Lake City. JGABELTAlL0a lA 65 W. 2d So. ; jAl pyPa3ts " - $3;50te$l5 Jh Sntta aarae ia M boat. ftU Bade la S boar. By tliasafctaa wortcmOB to this CKar. GENERAL) insurance O NAT IONAL O CASH I REGISTER OF D. YTON. O. Over Araeric an Uat'l Bank, SALT L IKE CITY. - i " ' ' J. C. MURPHY & CO., KANCFACTTJKXaS or Stencils, Seals, Slcsl and MUt Stamps Corporation and Society Seal a Specialty. NO. 218 SO. MAIN ST.. UP STAIRS Karcfcant Tailor. FIRST-CLAS-S ST7IT5 Kae t OrSar. Tettm Guuantoed. I wry full Haee olrrenchT! English, Bootoh and Domestic Gooee. 4i Votl Bouth Tnaple Street, osa. lemuie Lloo. Salt Lake City. ' Ijiwe'lK..' n"yi. 'I'gu.i y,rJM ,wmy y i ijnpin,i i uua.jii jimii;iiii..H m if ijiii m nyy, i HMD f. Geo. H. Scott, Prest. Jas. Glenderming, H. S. Rumfield, Sec'y Sj I GEO. M. SCOTT & CO., I S Barstos, Ksla!, St8?8s, teara, Kill Ra&gs Qo. Jt A?ent for fbe Podg Wood Ful'ey.Roebling'e Steel Wtre Rop. t tXl Vacnta Cylinder and Engine Oila, Herewlee Powder, Atlaaln- - f Vr&tA rinoa ahd Boiler, Keck Injectors, BufiaJo Seale, Jefferson tf hbr Whims Blake Fmps.UlMrs'aadBUiksnuthsTooU.ete. y r ICS MAIN STREET - - SALT LAKE CITY j jj ,n,,r-T- ; r r "TffifrT fifif y as death, but Connor assured me that not one of them had faltered or altered in hia determination to kill. The strain was over now. Tney may have rejoiced that they had been spared the sheddine of b'.ood, but the first feeling as tie of baffled rigo and dis-appointment that their prey had escaped. "What has happened. Mr. lloey?" asked Detective Sergeant Connor, in a hollow, usky voice. "' "Broderick came into my room a few moments aso, and said that he couldn't stand the idea of having those men shot down in cold blood, and had given them a him this morniu? that they had better keep away from here tou'ht. i'oor fellow; he's entirely wrecked over this whole affair, and has, I think, gone mad. Leave a couple of your men upstairs for the night, Connor, and the rest can go home." So this was the ending of the great pt to rot) the Adams Express company's T&uits. Looking back through the vista of four-teen years. Captain Connor is content now that the duty of shooting men down from ambush was not forced upon him. xs I watched him telling his story, in more thrilling language than I could use, I won-dered how many of the gray hair on his head and the little crow's-fee- t on his temple had had their beginning daring those nights of painful vigil. "What ha become of IToorey, captain?" lacked; "do you know?" "Oh, yes; we never lost sight of him. He went down to New Orienns. John Hoey, sitting there, paid his fare, too. He was ap-pointed a deDuty sheriff there and afterward a keeper in the parish prison. Going home one night he got into an altercation with a stranger and was fairlv cut to pieces." "And Brady?" "Brady died only a year osro. He has done five years since for a burglary. Little Dick Moore also died last year, and MeDevltt two years ajo. The man who was to have given the alarm of tire at the South Ferry is alo dead. Godfrey alone is alive, and he is serv-ing a term of years for a 'butcher cart' rob-bery. My old side partner, Dick Tields, is also dead," added the captain, regretfully. "Dead men teil no tales, Dick," said Mr. Hoey, quietly, as his eye met Connor's. "They do not, Indeed. I guess you and I have been talking too much, already. Good night, gentlemen." . . m m m AFTER A MILLION. A Detective's Story or an Attempt to Rob the Adams Bxpree Company. Whpn the enterprising burglar's not When the cut-thro- isn't occupied in crime, Be loves to hear the little fcrook a gurgling, And listen to the merry village chime. There's no little brook or merry chime about this story I'm gin? to tell, says a writer in the St Louis. t. A chance meeting last weeik threw mo into the agreeable society of two men who are rather famous in their canicular walks of life. One was John'Hoey, the of Adams Express company, and the other Police Captain Richard Connor, recently transferred to the Tenderloin precinct I found that they were old friends, but had not met since years ago, when "Dick" Con-nor was a famous detective sergeant and John Hoey, as manager of Adams Express company, was the terror of express robbers the country over. As old friends will who have seen perilous times together, they fell to talking about the days .before Byrn.es cleared out the town, when burglars add cut-throa- were as thick at huckleberries and bank robbers as busy as bees. "Dick," said Mr. Hoey, "do you remem-ber the nights we sat up watching that iran? work the big Adams Express vault at No. 55 Broadway?" "Can I ever forget it! 'Twis the most jteiting erperience of my life." By dint of a little questioning and sugges-tion I got these two worthies to go over in detail the frtory of one of the boldest at-tempt to rob and the cleverest and most thrilling b:t of dettctiva work ever placed on the unpublished annals of crime in New York. The story was gathered in piecemeal, each peaker recalling some incident to the other and each memory being freshened by fric-tion with the other. It ran like this and has never been told before. About twenty ytars ago one of the most trusted drivers in the employ of the Adams Express company was a young Englshman, Hoorey by name. He had charge of one of the money wagons, and his night run was to Jersey City and back to the office, generally bringing in a small safe of money and tak- - ing a receipt for it, afterwards going home to bed. One day Hoorey reported sick and was excused, a man named Sweeney taking his place on the wagon. The two were in collu-sion, for the next morning about 4 Sweeney brought in a safe as usual, got his receipt and drove off. He had delivered an empty safe, which he had secured in advance and carried away the safe, which contained $07,-00- 0, concealed under a blanket. Hoorey joined him on a ferryboat, where they broke open the safe, took the eontents and threw it overboard under cover of the night. Suspicion fell upon Hoorey and Sweeney, but they were allowed to go about their work as usual, but under constant surveil-anc- e. Hoorey was found to be leading a fast life on the Bowery, and spending . money freely. He was arrested, but de-clared his innocence, and engaged A. Oak-ley Hall to defend him, paying him $1000 of the stolen money as a fee. Sweeney, how-ever, squealed and turned state's evidence. Hoorey was tried, convicted and sentenced was to lake his place, go through the build-ings and touch the alarms at intervals of fifteen minutes which indicated at a burglar alarm office in New street that the watch-man wss at his post and all was well. The first two or three Sunday nights were spent by Brady, MeDevltt, Moore and Goodey in making a thorough examination of the vault and familiarizing themselves with every detail of its construction. Then the handles were taken off, the combination lock tried hundreds and thousands of times, weak spots were detected and a general plan adopted for the great work of the Sunday nignt before Christmas. foor fools? They say there is honor among thieves, but how often does it prove to be so? Broderick had squealed. He had at first stipulated with 4;hc thieves that he should be found bound and gagged by them when the robbery was discovered on Mon-day morninir. When he suggeated that an-oth-watchman not In the plot might be substituted for him before the plot ripened, he was told that in that case the other mun would be killed. This murder kept ringing in his ear. Robbery he could stand, but not that. Realizing at last the desperate char-acter of the men he was dealing with, he went to John Hoey and made a clean breast of it. Tbi was before the first entrance was made to 59 Broadway. "Oh, ho! So that is Mr. Hoorey's re-venge, is it?" said Mr. Hoey, softly. Then hurriedly writing a note he called Detective "Dick" Connor to his private office. Their plans were immediately formed. Detective Dick Fields and four others whose names must be nameless were called in. From that moment every movement of the burglars was watched. Night and day the eye of the law was upon them. Broderick, now thoroughly penitent and frightened to death, wss easily compelled to keep up the pretense of beinir a member of the gang. All he had to do was to let the burglars in every Sunday ni;rht. Of course they had no suspicion that he had played them false. Just alongside the vault but at a some-what lower level, was the boiler room of No. ai Broadway, a little, dark, dirty den of a place, lighted only by a small Iron grating, which looked out into the chamber where the vanlt was built. For six Sunday nights Connor, Field and the four others lay on t!;oir bellies in this hole, each armed with Winchester rifles and revolvers. Through their little peephole they could watch every movement of the burglars at work in the next room. Every Sunday evening a big covered Adams Express wasrou was driven up to the Grand Central station, with freight matter. Returning down town it stopped at Twenty-thir- d 6treet at 9 o'clock, and took on the six detectives, who lay down in the bottom of the wagon, and were jolted directly down to the rear of Broadway, driven into the yard and con-cealed in the boiler room. Mr. John Hoey came up from Long Branch every Sunday afternoon, much to the surprise of his fam-ily, and took up his position in No. 01 Broad-way on the ground floor, and he, too, had a peep holo through which he could watch the operations of the gang when oh the ground floor of No. 59. The detectives then being stowed away had nothing to do but wait On the first night everything was as still as death in the building until fooUteps were heard and Hoorey came unconcernedly into the vault room and touched the alarm clock. They knew then that the gang was coming. Laughing and jesting in a low tone, al-though they were practically out of the world and under the street, the four desper- ate thieves came into the room and looked curiously at their enemy lock and hr to five years in state prison. Most of the money was recovered by Mr. Hoey and the then superintendent of police, Wall-ing, hidden in the ground under a plumber's shop at the corner of Maiden lane and Nassau street. Sweeney disap-peared. Horace Russell was then assistant district attorney, and Detective Dick Connor i and Dick Fields, Dick," as he was called then, attached to that office, worked up the case against Hoorey and Bweeney. Connor also found several thou-tan- d dollars of the booty sewed up in a pet-ticoat of Sweeney's sister. All this, however, is but preliminary to the story to come. Hoorey went to Sing Sing to serve his five years. While there he wrote several threat-ening letters to Mr. Hoey, saying he would shoot him on sight as soon as he got out. Time rolled on, and about four years latr, in October, 1876, at Mr. Hoey and the late Hugh Hastings were walking up Liberty street from the Jersey Central ferry, Mr. Hoey saw Hoorey standing at a door of a bar room corner of wihTcrton street. "My God, Hugh!" he exclaimed. "There is Hoorey out of jail," and, walking straight up to Hoorey, he said: ' "So you are out of jail, are you, and are going to shoot me on sight?" Hoorey snatched off his cap and. holding it in his hand, faltered out: "So help me God, Mr. Hoey, I wouldn't touch a hair of your head. Only eive me a chance to be-come an honest man." "All right, I won't distuib you," Mr. Hoey said, and walked on. Hoorey then went to board with a Mrs. "Looks a tough 'un, oh, Jim?" remarked McDeviit to Brady. "I've tackled worse nor that," was the en-- . couraging reply. "Well, boys, here's success to us and to his nibB, John Hoey," exclaimed Moore, pulling out a whisky flask and passing it around. Moore, by the way, was dressed in a high silk hat and looked quite a dude. Within ten feet of these men lay the de-tectives, Winchesters ready, but not to be used yet for many a week. Connor assured me that the strain was awful. The least noise or motion would have revealed their presence. They were caught like rats in a trap and could not move to defend them-selves. Up stairs John Hoey had a no less thrill-ing experience. This night he saw the gang coolly knock the top off a box of shoes and each one sit down and fit himself with a new pair, and on subsequent Sunday nights he bad the pleasure of seeing the gang take away sundry other articles com-mitted to the company's care; but there was little petty thieving. The gang was after great game. They knew that there would be upward of $1,000,000 in gold and cur-rency In that vault on the Sunday before Christmas, and they would not hazard the main chance for the sake of a few trifles. So was the company playing for Die game for nothing less than the lives of the five men who were working the safe under the Brady in "Washington street, near Cedar, and while kockiur round the First ward made the acquaintance of one Broderick. who was a oightwatchrnan at the Adams Express company's offices, 59 Broadway. Broderick knew nothing- of Hoorey'e past history, and was soon in the tolls of that specious young rascal, who, far from reforming, had deter-mined upon a tremendous coup, and finally consented to enter into nothing less than a plot to rob the vaults of the company. Broderick listened and then fell. . But neither Hoorey nor Broderick knew how to crack a safe or open a vault. Some professional talent would have to be called in. Hoorey remembered that while in state prison he had been recommended by a pal to a certain Jim Brady, a professional bank robber of great skill and reputation. He hunted Brady up and unfolded bia plans. At first Brady was suspicious of a trap, but after shadowing Hoorey himself he be-came convinced that the fellow was honest-ly dishonest, and entered into the scheme con more. He must have at least three palls for such a difficult and desper- ate job as to force tha vanlt of the Adams Express company, so he got together a precious gang of scoun-drels and safe robbers, named "Bell" Eddie Goodey and "Little Dick" Moore, three past masters in the art of safe cracking. As each one of them was as well known to the police as the superintendent, their plans bad to be laid with the utmost caution. They hit upon the novel scheme of meeting at Harrigan's theater at matinees. One of the gang would buy six seats, always in the last row of the orchestra, and while the rest of the audienee was roarin? with laughter over the antics of the Mulligan Guards, these six scoundrels (for Broderick and Hoorey were always of the party) mapped out one of the cleverest schemes ever de-vised. From Hoorey the gang got a jrood idea of the movements of big sums of money to and fro from the express company's vauits. They knew that the largest amounts were kept over Sunday in the safes in the great vault under the sidewalk. They shrewdly sur-mised that about Christmas time the largest sums of money would be in trausit, and also discovered that the government at Washing- ton remitted large amounts of specie about that time to New York to pay off govern- ment employes. They therefore decided to make their big haul on the Sunday night before Christmas! Their plan was this. Each Sunday niht through November and December they would gain access to the Adstns building through Broderick, the nightwatcbraarT. They would make a complete study of the lock and construction of the safe, ond on the night appointed for the robbery a trusty confederate at midnight precisely would send out an alarm of fire from the box just opposite the South ferry. As the engines thundered down Broadway, directly over the vauit. they would sot off their explosive which Were to blow out the door of the safe The noise would bq. lost in the rumble and confusion on the streets. They would require heavy tools and Im-plements to work their finishing touches on the strong vault, and how to get these into the building without being noticed was for a time a problem. But Brady was really a genius, he caused the finest outfit possible of burglars' tools, dark lanterns and powder kegs to be packed in a box and shipped to Stamford, Conn, through Adams' express, but the box would be sent in so late as to miss the last express run to Stamford on Saturday nijjht, and therefore have to lie over at No. 59 Broadway until Monday morning, the express com-- pany itself thus being employed as agents for its own robbery. Everything worked to perfection. The first Sunday night on which the gang was to enter the building arrived. One by one, each coming from a different- part of the city, Brady, McDevitt, Moore, THoorey and Goedey were let into the rear or freight en-trance of No. 59 Broadway. The vault was down stairs, built into solid masonry under the sidewalk. Broderick. the niirht watch-- , ban, waa to stand guard at the door. Hoorey j muzzles of the company's Winchesters! Legal advice had been taken. Horaee Rus-sell, then district attorney, had been con-sulted, and the conclusion had been reached that sudden death must be meted out to the criminals. A crack of a Winchester through a hole in the wall, and that was all! The argument was this. To an express com-pau- y, a dead robber is the only good rob-ber. Jail has no terrors for these fellows. It only gives them the better opportunity to plot and plan for the future. Hoorey him-self was a fair sample of what might be ex-pected from a jail bird. The district attorney also set forth that if any one of the five lived to tell the tale a case might be made out asrainst the com-pany, on the ground that it had lured, or at least admitted the robbers to its premises, having full cognizance of their intention to commit a crime. The orders then were to kill. Every man in the detective party had singled out his man. A young fellow who had had previ-ous trouble with Hoorey begged leave to shoot him, and it was granted. Connor had marked down Brady, and One-Eye- d Dick Fields had set McDevitt as his special prop-erty. Two of the other detectivet, after watching for three Sunday nights, became sick an3 faint over the strain and the stern necessity of taking human life, and were re-lieved from duty, two others being substi-tuted in their place. The detectives' plan was to let the thieves work out Jheir entire plot, just as it bad been concocted, and not to shoot until the last second, nor until the eouud of fire engines were heard approaf fl-ing on the street on the Sunday night be-fore Christmas. What a day for such an awful retribution! So they lay still as death Sunday after Sunday watching the experiments on the locks, the tampering with "the masonry, the deft manipulations of the combinations. They could not tell but that some change of plans might precipitate the fatal moment and turn the "vault room Into a slaughter house. The tensioTon the nerves was awful. The strain on the muscles, which must bo kept motionless, was distressing in the extreme. It was with a solemn and painful sense of duty that the faithful little band gathered together for their last Sunday night' watch. They had every reason to believe that the tragedy was on hand. Every man felt that he would have a fellow creature' soul to ac-count for before the sun rose. The burgiar had evidently worked on without the slightest suspicion that they had been watched. Broderick performed hia duty of letting them in each Sunday night, Hoorey touched on his clocks regularly; the other four had woikcd away unconsciously on the safe. The box of tools had come, and v as lying in the freight room awaiting the purpose of their ekiiif ul manipulators. Iu-dee-d, it was a dreadful drive, that last one down to the rear of 59, and the positions were taken for the last time with a deep sense of the awful responsibility each man was about to exercise. Yet there was not the slightest sign of weakness on any hand. Not a not even a thought of commis-eration for the fellows who were to be rid-dled with bullets; only a stern, set resolu-tion to obey orders at any cost. Ten o'clock came and no sound gave Brod-erick touching the clocks, as usual, until Hoorey came. Eleven o'clock, and still Broderick; if he had stopped touching the alarms it would have caused instant Investi-gation from the New street office. Half past 11! Ah ! a footstep now that of Hoorey, of course. No, only a rat scurrying away in a coal bin. They must come soon now. The rifles have long siuce been cocked and brought into position for instant play. At last a heavy footstep on the stairs! "S'.eady, boys," hissed Connor. "Don't shoot without the word, 'Fire!' " It was close to 12 now. The footsteps came eloser, the door opened and John Hoey stepped into the vault room. "Don't shoot, boys; it's I John Hoey. The game is up. Broderick has peached on us, as he did on his gang!" Great beads of perspiration stood out on the detectives' foreheads as they scrambled one by one out of tliu hole. They were pale |