The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1909, Page 19

TRA OPT 10 ATH BANK ROSEN WD PSED SECRET N BOE DED George White Regarded Burg: 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| hie later years, broken in health and| poor, he wrote the story of his crimes. It {ss book every bit as interesting as fiction and a marvellous contribution to the literature of criminology, ‘This book was the means of George White's scant | living, He wandered around the Wail | Street district selling copies of it to the officers and clerks of banks, many of them institutions which he had robbed in his prime. George White regarded bank burglary as a respectable ceiling. 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 the generation immediate- ly following the civil war, Furthermore, he 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 an 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 900 Mulberry atreet—took §2,700,00 from the vauits of the Ocean Bank at Greenwich and Ful- ton streets. Again, in the same year, he and his associates caused the retirement from office of the chief of the De- } tective Bureau, and, through their influ- | r | ence with Boss Tweed, had Jamés| corner, ang set off the charge while Irving appointed to his place; from thet /the ‘engined were hooting and tooting i outside, 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 alwa: 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 Stoncham, Mass é According to White's story, he Became t implicated in the robbery because be f hired out one of his teams to the|To James Irving, chief’ of deveo- incendlary origin, was discc in the thieves, and was afterwards “jobbed" | 7¢"fimes ‘ifccont, detective’! D| basement of the two-story dwelling at because he had property with which one | To Gsorge Radford. detectiy No. 67 Taylor street, Williamsburg, early : of the stockholders was able to recoup! > Pullip Farley, detective this morning, where, after heroic work | the loss occasioned by the theft. Met Gang of Thieves. "The jury Aisagreed. White escaped be- the slde-show property of a band of robbers. at their work and inasmuch as it was Sunday morning, covered up the traces of thelr work sleep In rooms at the Astor House, and was necessary to blow w They covered this operation by turnin, in a false alarm ol ceeds of this burglary: Cush taken @) . Cash left to Miscellaneous bonds, salable Western rallroad bonds, wu To Insurance Agent Kobier (the of e i To assistants . . To Bank Clerk’ Taylor )!1°° Divided equally between’ Bhi ‘and White Te To another detective For mer Bank Burglar, Whose Death Recalls $2,750,000 Robbery; Partner and Bank is ie Ginga lala RESCUE 7 FROM BLAZE STARTED ) White and Shinburn became wearled and took a six-hours ‘This time it eturned the next night. a safe door. fire on the ban The Burglar’s Ledger, This is White's acoount of the pru- me Wii i 8. Gov't Bonds (then ‘above bur). °*|Two Families Carried by Po- | liceman and Citizen Out of Burning Building. s And the disbursement of it was tenaible tenant of the office un Fire, which the police belleve was of John i Fourdan ceman and a passer- ts were awak- to places of on the part of a pc by, the sleeping occupa ened and dragged fore his second trial, and came to New| Fo suet donates safety. York, where he looked up some of Shin-| TO Frank Houghtal Smoke curling forth from the base- a larket Co dese 10,000 | lows wa seen by Police- bure’s associates with whom he had be-/} Besdies which, naively concludes the me nt windows wae rat ne B by a i ome acquainted during the first triel. |ingenuous Mr. White, Messrs. Hough. |™4n Duffy, of the Lee avenue station Bilty Matthews, a faro dealer in Harvey | t#ling and Kelso euch received gold) AS he ran toward the house he was Young's gambling house, then at No. (1 Broadway, introduced him t oa gang of bank thieves, who initiated White into the mysteries of their calling. ‘Whth this gang, who included Eddie | Mughes, “Tall Jim," (who by White's fafure to Mentify him more closely, seems to hewe been alive when the book t ‘They “prospected” to Obtlo and settiet i he Cadts Bank for operations. | the cashier, who was in bed {qf bie home, they stole the bank keys hits trousers pocket beside his bed, after using these, bound and the night watchman of the bank. proceeds of the robbery were over jarter of @ million dollars, but Ite and Eddte Hughes were the only escaped with thelr share of proceeds. White tells with the ut- indignation how the New York found him after his return to ality and made him give up 10 per it. of his forty thousand odd dollars conces! him from the Ohio au- EE ea iy The Ocean Bank Robbery, The robbery of the Ocean Bank is chronicled by White with a zest which he did not endeavor to conceal. A clerk in the bank, one Taylor, was a tre- quenter of John Morrisey’s gambling house in the Tenderloin, The crooks e 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, the proceeds of bank burglaries. When | he was once in the power of the thieves, | he was persuaded to betray the Ocean | Bank. Under White's tuition, he was tri in the art of detecting safe ned | a tions. White went to the makers of the locks on the Ocean Bank's vaults and spent hours r with Taylor, teaching him what click of the dials and each sil t tumblers meant. Ta s lea the combinations of the ba An office under the - as well as n Po reven months the gangs % their chance. The ‘right’ detect at police he ters were notitied what was to | Dug Tunnel Into Office On the t with his partner, 5 p watohes valued at $0). Learning Combinations. White afterward invented the system of learning safe combinations by un- | screwing the dials and inserting a wire to be dented Ly ihe number dogs, which, Joined by William Cowdin, a plumber, who lives near the house the: Mrs. Annie Mundick three children, Louis, Fred nd on the first floor a widow, and her removed at ths next vinii, disclosed the | ively combinations. The invention paid | Dense volumes of r royalties of hundreds vf thousands of through the house Aue dollars before it was betrayed by Shin. | greatest diffict widow. and burn’s clumsiness In clogging a combin.|her little chile yused. They ftion with the wire, at safe ex. | were carried oft seantily perts were called in by a bank before| clad, and conveyed t by drug the byrglars made their second or busi- | Store. Mean e another passerby had bow turned In an aa nd Duff and ite finally went up to Sinz Sing| Cowdin re-entered t ise, Going to without realizing his ireateat ambition the xecond floor, they f a family of —that of robbing the United s+ three, all either asleep or overcome by Sub-Treasury in this city He says, the choking smoke. that he bought his way out by bribing| ‘These were Frank Diener, his wife the prison physiaian and others. Of | Mary, and thelr three-months-old baby he was converted at tho|.All three had to be carried from the 2 and ing his re firemen, upon thelr arrival, de- cences and selling his book, strong odor of oll, and descend- He spent much tim ing to the cellar fot detectives of ditt been sprinkled on a rut accepting ama) ady banks burglar ———>__. STATE SUPPLY OF TAX STAMPS RUKS SHORT None of Ten and Twenty Cent Denominations Left for Stock Tr. th The case Fire Ma: fire is supposed to have or vas at once reported to the ——— COAL GAS EXPLODES IN A SANITARUM >— Ww. ta ree now | | —_ CUBANS VANT LOTTERY, HAVAN . bin pect order of th ertean ti ties abolial ing the iottery. BY NCENOURY After breaking into |? and Mildred, | aged seven, four and two years respect: |” ENDED LIFE WHEN “HE LOST SAVINGS OF TWENTY YEARS ——>— | [Rubin Left Last $1,500 for | Wife, Who Does Not Know | | He’s a Suicide, For twenty years Louls Rubin Ia- |bored to rear @ family and make a for- jtune, Hla six fine sons and daughters grew up a credit to him and his good wife, Ida. He bought the house at No. $52 East Houston street, on the ground |floor of which he had started a small |Jewelry store when he first embarked In business and took unto himself a | wife, ne was able to speculate heayily in real |estate—then came a crash. Three months ago Investments made {in Brownsville property failed, and {then all was ewept away. To-day, from | Philadelphia, Rubin's children received word that he was dying. Despondent, |he had travelled to the home of a life- long friend and there, handing over $1,600 to his friend's wife, requested that the money be sent to “Ida, my dear wife, in case anything happens to me," A few hours later Rubin was found unconscious from escaping gas. He had_ prey for deat the little room to Which he had Rubin, who is f was reihoved to § delplita It was Rut to, nd his frie nee for m At me remain tor le T rest., If anything give this money to [da 1 t $1,500 “and handed it te ife does not was told, the news, that her husband wa Jand woul be home In a few days Seg | FRIEND 100 LATE TO know owing —— ary Rowland Had Already Kept Death Threat When Alarm Was Given Thomas > keep young to A room | wo see slow about a uld the you Ma a a native of Ralt!- travelling sale and Miss Rowland was ore, and @ emonstrator for @ patent food ¢éon- n of that clty. For the past three ved, when tn New house of Mrs first street, 1 room there three days ; M Anton{o at ‘ 8. Thompan at she knew of no res ter cor } nation f 1} sald 1 had ne to do so, tant >—_—— GOLDSMITH NAMED REFEREE nie Court Juaticn Gerard to-day ed Henry J ( th as ke t Ina n Hand against Henry = M plainttt? torney for thinony THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1909, GAS CLAIM MAN'S LAWYER ACTIVE IN ANOTHER CONCERN —— Once Chief Counsel of the | Business Men’s Protective BARKER MUST PAY WATERS CUT OF O MIRS.TILLOTSON'S UPPER WEST SI DOCTOR'S Bll Broadway's 36-Inch Main Will Not Be Turned On Again Before Monday. Jury Finds Against the Million- | aire Who Figured in Wom- W nce nits Unt Monday to, that art 1 of the city between Lexington avenue and the Hudson River between Thirty- jfourth 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 M day. In the meantime, however, there will be sufficient current for fire fight+ ing purposes, as there will be water {a all the mains jn the district except the thirty-six-Inch one, but not @ pressure as great as ordinarily, Superintendents of buildings and aparte 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, |] soliciting agents to prosecute the His bank account swelled until} to out of-town patr ry which he and his sons manutactu I Thurs- ay he left t ast Houston street store on one ot th business trips |In Philadelphia he appeared at the home of Charles Ludwin, of No, 116 t nue y money in bad real SAVE GIRL SUICIDE | alth an Imposter I called up Mr. Rowe ie | Told “It Was All Right.” * down $8 for each case for court conti sult 9 Association, an’s Divorce Case, | Charles D. Darker, millionaire man- about-town, has been held responsible by @ jury before Supreme Court Jus- NS een ttl 6 [tle Truax for a bill of $408.41, cons | Clients Discuss Business Meth- | Sp Rare pity oo iene | ods of Young Alfred Ten- | a!voreea woman, for surgical opera. | | tions upon her jaw and face. nyson Rowe. Barker came into the limelight ser eral years ago, when he tried to have the Legislature legitimatize @ child of hia born to his “aMinity,” Adella Ger trude Stringer. There w: public up- |heaval at the ti and although the jou passed, 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 Mrs, Tillotson'a father, She had been suffering from an ulcerated jaw, and it was sald the operations were neces- sary to save her life, | | 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| husband, Norton B, Tillotson, formerly! in the book publishing business, about! \two years ago, Barker was named in |the ault, Mrs, Tillotson appeaie’, but Jowing to lack of funds, It is sald, wae| torced to abandon the case, There were more than 1,800 ky Beye tea Dag 8 @ result of the trial. WAS “MISREPRESENTED.” oO NEED NO AGENTS TO COLLECT THE GAS REBATES. “All persons entitled to refund from the moneys deposited by the Several gas compant 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 claims, or who sign contracts with same, are putting themselves to un- postponing the fund can be made.”"—Judge E. Henry Lacombe's warning to gas consu- mers on receipt of complaints made |] to The Evening World against g: |] recetpt collecting agencies. a RR testimony Atfred Tennyson Rowe, the young | “x79, Tillotson ie now livin ne reach | if to “Mr. Smith,” owner of |owned by her brother the ‘est. ACID Barker will appeal from the verdict of | the jury in Dr. Hollister’s eult, Abra-| |the Gas Consumers’ Audit Company, of No, 26 Broadway, was formerly chief counsel in the “Business Men's | Hollister's attorney. Protective Company of the United | ape States," with offices untll recently at | RUNAWAY CRASHES |No. 198 Browaway, | INTO TROLLEY CAR. | The Evening World recelved many | telephone messages to-day from physl- | Windows jclans and dentists, all subscribers to | Mr, Rowe's other organization in sums ranging from $1 to $2.60 each, After running from One Hundred and Like the subscribers to ‘Mr. Smith's’ |Thirty-fourth street and Madison ave- Gas Consumers Audit Company, who |nue to Eighth avenue and One Hundred | got the Impression somehow that they 8nd Forty-second street, @ horse at- | were dealing with @ concern authorized tached to @ bakery wagon belonging to | | by United States Commissioner Join Herechman & Bleler, of No, 617 East | A Shields, the patrons of Mr. Rowe's Seventy-first street, crashed Into a | collection agency got the tmpression | south-bound Diag bene car at ¢ 2.5 . | O'eloe! is morning. | that thelr $2.50 annual subscription, tn. /OCl0e She TnGrn Ie trom hie feet, | cluded initial court costs where judg- |the wagon turned over and the windows nts were sought. of the car broken, but no one.was hurt. ro The driver of the wagon was delivering Was “Misrepresented. bread when the horse started on his In all instances Mr. Rowe appears to long gallop. ham C, Cohen is Barker's lawyer, while ‘former Magistrate Flammer is Dr, | Broken, Wagon Horse Upset, But Nobody Ie Hurt. | | have been most distressingly misrepre- sented to his “clleuts’ by the horde of vassers employed to drum up busi- ness for each coneern, Mr. Rowe had | Mr, Smith’ tell The Evening World that any agent who used Commissioner Shields'’s name did so on his own author- ity. As for the complaints from sub- | scribers to the Business Men's Pro- | tection Company,’ Mr. Rowe was put to some annoyance “During the Summer of 197 an agent from Mr. Rowe collected $2.90 from me for a membership in the protective com- pany,” said a physician practising on Alexander avenue, near East One Hun- 'dred and Thirty-elghth street, to-day. There were about forty of us doctors in the Bronx alone, who took advantal of the agent’s attractive offer. I never got one thing for my money and I com- | plained to Mr. Rowe, A few days after: ards I was amazed at being sub- oenaed to appear before magistrate Wahle in Jefferson Market Police Court. | Mr. Rowe was on hand to welcome me and 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 dis- | charged in court, and all of us doctors went home amazed at the trick whi lad been played upon us." | Another Bronx physician, who prac- A reward of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any junk dealer or other person guilty, under the provisions of jection 550 of the Penal Code of the State of New York, of criminally receiving a: erty eal to Sither ef the undersigned Companies. *50. Reward Fifty Dollars Reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any n who maliciously injures tlses in East One Hundred and Forty- ) first street, near Willis avenue, made\f’ or interferes with the | this staternt to an Evening World re H | “When Mr. Rowe's agent, whose ign pa | promises he subsequently repudiated, NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO, and called at my office, he told In glowing | terms of Mr. Rowe's ability; how the $2.50 subscriptions made up a legal fund to be used with discretion In sults against delinquent patients, jn such In- | stances only as where a judgment would J, and there were no court costs | ox any kind to Cuil on me, This latter | pledge made the proposition most allur- | i In return the company was to got er cent of all collectlons made, To be sure tiat I was not dealing THEN. Y. & N, J. TELEPHONE CO, _ 18 Dey St., New York JOHN H. CAHILL, May 1, 1906 Vice-Pres't & Gen'l Counsel ing. Again? Never! on the telephone. | “His number was [A man who sald ie wax Roww rep | It ty all right. I am behind the agent. He is one of my men.' Some days later a number of us| Bronx physicians sent a batch of bi down to Mr. Rowe for him to a sults upon. We wera notified to ortlandt. | Mr, Rowe declared ad pledged cot authority, jum them for aaytng that hls agonia| coate on thelr own so {# now blaming | sey are from Commis- | An ¢eonomle gentleman ner Shiolda. 1 put Mr. Rowe down ex a very| 4 Window tried to make; smart young inan at the time, and 1) When through. you'd think his house am not surprised to fing alin the brane Consumers’ Audit’ Com- | had been | Hit by a bold earthquake. | umber of Manhattan ph erlbing to Mr, Rowe's Men's Protective Company," and Ps ‘which mones they did net wat vatue | At once he saw that In the end ee anor. Uk, Ane th! It cost much less to read Protective Company” a C ; tand M We moved into AES CATA VOGT ty 1! Ei ave d | , To which his wife agreed. an vi i ie mp ‘y | jiers| 2o-Morrow (Suxday) Ie An Rxcellent ork Credit Gude, a yni- versa rating book for Greater New|2ey om Whish to Advertise for Any York.” ‘Werkes Wou May Weed in the Home es |, Chee, . Tlowe's name does pot aut Revaci pure) Gets el senate une she nawer oon | JAMES McCREERY_& C0) 23rd Street 34th Street ‘ SILK DEPARTMENTS. In Both Stores, : \ “McCreery Silks.” Complete assortment of new weaves and colors in Plain and Novelty Silks and Satins, Sale of Silks Commencing Monday, February the 15th. Thirty thousand yards of Summer Silks—Plain and Novelty Rough Shan- ing Pongee, check, stripe and plaid Silks, White and Black Taffetas, Hab- utai and Palette de Soie. 55c per yard value 85¢ to 1.25 WASH DRESS GOODS. Commencing Monday, February the 15th, Sale of Scotch Ginghams 25,000 yards in a large assortment of colors in cords, stripes, checks and plaids. 18c per yard usual price 25¢ White Irish Dress Linen, full bleach and thoroughly water shrunk. 35 inches wide. 25c per yard dn Both Stores, COLORED DRESS GOODS. Commencing Monday, February the 15th, Sale of Silk and 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 printed Eolienne. 1.00 per yard tormer price 2,00 to 3.50 In Eoth Stores, BLACK DRESS GOODS. On Monday, February the 15th. Imported Chiffon Broadcloth. Sponged, shrunk and spot proof. 54 inches wide. 1.95 per yard value 3.00 In Both Stores, JAMES McCREERY & GO, ‘ 23rd Street 34th Street Ny ~ JAMES McCREERY & CO, 23rd Street 34th Street FURNITURE DEPTS. On Sale Monday, February the 15th, White Enamel Bedroom Furniture, Bureaus........14.00, 16.00 and 24,00 former prices 17.50, 20.00 and 29.00 . Chiffoniers......13.00, 15.00 and 23.00 former prices 16.00, 19.00 and 26,00 dn Both Stores. Wardrobes ........seyeseeeee ee 014,00 foriner price 18.00 Somnoes,... ooconatys) former price 5.00 former price 7.90 former price 12.00 Chaira, Rockers, Tables and Costumers, BRASS BEDSTEADS. 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, Hair and Cotton Mattresses, . Pillows, Bolsters and Upholstered Springs. + Washstands.. Desks,...- 23rd Street 34th Stsdet