| Show PARALLEL THE CRIMINAL tells sq how he planned the STORIES deed and sought to close every avenue of knowledge sf ef FAMOUS leading to his guilt CRIMES C R I 1 M E S the futile detective these efforts shows were how and how the old adam adage murder by HENRY C TERRY will out always holds good t by P V 1 L helwa THRILLING adventures OF TWO SECOND STORY MEN MONG the changes that may be noted la in the methyl H ot of thievery la in Amert america ga 5 none is s more marked than passing of the se second pond V story man lie ile earned his hia title from the fact that hla his work always was done above the ground while second story robber rob berlos foo stell and always will occur tho the great school of the past of which big prank frank mccoy pete mccracken and kid kelly were leaders Is a thing of the past the boldness with which second story men operate makes it appear to tho unprofessional mind that an unusual amount of risk Is involved As a matter of fact the risk Is not RO ao great as in any number of other styles style s of robbery lit in new york city there have been fewer convictions tor for seo sec ond story robberies than almost aar another duo due in part to the difficulty of detection dig big prank mccoy went undetected until ho he pulled a coping coiling stone loose booso while scaling tho the front porch of aa a house in brooklyn and abid was crushed to death second story thievery lan jan gulshen for a time after his death and then the bright lights came out of the west and stirred things up in tho the big city until the police were at their wits end it to Is the story of one of them pete mccracken tho the only real first class chief that ohio the maker of presidents ever produced that I 1 started out to tell PETE NIS STORY 1 I gave gava this community said gald rete pete a great shaking vp up they talk about the way la ia which the gangs in the tar far west hold up railroad aralas and walk away with safes rom country banks as it if they were really something to be proud of but I 1 tell you ray my boy they are nothing compared 0 to o the way in which kid kelly and I 1 held up new york and made hundreds of people pay tribute to our prowess and cunning 1 I had been doing time in bollot for burglary and I 1 got out on the awo one ona ot he best thieves I 1 ever adi tai et t ire he w aia so ao bigger than a 12 year old boy but he was as quick as greased lightning there was nothing on tho the calendar that he would not tackle ho 11 0 was waa the only person I 1 ever met who was absolutely without fear ile he seemed to have no idea of what fear biant auant I 1 remember on one occasion when the kid and I 1 got into close quarters la in st louis that ho he was phot through the hand ha neglected to take care of the wound I 1 took him to see a surgeon who said that the only way to t 0 save kids arm and life was to amputate all of hh big hand elc except ept the thumb and forefinger the kid told the doctor to begin without delay and tho the expert started to give him a dose of ether but the kid icid refused to talce take it he actually eat at down la in a chair held up tip his hand ind nd watched the surgeon cut through lits hs flesh and snip oft off the bones with i i pair of forceps without a tremor while the kid was getting over oer this I 1 kept easy and read a great deal one day I 1 struck a story about tho the remarkable decrease in second story robberies in new tork and it struck me that the time was just tor for mo me to pay the big town a visit the people would be feeling secure and that la Is the time for a thief to get la ills 1110 fine work the kid and I 1 got to now york in the latter part of september we spent about three weeks studying tho the houses and what appeared to bo be tho the best places to tackle the field was the most promising ono one that I 1 evir ever saw caw there were few houses on fifth lexington and madison avenues as well as on the cross streets that could not be antt entered red from tho the second story by either tho the kid or me wo we started in on madison aven avenue aventino tio in 30 days we got into 60 houses and picked up property that would make an average of more than 1000 a house bouse we did not havo have tho slightest trouble in fix any place we came close to be seen by a woman who entered a room in which we were working on twenty ninth street and avenue but went away without see lug us she never mover knew how bow closely she came to having her light put out you never heard beard of such great excitement as there was in the city the papers were fillod with bout about the second story work go going ingon on from day to day the police were abused for not catching the thieves olives it was rare sport rt for us ua to read these stories and hear the comments upon new bliem wo we were putting catling ud ua at the astor aster louse loure living la in a quiet and modest style as becaro beca ao two gentlemen ot of elegant le lel isuru this publia place was van about the safest wo we coull have struck as the work did not take more than an hour early arty la in the tha evening the reat of tho the unto we beiro at the hotel and could have got CO 50 persons no doubt it it were necca hecei sary to prove an alibi success came so BO easily our way that hat it made us bold and wo we were led into temptation on a very extensive scale ecale I 1 was a close student of tho papers papera and for several days daya I 1 saw notices of the preparations that wera vero being made for the tha great rogers wedding in thirty fourth street the tha kid and I 1 went up to take a look at the house and seo see it if it offered any inducements for us ua to make a try tor for it IL A better place could not have hava been made mad for us thero there was waa a vacant building in the rear of tho the house bousa facing thirty third street wo found that an entrance could ha be forced in it easily it was merely taking a chance for there was avas no telling where the presents which would certainly be ba gilea to the bride would be kept it if they were taken upstairs they would bo be our mutton it tot not we would havo have a little trouble for nothing on tho the night of the wedding reception cop iton wo we got into tho the vacant house we could seo see from our watching placa place that the presents were on tables in the second story we kept quiet until the party went downstairs to the wedding supper then it was time for us to begin our little act it was waa a matter of thinning shinning over ever a benco enca to got get into tho the rogers back yard while the band was playing softly the wd kid went up tho the back piazza like a cat it was too high to jump out of tho the window in case of discovery so bo the tha kid dropped a rope ladder from tho the second story to tho the ground in a placed where it was hidden from view from the lower windows my air instructions to the kid vero to load ab hla his pockets with everything that hat could be ba easily carried then if he had time to toss several 0 of the more valuable bulky articles ut jut of the window to mo while the baad was playing to hide tiny any sound that might come from a fall the kid kept at work until ho be heard footsteps on the stair and then slid down tho the ladder after waiting a second to see it any alarm would bo be given wo we removed the bags to the vacant house wo we then watched our chance and got the abo stun stuff nto a cab which was mas waiting on tho the corner lor for us ua it was the slickest slackest slick est piece ot work i bews yews day a wn tup protection which ZI CT must have given tho the police a chill we were satisfied to call quits for wo we had picked up tip stuff worth over and it was all the tha kind which could be safely handled bandied in disposing ot of it DETECTIVE MICLOS KEYs STORY the series of second story dory robberies said detective mccloskey which wound up with the daring attack k upon tho the residence ot of colonel rogers on the night of 0 the tha marriage of 1 1 i daughter which was attended by the leading members of the four hundred undred Il were the boldest and most puzzling crimes I 1 ever was called upon to investigate vesti gate the excitement was at fever heat beat all the time it Is not putting it too 00 strong to say that between the tha hours of five arid and eight in the evening half a million persons were on the lookout in tho streets and in the houses to get a eight of the men who seemed to be from the fact that no ono one saw them at all more of the nature of spirits than human beings tho the robberies were not confined to any section but spread in all directions in all parts of the city it was evident from the style of tho the work that in the fifth avenue district there were wera two or more very export expert thieves engaged gag ed in other parts of the city men were at work probably imitators of these who did not move with the tha same caution and certainty thousands of 0 robberies reported from all sections of 0 tho city it seemed to all those who wore were familiar with the old time almo crooks that dig big frank mccoy and long john garvel had bad returned to earth and started their notorious old gang on tho the road again I 1 was placed upon these cases from the very start I 1 really felt ashamed to report day after day dar that I 1 had got no track of the thieves their work was like lightning you never cou could id tell where it would ake I 1 was instrumental in sending 25 or 30 thieves to jail that I 1 bad run down in investigating these crimes buether but they were all potty petty thieves there one among them capable of carrying on the style of work going on in the uptown districts other policemen made arrests in alt all sections ot of the city in spite of alt air the vigilance exorcise dby vy tho the and citizens the big bg robberies west went on night after night the thieves th leres seemed to hayo have the strange facility of picking out the very houses bouses to attack which wera the least suspected and the worst guarded KI carded it was pt terly impossible to get an ac accurate curato do script lon of the men in all the places which attacked tho the description script lon given by persons persona nho ho had seen men loitering in the tha hood before the robbery did not tally at the time of these thea robberies robb erica no lebond atory thieves of any importance had bad been doing business but laosa in this city tor for 12 or 16 26 years lka 1 I hintea high and low lit in zi allt i rt fio alies g gambling i a rt houses sporting aport lne resorts and disorderly housch of all kinds to got a trace or an inkling from some of the old time thieves as to who might be doing the trick bore it was evident that local thieves capable of solas doing this high class of work were wera sill in jail it was therefore my opinion that the tha cr crimes clinies inies were belas being corA witted by thieves from other places reports were wera received from tho the chats of police of ill all the tha large cities ies la in pei ho east and west and canada as t to the ilie absence of oc clabea thley thieves it aroa their baill wicks or as to tho the recent lq chargo tram state prison of first class claas thieves abany many descriptions lons of thieves were wera sent to u us s wit with h names n a es and a a d while we bad plenty of work to do in looking for these outsiders as it turned out afterward ito no one bad given elven us a tip as an to th right man maa t I 1 was having a pretty sorry time I 1 tell you looking up one ona or two new robberies every day the only consolvo consolac tion was wae that other detectives detectIve 4 word la in the same saino boat the attack upon the house of colo nel rogers rogera was a slag geror at the tb time the tha robbery must have ben been committed between and guests gueitz wora were in tho the house hoube were several well known military m men and others who would have only been too glad to enliven tho the fe festive festl stivi vl ties with a little diversion with thieves yet the thieves had the nerve nerva to enter and they got cot away walthou a soul seeing thern the entrance to tho the house was waa made from the rear over a piazza which extended up to about five ave feet of the second beconi story atory window it was waa my belief that the thieves had bad gotten to the yard from a vacant house in tho the rear on the next street there was no wever nothing la this house housa to show chow it had been entered at all all uio the doors anil and windows being locked tho the root ot 0 tho the piazza bail bad been freshly painted it showed the toot foot prints ot of but on one man who wore rub lera bers or moccasins without heels th tha marks marha on tho the paint where tho the thi ll 11 0 clutched the tha top of the plazza piazza to draw himself up from tho the pillar were verl i peculiar the left hand showed foai I 1 finger prints while the right ban 4 showed only one this was very aling I 1 thought perhaps it was du to the fact that tho the thief held a rocq rop ladder with hta his other fingers tha th piazza did not extend tho the full length of the house and the ropo rope ladder wag wa found hanging from ono one of tho the wins win dowa dews the cresents in the hou bouso had been left in charge of a servant when tha th bucata all went downstairs to the dini ins ing room she thought there would b W no further use for her so BO she benj wan down to tako take a view of the decorah tlona in the parlor and dining hall hal it was waa during her absence that thil more than en f oaf returned sho she did not notice that nay thing had been disturbed it was I 1 couple of hours after the robbery be ba fore it was discovered tho the colonel offered a reward ol of for tho the recovery of tho the stole goods and the capture of the thieves there was a gre vre grek k hu husalo tle amoni thieves themselves to get g a bit ol 01 this the fences would hav given up almost any thief thle for a ahac at it but tho the thieves were cunning dogs they had never pawned ol 01 sold any ol of the stolen goods gooda in thil city while I 1 was cracking my skull ta t get a duo clue that would amount aunt hosoma to somo thing ng I 1 got a tip from joo joe foley a ail ex convict that big peto pete Mc mccracker Crackel McCrac keil and kid kelly were acro la in the tha city and ana that the kid only had one finger ol 01 0 hla his right hand this was voa tho first firel good nowa news I 1 had heard board the caso fairly haunted roo ine anc on friday afternoon I 1 dropped into th astor house bouso for lunch I 1 glance around the room carelessly and sa bail standing at the abo liar bar a tall determined determIne 4 looking man drinking with a man nol no bigger than a good sized boy when tho the little fellow raised his class to drink I 1 saw that ho he had only y all lit thumb and forefinger on his rig lil h hand a n a 0 you u c can a n bet e t I 1 did not let t h ibe p pair a I 1 r ot 0 f worthies th 1 e s get t out of slight sight th thea e were given an excellent reputation al 1 the hotel had bad never been out evol ev nines and it was thought that thea were wealthy miners frota from the west I 1 got joo joe foley to take a peep at thein theca ile iio identified them as aa being mccraild McCrac to ld en n and kelly beyond doubt they vero booked for passage fol europe on the following day was saturday under fictitious name I 1 went with them from tho the hotel 4 abo steamer about an hour before tha th steamer sailed to see aee it they had aal confederates in the city no one mei 1 thorn them when the bells bella rang to tfx 94 choro I 1 placed kelly and McCracke 4 under arrest and took them off tha th steamer they made a terrible fusa and protested innocence of 0 any mini inal act I 1 kept a careful watch on a the pair of them while the iolli were vere taking them away and I 1 saw mo jao cracken drop a paper which I 1 picket up at it if proved to be a bill ol of lading showing several |
