Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1895, Page 10

v i i vty o 88 £ L W R e @, T AT AITAMO 2 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BER: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1895 1 lise, but that it was not there when he went | he could (to. befrlend Schwartz. The N up, and prepared to land early the next|we had been sighted and news of our safety in first. Other witnesses In the car were | latter did . noy appear to be very 0 T“E OLEAN IN A BI‘IZZA\RD morning. It seems now as it we were only | cabled to both continents, but as we afterwards posiiive that the person who entered the | much alarmed, and sald that a ~ ROCK ISLAND EXPRESS ROBBERY History of a Remarkable Crime and the Pur- suit and Punishme Cleveland Moffett in On March 12, 1886, the through express on the Rock Island road left Chicago at ». m., with $22,000 in $50 and $100 bills, in the keeping of Kellogg Nichols, an old-time mesaenger in the United States express com pany. This sum had been sent by a C bank to be delivered at the principal bank of Davenport, Ia addition to the usual pas- senger hes drew two express cars, the first for express only, just behind the engine, and following this, one for ex press and bagg: These cars had end doors, which offer the best opportunity to | train robbers. Messenger Nichols was in the first car, and was duly at his work when the train stopped at Joliet, a town about forty miles west of Chicag which was made at a brakeman, came car, crylng Dut at the next stop, Morris, Harry Schwartz from Nichols' Phe messenger is dead.” running The messenger's lifeless body was found lying on the floor of the car. The head had been crushed by some heavy weapon, and there was a pistol wound in the right shoul- der. Apparently he had been overcome only after a hard fight. His faco was set with fierce determination. His fists were clenched, and the hands and fingers cut and ecratched in a curlous way, while under the nalls were found what proved to be bits of human flesh, Tae pistol wound was from we n of 82 caliber. It evid as not the cause of the man's doath, but the blows of some blunt apon, dealt probably Gfter the shot was fired. Al who kne essenger hols were surprised at the despol resistance he eomed to have made, r he was small, Nt man, not more than five feet five in lieight, nor weighing over 130 pounds, and of 1o great credit among his fellows for pluck and_courage The express car was immediatel detached from the train and left at Morris, guarded by all the train crew except Schwartz, who was sent on with the train to Davenport After the first cursory inspection no one was allowed to enfer the car where Nichols la and nothing was known pr v a8 to the extent of the robbery. safe door had been found open, and the floor of the car littered with the contents of the safe, WIDE SBEARCH REVEALED NOTHINC An urgent telegram was at once sent to the Pinkertons at Chicago, and Mr. William Pinkerton, with a force of detectives, arrivad at Morris on a special train a few hou er. Search tis were at once sent out in all directio g the country roads, and up and down the tracks, Hundreds of peo- in the search, for the news of the murder spread rapidly through the whole m, and not a square yard of territory for s between Morris anl Minooka Station was left unexplored. It happened that the ground was covered with snow, but the keen- est scrutiny failed to reveal any significant footprints, ‘and (he scarch parties returncd after many hours, having made only a sin- gle discovery. This was a mask found in a cattle guard near Mincoka—a mask made of black cloth, with white strings fastened at either side, one of which had been torn out of the cloth as If in a str The - . PINKERTON EXAMINES THE CAR. Meantime, Mr, Pinkerton himsel entered the car and made a carcful iny first discovery was a heavy poker, bearing staing of blood and bits of matted hair. It was hanging in its usual place, behind the stove. The significance of this last fact was great in Mr. Pinkerton’s opinlon; from it he concluded that the crime had been committed by a railroad man, his reasoning belng that the poker could have been restored to its usual place after such a use only mechani- <ally, and from force of habit, and that an assailant who was not a railroad man would have let it on the floor or thrown it away. Coming to the safe Mr. Pinkerton found that the $22,000 was missing, and that other papers had been hastily searched over, but lefi behind as valueless, Among these was a bundle of canceled drafts that had been roughiy torn open and then thrown aside. Mr. Pinkerton scarcely noticed at the mo- ment, but had occasion to remember sub- sequently, that a small picce of one of these drafts was missing, as if a corner had been torn off. All the train hands were immediately questioned, but none of their storles were In any way significant, except that of Newlon Watt, the man in charge of the second car. He sald that while busy counting over his way-bills and receipts ho had been startled by the crash of broken glass in the venti- lator overhead, and that at the same mo- ment, a heavily built man, wearing a black mask, hod entered the car and sald: “If you move, the man up there will bore you.” Looking up, Walt said further, he saw a hand thrust through the broken glass and holding a revolver. Thus intimidated he made no attempt to give an alarm, and the masked man presently left him under guard of the pistol overhead, which covered him until shortly before the train reached Mor- ris, when it was withdrawn. He was able to locate the place where the crime must have been committed, as he remembered that the englne was whistling for Minooka Station when the stranger entered the car. This left about thirty minutes for the mur- de;, robbery and_escape. Returning to Chicago, Mr. Pinkerton In- vestigated the character of the man Watt, and found that he had a clean record, was regarded as a trusty and efficient man, and had three brothers who had becn railroad men Jor years and had always given perfect satigfaction, Watt's good reputation and straightforward manner were strong polnts in Lis favor, and yet there was something questionable in his story of the mysterious hand, or one thing, no footprints were found in the snow on the top of the car. BRAKEMAN SCHWARTZ' STORY. Brakeman Schwartz, the only man on the train who had not yet been questioned, “deadheaded” his way, in railway parlance, back from Davenport the following night on Conductor Danforth's train, and reported to Mr. Pinkerton the next miorning. He was a tall, fine-looking young fellow, about 27 with thin lips and a face that showed de- termination, He was rather dapper in dress, and kept on his gloves during the conversa- tion. Mr. Pinkerton recelved him pleasantly, and, after they had been smoking and chat- igation. His ting for an hour or o, he suggested to Sehwartz that he would bo more comtortable Wwith his gloyes off, Schwartz accordingly removed his gloves, and vevealed red marks on the backs of his hands, such as might have been made by finger nails digging into then. “How did you hurt your hands, Schwartz luslml Mr. Pinkerton. “Oh, I did that handling baggage night before last," explained Schwartz, and then be related incidentally that as ho was on his way back to Chicago, the conductor of the train, Conductor Danforth, had discovered a valise left by somebody In one of the tollet rooms. Later in the day, ton summoned the conductor, who satd that the valise was an old one, of no valae; and, had thrown it out on had found at- Wwas marked having no ccutents, he an ash pile. The only thing n the valise was a piece of tracted his with red he paper that attention, because it lines, 10:45 | agy | | cuted Mr. Pinker- nt of the Criminals, MeceClure’s Magazine, | following the murder. The valise was found on the ash heap where the conductor had | thrown it, and, in the course of the next few | days, the detectives had located or accounted [for all the passengers on Conductor Dan- | forth’s train, with the exception of one n who had ridden on a free pass, The snductor cculd only recall this man's fea- | tures vaguely; and, while some of the pas- | sengers remembered him well enough, there | was no clew to his name or identity. As it appeared that no other of the passengers | could” have been connected with the crime, efforts were redoubled to discover the holder of this pass, THE PLUNKETT THEORY. So great was the public interest in the crime and the mystery surrounding it, that three separate, well organized investigations of it were undertaken, The Rock Island | railroad officials, with their detectives, con- ducted one; a Chicago newspaper, the Daily News, with Its detectives, the other; and tho Pinkertons, in the interest of the United States Express company, a third. Mr. Pinkerton, as we have seen, concluded that the crime had been committed by rail- way men. The rallway officlals ~ were | naturally disinclined to believe il of thelr employes, and an incident occurred about this time which turned the investigation in an entirely new direction, and made them the more disposed to discredit Mr. Pinker- ton's theory. This was the receipt of a letter from a convict in the Michigan peni- | | | | | tentiary, named Plunkett, who wrote the Rock Island railroad officlals, saying that he could furnish them with important in- formation. Mr. St. John, the general manager of the d, went *in person to the penitentiary to ke’ Plunkett's statement, which was in ef- t that he knew the men who had com- mitted the robbery and killed Nichols, and was willing to sell this Information in ex- change for a full pardon, which the railroad people could sccure by using their influence. This they promised to do, if his story proved true, and Plunkett then to!d them of a plot that had been worked out a year or so be- fore, when he had been “grafting” with a “mob"" of pickpockets at county fairs. There were with him at that time “Butch” Me James Connors (known as _““Yellow- mer”), and a man named ‘“Jeff,” whose sttaame he did not know. These three men, Plunkett said, had planned an express robbery on the Rock Island road, to be exe- in precisely the same way, apd at precisely the same point on the road, as in the case in question, IDITOR TURNS DETECTIVE. The story was plausible and won Mr. St. John's belief. It won the belief, also, of Mr. Melville E. Stone of the Daily News; and forthwith, the railway detectives, work- g with the “newspaper detgetives, were instructed to go ahead on new lines, re- | gardless of trouble or cxpense. Their first endeavor was to capture “Butch” MeCoy, leader of the gang. “Butch” was a ckpocket, burglar and around thief, operations kept traveling all over the United State The police in various cities having been communicated with ito na purpose, Mr. Stone finally decided to” do a thing the like of which no newspaper proprietor, perhaps, ever undertook before, that is, start out on a personal search for McCoy and his ssso- clates. With Frank Murray, one bt the best detectives in Chicago, and other detectives, he went to Galesburg, where the gang was sald to have a sort of headquarters. The party found there none of the men they were after, but they learned that “Thateh” Grady, a notorious criminal with whom *‘Butch” McCoy was known to be In relations, was in Omaha. So they hurried to Omaha, but only fo find that Grady had gone to St. Louls. Then to St. Louls went Mr. Stone and his detectives, hot on the scent, and spent sev- eral days in that city searching high and low. SEARCH AS FAR AS NEW ORLEANS. The method of locating a criminal in a great city is as interesting as it is little un- derstood. . The firat step is to secure from the local police information as to the favorite haunts of criminals of the class under pur- suit, paying special regard in the preliminary inquiries to the possibility of love affairs; for th'eves, even more than honest men, are swayed in their lives by the tender passion, and are often brought to justice through the agency of women. With & much of such in- fermation in their possession as they could gather, Mr. Stone and his detectives spent , their time In likely resorts, picking up ac- ! quaintance with frequenters; and, whenever possible, turning the talk adroitly upon the man they were looking for. It is a mistake | to suppese that in work like this detectives disguise themselyes, False beards and mous- taches, goggles and lightning changes of clothing are never heard of except in the pages of badly informed story writers. In his experienca of over twenty-five years Mr. Murray never wore such a disguise, nor knew of any reputable detective who did. In this expedition the detectives simply assumed the characters and general stylo of the per- sons they were thrown with; passing for men of sporting tastes of the cast, and, hav- ing satisfied tho people they met that they meant no harm, they had wo difficulty in obtaining such news of McCoy and the others as there was. Unfortunately this was not much. After going from one city to another on various clews, hearing of one member of the gang here and another there, and in each instanca losing their man, the detectives finally brought up in New Orleans. They had spent five or s'x weeks of time and a large amount of money, only to find them- selves absolutely without a clew as to the whereabeuts of the men they were pursuing. all him They were much discouraged when a tele- gram from Mr. Pinkerton told them that Butch” NcCoy was back in Galesburg, where they had first sought him. Procee Ing thither with all dispatch, they traced McCoy into a ealoon, and thers three of them, John Smith representing the Rock Island railroad, John McGinn for the Pink- erton agency, and Frank Murray working for Mr. Stone, with drawn revolvers, captured him in spita of a desperate dash he made to escap McCoy's capture was the occasion of much felicitation ameng the people interested in the matter, Mr. St. John and Mr. Stone were confident that now the whole mystery of the express robbery would be eolved and the murderers convieted, But McCoy showed on trial that he had left New Orleans to come north only the night before the murder, and had spent the whole of that night on the Ilinols Central railroad. It also appeared that McCoy's assoclate, Connors, was in jall at the t/me of the robbery, and that the man “Je was dead. Thus the whole Plunkett story was exploded, SHADOWING SCHWARTZ. Scme time before th's the man who had ridden on the free pass, and given the de- tectives so much trouble, had been acci- dentally found by Jack Mullins, a brakeman on Conductor Danforth's train. He proved to be an advertising solicitor, employed by no other than Mr. Melville E. Stone, who would Examining this picce of paper carefully, | have given $1.000 to know what his agent Mr. Piukerton saw that it had been tern [ KneW: for the advertising man had seen the from & wmoncy draft, aud at once thought | $ondUCtor bring out the valise containing the of the package in the express messenger's |2llJmportant fragment of the draft. But he safe, Now, it is a remarkable fact that no | had not realizel the value of the news in his human power can tear (wn pieces of paper | Possession, and Mr. Pinkerton took good care in exactly the same way; the ragged fibres |9 keep him from that knowledge. One hint will only fit perfectly when th parts are brougit together. no doebt, when this test was Present case, that the plece of on Conductor Danforth e made in s eastbound car robbed the night before on a westbound | not until months later that Mr. Stone lcarned traln. - The edges fitted, the red lines cor- [ how near he came to getting a splendd | responded, and unguestionably some one had | “#coop” on the whole city and country. brought that plece cf paper from the one| The Identification of the pass holder re- traln to the other. 1In other words, some | moved the last pessibility that the valise one connected with the crime of the pre inm beeu taken into the train by any of Con- vious uight had ridden back to Chicago | ductor Danforth's passengers. twenty-four hours luter with Conductor Dan- original There remained the paper found wain bad been torn from the draft in the cxpress |of the truth to the Daily News people, and the whole story would have been blazoned firth in its columns, and the murderer would have taken warning. Not until he had seen the man safely cn a train out from Chicage did Mr. Pinkerton breathe easily; and it was And yet the valioe was therc! How came it there? In forth. the courss of thelr examinat v Mr. Pinkerton at ouce ordered a search | passengers had testified to M:m-ll‘:‘: "'ufl-“f. made for the missing vallse, and also an | Schwartz enter the tollet room during the Anquiry regarding ho passengers who bad | run. Brakeman Jack Mullins stated that he ridden on Conductor Danforth's train be- tween Davenport and Clicago, on the night had been in the same room twice that night, that the gecond time he had noticed the va- room last before the time when Mullins saw the valise was Schwartz. Thus the chain of proof was tightening, and Mr. Pinkerton sent for Schwartz, SCHWARTZ | Philadelphia Jawyer was coming on to defend him. The lagyer did come a few days later, when a bond for $2,000 was furnished for | Schwarta's reappearance, and he was set at Iiberty. Mattérs had gone so far, however, | that ‘it was not considered safe to leave ciwartz out € fail, and he was immediately rearrested, on, thq charge of murder. Whether hecause of long preparation for A TS TO PLAY TIVE After talking with the brakeman In a semi- confidential way for some time, the detective began to question him about Watt, his fellow trainman, Schwartz said he was a good fel- | this ordeal, or because he was a man of low, and, in general, epoke highly of him. 3"'",“2 ""‘;“\Ch’r.‘srhunlnz rN‘;‘lwd l]hlu hlnv\| Mr. Pi erton sey o sl o a little, and | W thout the ¥lightest show of emotion, and T Eageon seened to hesttate u TItUs, ANd | wor"savk MioStny Jail o coolly &5 e Bad DETEC- “Can 1 trust you, Schwartz?" como out. He ‘merely requested that he Ve REVATE might have“fn fnterview with his wife as “Well, the fact Is, T am a little suspiclous | 500N a8 possible of Watt. You see, his story about that hand overhead does not oxactly hang together. I don't want to do him any wrong, but he must be looked after. Now my idea 15 to have you MRS, SCHWARTZ COMES IN THE CASE. Mr. Pinkerton had evidence enough against | Sehwartz to furnish a strong presumption of | guilt, but it was all circumstantial, and, bes €0 about with him as much as you can, see | side, it did not involve Newton Watt, whose it he meets any strangers or spends much | complicity was more than suspected. From meney, and let me know whatever happens. | the first Mr. Pinkerton had been carefully Will you do it?" conciliatory of the later Mrs. Schwartz, At | Schiwartz readily consented on the assur-|just the right moment, and by adroit man- ance that the railroad people would give | agement, he got her under his direction, ani him leave of absence. The next day he re-| by taking a train with her to Morris, and ported that Watt had met a man who wore | then on the next morning taking another a sloveh hat, had unkempt red hair, and in | train back to Chicago, he succeeded in pre- general looked like a border rufflan. He had | venting her from getting the advice of her overheard the two talking together in a sa- | husband’s lawyer, who was meantime making loon on Cottage Grove avenue, where the | tho same double journey on pursuing trains stranger had discussed the murder of Nich- | with the design of cautioning her against ols in great detail, showing a remarkable fa- | speaking to Mr. Pinkerton. She had come to millarity with the whole affair. Schwartz had | regard Mr. Pinkerton mote as a protector a sort “of Jesse James theory (which he | than as an enemy, and he, during the hours seemed anxious to have accepted) that the [ they were together, used ecvery device to crime had been committed by a gang of [ draw from her some damaging admission. western desperadoes, and that this fellow was | He told her that the evidence against her connected with them. husband, although serious in its character, Mr. Pinkerton listened with interest to all this, but was less edified than Schwartz im- agined, since two of his most trusted “‘shad- ows," who had been following Schwartz, had given him reports of the latter's movements, making it plain that the red-haired desperado was a myth, and that no such meeting as Schwartz described had taken place. Never- theless, professing to be well pleased with Schwartz's efforts, Mr. Pinkerton sent him out to track the fabulous desperado. Schwartz continued to render false reports. Finally, was not, in his opinion, sufficient to establish his_guilt. He told her of the bills found In Schwarta's possession, of the torn plece of the draft taken from the valise, of the marks on his hands, and the lies he had told. All this, he said, proved that Schwartz had somo_connection with thé robbery, but not that he had committed the murder, or done more than assisp Watt, whom Mr. Pinkerton professed to regard as the chief criminal. The only hope of saving her husband now, he impressed upon her, was for her to make without a word to arouse his suspicion, he |8 plain statement of the truth, and trust was allowed to resume his work on the rail- | that he would use this in her husband's in- road. terest. The “shadows” put upon Schwartz after this reported a suspicious intimacy between him and Watt, and a detective of great tact, Frank Jones, was detailed to get into thel confdene, if pcss ble. He was given a */un" brakeman between Des Moines and Day- enport, and it was arranged that he should come in from the west and lay over at Day- enport on the same days that Schwartz and Watt laid over there, coming in from the cast. Jones played his part cleveriy, and was soon on intimate terms with Schwartz and Watt, taking his meals at their board- ing house and sleeping in a_room adjoining theirs. They finally came to like him so well that they suggested his trying to get a trans- fer to their “‘run,” between Davenport and Chicago. This was successtully arranged, and then the three men were together con- stantly, Jones even going to board at Schwartz's house in Chicago. About this time Schwartz began to talk of giving up railroad work and going to live in Kansas or the far west. It was arranged that Jones should join him and Mrs. Schwartz on a western trip. - Meantime, Schwartz applied to the company for leave of absence, on the plea that he wished to arrange some family mat- ters in_Philadelphia. Mr. Pinkerton, being informed by Jones of Schwartz's application, used his influence to have it granted. When the young man started east he did not travel alone. His every movement was watched and reported, nor ‘was he left unguarded for a moment, After listening to all that he said, and try- ing in many ways to evade tho main ques- tion, Mrs. Schwartz at last admitted to Mr. Pinkerton that her husband had found a pickage containing $5,000 of the stolen mon: | under “ono of the seats on Conductor Dan- forth's trein, on the night of his return to Chicago. He had kept this meney, and used it for his own purposes, but had been guilty of no other offense in the matter. Mrs. Schwartz stuck resolutely to this statement, and would admit nothing further. Believing that e had drawn from her as much as he could, Mr. Pinkerton now ac- companied Mrs. Schwartz to the jail, where she was to see her husband. The fi,rst words she said on entering the room where he was were, “Harry, ‘I have told Mr. Pinkerton the whole truth. T thought that was the best way, for he is your friend. I told him about your finding the $5,000 under the seat ot the car, and that was an you had to do with the busine DOUBLE CONFESSION. Schwartz gave his wife a terrible glance as she sald this, and for the first time his emotions nearly betrayed him. However, he braced himself up, and omy admitted in a general way ‘that'there was some truth in what His wifé had said. He refused posi- tively to go into détails, scemed very nervous, and “almost tmmediately asked to be alone with his wife. Mr. Pinkerton had been ex- pecting this, ‘and’ was prepared for it. He realized the hock that would be caused in day or night, during an absence of several | Schwarta’s miind ‘by his wife’s unexpected weeks in New York, Philadelphia and other | confession, arid counted on this to lead to eastern cities. further admissions! It was, therefore, of the THE ART OF “SHADOWING." highest importance that credible witnesses To one unfamiliar with the resources and | o, OVerhenr all that trauspired in the organization of a great detective system it is | \yiin s ooy e E and Bis wife. With this end’in view, the room where the Interview was'to”take place had becn ar- ranged so that a'number of witnesses could see and hear, without their presence being suspected, and the sheriff of the county, a leading merchant;and a leading banker of tho town werg waiting there in readiness. As soon ag,the; door had closed and the husband and.; yite were left alone, Schwartz exclaime BORDY “Yuo fool, you have put a rope around incomprehensible how continuous ‘“shadow- ing,” day after day and week after week, through thousands of miles of journeyings, can be accomplished. The matter is made none the simpler when you know that there must be a change of “shadows” every day. However adroit the detective, his continued presence in a locdlity would soon arouse sus- picion. The daily change of ‘‘shadows" s easy when the man under watch remains in one place, for then it is only necessary to send a v ~ Watt's and my neck! oo early " onch morming Sontral ot | CWhy, Harry, I had to tell him something, tho one’ e moming to replace |y knew so mich. You can trust him “‘You ought to know better than to trust anybody.” The man walked back and forth, a prey to the most violent emotions, his wife trying vainly to quiet him. At each affectionate touch he would brush her off roughly with a curse, and go on pacing back and forth fiercely. Suddenly he burst out: “What did you do with that coat, the one you cut the mask out of? ““Oh, that's all right; it's in the woodshed, under ‘the whole wood pile.” They continued to talk for over an hour, referring to the murder and robbery repeat. edly, and furnishing evidence enough to es- tablish beyond any question the guilt of both Schwartz and Watt. Meantime, Watt fad been arrested in Chi- cago, also charged with murder, and in sev. eral examinations had showed signs of break. ing down and confessing, but in each instance had recovered himself and said nothing. The evidence of Schwartz himself, however, in tho interview at the fail, taken with the mass of other evidence that had accumulated, was sufficient to secure the conviction of both men, who were condemnel, at the t 131, o lifs imprisonment in the Joliet penitentiary. They would undoubtedly have been hanged, but for the conscientious scruples of one juryman, whno Qid not believe in capital punisiment. Watt has since died, and Schwartz is now regarded as a model prisoner, his case being pecullar in this—that since he has been In the penitentiary, nearly eight years now, he has never received a letter, paper, or any communication from the outside world, MRS. SCHWARTZ'S CONFESSION. About a year after the trial, Schwartz's Chicago wife died of consumption. On her death bed she made a full confession to Superintendent Robertson of the Pinkertor force, She said that her husband’s mind bad been inflamed by the constant reading of sensational literature of the dime novel order, and that under this evil influence he had planned the robbery, believing that it would be easy to Intimidate a weak little man like Nichols and escape with the money without harming him. Nichols, however, had fought like a tiger up and down he car, and had finally forced them to kill him. In the fight he had torn off the mask that Mrs, Schwartz had made out of one of her hus. band’s old coats. It was Watt who fired the pistol, while Schwartz used the poker Schwartz had given Watt $5,000 of the stolen money, and had Kept the rest himself. Heo had carried the money away in an old satche) bought for the purpose. A most unusual place of concealment had been chosen, and one where the money had escaped discovery, although on several occasions, in searching the house, the detectives had liiterally held in their hands. ~Schwartz had taken a quantity of the cargridges he bought for his shot gun, and emptying them, had put in each shell one of the $50 or $100 bills, upon which he had theniloaded in the powder and the shot in the-usual way, so that the shells presented the ordinary appearance as they lay in the drawer.i The detectives had even picked out some’of the shells; but, finding them so like (other cartridges, had never though of probing elear to the bottom of the shells for a ceampled-up bill, Thus about $13,000 lay for wecks | ordinary looking cartridges, and was finally removed in the following wa Whils Schwartz was in jail a well known lawyer came to Mrs. Schwartz one day with an order from her husband 1o deliver the money over to him. She understood this was to defray the expenses of the trial and to pay the other lawyers. ~ Superintendent Robertson remem- bers well the dying woman's emotion as she made this solerin declaration, one calculated to compromjse scriously a man of some stand ing and belonging to an bonorable profession Her body was wasted with disease, and she knew that her end was near. There was a flush on her face, and her eyes were bright with hatied as she declared that not §1° of that money was ever returned to lier, or ever used in defraying the costs of her husband trial. Nor was $1 of it ever returned to the | railroad company, or to the bank offcials. who were the real owners bed"” the night before. But it is very differ- ent when the subject is constantly traveling about on boats or railways, and perhaps sleep.. ing in a different town each night. Without the network of agencies, including large and small bureaus, that the Pinkertons have gradually established all over the United States, the ‘“shadowing” of a man in rapid flight would be impossible. As it is, nothing is easier, Schwartz, for instance, spent sev- eral days in Buffalo, where his actions were reported hour by hour, until he bought his ticket for Philadelphia. As he took the train a fresh “shadow” took it too, securing a sec- tion in the same sleeping car with him and taking his meals at the same time Schwartz took his, either in the dining car or at sta- tions. No sooner had the train left the sta- tion than the Pinkerton representatives in Buffalo reported by cipher dispatch to the bureau In Philadelphia, whither Schwartz was going. The exact form of the dispatch, which well illustrates a system In use in the Pinkerton bureaus, was as follows: . J. Linden, 411 Chestnut Street, Phila- delphia, Pa.: Anxious shoes sucker Brown marbles other than dropping cight arrives put grand fifty marbles articles along or derby coat ship very tan seer wearing these have and is ribbon ink dust central 'l'll&'mlfl" for dust to rice hat and paper vest yellow Ink get must jewelry morn ng depot on. D. ROBERTSON. In dispatches of this sort important in- formation regarding criminals is constantly flashing over the wires, with no danger of any “leak.” Thus, from one city to another, and through every part of the country, any crimin; may be “shadowed” today as Schwartz was “shad- owed" eight years ago, one set of detectives relieving another every twenty-four hours, and the man's every word and action be carefully noted down and reported without his having the faintest suspicion that he is under observation. The task of “shadow- ing"” a person who is traversing city streets is entrusted to men especially skilled In the art (for art it is) of seeing without being seen. This is, indeed, one of the most diffi- cult tasks a detective is called upon to per- form, and the few who excel in it are given little else to do. Where a criminal like Schwartz, upon whose final capture much de- pends, is being followed, two, three or even four “shadows” are employed simultaneously, one keeping In advance, one in the rear, and two on either side. The advantage of this is that one relieves fhe other by change of po- sition, thus legsening the chance of discovery, while, of course, it Is scarcely possible for several “‘shadows’ to be thrown off the trail at once. An adroit criminal might outwit one “shadow,” but he could scarcely outwit | it four. A ‘*shadow” on coming Into a new town with a subject reveals himself to the “shadow" who 18 to relieve him by some pre- arranged signal, like the handkerchief held In the left hand. The result of the “shadowing" in Schwartz's case was conclusive. No sooner was the brakeman out of Chicago than he began spending snoney far in excess of his income, He bought fine furniture, expensive clothing, articles of jewelry, presents for his wife, and lald in an elaborate supply of rifles, shotguns, revolvers and all sorts of ammunition, including a quantity of cart- tridges. The “shadows” found that in almost every case he pald for his purchases with $50 or $100 bills. As far as possible these bills were secured by the detectives from the persons to whom they had been paid, imme- diately after Schwartz's departure, It will be remembered that the money taken in the robbery eonsisted of $50 and §100 bills. SCHWARTZ UNDER ARREST. In addition to this it was found by the in-| vestigations of detectives at Philadelpbia that Schwartz was the son of a wealthy, retired butcher there, a most respectable man, and that he had a wife and child in Philadelphia, whom he had entirely deserted. This gave an opportunity to take him into custody, and still conceal from him that he was suspected of committing a worse crime. The Philadel- phia wife and child were taken on to Chi- cago, and Schwartz was placed under arrest, charged with bigamy. Mr. Pinkerton went to the jail at once, and wishing to ki Schwartz's confidence as far as possible, assured him that this arrest was not his work at all, but that of Detectives Smith and Murray, who were, as Schwartz knew, working in the interests of the railroad these Prapaviog for the Emergenoy, Chicago Record: The Corporation nate—Is my carriags ready? Servant-+Ycs, sir. The Magnate—And the secret unlocked ? Servant—Y The Magnat ing all ready Mag- back door is sir. And the special train stand the station? people and of the Chicago Daily News. Mr. ervant—Yes, sir Pinkerton told Schwartz that he still believed, | Th: Magnate—All right. Now let them a5 he had done all along, that Watt was the | send their balliff. I'm ready to be sub- gulity man, and promised to do whatever | poenaed. Fxoiting Story of the Storm Told by a Toutonic Passenger. DARING RESCUE CF NINE FROZEN SAILCRS Monster Atlantic Miles 1n Ten Hours by the Gale— Sights that Would Have Satis- fiea Osear Wiide. Rev. A. Holden Byles, who is on his way this city, was a passenger on the White Star steamship Teutonie, which had such a terrible experience from England to visit his son in in the bl zzard outside w York His description of the manner in which their shattered | of | were hopes a record passage after they had almost the soil America and the exciting rescue of the ship wrecked from the Reeves, the storm was still raging and the craft was rapidly sinking i the an form patcl We crew Josie while ry He writes: 10 es on the subject. left Liverpool at m. next day. 340 lives, We landed in New York at news that awaited us was that a similar fate had overtaken us. When we took our last look of Burope and plunged forward into the great Atlantic there was nothing to Indicate the experiences through which we were to pass. We had beautiful sunshine and a calm sea, and as we paced the promenade deck and watched the lefsurely roll of the long Atlantic waves tulated one another on having left Friday but the face of the sea had changed, though its appearance was rather that of rollicking good ere was eh we cong behind the worst of morning cpened with the weather. brilliant sunshine, humor than of angry discontent. T| what the sailors call a *‘confused sea,” wh gave cur good ship an uneasy roll, and made walking only ble at an angle of 45 de grees, It was confu which o not long, however, before blew from the southeast, Still it was behind us, and we days. and pictured to ourselves how terrible would be if we had to face it. that pictura became a rea under severer and crueller than any we had Imagined. far, however our voyage was with but little discomfort and no peril. and then some great mountain cateh us in the rear and sweep our decks, fifty feet above the sea, from stern to stem, a few passengers got a ducking, and laughed over it, and all went until Monday evening. ity, and icled an cspeclally good run, 477, 481, 478 and 488 miles, which seemed to promise a quick passage and a certain landing early on Wednesday morning. We had safely passed the great Newfoundland banks Without fog, and our difficulties secmed to be o Not that we had had a smooth passage, far from it. Our soup was always spilled by the rolling of the ship, our plates glided gently away from us when not firmly held, water bottles were pitched upon sleepers dur- ing the dead of night, and all the loose ar- ticles in our cabins were tossed from side to But we were side like shuttles in a loom. getting on and enjoying ourselves in the com- panionship, which was made all the freer and friendlier by these little annoyances. FIRST SIGN OF STORM. But while we were counting our chickens nature was hatching those of angrier brood. I noticed strange electric lights on the water, which gave it a weird, wild look, as I left the deck at 10 o'clock on Monday night to turn into my bunk, but-to the eye of the landsman It was a sublime sight, and nothing About 2 a. m. broad, quick flashes of lightning illumined a wild and angry sea, and more. revealed something of the storm that was brewing. The gale, which had blown from the northeast, wheeled suddenly round and met us full in the Tace, and even to those who were below it was evident that something was wrong with the weather. longer possible, and windows of the companion way to know what it was. To go out upon the deck was out of the question, even had it been al- lowed. One of our poor sailors was hurled upon the winch by the hurricane and his leg 50 terribly crushed that it was feared ampu- tation would be necessary. Ivery hatchment was closed, but from the windows we looked out upon a scene, the awful grandeur of which it is seldom the lot of any to witness. Round us was a boiling sga of scething, angry foam, rising into huge mountains, hanging o us at times fully fifty feet above, and then hurling themselves upon us with all their rage at a speed of a hundred miles an hour. The papers have been full of the accounts of this storm_and blizzard, as it was known upon land, and we learn now that it was one of phenomenal severity It had an area of 1,600 miles, with a wind force of seventy miles an hour, as_compared with but fifty miles in the historic blizzard of 1888, It was one of those tropical electric storms which are generated in the West Indics and which devlop most force and resistance on the western edge of the Gulf stream, the very part of the Atlantic in which we en- countered it. If it be a fact that we have “no weather In England, but only samples,” we prefer the samples. To drive our ship through a hurricane like that would have been almost certain dis- aster. It was an unpleasant alternative to have to break the proud record of the Teu- tonic for a quick passage, but our brave and skillful captain, true to his responsibility to consider first the safety of his crew, refused to face it, and for forty hours ho stood b simply holding her head to the wind and giving us a pace of about two knots the hour. Yet 50 bravely did our good ship ride upon that storm that there was scarcely one mo- ment of anxiely on the part of the passen- gers; “How well she behaves” was the word that fell from every lip, and it was not till we reached port that we learned that orders had been glven to launch the lifeboats at a moment's notice ARCTIC SEA, BUT TROPICAL STORM. But we had not yet seen the worst. Wednesday ~ morning brought a new terror. The temperature had fallen rapidly and we were In an arctic sea with a tropical storm. The strong westerly galo caught cach wave and lifted it in clouds Gf spray, which, belng instantly frozen, swept our gangways with clouds of ice settling on the spars and rigging and sides of the ship and coating her as thickly as though in the midst of an Arctic voyage. I met our second mate coming from his four Noura’ wateh on the quarter deck, as merry, good-humored a fellow as every stepped, and despite his suffering his bumor broke out with the remark, *Ah, sir! IUs terrible work in a blizzard 1ike this. I have a great mind to chuck It all up when I get into port and study for the ministry.” HOPES RAISED TO BE DASHED AGAIN. On Wednesday night the storm left almost as suddenly as it came, and our heroic cap- tain, who had never left the bridge for thirty-eight hours, hoped for rest. On Thurs- day morning we once more stepped out upon the deck and found a fea almost as calm as tho Thames at London Bridge and a sky as bright as that which shone over the old Head of Kinsale just a week before. Once more our ‘hopes were raised; by 5 p. m. we were almost within gunshot of Sandy Hook and we looked with confidence to be ble to read our morning papers in New York City. Again, however, we had reck cned without our host, and even stranger ad ventures, if not greater peril, awaited us on the following day. Wilde was disappointed with the At- He might have had ceeasion to ehange und had he eeen it from the deck of the Teutonic on that Friday morning. *You may cross the Atlantic for twenty years,' sald our chief officer, “and never sce a sight like this.”" The log put up on Thursday noon showed but miles to Sandy Hcok, and by 6 p. m, we had knocked off all but about a few miles of it. At last we thought we were out of our troubles; every one began to pack eyhound Driven Seventy | harbor. little | a valuable addition to the press dis- January 30, and reached Queenstown at 10 a. m. the | We were greeted with the ghastly news of the &'nking of the Elbe and the loss 10 a. m. on Saturday, February 9, and the first the passenger list had been cabled frem England the night before, and special editions of the New York papers had prepared the public to fear that ts on became worse confounded; the wind, gradually increased to a gale, which continued for two could run before it; we spoke of our good fortune it Two days later conditions So attended Now wave woull upper merrily along Each day’s log chron- Sleep was no many were found long before daybreak peering curiously through the at the beginning of our adventures. Just be- fore dawn a “change came o'er the spirits of our dreams,” and once more our hopes were to be dashed. We had come again into the midst of the storm, the peril of which was Increased by an Impenetrable mist. Our cap- tain wisely decided that discretion would be the botter part of valor, and for the first timo the Teutonic beat a retreat. It would have boen foolhardy to have faced such a hurricane under such conditions, and accord ingly our ehip's head was turned to the south. After ten hours it was found that the sheer force of the wind had drawn the huge vessel no less than seventy miles This continued during Thursday night, and our sleep was disturbed by strange sounds which wo heard afterwards were caused by | the working of the winch to keep It from freezing, the sound of men cverhead hacking away the fce and shoveling the snow from the gangway, accompanied by the uncarthly groan of the foghorn SNOWED UP ON THE OCBAN. As s00n as {t was light 1 touched the but ton of the electric bell. “Where are we ard 2" “Don’t know sir What's th matter ‘“You should go on deck, sir; therc are tons of snow on deck, sir,” he replied, in his English, deferential manner. This was cheerful. One had heard of being snowed up on a train, but to be snowed up on the Atlantic was something quite novel. Being 1l fortified inside with a substantial break L of chops, porrid and well and mutton with my salmon steak padded outside heavy ulster of Trish fri snow shees and Labrador gauntlets, T went on deck. It was sight such as fow have seen. The snow had ased to fall, but a dense vapory mist swept tho whole sea. It was not an ordinary fog, but simply a dense vapor generated by the Nig’ er temperature of he water, which, 1 eing instantly frozen, was driven upon the ship by the strong westerly gale in showers of fine ice. The thermometer stood at 4 degre below zero, having risen four degrees during the hour. I3very rod and rail and spar was covered with a fringe several inche deep, and great snow heaps lay still upon the poop. We were then partially covered by land, and the waves were small compared st with what they would have been in the open Atlantic, but still they looked like a series of mountain ridges, their tops being clear but their valleys shrouded in the ice mist One’s beard and mustache froze as hard as nails, and it was impossible to stay on deck though the grandeur of the scene passes de- seription. 1t was evident there was no hope of reach- ing port. We could simply go on as we had been for the last fifteen hours, moving slowly backwards and forwards, like the king of France, who marched his army up the hill and then he marched them down again There was nothing for it but to make our selves as cheerful as we could under the cir cumstances, and all the Mark Tapleyism of our natures had to be called into full play. Wo had among olr passengers some who were visiting the ates on lecturing tours, and it was suggested that they shoull favor us with full dress rehear There were proposals of tableaux v ete.; it was even suggested that a Qiscourse on bimetallism might be endurable under such circumstances. One true bene- factor to his species entertained us several times with Grossmith's ““Baby cn the Shore,” but even that could not go on forever. NO ARTIFICIAL HEAT. The cold was intense; not having the steam for purposes of locomotion, we could not have it for purposes of heating. The salcon, library and companion way were like fce houses; the smoking room was the only place in which the temperature could be raised by artificial heat, and some of us did our utmest to keep the *‘pipes” always going. But what was discomfort to the passengers was cruel suffering to many of the crew. The watch in the crow’s nest had to endure two hours at a stretch in that fearful position, and then the doctor scat him to bed and administered hot potions, while our brave captain had re- matned, with true Spartan heroism, at his post of duty, never having left the bridge since 4 p. m. on the previous day, though both his nose and cheek were frostbitten. Since landing we have learned that he has lost the sight of ono of his eyes. There was another serious eide to our po- sition. We were now forty-eight hours over- due, and we knew that friends on shore must be grow'ng increasingly anxious. We could imagine the many heartsinkings as they looked at the morning papers to find “No News of the Teutonic.” We were within half an hour of the telegraph station. Given thirty minutes of clear way, and_tidings could have been flashed to Burope and Amer- ica which would have set at rest many an anxious fear. There was no hope that we had been spoken; our friends little knew of our safe position, for all they kuew, we might be in the middle, or even the bottom, of the Atlantic, and the ghastly news which greeted them and us on the day of our arrival at Queenstown of the wreck of the Elbe would not tend to lessen their anxicties, While we were comfortably seated In a gilded saloon enjoying a sumptuous repast, chatting in the library, or joining in the hilarity of the smok. ing room, what would we not have given for that power of telepathy, > interesting as a scientific speculation, so useless as a practical ald. “If Spooks Could Come to the Atlanti might be a profitable subject for Mr. Stead's next book. It would certainly have comforted many a one among us to have been able to send assuring tidings by some such ghostly messenger. At 1:30, just as we were sitting down to lunch, there were signs that the fog was lift- ing, and in a quarter of an hour we were making full specd for Sandy Hook. Surely now we should be able to cable our safety, It not to land that night. RESCUE OF NINE FROZEN SAILORS. But there was still another adventure in store, and this one put the crown and flowers upon’ our whole voyage. Within an hour of our fresh start, . c. at 2:30 p. m. we sighted a schooner half a mile away, flying tho stars and stripes upside down, It wus a signal of distress. As we came nearer we found she was half filled with water and at times she was completely under the waves. Five or six men stood on the deck waving their garments and shoucng franti- cally, Our gallant captain at once gave orders to car up to her and called for volunteers to man the lifeboat The blizzard was raging at its worst; preparation was made to lower the starboard bout, but the keen frost had made every rope as hard s a rod of iron, every few yards blocks of ice had to be hacked away and fully half an hour was spent in getting her floated. Six of our men instantly stepped into her and endeavored to reach the sinking ship. For half an hour they battled with that fearful storm amid ene intensest excitement of passengers and crew, but at length they were obliged to put back, two of them being so scverely frostbitten that they were unable to proceed. Another crew was found and a second attempt was made, but only to share the samo fate; it was im- possible to make more than a few yards against such wind and wave. The schooner all this time had her trysail sct to Keep her head to the wind, but the force of the wind drove her from us and at Lmes she was al- most lost to sight. For two hours we careened around her, until at length e came s0 near that our captain shouted to them to “put down the trysail” and “get the boats along side”” Meantime the Teutonic swept round and made a barrier between the sink- ing scheoner and the waves, the men put out their two dories and leapt into them. It was a fearful sight, thelr b careened like cockleshelly they were lifted mountains high and then plunged into tho abyss. After a quarter of an hour of almost breathless excitement, one of the boats was got alongside and sccured by a rope life belts were flung over and four men were saved. ‘There were yet five men in the sce- ond boat, and at one time it scemed as though we should lose them, the poor fellows had been twenty hours half submerged i that icy water and exposed to the biting It says much for human endurance that they were able to pull at all. But pull they did and, amid ringiog cheers, three times re- peated for brave and noble Captain Cam- eron, the whole of the nine men were safely jauled up the side of our ship and sat care- fully tended in the hospital of the Teu iie. 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