, 1872-12-07
DUTCH HElNRiCHS.


Sketch of q Noted CFin1inat'a Career
IEc Is Said to Sc Mad.
Frosa the Sem Yors Times. Nov. 81.
In cell No. 61, on the second tier OF the
in his time, hcs bra4ed the law more than any
other, and on whom the arm OF justice has now
fallen with terrible vengeance. he Is said to
be mad, and all the cunning Of bis nature, which
made him feared among honest men,
Of Providence. The narno is Henry
D. Neuman, better known as "Dutch
Ueinrichs,' - who WAS recently convicted Of rob-
berry and sentenced to State Prison for ten
years. But few know the mans history, WHICH
ern Germany, and camo to this country at an
early age. His family is respectable, and his
brother iB now engaged in q reputable business
in this city, and is vol thought Of among the
merchants with whom ho does business. Tho
most intimate friends Of Neuman have never
been able to learn from him howhe was 6rst led
into crime, but Ills criminal Life, it would seem,
was fostered by the faro bank.
From the rapidity of his predatory occupa-
tions, and the guickness Of his movements, he
FLYING Dutchman." Neuman, associated with
tho Greenthals and Meudlebaums, the two great
thiering families Of this city, and IN 1860 COM
mitted the first crime for which he Was con-
victed. Ho enatched watch from q AIr. Whit
ford, at the corner Of Broadway md Canal
street, was arrested, convicted, and sent to
State Prison for two years, by the late Judge
Russell, in tho Court of General Ses-
aions. In State, Prison at the time vas
tho noted bond robber, Chauucey John
son, and 3 sympathy sprang up between
the two. Is a consequence Hcnrichs on his
release joined johnson, Tho had ben liberated
four months previously, in this city; and entered
on his continuous career of crime: His depreda-
tions among the bankers Of the city were terrible
for the reason Of their frequency and SUCCESS.
The Lord bond robbery, in which Hr Lord was
p1unde1ed Of over ST, 100000 in bonds, it is be-
ieved by Neuman, Chauncey johnson, Jack
Iierney, and '' Hod " Ennis the robbery Of
Proutz, in Yesey street, Of bonds worth s21 200;
the stealing Of $4,000 worth Of bonds from the
Adams Express Company, and many other
crimes, made IS Dutch Heinrichs famous.
So notorious did he become that of late years
he could not steal anything in Wall street, as
as thief, and the man himself, before his con-
yictiou, stated freely that although he was q
thief, he had not stolen one dollar in this city
for over three years. As usual, however, there
for the incapable detectives failing to find the
real criminal, would inform O. plundered citizen
that he might attribute his depleted e1cheuuor
to the daring Of Dutch Heinrichs, when there
we're scores Of thieves who every day wero
plundering Offices down town, and who were not
arrested because they were unknown to the
police Regarding Neunan's character critically,
It would seem tl8t he stole in order to GAMBLE
One OF the most capable detectives in the cou1,-
try, Officer William George Elder, once remarked
tha ge5 11 s edPe1s5f oPdes ndt E. gapss pat
himself. lGl sci must Keep up the morbid excitement
created by tic commission Of his crime. The
Spauiard Garcia, whose wondrous success st
treaafe-et~quarante, in the Badon-Baden Ktlrsaa1,
excited the comment Of European gamblers, did
CLOTH than Ee5lman. Seated ut c faro-tab1e, he
would lose, without murmur IN . couple Of
hours, the plumber for which he risked impriRon-
ment, and rise from bis chair ready to rob again,
and to gamble away the proceeds. He went in.
SO, broke tie bank, and came out 81, 900 winner
After one Of Lis big robberies, he lost 913,0 900 in
one night. One af the hest traits Of the mans