Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-31
Brown, Jones, Etc., of Chicago, CIncin.
natl, st. Louis and Pittsburg,
Operating On ALI the
Railroads.
Dry Goods by the WholesaIe-A String
OF Thieves, Organized for Plum
der, at Last Broken up.
A Woman, Mans Weakness, Blows the
Game, and Lets the Officers into
the Whereabouts of
the SHag.


ings in the criminal court in this city,
which have just resulted in the convic-
uOn OF Mike Jones alias M. II. MeHen-
ry, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for ten years, have developed one OF the
most extensive and stupendous
schemes of robbery ever discovered in
the United States. The band of which
Jones was only an ordinary member,
have directed their attention chiefly to
railroad lines, and particularly to the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
railroad, and to the large dry goods
houses of this city. Pittsburg, Cfncin-
natl and st. Louis business men have
taken great interest in this case, and are
encouraged by this
PROMPT VERDICT
to hope now the leaders may also be
convicted, though they are backed by
money and legal talent. Jones, al
though but twenty-three years old, has
already served one term at Joliet. There
are four more indictments against him
in connection with the same nefarioIIs
business. His arrest, trial, and convic-
ton are regarded as important achieve
ments every way, and great credit is
due to Mr.. w. w. Chandler, agent of
che Star Union line in this citv who, il
the face of numerous threats Of destruc-
ton of freight-trains and personal vio-
lence, has continued his efforts with
zeal, energy, skill and determination
worthy of all the praise which good citi-
zens accord him. James r. Baron, alias
Adam Brown, alias William Davidson,
and at least a dozen other alias, is now
in Chicago jail, having been arrested at
Buffalo some four weeks since by De-
tective D. P. Tyrren, of this city, who
had been looking for him diligently for
the last eight months in various sections
OF the country. AT least half of the
time Barrow was living in this city,
acting as the head-center of the
MOST DESPERATE BAND OF BURGLARS
AND ROBBERS
ever organized on this continent. Mike
Jones belonged to this gang, and was
the first of their members, including
Barron, whose arrest the vigilance of
Mr.. Chandler has caused, aud the six
other members have been scattered IN
various directions. The Star Union
line suffered to the extent of nearly
forty thousand dollars by depredatiOns
upon the incoming night trains during
the period of four months last summer,
secreted temporarily at a point in In
diana not thirty miles from Chicago,
and were repacked on the premises of
James Even, a farmer, also a member
of the gang, who is also under arrest.
From thence the goods were shipped
to various points on the Pittsburg,
and st. Louis railroad to
sUNDRY AUCTION HOUSES
at Cincinnati, st. Louis and else
where. The house Of Rademacher &
Co., of Cincinnati, and D. Heaton &
Co., Of the same city, claiming to do a
business, sold for account Of
Adam Brown, during the summer, some
twenty thousand dollars worth of goods
stolen from the Star line, and probably
rs much more that was derived from |
sundry burglaries of stores in Chicago |
and vicinity. The proceeds of sales |
were paid to Adam Brown, at Cincin- |
natl, and to D. 8. Gould, at St Louis;
but the same man in both instances. !
Barrow is a noted hotel robber, and his |
first trial here on the nine indictments |
confronting him will probably be the |
famous
FREMONT HOTEL ROBBERY,
1f this city. Nearly year ago an adroit
.hief made a haul Of nearly twenty |
thousand dollars worth of jewelry, the |
of Mr.. Mills, of New York.
That Barrow was the man there is not !
he slightest doubt. He was arrest
ID, escaped on straw-bail, and after q
absence from the city, came
pack, and rented a dwelling on Park
avenue under the name of Burton. He
llso rented three barns within as many
iquares from his residence, under differ
mt names, and in those locked barns
he gang overhauled their plunder and
it for shipment. He made
his his headquarters until the day of
Nike Jones's arrest, September 18th,
when he suddenly disappeared, and was
ound at Buffalo by Officer Tyrrell, as
'efore stated. Barrow, whose prison.
lame at Kingston, Canada, during the
hree years of his residence there, from
S65 to 1868, was Adam Brown, is a
about thirty-two years old,
Tery intelligent, well educated, and has
. fine address. He has served as q clerk
n the silk department of the three best
Try goods houses in Chicago, and was
.lso three months in Semple's store at
'ittsburg, during which time the store
vas robbed, the safe blown open, but
Brown was never suspected.
HIS WOMAN
ays he put up the job. Prosecut-
Birch, assisted by S. K.
DOW, conducted the case of the people
s. Jones, with such skill and ability as
o fully establish the existence of the
omplOt which Mr.. Chandler's perse-
erance had unearthed. The mistress
( Barrow is young woman, about
ighteen years old, formerly the wife of
citizen OF Pittsburg, whose intemper-
te habits made her an easy victim to
he wiles OF young man occupying the
osition Barrow did, in the prominent
ry goods house of Semple, in Pitts
urg. She has placed the officers in
ossessiOn Of much valuable informa-
ion touching the operations Of this
sng Of robbers in large cities. To make
ure of Barrow, the prosecution have
ecured requisition from the governor
( Ohio, to take him to Cincinnati, if
e gets off here, as, on q former Oeca-
ION, an associate did.