Show Ii P FA THE THE TH CRIMINAL Tells How v He Ie Planned the theS S ST TOR i i g IE E S Deed and Sought to Close Every Avenue of Knowledge Knowl vl p if o f FAMOUS edge Leading to His Guilt C CRIMES R l. l I J M II E S The Futile Detective These Efforts Shows Were How How- and How Plow the Old Adage Murder By HENRY C. C TERRY Will Out Always H Holds Good Copyright bt by P F. F L. L Nelson THE GREAT ENGLEWOOD ROD ROB BERY ID yo you ever think how a burglar who breaks into e t your house regards you You pIa play an Important part partin in his scheme of oC things it is true but ho hasn't a very high opinion of you at least of oC your fighting abilities The thieves who broke into the house of Banker at Englewood N. N J. J a few years ago and perpetrated rated cruel outrages upon every member of the family had no fear of dogs or guns They Ther did their work with fiendish precision and aud congratulated themselves themselves them them- selves that they left no clue But the teeth IT JJ irks left on one of the gang by br a faithful bull dog who died defending leis KIs mistress proved their undoing Now let the principal actors actors actors ac ac- ac- ac tors tell the story DANNY STORY In the days das when masked burglaries were ere in vogue rogue any and all the tho villages within one on hundred miles of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York were considered by these special special cial dal students students' of the dark lantern and jimmy as the proper places for them to ao visit there was no more desper desperate te gang in the world than that led by Danny McBride McBrid who was a sort of ofa ofa a a. hero among the lower class of citizens citi citi- zens ens in the old Second Ward Danny started put aut ut when quite a young fellow as a river pirate and was just getting get get I ting tang n J. J knowledge of the business I heD Jerry McAuley l who was afterward afterward after arter- ward ted and founded a mis mis- as in his former glory and had pretty nearl nearly all the thc ship captains on the river front terrorized There was not the police protection at that tuna time that there is today and no mans man's property or even life was safe after dark darl in certain sections of West South and Front streets Danny followed thieving on the bay bayland sand land river cr front for several years but I the i was not very remunerative remunerative tive as most of the stuff which was stolen was disposed of as old junk It It was about as safe a line of thievery thievery thie thie- very as there was going because Danny and his gang which consisted of Ben Harper Sammy Simmy Kelly Old Man fan Dobbs Pete Beller Seller and Jack Opp were such cold blooded cutthroats cutthroats cutthroats cut cut- throats and careless handlers of the knife and revolver that no one not even the police cared about running up against them Ever Every one of them would kill kiJI before he would submit to capture and as they invariably went together and had the sympathy of a large number of pers persons ns in their bailiwick it was practically sure death for any anyone one who cared to test their strength They were known as the greatest collection of tumble rough fighters fight fight- ers ers and many a a. bitter battle did they ha have hae e single-handed single or together with the champions of the Ninth or American Ward as It was at that time It was the toss of a cent who was the better man Ab Abe e Hicks tho the American or Danny McBride l And although they had a dozen fights In n which all the work was done while they were lying in an the street they always came out about even The Thelast Thelast Thelast last fight they had John Morrissey was the referee and he was in sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy path with McBride Hicks seemed to be getting a trifle the best of the argument and Morrissey interfered Then When on the Morton street pier oc occurred occurred oc- oc one of the bloodiest fights that ever took place in the Ninth Ward Vard McBride went ent to the hospital covered with wounds and glory glor and it was three months before he was able to get out ut That Morrissey fight said McBride McBride Mc Mc- Bride was the worst thing that ever happened to me for while I was Inthe in inthe il the e hospital the police got in on the gang ang and land landed d Dobbs Kelly and Opp for killing a sailor in West in-West West street The They got twenty years ears each all because because because be be- cause I wasn't out to help them This broke up the old gang and I could not get good men together for a new one wh when I left the he hospital who could b be trusted It If was along about this time that Jeff Reynolds Renolds whose life lite I saved when Billy Porter was trying to fill him full of lead ead came down from Sing Sing after doing a stretch of ten years and the first thing he did was to hunt me up I was then under undercover undercover cover for a highway trick on Staten Island but Jeff knew kne where to find find your your uncle When I found out that i the cops had no pipes on me for the Staten Island job I went in with wilh Jeff Ben Harper Long Sam Wiley WHey and Spanish Forbes Forbes was a and rand as clever clevA a crook as knew lie He had a a. nerve that would curry carry him through a stone wall Jeff got up a a. sch scheme me to do the tho towns on the East and Hudson River River fronts and travel in a sloop I always always always al al- al- al ways liked the tho water watery and this just r suited me W We worked off oft the tricks In the houses on each side of the rivers rivers rivers riv riv- ers one after atter the tho other so as to throw down the police All our sallIng sailIng sail sail- Ing lug was done In the night and Forbes who traveled on shore as a a. beggar planted the places for us It was lead tead easy work and more like a pic- pic tic talc than anything else calling up pee pea I pie pre in the night with masks on and Up believing relieving them of their wealth We had plenty of luck on the tho Hudson River front and ami raided over forty houses The game got so hot that committees went out at night with rifles rilles to hunt for crooks and we wo pulled off of for a while as it never pays pas to be bea bea bea a target even for a bad hunter While laying laing off of I picked up p a paper paper pa pa- per and read of a swell wedding at Englewood at the house of a a. man named Baldwin one of the wealthiest ducks in the neighborhood and some somo fellow had figured up the presents in Jewelry and silver sil plate as being worth I showed It to Jeff and said that we ought to give the tho place a a. call before any of the presents presents presents pres pres- were sold He agreed with mo me and we sent Forbes to take a look at atthe atthe atthe the place He reported that the job was vas as easy as finding tho the stuff sturt on the road and the night after the wedding wedding wed wed- ding we landed in Englewood In a Do grocery wagon When we got alongside of the house I was afraid of alarm bells soI soI so I 1 sent Wiley WHey to the top of the piazza to try his luck The window catch was a ender double-ender which could not be worked with a blade and he had to cut out a pane of glass with a diamond diamond dia dia- diamond mond point The window opened into into into in in- to a vacant room and we all got into the house that way We put on our masks and started through the house We struck old Baldwins Baldwin's room first and he actually showed fight He tried to get to a knob which probably was a a. signal of some kind hied and Jeff put him to sleep with a Do sandbag They were all fighters in the house and a young fellow shot Jeff through the arm in inthe in inthe inthe the halL He was put to sleep before he towel do any ny more mora shooting The women women three three of them them had had to be tied up and gagged to keep them still When we thought that everybody was safe we divided up and went on ona ona a a. hunt for the swag Forbes went to the front of the house and in a few seconds I heard some terrible growls and a Do lot of things upsetting I ran to the room and there was Forbes having it out with a bull mastiff on the floor with a young woman sitting sitting sitting sit sit- ting on the bed and urging the beast on She was a beauty and not scared a bit The mastiff was getting the best of the fight and had a grip on Forbes' Forbes neck which was making him look sick I pulled my gun and ordered ordered ordered or or- dered the girl to call off the dog but she defied me and told me mo to blaze away I saw the bluff would not work so I got out m my old blackjack an ugly-looking ugly thing and hit the beast a a. clip cUp on the skull that knocked the life out of him The girl eirl flew at me when I banged the dog like a wild animal and I had all I could do to hold her without hurting her I would not have harmed a hair of that spunky girls girl's head for a million but I had to gag her ier for safety I always felt sorry for her as she lay looking at the dog doS which was was was' her pet and made a good fight to defend her We had easy sailing after that and in in every room there was a lot of stuff which we put into bags All of it looked good and was very heavy There was any quantity of Jewelry lying around and in a small safe which we had no trouble in forcing with a wedge there was a load of diamonds which had been described in the papers We took our time in packing everything up in good shape and after a good meal and a Do big draught of the old mans man's wine cellar we quit the place Harper was waiting waiting wait wait- ing down the road a bit with the wagon and we wo loaded all the stuff into it DETECTIVE MALLON'S STORY The dastardly treatment which the thieves said Detective Mallon MaHou who did the work wark at Baldwins Baldwin's mansion mansion mansion man man- sion in Englewood gave the family caused great excitement and the local local local lo lo- lo- lo cal police pollee were paralyzed and did not know which way to turn Mr Baldwin Baldwin Baldwin Bald Bald- win lived part of the tho time in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and was a broker in Wallstreet Wall street He requested us to give him aid in running down the thieves and offered reward for their cap cap- ture The case was given to me the tho second day after the robbery and I went care carefully full over the ground Everything had been turned upside down b by the local police in the hunt for something which might lead to the identity of the menI menI menI men I found tho the family in a terrible condition and Miss 1 Alice Baldwin almost almost almost al al- al- al most crazy over tile the loss of her bel dog which defended defend d her so and was buried in luj tha finest par part M t the lawn The others were all suffering from concUl concur ton on of ot the brain from a terrible blow on the head The only member of the th famay who uld give any clue which was of any am alue value was Miss Mass Alice who slept tt tough through ough all the early part of the tho confusion and was awakened by the growling of the dog The light was burning 4 in her room and arid she saw a heavy burst built man standing standing stand stand- ing beside her bed She Sh called the dog who was lying at the foot or the bed and set him on the thief In the struggle the tho dog tore the mask masIc off and she saw the tho burglar was wasa a negro She said that sho she had seen the negro in Englewood and thought that she had seen him jon on a wagon loaded with garden truck goIng going going go- go Ing toward New York about two w weeks week eks s b before rore Upon this Information I made a Do tour all through tho the country to get a trace of a a. missing negro and wasted a lot of time in following tho wanderings of a colored man who had worked for several days with a farmer farm farmer er or near Lodi I found him but there were no wounds on his body and this left him out of the game When I returned to New York 1 I had a Do complete list of all the stolen goods and made a tour of all the fences which were likely to give up up information to tho the police but learned nothing that would do me any good A friend of mine who kept a liquor store in Greenwich street told me of ofa ofa a Do watch which he had bought from a a. fellow who looked like lIko a tramp about a a. week before beCore and It had all the tho marks of one of the watches which had been stolen I took the watch to I Mr 1 Baldwin and he said that it was his property I made up my mind that the tramp i idId did not have any hand in the robbery robbery rob rob- I bery and had got possession of the i watch In somo some other way I hunted high and low for this fellow in the I cheap dives and finally landed a fellow fellow fellow fel fel- felI fel- I low answering to his description I I took toole him to the tho liquor dealer and he was fully identified I locked him up and squeezed him very hard bard for in in- formation He persisted that he had found tho the watch In the tho street ut after he was put through the mill mUI and charged with killing a man to get th the time piece he admitted that ha lie stole it from a man who was lying ly ly- in ing drunk In a Do hallway In Gr Greenwich street From the description that he gave gaven n ue e and the knowledge of crooks which I had I concluded that it was probably Danny McBride I dropped downtown and after acter hanging around for a few days I felt satisfied that Danny was in hiding for something I could not find him In any of his haunts and nd I knew from his friends telling me that they had not seen him that he was keeping out of sight for something I had never known that Danny was in the house cracking business business business busi busi- ness as he ho had always figured as a a. river pirate and a bad one at that One evening while going through Bleecker street I met Frank Carroll and he told me an amusing story about a a. voodoo woman who sold charms to the superstitious negroes She was from Cuba spoke Spanish and had wonderful powers She could destroy witches who followed negroes negroes negroes ne ne- groes and anti could cure diseases by tho laying on of her hands Carroll said that there was a Do report going around I among the negroes that she had healed the wounds and destroyed the evil spirit which was bothering a negro negro ne no gro at a single sitting for which service serice service ser ser- vice ice she had r received a fabulous sum Ordinarily I wouldn't have listened I to this story but by some strange influence I associated this negro with the one who had been bitten batten by the dog at Baldwins Baldwin's houseA houseA houseA house A good detective always run down every idea no matter how foolish It may seem and I decided to have a chat with the voodoo doc doctress tress Sho She lived in a rear building in Wooster street on the top floor and received me ree with a great show of suspicion I told her that I believed In her power pow pow- er to kill my enemies and I offered to pay her liberally for on one of her enemy-destroying enemy charms In a few moments she limbered up a little and made a Do statement that fairl fairly caused me to jump for joy She Sho said that the tho voodoo which had this man in his power had bitten him all aU allover allover over the bod body and his flesh was filled with deep indentations from the teeth That was all she would say then and she would not tell who he was or anything about him except that he had gone to Cuba I got a detective from the Mercer street station station station sta sta- tion to watch the house and in the evening I got Al Pender Fender a colored man who could be depended on to play a partHe partHe partHe part He called upon the voodoo woman and the first thing he did was to pullout pull pullout pullout out a big knife and sharpen it He said nothing while doing this and the tho woman became very uneasy When he got through the pantomime he told her in very solemn tones that the object of his visit isit was to kill her He gave her |