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Show pARALLELlI 1, 1 STORIES Deed and Sought to Close I 8 n nATiiffTT ' Every Avenue of Knowl- I I gf r AMOUd edge Leading to His Guilt. r n T M r CI The Detective Shows How I K 1 km Em O Futile These Efforts Were and f How the Old Adage, Murder 1 1 Ey KENRY C. TERRY Will Out, "Always Holds Good." (Copyright by F. L. Nelsoo 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 of heavy iron plates, and on top there were several layers of railroad iron, wedged in place so that they were about as solid as a mass of iron. "We got rid 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 f2ar of the police, but there were a lot of secret service bugs flying around. 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 never blamed him for it. He was always on the level, but Inclined In-clined to take chances. Instead of keeping tab, Dave so he told me afterward used to drop into Taylor's hotel and play billiards. He could beat about any one that handled a cue, and would play all night if he could get any one to stay with him. Our work 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 luck this would take only a few hours. I 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 Dave was in the building somewhere. some-where. I was swinging a sledge, Johnson John-son was holding the chisel and Dago was resting. - I heard a slight commotion com-motion in the room above and thought that Dave had come in for something. A second later I heard a strange voice shout into the fireplace: "'Throw up your hands!' "I looked up and saw two policemen's police-men's heads and two guns covering us. We threw up our hands. Then 1 said to Dago: 'Are you heeled?' He repiied: 'No.' So secure did we feel with Dave on guard that we had all left our guns in the room. " 'I am going to make a break,' I said. 'I'm with you,' said Dago. Johnson John-son only cursed. " 'Come out or I'll shoot,' was the next order, and we climbed out of the hole feeling pretty tough. There were six cops in the room and every one had a gun. A fellow came toward me vith nippers and I dashed for the window. I never reached it. ' A club got to me first. Johnson still cursed. Dago went through the cops like a shot, knocked a couple of them down, reached the stairs, jumped over the heads of several cops, and reached the landing. A fat cop who was too lazy to go upstairs stood in the hall, and before Dago saw him, the cop got in his work with the stick. Dave was in Taylor's hotel playing billiards when this was going on, and when he heard it went under cover. He did everything that was possible to aid us, and even went so far as to fix up a job to get us out of the Hudson county coun-ty jail. But he didn't have enough coin. The three of us took our fifteen-year stretch at Trenton without a murmur, and Dave gave us all the luxuries that money could furnish there. I'm going on the level now, but it is not like the old times." A $3,000,000 PLOT THAT FAILED. TTi F all the thieves whom it has !f '!SV mately I have the kindliest recollection of Mose Vogel. iaii There was something in-tensely in-tensely human about the 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 was closely associated with all of T the best crooks of the world in his day, and his shrewdness and pluck made him in great demand as a partner, part-ner, even though it was well known in the under-world that Mose had been born under an unlucky star. He met with more reverses than any crook I have ever known, and as I do not credit, of course, the infallibility of the little Goddess of Luck in guiding the -- lives of the knights of the dark lan tern and jimmy, I am willing to offer Mose's misfortunes as cumulative evidence evi-dence of the final futility of crime. He has long since passed to his final reward, but I remember as clearly clear-ly as if it were yesterday his sitting in the old Mulberry street station and telling me how he and his gang almost al-most cleaned up $3,000,000 from a Jersey Jer-sey City bank. But I will let him tell the story as he told it to me. MOSE VOGEL'S STORY. "It was along back In the seventies," seven-ties," said Mose, "that Dave Cummings, Cum-mings, then in the height 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 think you are on the level, Mose.' I 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 cf his head. "I told Dave that I had always tried to be square and to live up to that wheeze in the copy-books about 'honesty 'hon-esty being the best policy.' He didn't ask me to go in with him then or even let out to me what was in his mind. That wasn't Dave's way. But I knew he had his eye on me as a bright lad that was sure to rise in his profession. He did ask me to step down to Murray's with him, saying he needed a little money and was in the mind to have a whack at Murray's game. He had just made a big haul somewhere and had about $6,000; so I didn'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's hands. "Seeing how things were going with Dave I sort of held myself open, turn-" 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, $3,000,000, lying in a bank in Jersey City that he'd planted, and just waiting wait-ing for somebody to come and gat it. It made my mouth water to think of all that money. "Dave said the work had to be Btarted right away, before the money was paid out and so, after taking a look at my engagement book, I told him I was free to go to work any time. We went right up to Harry Hill's place that night and Dave introduced in-troduced mo to Ed. Johnson and Dago Frank, a pair of Al western crooks iv ho had worked off several big tricks with Dave already. "The next day we went by different routes to Jersey City and picked out a quiet boarding house near Union Hill. The real work of planting the bank (hen began for fair. "It took a week to plant the bank. It came my lot to locate the vault. 1 Hid this by going in to look at a directory. direc-tory. I saw that it was an old-fashioned affair, built in the wall on the sast side, near the entrance opposite the directors' room. We decided to 50 through the wall, and hired a room In tho r.djoining building, whose Boor ivas several feet above the vault. 1 represented to the landlady that I svns a sculptor recently landed from Italy, p.nd wished to set uj a studio. had to pay about three prices for tho room, as the landlady seemed to think that a sculptor ought to have barrels of coin. Well, wo came near jetting it. "1 sent several blocks of marble to 1 . !he studio nnd commenced carving out :he busts of distinguished men. Cummings, Cum-mings, Dago Frank and Johnson were my assistants. I had a bed in the room and lived there, but my partners t slept elsewhere. I had sledges, ham mers and steel chisels to use In the I sculpture business apparently. We I trade the attack on the bank through ' the open fireplace, and the riuglng blows that were heard through the house niado the tenants believe that tho sculptors were very busy fellows. We did not do much work while the bank was open, but early in the morning morn-ing and late at night pounded away at the stone aud brick. "It was 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 d irk, snd let tho janltress Into the rooi.i every day to clean up. The hole -1 |