The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1901, Page 13

g.“l»b FQAVEGR G2 O 2o Raa 2 2222 22T ) m,”m“mm.mw ; 3 i 3 * : * : : $ : 3 $ $ : ; CROXP LOHINOROXON & % SHOAOHOXON GRS A e erO OLIRDE PHORS HOR SROLONIEINIG " VOLUME XC—NO. 72, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1901_THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DETEGTIVES AND WORKMEN FHSH UP SHINING GOLD BRICKa FROM THE MUT WHILE WINTERS LENDG A HELPING HAND T0 REGOVER BULLION THAT RE STOLE PAPEMR LAUNC sk TN JOT GUARDING TREADSVRE ABOARD TUG glAfikAM SHOWING CUTE TAKEN By WINTERS = > ChinG THE (ESARCN T EASE GRAPPLING FOR TREASURE. . SKETCH FROM LIFE TMADE BY A CALL ARTIST AS JACK WINTERS SHOWS THE DETECTIVES WHERE TO GRAPPLE FOR THE GOLD. -, “JACK” WINTERS ASSISTS IN RECOVERY OF GOLD One-Half of Bullion Buried on the Shore of the Bay Near Vallejo Junction Fished Out of the Water by Selby Workmen with little trouble that one- | the reward of $25,000, all parties patched h n bullion from the | up a truce and at 2 in the morning went ng Works was recov- | on board the tug Sea Witch, lying at the wharf of the sugar refinery at Crockett. Winters was not in the party that left the Hotel Crockett for the tug. He was ters had dumped night and when the sleuths were at war ween Lees and | over the division of the reward, Winters iff Veale | was on the tug carefully guarded by De- and Constable | tective Crockett. e other as to the | nd the sharing of | Continued on Page Fourteen. ROBBER OF SELBY VAULT TELLS HOW HE WORKED HIS SCHEME DAY BY DAY Master Mechanic in Boring a Tunnel and Cutting Out an Entrance Into the Safe, but Veriest Amateur in Covering Up Tracks. Promised Short Term and Money Consideration for Confession ACK WINTERS, otherwise ‘“‘Buck Taylor,” and sometimes ‘Butter- fly Dude,” no longer occupies a place in the multiples of the seven times wonders of the criminal world. He was a brilliant, scintil- criminal glory, resplendent in the rising, was dimmed and clouded by a setting that marks as strong an anti-climax as has ever come under the eyes of professional detectives. Jack Winters was a master mechanic, nothing more. Being found out has made great men small in the eyes of the world. Stealing $283,000 in a single night 1s no mean un- dertaking—but just to steal it and nothing more makes no great episode of crime.’ The big criminals of the world have al- not taken off the tug at any time in the | lating star for two days. All his stellar | ways covered up their tracks with pains- taking industry. No one man had ever before done such work as Jack Winters single handed. After securing bullion, which, if a quarter of a million dollars would be deducted therefrom, would still leave a fortune, he threw it away as If it meant nothing and he had never intended to retain it for any use. Robbery Fizzles Out. The theft consummated Winters, seem- ingly without a defined plan, dropped the bullion in shallow water not more than 230 yards from the scene of the robbery. Discovery of the gold was tertain at no remote date, for the losers had already”| determined to search the shore where the Continued on Page Fourteen. OFFICERS AND WORKMEN WANT WINTERS PUNISHED Sheriff of Contra Costa County Says He Will Bring the Confessed Robber to Trial in the County Seat at Martinez HERE Is no disposition on the yesterday, when Veale and Moiles threw part of the authorities of Con-|down the gauntlet to ex-Chief of Polica tra Costa County to allow Win- | Lees and warned him not to take their ters to escape punishment for | prisoner out of the jurisdiction of the the robbery of the bullion vauit | county of Contra Costa, Veale stated em- of the Selby Smelter Works, | phatically that he would prosecute Win- stateménts to the contrary notwithstand- | ters to the end. ing. Sheriff Veale and Constable Molles of Crockett stated yesterday that they would put the machinery of the law in motion Although Sheriff Veale was excited when he giscovered the evident plan of Lees to win the glory of running down the location of the stolen gold, he said against Winters and bring him to trial. During the early hours of the morning Continued on Page Fifteem