Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 9, 1914, Page 6

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Telephones: Office 351; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Florids NORTHROP SCHOOL OF MUSIC KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY MRS. ENSIGN NORTHROP, Lakeland, Florida PETERSON & OWENS ATTORNEYS AT LAW Dickson Building Established in July, 1900 DR. W. S. IRVIN DENTIST Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building : LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Florida B. H. HARNLY Real Estate, Live Stock and General AUCTIONEER Sales Manager NATIONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. Auction Lot Sales a Speclalty 21 Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, Fla THE EVENING TALEGRAM, LAK THE CRIMINAL Tells STORIES FAMOUS CRIMES How He Planned the Deed and Sought to Close Every Avenue of Knowgvl- edge Leading to His Guilt. The Detective Shows How Futile These Efforts Were and How the Old Adage, Murder By HENRY C. TERRY (Copyright by THE GREAT ENGLEWOOD ROB- BERY. ID you ever think how a burglar, who breaks into your house regards you? You play an important part in his scheme of things, it is true, but he hasn’'t a very high opinion of you, at least of your fighting abilities. The thieves who broke into the house of Banker Baldwin, at Englewood, N. J., a few years ago and perpetrated cruel outrages upon every member of the family had no fear of dogs or gums. They did their work with flendish precision and congratulated them- selves that they left no clue. But the teeth marks left on one of the gang by a faithful bull dog who died defending his mistress, proved their undoing. Now let the principal ac-| tors tell the story. DANNY M'BRIDE'S STORY. In the days when masked burglaries were in vogue, and all the villages within one hundred miles of New York were considered by these spe- clal students of the dark lantern and jJimmy as the proper places for them to visit, there was no more desperate gang in the world than that led by Danny McBride, who was a sort of & hero among the lower class of citl- zens in the old Second Ward. Danny started out when quite a young fellow a8 a river pirate, and was just get- ting & knowledge of the business when Jerry McAuley, who was after- ward converted and founded a mis- slon, was in his former glory and had pretty 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's property, or even life, was 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 business was not very remunera- tive, as most of the stuff which was stolen was disposed of as old junk. It was about as safe a line of thie- very as there was going, because Danny and his gang, which consisted of Ben Harper, “Simmy” Kelly, “Old Man” Dobbs, Pete Beller 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 balllwick, 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 known at that time. It was the toss of a cent who was the better man, Abe Hicks, the American, or Danny McBride. And, although they had a dozen fights in which all the work was done while they were lying in the street, they always came out about even. The last fight they had, John Morrissey was the referee, and he was 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- curred one of the bloodiest fights that ever took place in the Ninth Ward. McBride went to the hospital covered with wounds and glory, and it was three months before he was able to get out, “That Morrissey fight,” sald Mec- Bride, “was the worst thing that ever happened to me, for while I was in the hospital the police got in on the gang and landed Dobbs, Kelly and Opp for killing a sailor in West street. They got twenty years each, all be- cause [ wasn't out to help them. This broke up the old gang, and I could not get good men together for a new one, when I left the hospital, who could be trusted. “It was along about this time that Jeff Reynolds, whose life I saved when Billy Porter was trying to fill him full of lead, came down from Sing Sing after doing a stretch of ten years, and the first thing he did was | to hunt me up. I was then under cover for a highway trick on Staten Island, but Jeff knew where to find your uncle. When I found out that | the cops had no pipes on me for the | Staten Island job I went in with Jeft, Ben Harper, Long Sam Wiley and Spanish Forbes. Forbes was a nigger and as clever a crook as I ever knew. He had a nerve that would carry him | through a stone wall. “Joff got up a scheme to do the | towns on the East and Hudson River fronts, and travel in a sloop. I al ways llked the water, and this just suited me. We worked off the tricks i in the houses on each side of the riv- ers one after the other, so 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- nic than anything else, calling up peo- | -— Will Out, “Always Holds Good.” F. L. Nelson ple in the night with masks on and relieving them of their wealth. We bhad plenty of luck on the Hudson River front and raided over forty houses. The game got so hot that committees went out at night with rifles to hunt for crooks and we pulled off for a while as it never pays to be a target even for a bad hunter. “While laying off I picked up a pa- per and read of a swell wedding 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 worth $200,000. silver plate as being I showed it to Jeff, and said that we ought to give the; place a call before any of the pres- ents were sold. He agreed 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 was afraid of alarm bells, so 1 sent Wiley to the top of the piazza ELAND, FLA., NOV. 9, 1914. before in Englewood, and | ?:::ght that she had seen him 1:m (:. wagon loaded with garden truc :\‘o ing toward New York gbout e weeks before. Upon this informati I made a tour all through the counmd' to get a trace of a missing ne!;'ro ml]l wasted a lot of time in follo“}ug t do wanderings of a colored man who ha : worked for several days '\\'uh a farm: er near Lodi. I found him, but !h;l;a were no wounds on his body, and this im out of the game. A ler‘?“l"l;en I returned to New York, 1 had a complete list of all the sto]:n goods, and made a tour of al} the fences which were likely to give ug {nformation to the police, but learned | pothing that would do me any good. ' A friend of mine who kept a liquo; 'store in Greenwich street told me o! a watch which he had bought from & tellow who looked like a tramp about a week before, and it had all the ' marks of one of the watches which i had been stolen. I took the watch to { Mr. Baldwin, and he said that it was roperty. me‘ll;na%e up my mind that the tramp 'did not have any hand llix that r&bc- ssession Of bery, and had got po et 'high and low for this fellow, in the l::hgeap dives, and finally .landed a fel- !low answering to his description. I | took him to the liquor dealer, and he was fully identified. I locked him up and squeezed him very hard 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 plece, he admitted that he stole it from a man who was ly- ! ing drunk in a hallway in Greenwich . street. ' ! watch in some other way. to try his luck. The window catch' “From the description that he gave was 8 double-ender, which could not me and the knowledge of crooks be worked with a blade, and he had ; which I had, I concluded that it was to cut out a pane of glass with a dia- | probably Danny McBride. 1 dropped mond point. The window opened in-, downtown, and, after hanging around 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 Baldwin’s room first, and he actually showed fight. He tried to get to a knob which probably wasa 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 could 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 1 heard some terrible growls and a lot of things upsetting. I 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 bed and urging the beast on. She was a beauty and not scared a bit. The mastiff was getting the best of the fight and had a grip on Forbes’ neck which was making him look sick. I pulled my gun and or- dered the girl to call off the dog, but she defied me and told me to blaze away. [ saw the bluff would not work, so I got out my old blackjack, an ugly-looking thing, and hit the beast a clip on the skull that knocked the life out of him. “The girl flew at me when I banged the dog, like a wild animal;” and I had all T could do to hold her without hurting her. I would not have harmed a hair of that spunky girl'sl head for a million, but I had to gag her for safety. 1 always felt sorry for her as she lay looking at the dog, which was prorably 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 looked good and was very heavy. There was any quantity of jewelry lying around, and in a small 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 everything up in good shape, and after a good meal and a big draught of the old man's wine cellar, we quit the place. Harper was wait- ing down the road a bit with the wagon, and we loaded all the stuff into it.” DETECTIVE MALLON'S STORY. | “The dastardly treatment the thieves,” sald Detective Mallon, “who did the work at Baldwin’ an- | £ 8% Baldwing man-| g5 Hia body sion in Englewood gave the family | caused great excitement, and the lo- | cal police were paralyzed 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 | aid in running down the thieves, and | offered $20,000 reward for their cap- ! ture. The case was given to me the second day after the robbery, and 1I| went carefully over the ground. Iwoman became very uneasy. which | | gold. 'for a few days, I felt satisfied that Danny was in hiding for something. I could not find him in any of his haunts, and [ knew from his friends telling me that they had not seen him that he was keeping out of sight for something. I had never known that Danny was in the house-cracking busi- ness, as he had always figured as & . river pirate, and a bad one at that. “One evening, while going through Bleecker strect, I 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- l groes, and could cure diseases by the laying on of her hands. Carroll sald 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 ne- gro at a single sitting, for which ser- vice she had received a fabulous sum. Ordinarily, I wouldn't have listened to this story, but by some strange influence I associated this negro with the one who had been bitten by the dog at Baldwin's house. “A good detective always run down every idea, no matter how foolish it may seem, and I decided to have a chat with the voodoo doctress. She lived in a rear bullding in Wooster street, on the top floor, and received me with a great show of suspicion. I told her that I belleved in her pow- er to kill my enemies, and I offered 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 i falrly caused me to jump for joy. She s#ld that the voodoo which had this man in his power had bitten him all over the body, and his flesh was filled i with deep indentations from the teeth. That was all she would say | then, and she would not tell who he was or anything about him except { that he had gone to Cuba. I got a detective from the Mercer street sta- thn to watch the house and in the evening I got Al Pender, a colored man who could be depended on to i play a part. | “He called upon the voodoo woman, ' and the first thing he did was to pull iout a big knife and sharpen it. He laald nothing while doing this and the When he got through the pantomime he told her in very solemn tones that the object of his visit was to kill her. He gave her one alternative. If she would tell him who the man was who called on " Wwith the teeth life would be spared and she wou.d get $1,000 in Pender shook a bag full of metal and gave her three minutes to answer. She whispered the name of Spanish Forbes. Pender knew that he had the woman in his power, and pressed the question, under the same conditions, as to where Forbes was, She told him he was in a certain cel- lar in Wooster street, “I had heard all she said from the Everything had been turned upside down by the local police, in the hunt ! | for something which might lead to | the identity of the men. = “I found the family in a terrible | condition, and Miss Alice Baldwin al- | most crazy over the loss of her dog, | which defended her so gallantly, and | was buried in the finest part of the | lawn. The others were all sufl'erlngi from concussion of the brain from a terrible blow on the head. The onlyl member of the family who could give any clue, which was of any value was Miss Alice, who slept through all the early part of the confusion and was awakened by the growling of the dog. The light was burning in her room, and she saw a heavy bu.lt 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 mask off, and she saw the burglar was a negro. “She sald that she had seen the hall, and at this point opened the door. I ordered her to take me to Forbes, but it took a prod from Pend- er's knife to make her move. She had told the truth. Forbes was in the cellar in a semi-delirious state from morphine. He talked all the time, and [ made the woman sit on his bed: He seemed to be frightened when he saw her. [ asked him who was with him at the Englewood robbery, and when I told him that the woman had told me everything, he gave the names of Jeff Reynolds, Danny Me- Bride, Sam Wiley and Ben Harper, and told where they could be tound.' “That was enough for me, and I sent Forbes to a hospital under guard. The same night I captured McBride, Wiley and Reynolds. They ‘Wwere tried, convicted and put away for fifteen years in Jersey. 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