New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-24

neighbor. AS Jimmy recognized them, he
turned pale and dropped the flask. The.
next moment he thrust his right hand into
his coat pocket and drew out brown paper
parcel The car window by which he was
sitting was open. He was about to hurl the
parcel through it, but he paused and half
arose. The detectives approached.
Jimmy" said one OF them, I'VE want
In moment Jimmy dashed the parcel
through the window into the lake, and arts
ing, exclaimed excitedly:
my God there goes fortune"
Jimmy subsequently, acknowledged to
the detectives that the parcel contained
$4,000 worth of diamonds stolen from
ScooIers pawn office
AZ already intimated, portion Of the
SCOOTER diamonds were sold to one Angelo
Marie, a detective, in Memphis, Tennessee.
This Mare, though holding Office in the
police force, was the associate OF thieves
and burglars, and was i'll the habit OF
sharing in their spoils. AT length several
members Of a gang of burglars were ar
rested for a large robbery.
In the safe of the chief Of police of Mem
phis were slowed certain portions OF the
stolen property, whose identification would
have inevitably led to the conviction of the
thieves. The rest of the gang, headed by
Angelo Marie. put up job to blow open the
safe and steal the property. They were
| caught and committed for trial Angeles
brother put up as bail for him a diamond
| pin stolen from Scooler's in New Orleans.
The history Of Billy Forester is too well
| known 10 require to be ret0ld here. Dago
Frank, however, until his connection with
| the recent Jersey City bank robbery, was
unknown to fame. A short account OF hime
| therefore. may be interesting.
Frank Dean, alias Frank DenniDg, alias
! l. NHilIisypc aliaG Darn Er4Dk hogan
| his career as a@burglar since the war, IN
| Richmond, Virginia He has operated exc
! tensively and successfully in the cities of
| the South and on Mississippi steamers.
| He, Dave Cummings and Billy Forester
| operated together. Forester generally
| planned the robberies, Dave Cummings DID
| the genteel part of the work ana Dago
| Frank the rough, heavy labor. Dago also
| occasionally took a. hand in WITH Jimmy
Hickey and Johnny Reagan ip Che express
rObblng business.
The trio-Frank, Dave Cummings &n8
Forresteg must have stolen, during the
time they operated together, not tar shore
Of 81, 100000 worth of property. aDn one oc-
casion, il Nashville, Tennessee, about two
years and a half ago, they nearly secured aS
much as this at one venture. While break
ing into baak there they were alarmed by
a noise made, it was supposed, by cats oA
the roof Of an adjoining building. They be-
came panlc-StrlcKen ana deCalnpeu. len
minutes further operations would dave
secured them $500 900 worth of booty.
The last time these three worked together
was in the SCOOTER diamond robbery. After
that affair Dago Frank and Dave Cummings
went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, 6nd prac-
ticed as hotel thieves.
They robbed the mistress of O sporting
man Of lot Of valuable jewelry, and quar-
relied over the spoils. Dago Frank, there
fore, left Cummings and came on to New
York. Dago Franks connection with she
Jersey City bank robbery is too recent to
need recapitulatiOn. After this affair and
Franks capture, Franks friends in the
West, headed by one FitzsimmOns, a saloon
keeper Of Chicago, raised $4,000 to get him
off They first tried to get his bail and
Proctor's reduced to $4,000 each, but failing
to do this, used the $4,000 in the attempt
20 blow up the Hudson County jail.
Mark Shinburn, who, it is believed, syas
also connected with the New Orleans di&
m0nd robbery, is ¬orious burglar. His
first conviction was in New Hampshire,
when he was sentenced to ten years in State
prison. After a brief Incarceration he
escaped, it is said, through bribery He
afterwaId was engaged in a $4,000 burglary
at the Office Of the Lehigh Navigation Com
pany, at Whitehaven, Pennsylvania. 1t is
also believed he took part in the robbery %
che Ocean National Bank Of New York. He
is chiefly famous, however, as being one of
che gang implicated in the robbery OF tho
New Windsor (Maryland) Bank in 1869.
Shinburn, 1t is reported, was captured, but
released by the officers who held him on
payment of $4,000. After the mOney was
paid down, it is reported he was driven in %
a., ND al