Show I 1 PARALLEL STORIES FAMOUS 01 C R I 1 M E by HENRY C TERRY THE GREAT ENGLEWOOD ROB BERY ID you ever think how a burglar nho ho breaks into your house regards you youa tou you play an important part in his scheme of things it is true but he t a very high opinion of you at least of your fighting abilities the thieves who broke into the house of banker caldwin at englewood Engle Rood N J a few years ago and perpetrated cruel outrages upon every member of the family bad had no fear of dogs or guns they did their work with fiendish precision and congratulated them selves that they left no clue but the teeth n arks irks left on one of the gang by a ralth faithful ful bull dog who died defending defend ilig his mistress proved their undoing now let the principal ac tors tell the story DANNY M BRIDES STORY in the days when masked burglaries were in vogue anu an all the villages within ons hundred miles of new york were considered by these cial students of the dark lantern and jimmy as the proper places tor for them to visit there was no more desperate gang in the world than that led by danny mcbride who was a sort of a hero among the lower class of catl zens in fix the old second waid wad danny started out when quite a young fellow as a river pirate and was just get ting a knowledge of the business when jerry mcauley who was after ward converted ed and founded a mis blon slon yas was in his former glory and had predy nearly all the ship captains on the river front terrorized there was not the police protection at that time that there is today and no man a property or even life was sate safe after dark in certain sections of west south and front streets danny followed thieving on the bay and river front for several years but the ou siness was not very re munera tive as most of the stuff which was stolen was disposed of as old junk it was about as sate safe a line of thie thle very as there was going because dan y and his gang which consisted of ben den harper simms kelly old man dobbs pete beller better and jack opp were such cold blooded cut throats and careless handlers of the knife and revolver that no one not even the police cared about running up against them every one of them would kill before he would submit to capture and as they invariably went together and had the sympathy of a large number of persons in their THE HE CRIMINAL CRIMIN AL tells how he planned the deed and sought to close every avenue of knowledge leading to his guilt the detective shows how futile these efforts were and how the old adage murder will out always Alway holds good I 1 a Y mma coper fht by F L nelson bailiwick it was practically sure death for any one who cared to test their strength they were known as the greatest collection of rough and tumble fight ers and many a bitter battle did they have single handed or together with the champions of the ninth or american ward as it was chown at that time it was the toss of a cent who was the better man abe hie s the american or danny mcbride and although they had a dozen fights la in which all the work as done while they were lying in the street they always came out about even the last fight they had john morrissey was mas the referee and he was nas in sym pathy with mcbride hicks seemed to be getting a trifle the best of the argument and morrissey interfered then on the morton street pier oc burred one of the bloodiest fights that ever took place in the ninth ward mcbride went to the hospital covered with ith wounds and glory and it was nas three months before he was able to get out ii that morrissey fight said me bride was the worst thing that ever happened to me for while I 1 was in the hospital the police got in on the gang and landed dobbs kelly and opp tor for kill ng a sailor in west street they got twenty years each all be cause I 1 wasn gasn t out to help them this broke up the old gang and I 1 could not get good men together for a new one when I 1 lefi left the hospital who could be trusted it was along about this time that jeff reynolds whose hose life I 1 saved when billy porter was m as trying to fill him full of lead came down from sing sing after do ng a stretch of ten years and the first thing he did was to hunt me up I 1 was as then under cover tor for a highway trick on staten island but jeff knew where to ald your uncle when I 1 found out that the cops had no pipes on me for the staten island job I 1 went in with jeff ben harper long sam wiley and spanish forbis s forbes was a and as clever chev r a crook as I 1 ever knew lie had a nerve that would mould carry him through a stone wall mall jeff got up a scheme to do the towns on the east and hudson river fronts and travel in a sloop I 1 al ways liked the water and this just suited me we worked off the tricks in fit the houses on each side of the nv riv ers one after the other so sd as to throw down the police all our sail ing was done in the night and forbes who traveled on shore as a beggar planted the places for us it was dead easy work and more like a pic ale lite than anything else calling up peo pie in m the night with masks on and relieving them of thrle thi lr wealth we had plenty of luck on the hudson river front ami and raided over oner forty bouses houses the game got so hot that committees went out at night with rifles to hunt tor for crooks and NN e pulled off for a while as it never pays to be a target even for a bad hunter while iab lading ing off I 1 picked up a pa per and read of a swell ng at englewood at the house of a man named baldwin one of the wealthiest ducks in the neighborhood and some fellow had figured up the presents in jewelry and silver plate as being worth 1 I showed it to jeff and said that we ought to give the place a call before any of the pros ants were sold he agreed with with me and we sent forbes to take a look at the place he reported that the job was as easy as finding the stuff on the road and the night after the wed ding we landed in englewood in a grocery wagon when we got alongside of the house I 1 was afraid of alarm bells so I 1 sent wiley to the top of the piazza to try his luck the window catch was a double ender which could not be worked with a blade and he bad had to cut out a pane of glass with a dia mond point the window opened 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 baldvins Bald wins room first and he actually showed fight herried he tried to get to a knob which probably was a signal of some kind and jeff put him to sleep with a sandbag they were all fighters in the house and a young fellow shot jeff through the arm in the hall he was put to sleep before he cou count A do any more shooting the women three of them had to be tied up and gagged to keep them still when we thought that everybody was safe we divided up and went on a hunt for the swag forbes went to the front of the house and in a few seconds I 1 heard some terrible growls and a lot of things upsetting I 1 ran to the room and there was forbes having it out with a bull mastiff on the floor with a young woman sit ting on the led bed and urging the beast on she was a beauty and not scared seared a bit the mastiff was getting the best of the fight and had a grip on forbes neck which was making h in look sick I 1 pulled my gun and or dered the girl to call off the dog but she defied me and told me to blaze am away ay I 1 saw the bluff would not work so I 1 got lout 0 ut my old blackjack an ugly looking thing and hit the beast a clip on the skull that knocked the life out of him the eirl ctrl flew at me when I 1 banged the dog like a wild animal and I 1 had all I 1 could do to hold her without hurting her I 1 would not have harmed a hair of that spunky girls girl s head for a million but I 1 had to gag her for safety I 1 always felt sorry for her as she lay looking at the dog which was vas provably her pet and made a good fight to defend her we had easy sailing after that and in every room there was a lot of stuff which we put into bags all of it 1001 ed good and was very heavy there was any quantity of jewelry lying around and in a small sate 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 evera everything thing up in good and after a good meal and a bi bis draught of the old man mans s wine cellar we quit the place harper was nas wait walt ing down the road a b t with the wagon magon and we loaded all the stuff into it 1 DETECTIVE STORY the dastardly treatment which the thieves bald raid detect ne e mallon who did the work at baldwin s man sion slon in engleb englewood gave the family caused great excitement and the lo 10 cal police were paralyzed paral zed and did not know which way to turn mr bald win lived part of the time in new york and was a broker in wall street he requested us to give him a d in running down the thieves and offered OOOO reward renard for their cap ture the case was given to me the second day after the robbery robbe y and I 1 went carefully care full 7 over the ground everything had ten ien turned upside down by the local police in the hunt for something which might lead to the identity of the men I 1 found the family in a terrible condition and miss alice baldwin al most crazy over we loss of her dog which defend defended pd her so gallantly gallant lv and was buried in hv h finest part ot the lawn the others were all affe s ring from concussion of the brain from a terrible blow on the head the only member of the fam y who nho could give any clue which was of an alue was miss alice who slept tt it ough all the early part of the confusion and was mas awakened by the growling of the dog the I 1 was burning in her room and she saw a heavy built man stand ing beside her bed she called the dog who was lying at the foot of the bed and set him on the thief in the struggle the dog tore the mack mak off and sha she saw raw the burglar N was as a negro 4 she said pat that she had seen the 1 rayy wf 4 r f ak W negro before in englewood and aud thought that she had seen him on a v agon loaded with garden truck go ing jg toward new york about two weeks before upon th s information I 1 made a tour all through the country countr to get a trace of a missing negro and wasted a lot of time in following the nande wanderings rings of a colored man who had worked for several days with a farm er near lodi I 1 found him but there were no wounds on his body and this left him out of the game when I 1 returned to new york I 1 had a complete list of all the stolen goods and made a tour of all the fences which were likely to give up information to 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 0 a watch match which he had bought from a fellow who looked I 1 ke a tramp about a week before and it had all the marks of one of the watches which had been stolen I 1 took the watch to mr baldwin and he said that it was his property I 1 made up my mind that the tramp did not have any hand in the rob bery and had got possession of 0 the watch in sonie some other way I 1 hunted high and low for this fellow in the cheap dives and finally landed a fel low answering to his description I 1 took him to the liquor dealer and he was fully identified I 1 locked him up and squeezed him very hard tor for in formation he persisted that he had found the watch in the street but after he was put through the mill and charged with killing a man to get the time piece he admitted that ha hg stole it from a man who was ly in inn drunk in a hallway in greenwich street from the description that he gave lie rie and the knowledge ot of crooks which I 1 had I 1 concluded that it was I 1 iro bably danny mcbride I 1 dropped downtown and after hanging around for a few days I 1 felt satisfied that danny was in hiding for something I 1 could not find him in any of his haunts and I 1 knew from his friends telling me that they had not seen him that he was keeping out of sight tor for something I 1 had never known that danny was in the house cracking busl bust ness as he had always figured as a river pirate and a bad one at that one evening while going through bleecker street I 1 met frank carroll and he told me an amusing story about 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 ne groes and could cure diseases by the laying on of her hands carroll said that there was a report going around among the negroes that she had healed the wounds and destroyed the evil spirit which was bothering a negro at a single sitting for which ser vice she had received a fabulous sum ordinarily I 1 have listened to this story but by some strange influence I 1 associated this negro with the one who had been bitten by the dog at baldwins baldvins Bald wins house A good detective always run down every idea no matter bow how foolish it may seem and I 1 decided to have a chat with the voodoo doctress she lived in a rear building in wooster street on the me with a great show of suspicion I 1 told her that I 1 believed in her pow er or to kill my enemies and I 1 off offered ered to pay her liberally for one of her enemy destroying charms in a few moments she limbered up a little and made a statement that fairly caused me to jump tor for joy jo she said that the voodoo which had this man in his power had bitten him all over the 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 knas or anything about him except that he had gone to cuba I 1 got a detective from the mercer street sta tion to watch the house and in tho the evening I 1 got al at ponder a colored man who could be depended on to play a part he called upon the voodoo woman and the first thing he did was to jull pull out a big knife and sharpen it he ile said nothing while doing this and the woman became very uneasy when he got through the pan pantomime he told her in very solemn tones that the object of his visit was to kill her he ile gave her one alternative it if she would mould tell bin him who the man was who called on her with the teeth marks in his bidy her life would be spared and she would get 1000 in gold fender ponder shook a bag full ol 01 metal and gave her three minutes to answer she whispered the name of spanish forbes pender ponder knew that he had the woman oman in his power and pressed the question tinder the same conditions as to where lorbes was she told him he a m as in a certain eel cel lar in wooster street I 1 had heard all she said from the hall and at this point opened the door I 1 ordered her to take me to forbes but it tok a prod from fend pend er s knife to make her move sh had told the truth forbes was in the cellar in a semi delirious state from morphine he ile ti ked all the time and I 1 made the woman sit on his bed he seemed to be fright frightened dried when h i saw raw her I 1 asked him who was biti him at the eaglewood Erg lewood robbery and v hen I 1 told him that the woman had told me a everything he gave gme the names of jeff reynolds danny me bride sam wiley and ben den harper and told where they could be found that was mas enough for me and I 1 sent forbes to a hospital under guard the same n I 1 captured mcbride wiley and reynolds they were nere tried convicted and put away for fifteen years in jersey I 1 caught ca ight harper two years later and he got the same dose lorbes who turned states evidence got off with seven years |