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Show AGAIN IN LIMBO. The Notorious Larry King of Gold Brick Fame. 'may BE BROUGHT HERE. He, With Two Pals of Tougrh Reputation Are Now Being: Held at Denver The Colorado Officers Are Awaiting- Advices Ad-vices From Utah. Larry King who will be remembered hereabouts for his connection with the George Whitmore gold brick swindle is again in the toils, this time at Den-yer Den-yer and again for disposing of a bogus gold brick. The victim this time is a Boston broker who refuses te prosecute on the grounds that he would receit e too much publicity. King and two partners, one a Mexican, Mexi-can, the other an old man, an assayer. Lilly Pinkerton worked up the case. Connors has already been claimed by the Pinkerton agency in Denver, for robbing a jewelry store in Jackson, Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. O. J. Edwarda is an escaped convict from Sing Sing. Conors is a well-known well-known Chicago burglar, confidence mn and pickpocket, and has served three terms in Joliet penitentiary. After leaving Chicago he joined a gang ot crooks brought togetner by Abe Rothschild, a Marshall (Tex.), murderer mur-derer and operated with tbem all through the s mth and west. Among the breaks credited to the gang are a bank robbery at Elgan, Tex., the theft of $10 000 worth of diamonds and jeweliy from Hickok's jewelry house at 1 Paso, in the same state, a jewelrj robbery at Baton Rouge, and the stealing steal-ing of diamonds and other precious Stones to the value of $7,000 rrom the - Alfred Bourgeois, at Jackson, i.w..r job was done on the night of February 28, 18y5, and Billy makes the third man for taking part in it. On the day the jewels were missed the Pinkerton detectives were given the caBe. A week later they arrested Abe Rothschild at St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada, and on March 27, John Mc-Gowan, Mc-Gowan, a second member of the gang, was captured in Chicago. Both are now in Jackson jail. Rothschild had run a notorious career before getting into the toils this last time. He was first brought into prominence by shooting and killing a youna girl, about eleven years ago, at Marshall, Tex. Twice he was convicted of murder ia the firat degree, but at his third trial the jary disagreed and he was discharged from custody. He gathered a small gang of kindred spirits spir-its around him ana since then he has le.ied for loot on storekeepers and bankers all over the countiy, making diamond stealing a specialty. His favorite mode of working was to personate per-sonate a wealthy man in some town at a safe distance from where bis victim reB?ded. Armed with forged refer ences and letters of introduction, he drove in a carriage to the store selected, se-lected, and there, after showing his letters, he ordered some, jewelry sent for inspection to the most prominent hotel in town. The clerk who con-yeyed con-yeyed the property to the hotel was flimflammed out of it, and that was the last the jeweler saw of his unprofitable customer. Advices from Denver say that Utah will have the preference in King's case, and if requisition is made he will be brought here. |