The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-03-25
The New Windsor Bank Robbery.
How Detectives Operate.

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The New York San, Of Friday, says -
Some mems deeds so before them we arc
told, and some men are followed by their
deeds. We have some additional and rs.
tonishing facts concerning the interior ope
raticns of the Detective Police Of this city,
which, more clearly than anything that
has ever been given TO the public, show the
utter rniienness Of the system. Tho New
Windsor (sfaryland) Bank robbery was that
last straw which broke the camel's back---it
was too much for the chief, and he gave up
the official ghost, as the Saa has already
reported. 1t seems, however, that he played
fast and loose in this transaction, working
with nothing like his usual skill and hence
the explosion which has hoisted him from
the chief detectives chair. When the fact
of the robbery became known TO the Bslti.
more Police, one OF their leading detective
officers wns sent on to New Windsor to
make a thorough investigation. He learned
that several persons whose description he
had with him had registered at the hotels
there at different times previous 10 the rob.
berry, and no doubt remained on his mind
thst these were the robbers.
The ordinary details Of the robbery have
already been given to our readers. The
amount stolen was SlSs, 0O1--SI9l, 200 be.
ing in United States bonds and various
railroad and town securities, and $4,000
in money. The Baltimore police still pros
ecuting the search visited Philadelphia and
gave the detective police there description
ola man whose identity could be established
more readily thaa that of the others, and
asked the co operation of the Philadelphia
detective officers in his arrest The latter
recognized in him Mark Schinbourn, a no.
Iorious New York burglar, who was then
in this city, and for whose apprehension the
New Hampshire authorities we're at the
time offering a reward of 81 900, he having
cheated that State out of the best part of
nine years service, which he owed it. An
additional reward was also offered for his
arrest by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company. from whose Office at White
Plains he had stolen $4,000 worth of
bonds.
The Baltimore detective officers, continu.
ing their Investigations, came to New York
and applied to Captain Young for his as.
sistancc, and related the circumstances and
the grounds of their suspicious Of schin.
bourn.
Nothing further was heard Of the robbers
or their booty for about two weeks, when a
man appeared at the New Windsor Bank
with S99,500 of the missing securities,
which he paid over with a deduction of 20
per cent. $4,000 for his trouble and ex.
pense. 1t then, for the first time, leaked
out that Schinbourn aud an associate,
named McQuade, had been arrested, and
we're confined in the New York Police Cen.
trail office abou,a week; and it is asserted
that when they TUNED over these securities
they were allowed to depart in peace. A
few pertinent queries might be put here
First, why were these men discharged, and
upon whose authority? The recovered
property. under police law, should have
been turned over to the superintendent
temporarily to be recorded. Was it so
turned over? Next, was that official no.
aware of the illegal discharge Of these bank
robbers, and if not, why not? The third
query we might put is, what became of the
difference between the amount stolen and
that recovered aud restored-S 500? Who
got it, aud who knows anything about III
Baltimore journals say that the bank officers
have not seen it. The only plausible infer.
ence is that the thieves have large share Of
the missing money.
Startling as the fact may be, recent dis.
closures prove that detective officers have
reduced the compromising of felonies to
science. 1t has long been known that no
citizen or corporation that could not pay
roundly for the recovery of his own property
has been able to get cent, while those who
have recovered their lost property have not
had the satisfaction Of witnessing the pun.
ishment Of the thieves W. Moore, other.
wise "Charley" Adams, known to have
been connected with the Concord Bank
robbery, and believed to have been con.
cerned in the Merchants Union Express
and other very heavy robberies, may be seen
on Broadway and other streets in this city
almost any day. He defes the officers of
the law, because, as he says, he is lander
the protection Of the police"
Our readers will remember the Lord bond
robbery, in which sl,5oO,0 was stslcn
from Mr. Lords Office. At least S225, 900
worth Of bonds, the most valuable because
the most readily convertible, are still in the
unknown land, and likely 10 remain shroud.
ed in mystery until the detective system of
New York is remodeled, and thieves and
scoundrels are punishcd and not rewarded
Tor their crimes. Mr.. Young, we believe,
comforts himself with the knowledge that
during his official detective life he has re-
covered $4,000, 600, upon which, at the rate
OF twenty per cent, he may have realized
$500, 000-enough to start private detec.
tive Office in Wall street.
A despatch from New York, dated March
18th, says the Police Commissioners refuse
to permit John s. Young, Chief of the De.
teciive Police, to resign until he has rem.
dered an account Of money rewards received