Show r r X c ct t True r. r t t D Detective e t S Stories t nes ALLAN PINKERTONS PINKERTON'S L RECORD CASE i t L. L t by The wheeler S Inc r was was' no response to tho the thoI T I impatient nt knocking knocking- on on- the heavy doors of th the Adams Express press company's com com- pony's pany's building near the end of ot the Columbus 0 O. O oj Union Union statI station n one night in the ml middle dl of ot winter Th There Thero ro stood the truth train with the tho usual bustle and tad clamor preparatory to departure but the express clerk and hl hi his assistant assistant assist assist- ant had not made their appearance Bang Bang This time lime John Grossman the ox ox- press messenger knocked harder than thann ever for tor it was Wl beginning to dawn n upon him that som something must lust b bo be wrong A moment later he tried the knob of ot the door To Tu his amazement It turned ea easily and ond he hc stepped forward forward for for- r- r ward into utter darkness st stumbling t g gocr over ocr boxes and packages un un 11 he reached the gnat gas jet in the center cetter of 01 the room Papers and parc parcels 8 lay In wild confusion 1 all over over- the floor the door doo of the he safe stood pen open and the thc clerk and and hi his assistant were Rere lying in In one corner in tn a n rort of st stupor st por It was was- evident that the tIte two wo men had been chloroformed the chloroformed the sickening odor of ot the drug still sUIl pervaded the room and room and that the company had been I robbed in spite of ot the fact that hundreds hun bun of or people had been Just outside the building nIl all durin during the evening These circumstances circumstances l c e coupled d with ah tho the fact that was missing fn from m the safe were here all nIl that Allan Pinkerton had to work upon when he reached Columbus the following morning The details dewUs of ot the robbe robbery were obtained obtained ob ob- directly from mm John Barker the express clerk According to Barker Darker be he and his assistant assistant as as- s were stretched out on two cots as usual about ten o'clock in the evening evening eve eve- ning taking a nap nap before going on duty on the train which was due to len leave eave Columbus shortly after atter midnight mid mid- night I was awakened by what app appeared red to be a muffled pounding or pu pushing at the door Barker continued Was ns the door locked i Inquired Pinkerton It HIt was was and and bolte bolts 1 1 f. I didn't pay any attention to the tha matter because while we did have haye 2000 in the safe of ot it in revenue stamps we had often otten guarded a good goal deal more and I thought the noise had been made b by some one who had stumbled against the door in the dark dark- ne ness B. B Then before I got really a wake awake I heard the bolt give and the next thing I know knew some one had ph toned my my arms and I caught a whiff of ot something which I recognized as chlo ebb reform I struggled but it no noi non i n a. a When I came to Grossman the meSsenger messenger was be bending over oyer mil mb and the whole place ploce looked like a l cyclone had struck It The in cash was gone but they had overlooked or deliberately loft th the r In stamps Pinkerton made no comment at the tt time but continued d hug hla examination of ot the N room om where the robbery had taken aken place A careful scrutiny of the door revealed two t interesting facts fads The bolt had been bent as If It Ift it t had bad been in p place a when 11 q t the te door doot was wu forced but it was bent beut far farl bore than was necessary to secure an entrance eo en trance to the room and there these were ru nt or 01 other signs of nce on the outside outride of the door All the evidence appeared to p Int Into to o the fact that the tho job had heeD boon handled from the In inside and ond Pinkerton Pinker Pinker- ton on Immediately ordered the arrest of darker and his assistant The two men prote protested ed their their Inno innocence ence Upon looking into Barkers Barker's antecedents antecedents ante ante- Pinkerton found that the express express express ex ex- press clerk had hind a brother living in Chicago a n man who was reputed to be quite wealthy and whom Barker stated stat stat- ed edOO would OO willingly go on his ball if It permit permitted too to do BO so But lut the Chicago ranch brunch of ot the Ue Pinkerton r re r reported ported that the other Barker r was ass s not oo only y not wealthy but was prominent In n the life of ot the underworld re was this man roan on the night of the Columbus s robbery T Allan Pinkerton Pinkerton Pink Pink- erton Inquired by wire Ire Unable to definite tier Oar J came mme back the reply but he was WitS trot not In Chicago Trail all him cJ closely ly and arrest him the instant he attempts to leave the city were the telegraphic directions ms which followed F Early the following morning I Ithan less leas than han 30 SO hours arter after the crime in Co- Co Columbus lumbus Henr Henry Barker was arrested en n route to Canada and was found in the lining of his valise Later after having been bee given Clyen a t taste tate of the th theamous famous amous Pinkerton silence cure he revealed the hiding place of the other and the details of ot the whole affair which he ho had claimed his brother broth er or had planned The scheme was simplicity Itself John Barker had bad administered chloroform to to- his sleep sleep- leepIng lug log assistant Then he opened the outsIde outside out- out sIde Ide door admitted his brother and opened the safe After Afta strewing papers papers pa pa- m pers all over the floor Henry Barker placed a n cloth saturated with chI chloroform chloro- chloro oro- oro form onn over his brothers brothels nostrils stuffed the he cash in his pocket o clet cicet nail and left first bending hack back the twit bolt on on the door Unfortunately Un Un- fortunately however howe he hall hail been heen a Ii little Ittle too thorough h In tn attending to this his last detail and h had el oft a n clue elite which enabled Pinkerton to start the tha two wo men mE-it toward the pe-nU pe with with- In n 48 hours hour after the tle discovery U of PI Ui he robbery r |