Show LE lam P FAIRA A R LLIEL THE CRIMINAL tells how ile he planned the S STORIES T 0 1 deed and sought to close every ever avenue of knowledge sf 10 fufus FM FA FAMOUS A 1 fUS W leading to his guilt C CRIMES R I 1 M E S the F utile futile detective these efforts shows were how and how the old adage murder by y HENRY C TERRY will out always holds good I 1 I 1 by V I 1 1 L nelson THE LAST OF THE RED PEPPER THIEVES T has baa been but a few months since new york city rang with tho the story of two bank messengers held up in a taxicab beaten and robbed of right under IF th the shadow of trinity spire it brought instantly to my mind another sensational robbery that took place exactly at the same apal more than twenty five years acara ago tto abo details strange to relate were almost exactly similar except that the former thieves did not of course attack n taxicab hut but they more alian doubled the taxicab robbers haul getling they were widely known as aa tho last of 0 tho the famous cited popper gang their capture follow ed d as swiftly as did that ot of tho the recent robbers it II wits was my privilege to talk both with phil one of the tha gang and with detective dalton who was instrumental in their capture their stories form a unique chapter in the annala of crime and prove that crime like the paris fashions moves in circles PHIL HEINRICHS STORY it Is my firm belief said phil heinrich that there la Is more philosophy among crooks than in any other class clan of people they take what conica comes in their way ay in a moral sense as aa woh well no is in a physical sense without complaint I 1 have seen been the work ot of years go in a second without n n knur armur I 1 know a gang banff of crooks wl ati spent four years laying an for i 1 lank bank and then got dumped in tn tad and I 1 never heard a whimper from fm any of them t zid sid a bit of this sort bort of luck myself 1 I know how it feels I 1 found sat ahat I 1 took look disappointment as well as ibe bo best of them and did not want anybody a sympathy I 1 was at that una running a counterfeiting layout ft a ro with sam ellis wo we had put up tit some very fine work in philadelphia wo we ran out an edition t twos ilves and tens in government which beauties in every ay ar I 1 tell fell you yon the worl orl was wan so BO abod that wo we could have passed the tha mils kills on an ourselves without knowing it instead of turning out our work in n two years it was nearly four be we oro wa vre got abo plates just right and rot kt a good imitation paper to use for PrInt printing flig wo ran oft off a big wad ot of money and put it in circulation as aa rapidly as possible just when we got things running beautifully and it looked like a million a year a bloom trig tiro hit bit our house bouse and nil all the platea paper pacer and presses were do as aa well as tho mute servant wo did not carry any insurance and we wa had bad to write up a total loss losa we managed to got most of tho the plates out of tho the ruins in order to put them out of the way to avoid arousing suspicion but everything was not cleaned up and tho secret service men began ban to get suspicious some of the money that wo we had put out got to and it made a terrific auras but they did not get near to Us although there them was a lot of talk about the gamo game being worked in philadelphia phia it was vas useless for a time to thial bout putting another counterfeiting fajok to work in this country so m and I 1 wont went up to buffalo and got law few samples or of canada money to experiment with the best beat bill that I 1 saw caw for our purpose was the 10 canadian bank note it was waa a pretty till bill not mot early nearly n as cleverly put up as ono of undo uncle sams 10 notes and wo we decided to geve it a test wo got IL a new set net of tools and latil laid out for a two years job we worked with the greatest crea test caro care so eo as to avoid injuring a talato it if possible and wo we had mag luck I 1 never did such good work in my life and I 1 never saw maw sam to attilo such line fine trim la just eighteen months we turned oat aut a which ill bet would we uld have baye ilein accepted by the government of of canada as tho tha gentine arti tie ae there appeared to bea great wad tad of dust in this layout toy fw us but choro a single bill was laid down the th yar air of us got the collar it all came jhrona h an inquisitive and 9 abby abby plumber who was waa sent to our house co repair it brol broken en pipe ile iio saw ft a tot set of bilings during out our absence abich be did not know anything about and got to firing oft hla his mouth in bar rooms in buffalo Bu nalo ilia talk in somo borne way cached preached the tha cara of tho treasury agents and sam and nd I 1 w ra caught red handed it was th the crea greatest test throw down I 1 erver got but when we got a chance sam and I 1 abood hands and smiled at our cur bad lacil act ile he had bad not a word of com coin wat to inake nor had bad L ill bet kat there never were two men who ewt a fortune so fo and kept more ten irm tempers it looked a good deat like working iter lowthe iha state for foe aboto twenty years 14 1 did not loso heart whew 1 got tato bito the erie eric county jail i strolled the of affairs verr and I 1 saw aw that I 1 bad more boroi maran chance of getting rl a peep ot of sunshine again I 1 set up communication with a friend of mine when I 1 was taken to the court to plead my friend shook mo me heartily by the hand incidentally lie ho slipped up my sleeve in ia trot front ot of the bright eyed coppers some soine very small tools which would he be of great service to me I 1 took the precaution of 0 putting them away in case I 1 should be marched arched on entering the lall jail I 1 got through all right and divided my tools will sam who had a coll cell on the same tier with me about twenty five feet away my bly tools coash conflated cont ted of a set act of the finest steel bani paws and a little box of add acid to softer lofte tho the iron and the buzz of the saws when at work it took nights to get through with everything except the automatic bolt which locks all the cells after learning that sam had mado made as good progress ns no I 1 had we arranged it to go through the last bolt before midnight and be ready to make a break ng as soon ns as possible after the midnight change in the watch I 1 got to work on the automatic bolt when tho the lights were put out early in tho the evening and by 1 in the morning I 1 could shift my bolt in good shape I 1 tried the door and found that it opened easily after the guard made tho the rounds rounda I 1 slipped into the corridor A moment later sam appeared wo we had our plans all laid I 1 entered hip cell we waited for the guard to come round again and as lie he passed the door wo we seized him from behind dragged him nto ito the cell and put him to steep sleep with a crack on tho the skull with an iron ba bar r I 1 put on his official cont coat and hat bat took his keys unlocked tho the door to a store room and sent in the half hour signal to the main sam used the saws as quickly as possible to go through tho bars on the window while I 1 mado made the rg regular ular tour of tho guards corridor 1 I 1 had to go within twenty feet of another guard but covered my face with my handkerchief during nn an assumed III fit of coughing and ran tho the gauntlet in good shape when sam got through the bars I 1 brought two sheets to him which ho he made into a ropo rope while I 1 made my last tour when I 1 got back to the room everything ery thing was in readiness we slid down tho the rope to tho top ot of the prison wall it was an najir can drop from thero there to tho the ground and wo we got away it was ii very cold night and we forced an entrance into a clothing storo store and got a new outfit wo we decided that it wan best for us to go it alone and make a line for new york wo we were flat brolo and had to get money somewhere wo we fixed up a bit and tumbled onto a darling scheme the very first day out two young fellows as we were passing the first national bank shortly after 3 camo came out carrying a bag they showed by their manner that they were on an important miss mission fan wo we laid for them for two days and found that they came out regularly each day with tho the bog bag then wo we fixed our play wo we waited for thorn them to appear on the third day in trinity church yard and when they started up broadway wo got them before they had gono gone a bloch stepping quickly up behind each picked out a man and gave him a handful of red pepper in hla his eyes they dropped the bag like a shot and before they bad time to yell I 1 picked it up and we got lost loot in the crowd it was a safe play to make a break for the liberty street ferry with the bag bae as if wo wa were going to take a train on tho the central I 1 unloaded the bar bae in the lavatory and got just for tho the days work DETECTIVE DALTONS STORY 1 I had bad the very great pleasure said bald detective dalton of running down about the last of tho the important red pepper sneaks eaks 1 I saw tho the two messengers about three hours after tho the robbery they were in a terrible condition their were in such auch shape that they gave gare mo me halt half a dozen different versions of the way tho the robbery happened and as many descriptions of the thieves I 1 could sympathize with them and kleiv kilat hat it would be ba hours perhaps days before they would have bavo control of t their heir senses to tell an intelligent story about tho the only thins thing which they agreed upon in their delirious ravings was truit clero were two thieves knowing that it la Is customary for thieves before carryl carrying mg out a robbery of this kind to study tho the situation carefully and lay plans for the at tack and escape I 1 hunted all over tho the neighborhood of the bank to find some soiro one it possible who had bad seen been any suspicious auspicious looking persons persona I 1 only learned enough to confuse me as go BO many people had seen been men who have hat been tho the thieves it all their stories were accepted thero there probably were one hundred bundred crooks in lower broadway drys days before the tha robbery it la Is remarkable romar liable how little evidence tan can be picked up about arr an occurrence which in tho the natural order of oc ought boucht to have been seen een by at least fifty eltty men the robbery occurred la in broad daylight t an hour when the street Is most ed yet after a long search I 1 only found ono one person who had seen anything which might be of value I 1 ran across a street vender who must have been within twenty five feet ot of the messengers when they were attacked ile he did not see tho the assault but a second later anil and before he be understood what kad had happened he saw two men very well dressed hurry across broadway and turn down ce ca dar street toward the north river that was tho the natural course which thieves who know knew their bu business would have taken the vender bad a pretty fair idea of the appearance of the two men and their clothing with that na as a guide I 1 went through codar cedar street I 1 traced the men to west street by witnesses who had noticed them moving quickly as it they were in a hurry to catch a train but lost track ot of them in west street until I 1 reached the liberty street ferry then I 1 picked up the very clue I 1 was after tho ticket agent had seen the men and his attention was attracted to them particularly because in buying a for scranton one of them took some conn money out of a bag this was red hot stuff A moment later I 1 struck something better while search searching lug tor for information from the tha ferry hands bands I 1 ran across a porter who had bad found a valise in the lavatory and had taken it to tho the lost and found department part ment it did not take me long to get there and see that bag it was a bedlum laed affair and had bad been found unlocked and empty there was no mark on it to indicate where it had come from I 1 sent it to the bank and in a few moments received word that it was tho the bag which had bad been used by the messengers that point being cleared up I 1 next started tho the telegraph lines working and kept them hot until the train dispatcher held up the scranton train at a station and got the conductor on the wire ile he had bad noticed every one on the train simply as a matter ot of business soon after leaving sersey jersey city ho he was positive that no person answering the descriptions of either of the men who had bad brought the bag to the terry house had been on board his train this settled beyond reasonable doubt that the had not left the city at least by thit that route the porter who had found the bag had got a very good look at ab the two men ile he remembered them even more accurately because he be had associated them with tho the lost bag ilia his description tallied with that given by the street vender except that he gave more complete details in thinking it over it suddenly struck me that I 1 had read a similar description somewhere I 1 could not place it until the next day then it came over me like a flash what I 1 had seen was the alarm which had been sent out at the request of tho the erlo eric county police giving the descriptions script ions lons ot of sam ellis and phil ilein rich fugitives from justice the case then appeared perfectly plain to me ellis and after leaving duffalo buffalo had como come to new york instead of oc going to canada as had been generally bellev td they probably had adopted the red pepper scheme of robbery in order to raise money at once since their ichele had been frustrated to flood canada with counterfeit money tho the job was not exactly in the line of either of 0 tho the men but they were I 1 knew fully competent to undertake anything in any atalich of thievery unfortunately the newspapers got hold of the story of the finding of the bag and the description of the men this was of course sufficient warning to tho the team of oc worthies to dive deeper into their hole bole and made my work so much harder ilow how was I 1 to get to ellis and holdrich Holn rich I 1 did not know they were a cunning lot and I 1 know I 1 had a stiff game 1 7 I knew all the haunts of both men and after putting on some togs to suit the occasion I 1 spent my days and nights lights bumming around booking tips it was slow work but it was all that could be done I 1 got in with a lot of people and heard all the gossip that was going on among cro crooks gIcs but it was wag over a month before I 1 heard anything of importance I 1 had to go very quietly in order not to excite suspicion I 1 did not dare to nak ask leading questions of anybody or I 1 might have bave got a tip sooner one evening while I 1 was having baving somo come oysters in billy the bites in wooster street jack rlyn came in A few faw moments later in come came hla his old friend reddy the blacksmith they were jath oth friends of ellla ellis and heln rich to my utter amazement griffin began an telling tn in my presence about the ho arrest of both ellis and in n pittsburgh for fighting and clean ing ng out a joint griffin was with them but had got away safely both me men n w were e r 0 ecat to the county prison for OP thirty days under fictitious names I 1 ate my oysters without any show of hurry but I 1 need riot not tell you that I 1 did not lose any tami when I 1 reached the street 1 7 I headquarters and took the first train for pittsburgh I 1 g got 0 t there lust just in time to learn that the two wo mon mea had been discharged upon aall all after appealing their case I 1 know enow that they were going to skip tho the town and just junt tor for a flyer T hurried to their lawyer law yera lis luck was with me and I 1 met ellis a and nd Ilein rich coming out with a satchel I 1 followed them until I 1 met a policeman and then |