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Show MRALLEL STORIES iff FAMOUS CBIMES-TaSttSS-, I low a Bit of Wax Saved tb CaiKier from Arrest td Disgrace and Be-grayed Be-grayed tne Real Truevea. f BY HENRY C. TERRY. ..or,, r. -I ' I frl with '.ft--'1 ' .-. Shavr1' pro-' rr,!.. I more n.t'cninilv i 1 ;;,,M i ItJd "";'V," to mv c;lr fir-r with U'ly S,e clue -n,Mh J ilKdilMDt bit '"' , IjjBT the elal-oi ' ; -'"' ; r,'"ld Ball las a famiV:r jownd to the gVjgW of "i- CMrfnrr '" r'"1 1,1 1 l!' Bjl3' thf 1 '"x k'! " rYaWN arroM ami I vindication K Povlr i:i '' r.'. onl; Shor ('Holra i-1 1 ,1m' ''"'" IB the bit M don't be1 ' " 1" W about fact, hemcr stranger tban 'an api'1is f.o the detect io,, f,t lE, follow tlie ui.v&f tv ot (be Kings robbery with rn - ... i - "'" , Hps of tbe principal actors. Ky MITCHELL'S YARN. A cook who up lo snuff." -aid Ef thiBirs ror havine 1 -. tried -'"id 1 wttd three times for murder, "and -fB& to e"t alonj in 1 1- i.usi i.o-s " BJJnt work iiv ton much i'or the KViist be lik n tr'"-l n.-r.il II-ihaBj II-ihaBj alwavj- arr;-ir.r i.i- i 1 : 1 1 - -o c'-Ktct hi r- rrtr---:it 1 : :iii :ill i "."'foil-r-of'' I ' r. "if ' . 1 I havo rir.1 i.-cd ' mi-. I ' V''' ' ''lost of tlipm. 'Kme thicvi-s iir -'o M'TKin iIk.i i THE CRIMINAL TclJa How He Planned the Deed and Sought to Close Every Avenue of Knowledge Leading '( His (iiiilt. The Detective Shows How Futile These Efforts Were ;irr! How the 0I1 Adage, "Murder Will Out,'' Aiwa ya Holds Grood. . , . thf n nut mind going to j:til lor ;i five ir mi I'liiiisl'iiM nt il r.h:il x.rt im r. no tPrror for tboOi, :nnl. n l ili jbsrty i BW66t to ovary niani they lake tbeir ii-.orlipino. nnd rithsr pnjoy prison lif'. I alwapi bad n borror of L'"'n:r to onsoQt I'm ii wn- uovcr qmto strong enougb ? I.'ii me to become honesi. VVbPn tha big door closed liiiinl mi1 pvp-v timr that I nntro i;il it gave ni n cbill. and I novor i:"' over it until un-til I w.t g nut in tip ooshine again. 'So i! naturally happened that when 1 frail hi native buninees, it wae my Special iiosirp to Ho everything in my power tn keep oul of fail. I always paid great ip.-il more attention to laying plmis for a get-away after a robbery tfhan tbp work iteelf; For (kit rt.ion 1 iio-l to inti iiiarrolfl witb the mr-n I wor4ced with. They did not. iik my caution. :mi r )i.-iw polled many times on! at whal looked easy jobs just beeanao I run id do! nee my way CIOBI to escape. I' (vafl my notion tbal any l t of work would nor pay, no matter how in neb noneji iiirr' was in it, if it wore followed :i ln- yoara' epntrael witb ihp Btate in the i one br ;i king line. "It waa tbii trnit of mind which Ipi me inly the rlingaton National bank robbery. t the time when I ran against, tins trirk 1 was a fngith-r from justice, V7itl t)i i-xrrp 6t killing Nod Wallace h.-irsLrincr ( l-r me, bo oa turaJly, I liad to go n hit alow. TImtc ;i no doiibt about iny killing Nod, tint i had to do it to save ny own life. I know l would be acquitted it' I were pinched and held for tr':d. but I hated to go througb it all, and I made up my mind that the besl way out of it was ro keep tinder cover until the clouds blew away, 1 gol over to Kingston, Kings-ton, whrrr 1 had h solid friend, and izi my trips about ;h'' place 1 struck the bank. "My attention was attracted to the lank by n story in one of the papers aboul a large sum of money which had been deposited in its vaults by some company thai was going to build a rnil-road rnil-road and :i water works. I knew thnt tiii- money was going to remain ii the bank for several weeks, I sent for Mill Noble, who was -'it thai timo running run-ning a gambling house in ISafli Houston street, near Broadway. Bill waa aiways readj to take a band with me because ho understood nn ways and I did h;--and wr never had ban nny trouble, it wa. just wi-.at Bill wanted, for hi-, bank roll had hr"ji hit very hard 1 ha.! not hopn out of the honae in the daytime beeanse tho marder of Wallace wh v cry bo . and I know t hal t :opp ri were making s In civ ,-Ikis,- (or me. 1 arranged with. Bill for him i do all thr preliminary work. Hp turned a book agent on short not i. e. which gave him B chance to vi.-dt. the bank without exciting suspicion. "i don't remember wiml book ii was that Rill iv- soiling, but ho did such slick work thai the clerks bought all hit -tork. and he bad to more books to fill the ordcra, just tO make it appear ap-pear .s ruight. While Mill ws talking books he stzed up the vault, and saw thai the door nan an old fashioned affair, with a iirti and intricate lo.d:. which hnd just come out, and wa: believed to be burglar-proof. Bill got everybody's pliir. in the bank firtnK fixed in his mind, and the ign- on the desk in trout of tlioiiv indicated the t,art o' the business that each man looked after. "The ncxl step was find out n )io closed up the vault. This was ;i very delieate thing to pick up without hp ing inquisitive The Pact thai Bill had to deliver Dome more boo!.- at tbo bank opened the wav to got this information infor-mation io kepi tab on the banfa for several da3rs, and found oul thp lime that each man left, but he could not see from the Btreet who had charge of the vault. When the booka came Bill waited Until banking hours w ere over before going to deliver tlK-m. Ho found Beveral of the 'lerkfi busy ''I"' ing up tlio book.-, and he showed that he was a genuine book agent lv starting in to talk against time. Bin know what he was after, and he, got it. after waiting an hour. Mill sail that the cashier, ihose name was Boll, Locked up the vault. He uned two sot? of keys, one for the innr door to tho small safe and the other for the u iron outside, door Bill wns dose enough to the keys to remember them if he saw tbom again. Mill followed I the cashier to hi home, whieh was in t h- suburbs, in neat two story cot- I tage, an J the prrdnmnarv work was over. j '"It would have been easy to take the net step, hi'dt would be to gel if.' keys and open the safe. That is what omo thieves would haw. dnnn, but f had a better trick up :u sleeve. which came out of my caution, and would aid us in staking escape easy. M was developed in this way: Tea same nigjht Mill found out about the keys,' we made ;t ?'ll at Cashier Bell's house after the family had retired. We did not care to disturb their slumbers, slum-bers, bo ws eut red the bouse through a parlor window. BUI had located the room in which the cashier Slept, and I went there noiselessly, father the cashier or u if o had a beautiful snore. :.n,i I need not have been bo careill in my operations 1 found tho cashier's trousers, removed the keys and returned tn the street, where Bill was waiting. went to a nociiidod Bpot where it was sale to flash B lantern. Thero I look a careful impression of the vault keys ami the kej of the from door of tho bank in wav, :md all tho measurei necessary. I then returned to the cashier's houe and rcplaeed the keys in hi pockets i u 1 :u I hnd found lhe,n We closed Dp tho honsv and went home. "I immediately tvent to work nn tbo keys. They used to say J! was the best keymaker in the world, ft tool me about a day to file tho keys. "The niebt jifter wo bad called on Cashier Bell, Mill and 1 paid a visit to the bank about - o'clock In the morning, morn-ing, when we knew the policeman on the beal sas I a k i n e B ?noo7 In a baV-erv. baV-erv. "The keys worked like a charm. Five minutes after wo entered the bank l wac inside the vault, packing up the green stuff. T took all tbe money and such bonds ae appeared to bo negotiable, negotia-ble, f worked lively, and in twenty minute? closed the doors of the vault, and walked ru.t w-ith $340,000 in my L'rip. We v.-oro in time to connect wit)'-B wit)'-B freight train Vfter ridinrr about ten miles wo let'l tho train, crossed tha Hudson to Khinebeck, and took tho first train to New York." DETECTIVE PRICE'S STORY. "Mistakes are something thai cannot can-not bo avoided,'1 said Detective Price, 'no matter how careful vou may be. In probably no other business are mis takes made so often as in police work, and vv. nre frequently uni'i'-tlv crit-leized crit-leized and condemned, " spak in this wav tieause of my rccdl' tion ot th. peundintr 1 ecelC'l when investigating, the robbery of the Kingston National bank. T know that I did not deserve all that I got, but a graal many people thought 1 waa not .'ibusod half enough. "1 wa put to work upon the case the day the robbery was discovered. b eh was on a Monday morning. A vorv singular State of things wa found :t the bank when Cashier Bell threw open the doors of the vaults to begin the day's business. 11 the clerks were present at their desks, rs the book were kept in another safe, whieh wa-. in charge of the head bookkeeper. Th" cashier entered the vault to take out tome bills to put in the drawers bo his desk. A moment later he staggered out and fell into a chair. He was not, able In speak for B moment The clerks gathered around him, thinking he had in attack of heart failure, to which be ivas BUbject, He .'".tuonnpod. when he got control of himself, that there was no money in the vault, but he did not that there had been a robbery. "After a short cor.snltaf ion, the hank was closer! for the day, and everything waa just as ii had been found when f got thero 1 made a careful examination of aU the window-, and doors. There waa no sign that thieves had forced an entrance. The vault, according to the statement ol I ashior Bell and all the clerks, wa3 locked when they reached the bank The paint on the doors had not ven a slight scratch to show that they had booD tampered with The deeper I wont into the affair the more mysterious mysteri-ous it bec,jTn". T made up my mind that some nno bad robbed the bank who was perfee.tlv familiar with tbe safe and the methods of doin business. busi-ness. "1 had a private consultation with ti:e president and directors, and got from them the history of every man who worked in the bank, so fir as they know it. Every employee had b gilt-edged gilt-edged reputation, was prominent in social so-cial and church affairs in thr' town, and had boon with the bank for man. years. "I inquired verv minutely into the methods of npomn? tbe safe. T learned that it required two men the cashier and a clerk who each had a key to different doors. Without both of them being present, the safe could not be opened. This looked like a promising lead, so I pushed my inquiries in that direction, I learned when the cashier had opened tho safe on Monday morning morn-ing that the other clerk was not. present pres-ent It was evident then that the cashier had both keys. The president would not believe me when 1 told him of the state of affairv It wag a strict rule of the bank that tbe keys held by each man should not be surrendered to an -.-one except br order of the president. presi-dent. "1 then centered nrr attention on 1 ashier Bell and be?an to weave tbe net closer and closer about him. I earned that Bell had requested tbe clerk to eive him the kev about a week before the robbery The clork waa going to attend a ball, and the cahier had told him to let him have the keys, so h need not report as Sarly as nual at the bank. The clerk gave up the keVB. The cashier did not return rhem. although the clerk Baked for them. Then T learned thnt Re!! had boon speculating through a broker in Wall street, and. n near as T rould get at it. bad lost about $8000 in a ve ir. which was new? to the bank ot ficiale. "I found out that the Onshiev had hold several interviews witb strangers, and another startling fact that on tne night of tbe robbery Mr. Bell had awakened anil found that her husband w?s not in bed. Sh did not know where be was. and had nor thought of Hsking hinu There were sesoral other suspicions circumstances against Bel'. I became convinced that if be did not commit the robbery himself, he must certainly have hnd some knowledge of "Thero were also manv fa-'ts in Boll's favor; bnt tbe bank directors became convinced, after carefully I weighing all the evidence, that he Was g'jjlt", and he was arrested. 1 never j saw a rnau who took his arrest so hard, and tustly so, a it afterward turned: out. Tie had a hearing, and so strong B case was made out against him that he war heir) for trial. "Shortly after thiv t.hwre was a tire in the house of a Mrs Libbv Larson. Being a hit of a fire fiend, T went to see the lountrv boys work. Thev did such good work that they saved the house. I went into the place, and in a closer, on the second floor T picked up a piecp of wai It "Would not bive been noticed bv any one not familiar with the method? of thieves, but I saw St a glance that it had been used to make an hnpneasion of two keys- T slipped It into my pocket and made a careful examination of it in mv room. The impression showed that the evs were of intricate construction, and the thought, flashed across my mind that they were verv similar to the keys of tho vault in the bank. T obtained the keys without telling air- one mv business, busi-ness, and found thnt they fitted per fectly. This was new light on the mystery, it seeaned o he cornering proof that Bel! hnd accostrpliasl prob-ablv prob-ablv the strangers he ha3 met. ' I co-jld not understand, however, how it was that a wax impreBsion had been made of the kev which Bell had In bis possession, why go to all this trouble when tbe keys tbem?elvej could be used at any time? "I took a peep at'Mr. Larsen without with-out her knowing it. 1 tell von I gae a jump when I recogai7ed her as Km nie Skidmore, th -wife of Bill Skid-more, Skid-more, a well known bank sneak. last, i began to see daylight. Annie was stopping at the house of a neigh bor, a'fer beine burned out. snd 1 learned that she bad received 100 by telegraph from nw fork the u. the fire. The wording of the telegram not throw anv bght on the rase, 'To mv surprise and dobght. Annie, the following day after 1 recogni ( I j her. left Kingston, ami vient to Albany. Al-bany. he showed her cunning in do- ' mg this, a? the same night she too k the train for New York. 1 i-n-'-v from this secretive movement that Annis had something important that she trying to hide. T .-onld rell b hr easv movement that h, thought she j w,s safe, l telegraphed for a oouple of detectives to meet me at tho depot, las I could not toll what Would turn DP "Jt was luckv that 1 did so. for in the depot, waiting for Annie, wor WUy Mitehpll and Bill Noble, two of the brightest .-rooks in the land. The-, spoke with her a moment 1 knew that, thev wore making .m appointment from the movement of her head. 1 snt the two men after Wllv and Bill, and 1 went afto Annie. She went to a private bouse in Fourteenth street, remained there two hour-, and then went out with a grav wig as a di guise. '"She was well known In (hi city. I surmised that sh"3 was going to meet her partners, and Wai convinced of 11 when she rft)'ntr 1 he corner ol iroono street and Clinton place, I san my partners taking a pipe on :i house i i Clinton place, and 1 quieth arrested Annie. T locked her up in the Mercer street stntion, went back to n parr ners, and arrested Bill ami Wilv when thev appeared on the street. Tbey gave 08 the laugh, bnt that night 1 eavo Annie the third degree. Sh.-finnllv Sh.-finnllv broke down and told all about the robbery and the part Wily and Bill had played in it. "Thev- tili pretended theii inno cr.ro until I produced the wax Impression Impres-sion of the keys. Then they were readv to confer, and gave no the stolen property to lighten their sen tenco. I recovered all the more-. c cept .$30,000. and sent my humble apology apol-ogy to fanbier Bell. |