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J tr 4 r. r L V w f y S r LAKE EVENING TELEGRAM Ai I I 4 lr I r v 1 t tt 1 t Q O IL TL lb Which Edd in h 4 BY GEORGE s. s Jr cand ad e Of eat deS J Second Second Deputy Police Commissioner CI of New York o k T bT tb New ew 0 A All rl tuned I r called caned upon to remit the most thrilling episode in m my W WERE career as aa a ft detective I could think of none Done to compare with the robbery of a n little bank a at Union Mo o. o the tho long and Dd e ms e search arch for clews to the identity of the robbers robber the stirring chase that later followed follow the tho band hand to hand band battle b with the ringleaders and their subsequent execution as murderers at which function It R a brass band was in attendance the whole town turning out en fete te to do bonor honor to to the occasion I t hare bace read nearly every good detective story ever print printed but I th think tho the facts as herein contained make even these thee heroes of fiction look like when compared to the deviltry of my pair of de desperadoes I was seated in my office one morning at a n time when I Iwas was in charge charge- of th the Pinkerton 8 agency in New York city when F this thi telegram ir greeted me mc Vault and nd I safo of First National Bank of Union Mo Ma blown with nitroglycerine loss logs cash negotiable able tie ties Evidently work of first class ye g men No 10 o clews chews description meagre Undecided Un decided whether two or four men Moro More definite information later Inter Investigation progressing quickly and thoroughly 1 Now r ow here was as n job worth while In fact it was lB one that would make te any ny one J sit u up and avd take notice This m message l cl came from Chris Murphy the chief of our St St. Louis agency and in five fi minutes r I had bad at t y finger ends a minute description tion ton of Union Mo ro the tho scene of the r rob rob- blIer b- b lIer Lerv This Thi st story ry wouldn't be worth rend read ins int unless T the reader render shared my mi kno knowl knowledge l edge of Union as It t was then The Bankers Bankers' Directory tells one that thai UI Union Jon Is the tb-e county scat cat of Frat Franklin with a population of 1300 and boasting two of-two banks the banks the Bank Bauk of Union with willi witha a capitalization of and the Citizens' Citizens Bank capitalized at t town is about sixty miles mites from St St. Louis on the Rock Island an ant anu its principal industry is farmin farming The t town wn itself Is one mile from the railroad con con- contains contains ains two hotels a L number of flourishing little stores nn ond an opry house In the thc cry very centre of town own and find facing a quaint end 2011 pretty pu public lic f square stands the County Coun Coun- I. I ty IF C Court House e. e The rue sheltering shade of the il square makes it a 3 lr fU favorite le rendezvous f f tt tl ie c country folk 10 ride or dr drive c aud nd n fc IJ r. r hitching l rc j t that st aroun around 1 l arc me to bo found Scores coi coL es s of or m mules tIcs and a tHI hor cs the UH majority of them with a u pair hair of Caddie bags thrown t across their bucks backs Occasionally H Ii jug j.- j. cun can be he CIU ceu dangling dandling from the boy hOl of the H l to 0 which it is tied fell ready read for Cor its I Journey Lack back to the lie farm I Al M the Hie lower cud cull of the and aull Cue fue- I rUb Ing it il stands the or county jail a al low ct building ug with wit a number of small malI cells no llo no living quarters quartets for tor or keeper keep keep- or er oi or jailer no office but u a big uig store tove sta standing ding hi in w. w the very ee centre tlc throws out heat for the thu entire structure Windows alone alon furnish light ight j for the tho interior and through them thew mt filter r rays from frow the sun n I moon aud aull stars star there thero being no artificial light in iii the tIle structure the tue shades of night s mh down dawn the thc little jil is plunged in 1 and the pr prisoners boners can find ind solace only in slumber or meditation Directly opposite the thc jail stands the hardware i tore store of Ocar Oscar Busch bove ove which Busch BUtich and hI his family together with his bis aged aced grandmother lived fired Across tho thu way from frow the thc store is the Bank aik of Union D the lie second floor Joor of which phy- phy ician hician utilized fur lor Ug room un and living quarters At this timo Union had bad but few saloons and aud one ODe street lamp The Iho hotels hotch au aud saloons were dark at half half- past pnat ten tea o'clock ei c every nhi night t and by eleven cn o'clock rarely could a u li tight ht be lie Eleen cen burning burning burn burn- ing in the town The Tile interior of the thc Bank o of Union was wa's was ws modern modem in every cry r respect its afes clea and vaults as up to date dute as ai one would expect to find lind in a city ten times its ita size ize The Ilie he vault was a a. splendid type o of tho the double steel fire fhe and WId burglar proof door a augmented with a pressure bar If Ifa ifa a cj man described it ho would say Bay the vault v Was as a double decker and und the theto afe harnessed meaning the pressure bars were in place in Addition to the ingenious combination on tillie lucks than no nOL noi Ibo thu ba batik hall had between and JD jn in Clo cash h iu in j its ita vaults ault uc negotiable t ties tie e to the value Lluc of 1 OW saCcI safely locked within Th Tho bank bauk wa never ue ce of wonder to tu the tho visiting farmers a aa th they y peeked peeked through the bank windows every crery Saturday morning and nud one andall and aud all took deep op pride in its wonderful fort torti OIti- OIti against t robbers If any of ol them hazarded lu opinion Urn that that thai bunk bank un lie trucked he hI Le oi Il ei upon b by au an indignant mob mou which in chorus l would L cry crl z-y z Jt lt cant can't be bo d did d by gravy Christmas the tho year jear ear of the robbery fell fellon Cell ci L on un Wednesday day At about l haIC-l past halt OU one o'clock on the morning of December 2 7 r hattie the daughter of ut MI In b. b r A b lived directly behind the lie Lank banks a awak Vak awakened ened her mother to tu say that thit a n cupboard I u to to a near nci neighbor must ha e l l cd o over us as she bhe ua had bad just heard beard a terrible crash which denoted the crumbling v of crockery crocker At the sam bum lm moment Hu ch ne he hardware man maID begun beau weing and hear bear ins inz thing he be saw a as he peered from his window n fI form torm moving n about in the thc out bank bUlik and aud ciery ery once nce in u I bilo a a dark lantern would flash I its ita j I OJ through h the bunk blink window windows H. H raised bedroom o t o to lo give hc the alarm No 0 sooner had JUIl he hc rn ll his fl window I OTc er than all a fusillade of or bullets bulled ti iu CI of T fi 1 L i f iJ T r I I I 1 L d 1 Jy J i 11 II I l H I iI it i i'S S I J t 1 I A II I f L 1 iL E 5 I i T F J 4 I i 7 S I 4 tied past his head cad and buried themselves iu in the wn walls ls of his bedroom It se seemed med to Bu Busch ch and the terrified o ohis of his home that at least half a dozen men were shooting at once He Heran ran to a II side window which commanded an nn unobstructed view of the Interior of f tho bank fin and what whitt he ea saw w confirmed his worst 1 fen fears He was h held ld spellbound the celerity with which the roan man or men in that bank worked Their movements I were like Uke those of cats BO so quickly did didI I they spring from place to place Busch Busen slipped down Into his bis stor store Intending to get a shotgun and cartridges from his stock and open fire on tJ-o tJ the intruders But evidently the alert and vigilant outside man or or stickup employed by the theOe Oe gs had divined cd his hie purpose for or In a 1 jiffy jiffy the weapons o of this man belched 1 forth forth- fortha a 1 pitiless fire which was waa only drowned by an nn earsplitting ea roar that I I followed 0 wed an nn explosion directly in front of the safe nil all of which Busch could coul see as Ins b he peered from his window Windows Windows Win Win- I I dows In iu nearby bons houses bouses were shattered and men women and children sprang II from their beds in terror In ma Ina a second the whole town was WM s afi awake all aU mystified by bythe thic the Q blinding blindin blue and yellow fla flash h that seemed to streak from the tho batik bank window 1 and as quickly die out oat Smoke was oozing from rom the bank door windows Tho The side Bide door gingerly opened and the form of a a. man was seen to em emerge erg erg-e. Ho evidently camo came out to get air and escape the deadly fumes and gases within All tho while the outside man kept up upa a pitiless s fire from his bis two forty forty-f forty five ive Colt revolvers and all those who had had bad the temerity to run Into the street eoon scurried for cover as the tho bu bullets bul- bul lets ets from rota the s stickups pistols whizzed by their cars ears This outside guard was wasa a determined short thickset little man wearing o ring it a Stetson hat and a u dark suit I S Seemingly he took fiendish delight even after the streets were deserted in send- send lug nc his bullets whistling windows windows win win- dows doors and walls walla of every house within mare The man who emerged from the bank bank soon returned and after a lapse of ot a al minute or two there thero was a second but less violent explosion and then all was still Corat forat for Cor forat at least five fi minutes minute At t the expiration of this pcr period od a n man mini w vas as leaving the bank carrying a largo large bag lIag A dim wm l tight light within the ba oo that its ita once and until now impregnable ble vault door was a crumpled heap aud and the inside wrecked beyond beyond be be- yond repair Tho two men slunk off in inthe inthe inthe the darkness under cover of ot a relentless as fire from the guns of both and the bullets that the more courageous of the citizens fired from the ha haen ha en of their homes borne went scuttling in their wake but without taking effect Ife t. t SuL Subsequent events proved that had any auy of those citizens pursued the retreating burglars they would never vcr have ha to tell the talc tale for the came camo with mur murder er in their hearts heart and aDd it was as through no DO fault Cault of theirs that at least a ado do dozen n innocent Ic victims ms had not fallen by t their cir bullets When it was deemed safe safo the banks bank's cashier accompanied by tho Sheriff Sherif and andu u a number o u of citizens entered catered the bank to view the ruins A glance gance ance t showed that in C cash lIt W was S gone together with the tile more valuable of t the e securities The bank was a member o of the American Bunkers Bunkers' Association which at that time was protected by the tho Pinkerton agency The bank al also o was ID insured d for 3 against burglary The association tion at once oace instructed us that the burglars must bo VI apprehended regardless o of ot expense This had bad been one ODe of the most daring darin wanton and brazen cn robberies ever perpetrated and it was determined that its ita authors should be Lc seized un and made madu examples of As soon as ns I 1 Ivas was vas notified of the thc robbery cry 1 I sent cipher all over oer the co coduti coun country u- u ti try y instructing our out men to c exert ert them them- I Ich i to u the u utmost t to run to cover COVel the of tins tin's outrage Little did dill 1 I I dream theu that it ultimately would l fiill LI 10 W my lot lol to seize them m myself and inci md- I I I I r dentally in a n fight tight that at any moment might have turned against me me and cost my life Subsequent Investigation by the swarm swami of detectives we ice sent to the scene proved that Henry Soph's horse had been stolen It was found four lour miles from Union inan in inan inan an exhausted condition It stood near the railroad tracks track at the top of a Ii steep grade Its exhausted and winded condition condition condi condl tion and the sweat marks on Its Ita back indicated indicated indicated in in- tb that t two men had ridden it Evidently the tho thieves bad hl looked the ground over OTer carefully as as aswell well as timing themselves to a nicety for in all probability ity they reach reached the tho top of the grade Just justin Justn In n time to get aboard a creeping freight train and leave for parts far tar distant The detectives were unable to pick up upa a lii tn lyl in r Hp o. o the fled d or anything that 1 might aid In their capture I IThe The Investigation dragged alon along until the middle of January without results At this time Charlie Schumacher one of ot our best men returned from Mexico wh where re he had been trailing a Do bank bur bum glar I detailed him to go to Union and start an Investigation all aU his own placing him in possession of the few facts I I had gathered Chris Murphy agreed with me that a persistent and clever dete detective should take up ull the trail from St 31 Clair Claim the point where the fugitives sup sup- posed to have got aboard the train after their flight lIght from Union Schumacher went to the job with vim and vim and snap and andon andon on January Januar 20 29 he reported the first tangible clew so 80 far acquired He had traced two suspects from St St. Clair to the little town of ot Stanton which stood in inthe intile L the tile middle of a wild and desolate country country coun coun- try Furthermore he traced by dint of ot good detective work the suspects to their boarding place in a mining camp But they theT w were re only suspects and sad be he single handed and nl alone ne and without warrants didn't dare to make a n move mOTe He returned to Union and procured t the e necessary warrants warrants warrants war war- rants and then accompanied by several deputy sheriffs returned to Stanton As Aa the little posse approached the mining min min- lag ing camp a door of the shack in in which he had located the the suspects suspects opened and a volley of rifle shots shot ran rang out chu macher fell feU dead at the first volley his body pierced with bullets The deputies fled The outlaws sped from their shack to tho the side sido of the dead man and aud after appropriating his hi revolver riddled tho the t slain detectives detective's body with bullets from nb own gun gUll What situation to face To 10 I rob an nn American Bankers Bankers' A Association bank bauk of and murder a Pinkerton detective detective detec detec- tive the Who ho could these criminals bu be Not ot tho the time old professionals who passed up the protected banks and seldom if ever er sac sacrificed life The job was too bi big bigand bigand and too cleverly executed for ordinary The of the these crimes must therefore have been up to dat date users of nitroglycerine with the methods of train robbers Immediately after Schumacher was vas shot allot shota allota a new squad of f Pinkerton detectives veti was from the St Louis office to take up tip the tho search where he left kit oft off operating Co with the thc local authorities it Jl was det determined that one of the be men who murdered Schumacher Bill mu was t Ru- Ru I I dolph alias l ouri l Kid id alias 0 Bill I Andr Andrews s un and the thu c other known only as Fred Lewis Rudolph was a na native nac c u uthe of vI the tho River Missouri section Lewis was unknown there Both hud bud land landed d near the Rudolph homestead before before be- be I fore Christmas s from Texas Tuns Lewis with witha u tl wound o o- o ohis his JIs head Lit Little tie was as een of them about Stanton and nothing was was' known of their actual occupation Alter After i tile tho murder of ot Detective Schumacher at all Ithe I I the point of ot revolvers the two stoic two Vol t I q i I f r 0 1 J l r rT T I 0 I. I l i p j SCHUMACHER FELL DEAD AT |