The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1909, Page 10

t Beda Me 10 BANK ROBSen WA EXPOSED SECRETS IN BOCK {3 DEAD (es George White Regarded ail lary as a Respectable Profession, BOOK RINGS WITH PRIDE} Gang Got $2,750,000 in One Haul and Named Detec- tive Chief Here. Old George \hite died the other day at Keene, New Hampshire. He was a prince of bank robbers in his time, In} his later years, broken in health and poor, he wrote the story of his crimes, It is @ book every bit as interesting as flotion and a marvellous contribution to the literature of criminology. This book was the means of George White’ living. He wandered around the Wail | Street district selling copies of it to the efticers and clerks of banks, many of | them institutions which he had robbed in his prime. George White regarded bank burglary fas a respectable calling. His book rings with his pride in his profession, He lived as became one who had a large in- come and refined tastes, was acquainted with all the high police officials and the politicians of (he generation immediate- ly following the civil war, Furthermore, be gave dinners at Delmonico's and other famous New York restaurants at which plans were made for some of his biggest robberies or the loot was dl- vided. Named Chief of Detectives. As mere instances of his right to feel fan unholy pride in the success of his undertakings, two suffice. In 1869 George White and his friend Max Shinburn, after seven months of mudy and preparation—which included giving advance information to members of the Detective Bureau at 300 Mulberry street—took $2,760,000 from the vauits of | the Ocean Bank at Greenwich and Ful- | ton streets. Again, in the same year, he aid his associates caused the retirement from office of the chief of the De-| tective Bureau, and, through their influ- | ence with Buss Tweed, had James | Irving appointed to his place; from thet time on, so White solemnly states In his book, the Detective Bureau played square with the “Bank Ring” and neve demanded more than ten per cent. of the proceeds of a robbery, To the day of his death White always insisted that he was innocent of the crime of which he was first accused, the robbery with Max Shinburn and a burglar named Cummings, of the bank at Walpole, New Hampshire. He was then a hotel keeper at Stoneham, Mass. According to White's story, he Became implicated in the robbery because he hired out one of his teams to the cant | THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1909. ‘Form { the ai robbers. White and Shinburn became wearled at their work and Inasmuch as it was |Sunday morning, covered up the traces of thelr work and took a six-hours sleep in rooms at the Astor House, and returned the next night. This time It Was necessary to blow up a safo door. They covered this operation by turnin in a false alarm of fire on the ban show property of a band of corner, ang set off the charge while the engined were hooting and tooting outside, rhe apaalane Ledger. This | acoount of the pru- ceeds of ie iburelary! Cush taken away Cash left tn ment ‘aes And the disbursement of {t was: To Ingurance Agent Kobler (the os- enable tenant of the office und! To assistants To Bank Clerk’ Taylor aes equally Detweed thieves, and was afterwards “jobbed” because he had property with which one of the stockholders was able to recoup the loss occasioned by the theft. Met Gang of Thieves. ‘Whe jury disagreed. White escaped be- fore his second trial, and came to New York, where he looked up some of Shin- Wurn’s associates with whom he had be- @ome acquainted during the first trial. Bitty Matthews, a faro dealer in Harvey ‘Joung’s gambling house, then at No. 681 Broadway, introduced him t oa gang of bank thieves, who initiated White into the mysteries of their calling. ‘Whh this gang, who included Eddie Boughes, “Tall Jim,” (who by White's | faflure to identify him more closely, seems to hawe been alive when the book ‘was written) William Utley, George Wil- ;@on and another man living in 1007 (White's book betrays no living man), Bis BR ‘Theq “prompected” in Ohio and settted i the Cedts Bank for operations. | the cashier, who was in bed |q@@ ba home, they stole the bank keys | hip tvousers pocket beside his bed, jena, after using these, bound and the night watchman of the bank. ‘The proceeds of the robbery were over ot a million dollars, but Eddte Hughes were the only two who escaped with thelr share of bey proceeds. White tells with the ut- most indignation how the New York |pollce found him after his return to | this olty and made him give up 10 per cent. of his forty thousand odd dollars to conceal him from the Ohio au. thorities, The Ocean Bank Robbery. ‘The robbery of the Ocean Bank ts chronicled by White with a zest which he did not endeavor to conceal. A clerk in the bank, one Taylor, was a fre- quenter of John Morrisey’ gambling house in the Tenderloin, The crooks who hung about the place knew his employment, and won him at a time when he was in serious straits for money. White was called in, Taylor was induced to act as a fence for bonds, roceeds of bank burglaries. When he once in the power of the thieves, he was persuaded to betray the Ocean Bank. Under White's tuition, he was trained in the art of detecting safe tions. White went to the ¢ locks on the Ocea spent teact dial combina- makers of or the tumblers me Tay the combinations of the bank's An office under the as well as one acr reyen months the chance, The iget police headquarters was to Lapper Dug Tunnel Into Office On the six t Vhite, with a Brvevort Het Bitch atiers of the date fost never knew that 70 "Samoa' ‘iteCard, ‘detective To George Radford, detective lames Kelgo, detective R Philip Farley, deteoti Tq John Jourdan, police captain, at. Is superintendent Market Court Besdies which, naively concludes the 10,000 fmgenuous Mr, White, Messrs, Hough: | and Kelso euch received gold! es valued at $500, Learning Combinations. White afterward invented the system of learning safe combinations by un- screwing the dials and inserting 2 wire to be dented by the number dogs, which, Temoved at the nexi vinii, disclosed the combinations. The Invention — paid royalties of hundreds of thousands of dollars before It was betrayed by Shin- burn’s clumsiness In clogging a comb! ation with the wire, so that safe ex- perts were called in by a bank before the ours rs made their second or busi- vis White finally went up to 8! § without realizing his mreateat ambtine that of robbing the U; Sub-Treasury in this city, He sa. that he bought his way out by bribi the prison physigian ena others, late years he was o Jerry Mot most of his cences and sell in wat of ey and spent his Teminis- | iB his book, with the private | f advice as to the best ' banks burglar proof ——_—. STATE SUPPLY OF TAX STAMPS RUNS SHORT None of Ten and Twenty Cent Denominations Left for Stock Tr; The State has run out Ad tt ow stoi ply on or about Fets 2. rted at the | ays of making : er Bank Burglar, Whose Death Recalls 2,750,000 Robbery; Partner and Bank ts a RESCUE 7 FROM BLAZE STARTED Two Pheu Carried by Po-| liceman and Citizen Out of Burning Building. Fire, which the police bell incendlary origin, was iin the basement of the two-story dwelling at No. 67 Taylor street, Williamsburg, early on the part of a policeman and a passer- by, the sleeping occupants were awak- ened and dragged to places of | safety Smoke curling forth from the base- 'ment windows waa first seen by Police- man Duffy, of the Lee avenue station, As he ran toward the house he was jJoined by William Cowdin, a plumber, | who lives near by the house they Mrs, Annie Mundic «ion the first floor a widow, and her {ively Dense volumes of ‘through the house greatest difficulty: ‘th oke were pouring 1 it was with the t the widow and her Httle children were aroused, They were carried out of the house, scantily clad, and conveyed to a nearby drug store. Meanwhile another passerby had turned In an alarm, and Duffy and Cowdin re-entered t the second floor, they fo ng to upon thelr arrival, de- il, and descend- 1 that oll had rubbish heap where » have repor “the firemen ong odor of ¢ COAL GAS EXPLODES IN A SANTARUM Dr. W Establishment Get a Patients in George Hill’s BY INCENDIARY e was of | this morning, where, after heroic work | After breaking into | har three children, Louls, Fred and Mildred, | axed seven, four and two years respect- |” FRIEND 100. ) TO ATE 1 GAS CLAIM MAN'S LAWYER ACTIVE iN Once Chief Counsel of the Business Men’s Protective Association, WAS “MISREPRESENTED.” | Clients Discuss Business Meth- | ods of Young Alfred Ten- | nyson Rowe. —_—_—_———— NEED NO AGENTS TO COLLECT THE GAS REBATES. | “all persons entitled to refund the moneys deposited by the ral gas companies are again notified that under the regulations approved by the Court they will receive their rebates promptly and without trouble or expense if they will hold on to their receipts and notify of any change of address. Those of them who assign their coin or who sign contracts with agents to prosecute the putting themselves to un- and are probably postponing the time when their re- fund can be made."—Judge E. Henry Lacombe's warning to gas consu- mers on receipt of complaints made to The Eveniig World against receipt ing agencies. Seen Alfred Tennyson Rowe, the young legal adviser to “Mr. Smith,” owner of the Gas Consumers’ Audit Company, of No, % Broadway, was formerly chief counsel in the “Business Men's Protective Company of the States," with offices until recently at No, 198 Broadway. | The Evening World received many ib a a for- | See and dentists, all subscribers to grew up & credit to him and his good | its Ida. He bought the house at No, | Mt Rowe's other organization in sume 1 ree from $1 to $2.60 each. East Houston street, on the groun Hon the ground | “Tlke the subscribers to bases of which he had started a small ps |Jewelry store when he first embarked |G8# Consumers Audit Company, jin business and took unto himself a | Bot the impression somehow that they |wife. His bank account swelled until | Were dealing with @ concern authorized he was able to speculate heavily in real | bY United States Commissioner John estate—tben came a crash | A Shields, the patrons of Mr, Rowe'a Three months ago investments made | Collection agency got the impression Brownsville property failed, and/| that their $2.50 annual subscription, in- \th en all was swept away. To-day, from | cluded Initial court costs where judg- Philadelphia, Rubin's children received | ments were sought. word that he was dying. Despondent, Was “Misrepresented,” |he had travelled to the home of a llfe-| 1, a1 instances Mr. Rowe appears to long friend and there, handing over | ; | have $1,600 to his friend's wife, requested that | P*Y Waiagiall thelmonéy) he lacnt (to) ida) (my dear||(Sented: co) bls) Vellewts) iby, the horde io itn case anything happens to me." | canvassers employed to drum up busl- Waa Raa ESc aR as found | Ness for each concern, Mr. Rowe had |°Mr, Smith tell The Evening World uncons: from escaping gas. He had prep for death Im the llttle | that any agent who used Commissioner room to Wi ; Shlelds's name did so on his own author- Rubin, w | ity. As for the complaints from sub- Biladelphia ie scribers to the ‘Business Men's Pro- Tt was Rub sell to out. | tection Company,’ Mr. Rowe was put to whieh he and gome annoyance [ust Housten ‘street | "During the Summer of 197 an agent trips | from Mr, Rowe collected $2.50 from me the | for a membership in the protective com: pany," sald a physician practising on mney In bad real) Alexander avenue, near East One Hun- wd am asain 4] dred and Thirty-elghth street, to-day, “There were about forty of us doctors 0 | In the Bronx alone, who took advantage '*\ ot the agent's attractive offer. I never got one thing for my money and I com: plained to Mr. Rowe. A few days after wards I was amazed at being sub- poenaed to appear before magistrate Wahle in Jefferson Market Police Court. Mr. Rowe was on hand to welcome me 1d two other Bronx physicians, He wanted us to cee if we could identify two men whom we had never seen be- fore as the agents who had got our money. Of course the men were djs: charged in court, and all of us doctors went home amazed at the trick which lad been played upon us.” Another Bronx physician, who prac- tises in East One Hundred and Forty- first street, near Willls avenue, made this statemnt to an Evening World re. porter: When Mr. Rowe's agent, whose promises he subsequently repudiated, called at my office, he told In glowing terms of Mr. Rowe's ability; how the $250 subscriptions made up a lega} fund to be used with discretion In sults against delinquent patients, jn such In stances only were a judgment would Ht LOST SAVINGS ~ OF TWENTY YEARS ee Left Last $1,500 for ife,, Who Does Not Know He's a Suicide, | For twenty years Louls Rubin Ia- ars old, spital in| he left the on one of store to Ida. money. u ‘and handed it to| $1,000 th jan SAVE GIRL SUICIDE ry Rowland Had Already Kept Death Threat When Alarm Was Given, rkpatrick and his wife, re 1 bet awake kind to fail on me. This latter ge made the proposition most allur- In return the company was to get collections made, ofa pl ing. 2B per cent of all | To be sure that I was not dealing ir slow about a | stra aith an Imposter I called up Mr. Rowe ‘Murr ild the young woman. ‘1 | on the telephone. was Ou Mary last nig Told “It Was All Right.” ald she t “ K “His number was Cortlandt a8 Hap | A man who sald he was Rowe replied, Mr. K feck hurried up ‘It ts all right. I am behind the agent. He {8 one of my mon.’ ‘Some days later a number of us Bronx physicians sent a bateh of bills down to Mr. Rowe for him to atart We woro notified to The door wa lead on Rowe deviared thut had pledged court coats on thelr own authority, Jum {a now blaming for anying sioner Shields. IT put Mr. Rowe down as a ver; smart young inan at the thme, and I am not surprised to find lin te bralna s Re sian was a nat 6 at Balti- from a trip thee da; of the Gas Consumers Audit Com- | pany. Ay number of Manhattan phyalelans| adinit subscribing to Mr, Rowe's | | ate Company, stera. | Mrs. at she knew 1 a short time ago the “Bust mation from her Protective Company" drow to fi do 80. M oo Jout of sight and Mr. Rowe moved into | GOLDSMITH NAMED REFEREE, | Nia preset quarters at No, 265 Mroud- way, where bloomed the Gas Conaym. Supreme Court Juatiee Gerard to-day also 'T “ vdsmith as ret= | York b| har CUBANS VANT LOTTERY y a sult) of the New Work Credit Gd a yee 4 € and against | ver book for Greater HAV AN, \ as been WW nd. Henry M . ed Senat annul the § for the plainti? r, Rowe's name does not order of th h military authort- and Patterson ts Attorney for upon the atetionery and fevatat ties abolishing the iottery. the & she newer sonaern ANOTHER CONCERN United | "Mr. Smith's" | who | been most distressingly misrepre- | be good, and there were no court costs |= hia agente! sey are from Commis: | a | id not gat value | BARKER MUST PAY MTR UT OO | MRS TLLTSON'S ER NESS Not Be Turned On Again Before Monday. Jury Finds Against the Million- aire Who Figured in Wom- ff There are likely to be a lot of top | floor thirete until Monday in that part 1 of the city between Lexington avenue and the Hudson River between Thirty- fourth and One Hundred and Thirteenth streets, as the water was cut off in @ thirty-six-inch main at Broadway and One Hundred and First street to-day to permit work in the subway near One Hundred and First street. Commissioner O'Brien said to-day the water would be turned on again Mone day. In the meantime, however, there will be sufficient current for fire fight- ing tor tn all the main pt the thirtysalxinch, one, but not & pressure as great as ordinarily. Superintendents of buildings and apart ment houses in the district affected have been notified to make provision - for a supply of water for tenants, pare ticularly those living on upper floors, —_—_—_—_——— eee an’s Divorce Case, Charles BD. Narker, millionaire man- about-town, has been held responsible by @ jury before Supreme Court Jus- tice Truax for @ bill of $1,081.41, con- {tracted by Mrs. Edna D, Tillotson, @ divorced woman, for surgical opera-{ Uon# upon her jaw and face. Barker came Into the limelight ser eral years ago, when he tried to have the Legislature legitimatize a obild of hia born to his “aMnity,”’ Adella Ger- | trude Stringer. There was a public up- |heaval at the time, and although the bill pasved, the Governor vetoed it. | The present sult was brought against ; Barker by Dr, Frank C.,. Hollister, Barker admitted on the stand that he had agreed to settle with the physician provided Mrs. Tillotson's relatives did’) not do so, He sald he was a friend of | Mra, Tillotson'a father, She had deen) suffering from an ulcerated jaw, and it was sald the operations were neces- jeaty to save her lite | When Dr. Hollister presented his bill | to Barker the latter claimed that inas- | much as the agreement had not been reduced to writing he was not respon- | sible for ite payment, Mra, Tillotson was divorced by her husbend, Norton B, Tillotson, formerly jn the book publishing business, about! |two years ago, Barker was named in| the sult. Mrs, Tillotson appealed, but owing to lack of funds, It le sald, was | torced to abandon the case, There were more than 1,500 typewritten pee testimony as @ result of the ¢r! Mrs. Till owned by her brother f Barker will appeal from tl the jury in Dr. Hollister’ ham C, Cohen 1 | former | Hollister’ 23rd Street SILK DEPARTMENTS. Satins. Silks—Plain and Silks, White and WASH DRESS GOODS. 25,000 yards joteon ts now living on &@ ranch the Wi plaids. paises eas | RUNAWAY CRASHES INTO TROLLEY CAR. | | | Windows Horse Upset, But wide. Wagon body Ie Hurt. After running from One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street and Madison ave- nue to Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Forty-second street, a horse at- tached to @ bakery wagon belonging to| Herechman & Bleler, of No. 617 East | Seventy-first street, crashed Into a} south-bound Elghth avenue car at ¢ o'clock this morning, ‘ine horse was thrown from his feet, |the wagon turned over and the windows of the car broken, but no one.was hurt. | The driver of the wagon was delivering bread when the horse started on his long gallop. Sale of Silk ai printed Eolienne. Reward A reward of Two Hundred , and Fifty Dollars will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any junk dealer or other person ty, under the provisions of jection 550 of the Penal Code of the State of New York, of criminally receiving any prop- erty pemesing to sither of the undersigned Companies. $50. Reward Fifty Dollars Reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any n who maliciously injures | or interferes with the lines of ene of the undersigned Companies. NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO, and THEN. Y, & N, J. TELEPHONE CO, _ 15 Dey St., New York . JOHN H. CAHILL, May 1, 1908 Vice-Pres’t & Gen'l Counsel Sponged, shrunk inches wide. 23rd Street 23rd Street FURNITURE DEPTS. White Enamel Bureaus... Chiffoniers...... ral Wardrobes...... Again? Never! Somnoes,....... » Washstands..... BRASS BEDSTEADS. An economle gentleman | A window tried to make; | When through.you'd think his house had been | | Hit by a bold earthqual | At once he saw that in the end | It cost much less to read Hair and Cotton World “Wants” and hire a Carpenter, , To which his wife agreed. o-Morrow (Sunday) Ie An Racellent Day on Whish to Advertise for Ang spy ete 8 me Ht 23rd Street utai and Palette de Soie. COLORED DRESS GOODS. Commencing Monday, February the 15th. BLACK DRESS GOODS. On Monday, F Imported Chiffon Broadcloth. * dAMES McCREERY & CO, On Sale Monday, February the 15th, + 14,00, 16.00 and 24.00 former prices 17.50, 20.00 and 29.00 former prices 16.00, 19,00 and 26.00 | DA cristina teen | Chaira, Rockers, Tables and Costumers, Manufacturers’ sample models, with | 2 inch tubing, heavy lateral filling and large ornamental husks, Finished with best English lacquer. 15.00, 22.50 and 37,50 | usual prices 24.00, 32.60 and 40,60 White Enamel and Brass Cribs, Bolsters and Upholstered Springs. JAMES McCREERY & CO) 34th Street In Both Stores, hey \ “McCreery Silks,”” Complete assortment of new weaves and colors in Plain and Novelty Silks and Sale of Silks Commencing Monday, February the 15th, Thirty thousand yards of Summer Novelty Rough Shan- ung Pongee, check, stripe and plaid Black Taffetas, Hab- 55c per yard value 85c to 1.25 dn Both Stores, Commencing Monday, February the 15th, Sale of Scotch Ginghams in a large assortment of colors in cords, stripes, checks and 18c per yard usual price 5c White Irish Dress Linen, full bleach and thoroughly water shrunk. 35 inches 25c per yard In Eoth Stores, nd Wool and All Wool sheer Spring Materials, consisting of stripe, figure and Jacquard Eolienne, stripe Marquisette, ribbon stripe Voile, embroidered Chiffon, Twine Marquisette, cord, stripe, check and plaid Voiles and 1.00 per yard tormer price 2.00 to 3.50 In Both Stores, ebruary the 15th. and spot proof. 54 1.95 per yard value 3.00 GAMES McCREERY & CO) 34th Street 34th Street dn Both Stores, Bedroom Furniture, 13.00, 15.00 and 23.00 torsner price 18.00 former price $,00 former. price ¥.$0 former price 12.00 Mattresses, Pillows, 34th Street