Show PARALLEL 75 10 A PHE THE CRIMINAL tells how he planned the S STORIES 1 0 deed and sought to close every avenue of knowl V 9 A d WY r f X FAMOUS ai M U tj 0 edge leading to his guilt vb the detective shows how c i me s futile these efforts were and how the old adage murder by HENRY HEN RY C TER TERRY ry willo will out ut always Alway holds good I 1 I 1 j coper by F I 1 L nelson A PLOT THAT FAILED F all the es whom it has been my lot to know antl inti I 1 have the kindliest recollection of mose vogel was something in tensely human about the nun man a whimsical humorous way that made you forget that he was one of the most desperate bank robbers ever dealt with by the new york police he ile was closely associated with all ot of the best crooks of the world in his day and his shrewdness and pluck made him in great demand as a part ner even though it was well known in the underworld under world that mose had ad been born under an unlucky star he met with more reverses than any crook I 1 have ever known and as I 1 do not credit of course the indal of odthe the little goddess of luck in guiding the lives of the knights of the dark lan ian tern and jimma I 1 am willing to offer mose jiose d a misfortunes as cumulative evi dence of the final futility of ca cime ime he ile has long since passed t to 0 his final reward but I 1 remember as clear ly as if it were yesterday his sitting in the old mulberry street station and telling me how he and his gang al most cleaned up 3 t om a jer sey city tank bank but I 1 will let him tell the story as he told it to me MOSE STORY it was along back in the seven ties said qaid mose that dave turn cuin minga then in the height ot of his fame as a crook met me on the bowery and we went together down to the old atlantic garden suddenly dave turned to me and said I 1 think you are on the level mose I 1 felt that this was a big compliment coming from dave for he was an independent high strung fellow who would pass up a thousand thieves without giving one the nod of his head I 1 told dave that I 1 had always arf arld d to be square and to live up to that wheeze in the copy copybooks books about hon lion esty being the best policy he dian didn t ask me to go in with him then or even let out to me what m was as in h s mind that wasn gasn t dave s way but I 1 knew he had his eye on me as a bright lid that was sure to rise in his profession he did ask me to step down to murray a with him saying be he needed a little money and was in the mind to have a bilack at murray s game he had just made a big haul somewhere and had about 6 so I 1 didn dian t think there was any chance of him going to work right away but the cards ran against him and in less than a week the whole bank roll had passed into murray a hands seeing how things were go ng with dave I 1 sort of held ma m self open turn ing down several good offers of high class work sure enough he finally hunted me up he had a newspaper clipping about a big special deposit 3 lying in a bank in jersey city that he d planted and just wait ing tor for somebody to come and get it it made my mouth water to think ot of all ELII thit money dave said the work had to be started right away before the money was paid out and so after taking a look took at my edgag ment book I 1 told him I 1 v as tree free to go 0 to work any time we went ra right g t up to harry R hill i 1 s place that night and dave in laced produced trod tr 0 d me to bd ed johnon john on and dago frank a pair of al western crooks who had worked off several big tricks with dave already the next day we went by different routes to jersey city and picked out a EL quiet boarding house near union hill the real work of planting the bink then began tor fair it took a week to plant the bank it t came my lot to locate the vault I 1 iid aid this by going in to look at a diorec d ree tory lory I 1 saw that it was an old f fash sh toned affair built in the wall on the east side neat the entrance opposite the directors room we decided to 0 ko o through the wall and hired a room n the adjoining building whose floor was several everal feet above the vault I 1 represented to the landlady that I 1 was a sculptor recently landed from atall hal pod wished to st sot a studio I 1 had to pay about three prices for the room as the landlady seemed to think that a sculptor 0 to have barrels of coin well we came near getting it I 1 sent several blocks of marble to he studio and commenced carving gut out the busts of distinguished men cum vm dago frank and johnson were my assistants I 1 had a bed in the room and lived there but my partners slept elsewhere I 1 had sledges ham mer and steel chisels to use in the sculpture business apparently we made the attack on the bank through the open fireplace and the ringing blows that were beard heard through the bouse house made the tenants believe that the sculptors were very vety busy fellows we did not do much work mork while the bank was open but early in the morn ing and late at night pounded away at the stone and brick it v vas as tedious work as we had to go through heavy blocks of stone which made up the outer wall of the vault we removed the debris after dark and let tho janitress into the very day to clean up the hole S in the wall was hidden at such times by a large screen it took nearly two weeks to get through the stone and then we found that we were about three feet above the big money box this was made ot of heavy iron plates and on top there were several layers of rifI railroad road iron wedged in place so that they were about as solid as a mass of iron we got rid ot of part of the iron and then it was arranged that dave was to do the outside work and give us warning of danger signs we had no far of the police but there were a lot of secret service bugs flying arcand they were not up to our game but they knew me and dago frank from a couple of tricks done in other places dave threw us down in great shape but I 1 never blamed him tor for it he was always on the level but in dined to take chances instead of keeping tab dave so be he told me afterward used to drop into taylor taylors s hotel and play billiards he could beat about any one that handled a cue and would play all night if hg could get any one to stay with him our worl wort went on and we reached the top plate of the money box then it was only a question of drills acids and jimmies to get through the plate with good lu in k this would take only a few hours I 1 could almost feel the crisp bills in my fingers then came the end suddenly and swiftly we were in the pit working by the light of candles and supposed that dae dare was in the building some where I 1 was swigging ging a sledge john son was holding the chisel and dago was resting I 1 heard a slight corn coin motion room above and thought that dave had come in for something A second later I 1 heard a strange voice shout into the fireplace throw up your hands I 1 looked up and saw two policemen s heads and two guns covering us we threw lp our hands then I 1 said to dago are you he i replied no so se ure did we feel with dave on guard that we had all left our guns in the room I 1 am going to make a break I 1 said I 1 m with you said dago john son only cursed come out or III shoot was the next order and we climbed out of the hole pretty tough there were six cops in the room and every ne had a gun A fellow came toward me with nippers and I 1 dashed tor for the window I 1 neve reached it A club got to me first johnson still cursed dago went through the cops like a shot kno kd a couple cople of anem down reacted the stairs jumped over the heads of leveal cops and reached the landing A at cop who was too lazy to go upstairs in the hall and before dago aw him the cop got in his work with the stick dave was in taylor taylors s hotel playing billiards when this was goig on and when he heard it went under cover he ile did everything that was possible to aid us ana an even went so for fr as to fix up a job to get Us out of the hudson coun ty jail but he t have enough coin the three of us took our fit teen year stretch at trenton without a murmur aad and dave gave us all the luxuries that money could furnish there I 1 ira m going on the level now but it Is not like the old times CAPT M HORNEY S STORY capt edward mchorney of the jer sey city police department who was the principal factor in the capture of the first national bank burglars was one of the bravest men wao who ever won a silver shield captain mchorney died a few years ago from a disease that was indirectly the result of the injuries received during the struggle with mose N ogel and shortly before death sealed his lips told me th s story the capture of vogel dago frank and johnson was due to the curiosity of a woman her name was mrs francis as I 1 recollect it and she ran a boarding house over carew s oyster saloon which adjoined the bank one of the thieves vogel I 1 think hired a room from her on the second floor which adjoined the bank on the east and ani opened a studio as a blind avery arvery morning regularly mrs francis was called into the studio by the sculptor to N clean up the place the floor she always found covered with marble dust and chips of stone and an elegant screen stood tood in front of the fireplace the sculptor always sat near the screen with a big apron on and chatted pleasantly with his landlady things went on an for a week or more in this way the sculptor kept ham mering away aay and mrs francis en joyed her morning call it was along about housecleaning time and mrs francis started in one morning to clean the windows on the sculptor sculptors s floor in passing through the hall with a step ladder it struck her that it would be a good opportunity to see the sculptor at work she heard him pounding on stone in the room and cautiously put up the ladder in front of the door fhe fan fala light was open jand ind it was this trivial oversight that threw down three of 0 the best men in the business how they came 0 to o cier look the fanlight I 1 never could LI fler stand as everything else in the keyholes cracks and windows were carefully covered mrs francis peeped inside nc one was ao 10 eight sight bhe she could see the blocks of marble but no one was hammering on them the sound wa very distinct and she wondered what it meant she could hear voices too when her ekes lit on the open tire place and she saw a piece of stone hy fly from it into the room she fell off the ladder the noise in the room stop ped mrs francis picked herself up ull and hurried away as rapidly as pos sible she peeped over the banister and saw some one open the studio door in a moment the francas ha hari mering was resumed and mrs francis hurried to police headquarters I 1 was in charge as chief edward S mcwilliams Mc was in philadelphia mrs francis told me her story I 1 knew at once that a gang of burglars had planted the bank from the time that they had been at rork mork I 1 knew they must be close to the money I 1 rang tor for detective mike bowie and we went together toge thet down to exchange place where we could pipe the bank mrs francis told me that tour four men were in the gang and after a long wait we saw two of them come out of the boarding house in a few moments the two other fellows came out and they all crossed the ferry to new york I 1 knew one of them he ile was the best looking one in the gang I 1 had played several games of bil hards w with ith him at tayler s hotel and was beaten every time I 1 found out afterward that be he was cummings bowie and I 1 crossed over to a saloon and got a small col cot ored boy who worked there we took him into the boarding house and pushed him the open tan fan light into the studio the kid jimpei into the hole in the fireplace saw the condition of things there and came back scared half to death then I 1 waited at the house enli unu three of the gang came back rhey seemed to be in a hurry and went to work in the vault late in I 1 n t the he a alter it er noon cummings did not return I 1 krew the trick wag was about to come off of and he had been left outside to watch watal I 1 sent bowie to the station house for the men and when they returned after making sure that cummings Lum was not on the lookout anywhere I 1 sont two mea me to the roof of the house sta cloned three others in the bank and the rest I 1 placed place on the stairs bowe bowie and I 1 with four big nervy iren made for the room the boand of the ham mering was very distinct but I 1 could not tell whether the three men were in the hole or net not I 1 stood flat against the studio door and placed bov ie and two policemen behind me it was a ticklish moment and III admit I 1 felt e 9 little uneasy ag rien men of the kind ve we were going up against are very handy with guns I 1 gave the signal in a low vole bof e and we threw ourselves against the door it was important that the locks aid bolts should be broken at the first effort so that the gag would cot not have warning the door flew open and I 1 landed on my hands hc ads and knees in the middle of the room the place ws empty and I 1 jumped for the fireplace with my revolver in ray my hand bowie one of the stoutest hearted boys I 1 ever knew got there ahead of 0 me and shouted to the gang to throw up the their I 1 r hands in the hole were three men on their hands and knees and I 1 heard beard them whisper to each 0 her hut but could not tell what they bald said I 1 knew that they would not give up without a battle and I 1 felt re lieveld when one of the poll pol lemen emen shouted here are their guns cap they were unarmed and I 1 krew I 1 had them all safe the three fellows climbed all abed out of the hole wita as ugly expressions on their mugs as I 1 ever saw one of them thern kept swearing all the time they kept their handa hands above their heads but I 1 could see that they were sung sling up the game as they crawled into the room before we had a chance to grab them one fel low gave me a vicious lolk in the abdomen and started ar the window my men would mould have killed him if I 1 had not called them off another of the thieves made tor for the door he ile was a black looking devil and had the counge of a lion why he was not killed I 1 never could understand but I 1 suppose we got a lattis careless when we found out they had nothing to shoot with and gave them more of a chance but we got the hand handfuls culs on them and landed them in the station house there was a sequel to this cap ture wh ch created even greater greter ex elter rent than the attempted bank robbery the thieves squealed at their trial and said that captain me ale Willi william aing and detective doyle who was mcwilliams Mc confidential man N were ere in the scheme to rob the bank and were to bs be rewarded biti a share of the proceeds tor for giving them pro te to tion the trial of captain Mc and doyle was the most sensational one ever held in hudson county ahe thieves told of their various meetings with doyle A diary was produced containing so a record of the conversa eions with him and the convicts swore out a very stiff case A point that was made to count strongly against captain mcwilliams Mc was his absence in philadelphia when the trick was to have come off but all the jury would not believe the testimony of the men who had been thieves all their lives in preference to men of good deputa tion and the jury failed to agree me williams spent a fortune in his defense gave up the police business and became a detective at the astor s r house doyle was ruined and dra dranic himself to death |