The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-09-13
The American yIdOcq.

One Nathan Maroney has been convicted at Mont
goneTy. Alabama, q rObbeFies committed upon the
Adams Express Company, Of which he was agent, 70
the amount Of $4,000. He planned his rOgueries
80 afroitly ands ecured his spoiIs 20 successfully that,
although suspected and discharged. il took ten
months Of constant surveillance by 4 skillfuI detective
and most ingeniou=ly contriyed series Of plots to
get proof against him. and 90 recover the money.
The exposure was 50 perfect that he finally PLEADED
guiItS and received the sentence Of ten years in
prisOnment in the Alabama Penitentiary.
The police agent TO whom the affair was entrusted
was enc Allen PinkeTton, \ detective policeman Of
celebrity in Chicago. lie was sent for TO Montgomery,
aad had the full cUnfienee Of the company, who
having paid the money were extremely anxious 10
punish the hithies> agent. and if possible to re-
cover the fifty thousand dollars. which they felt con-
WINGED had not been parted with.
The detective accomplished this with a skill aud
perseverance,, "a fertility OF resources. facility q dis
gut z. and imm0vabie tenaciiy Of purpose. which excite
wonder IS We read The rogue and his aceomplice
wers hunted backwards and forwards. through q
circuit Of thousands Of miles uf travel; every move
faeur. from day t. day, and every night watched
and noted. Spies we're set about them in their most
confidential hours; their intimates were pressed into
me service against them, and finally a detective
brought INFO contact with the rogue, under sIch
circumstances as to gain his confidence, be accepted
as a counselor, and obtain actual possession Of the
money 10 trust II We had read such a story IN the
Gou.oirS Of Vidocq, We should have thought II a
romantic exaggerajion. IL Is, however, n reality,
ard exhibits the degree OF acuieness TO which the in
reflect mny be s~harpened by ineessantd devotion 20 one
pursuit The Chicago policeman has so thoroughly
mastered the theory and practice of roguedOm, that
IL must be q blessing 10 the ~cOmmUniiy that he never
turasd rogue himself. lie who knows 50 well ali the
weak points where the rascsls OPEN themselves 20 de-
lection, would be the most dangerous man, If nature
had not made HIS honest. A. II i, this story VIII
make him famous. and n special terror TO thieves.
MarOney stole the money from the private pouch
OF the Express COmpany-ten thousand dollars at
one time, forty thousand dollars nj another, and, We
believe, three thousand At another. The ten thousand
dollars we're employed in the purchase Of cotton in
South Carolina The forty thousand dollar package
was pat ia q box and cent by Express to Galveston,
in Texas. under a fictitious name. Ii remained there
till April. when !; was ordered to Natchez- lie went
TO Naiehez for IT, recovered il, and secre,ei in in
Montgomery.
MaTOney had n wife, or rather lived with a woman
whom he hal made his wife during these affairs, who
Wa mis- confeGerare. She went North, and took I'D
her residence ut JenkintoVn IN Pennsylvania. with a
brCther-In-iaw. SEe came South, got the money,
AMI hai il buried IN her Jrother-in-law's cellar. All
her movements, Gay by day. from Montgomery 70
New York. 20 JenkintOwn. ard while there, and back
aglis 70 Montgomery, and 10 New York, were super
vissd hour by hour. Women with whom she became
acquainted. were engaged 10 watch and direct her
movements a. the police agent desired
When the evidence Was strong enough, Maroney
~as arrested and put into the Eldridge street Jail.
4 fictitious arrest was made, and one Of PinkertOn's
agents Wa placed III prison with him. aud a long
history - made ofthe proeessesby which MarCney was
male 90 conile Ia this Mr.. -, confeSsiug the rob
hery. and where the money xas, aud engaged his
ati 10 get up = defense, ana 20 dispose OF the money.
The various artiEces by which MarOney was led 20
these disclosures. the DISCUSSES and tricks by which
The wife was induced 70 deliver up the money to the
police agent. the eqntrivaaces by which, for several
months after. and until the trial % NlarOney, the Mr..
Blank continued 10 be the confident Of the deceived
rogue. fora n iong chapter IN the history. MlrOney
vas made % believe that the money was safely put
away fr him- Everything he lid was under the ad-
vice % bis prison friend, until ON the arrival At
Montgomery, whittier he was sent under an Execu-
tive requlsition. 20 lie tried on the Indictment, ne
uns confronted in court oy his bosom counselor Is n
police detective. He Immediately c1yed in and plead
guilty.
II is one Of the most remarkable cases in the his
tory Of the American detective police
The Mad states that the number Of persons en-
ployei by Nr. PinkertOn averaged about eight for
ten months. and that the distance Travelled by them
during that time vas not less than fifty thousand
Orfsnus PsrrUurS.