Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-03-13
The TREASURY ROBBER- ..-
Trial Of b: B. Hc-aeck.
HIS COnfesstr 4 4. IAN

u &c D,a. Court, Judge DIN, the
.," ne:. - B. Halleck, one Of the par
80 ,sa with the larceny of s47 ,Os7 65
iIo United States Treasury depart
- In June last, was resumed this morn
ng-D.strict Attorney Wells aud Hon. Jere-
miah Wilson for the government and Gen.
Heakle for the defence.
The testimony FOR the government was
q dispatch TO j. G. New. Treasurer. dated
New York, August 8: "Say 70 Halleck all
friends desire him to make a clean breast"
mtted thar socS So %,snoh ana !. w vs ad-
MT. Whitney was recalled and testified that
all the notes In the package were genuine.
A WITNESS WHO WAS LOCKED Up IN THE
CELL WITH HALLECK.
". W. Hal testified that he was in the en-
ploy OF Mr.. Benson, assistant to the chief of
the secret service. Had been In communi-
cation with the accused since the 9th OF Feb
ruary.
ed 10 prove by this witness full confession
of Halleck made up TO last night
Gen. Henkle desired to examine as to whe-
ther any Inducements had been held out,
tions said he had been locked up In the jail;
he had been brought into the marshals office
by Mr.. English, q fellow officer, and 1t was
supposed that he had comrnitted a crime.
English asked him at the Owen Ho lsesif he
was ready to % Ike walk, and ne replied
that he was and walked with him to the
City Hall, where he was turned over; thinks
ment. Was not particular az to whether the
offence was murier, arson, or rape. The
marshal brought him into the courtroom
and he was seated in the dock for an hour
and half or more, and was then placed In
the "black maria and carried to Jail. He
was placed there as a prisoner for a certain
purpose-to obtain the confessions OF Halleck
and other prisoners and TO learn the where
abouts of
THE REMAINING $4,000.
Don't know by whose order he was put In
the same cell with Halleck. Witness offered
no Inducements to make any statement,
but the conversations were In confidence.
Halleck regarded him as "solid."
General Henkle objected 10 any confes-
siOns.
The court overruled the objection, and an
exception was noted.
HALLKCK's CONFESSION IN JAIL.
Witness resumed-On Thursday evening
when Halleck returned from 1.-The court he
talked about the case, and remarked that he
would tell him some tnings which he had
hardly dared tell before.
LATEST EDITION OF THE COATES" STORY.
He then went on TO say that McCurdy took
the package from the cash room and gave IL
TO Gates; that McCurdy went ont in the cor
Iidor and met Gates, to whom he (McC)
gave 1t; Gates carried 1t to the paper room
and hid 1t where it remained day or two.
Halleck further said that up TO that time he
did not know who had taken the money;
that in day or two after the money was
missiI man named Gates came 10 him
Oh and said that McCurdy had sent him
90 TO him Oh }, and Gates said that they
had the package concealed in the Treasury
building, and To convince Halleck that his
story was t.ue took Helleck to Welcker &
HaggeIty's saloon, when they went to the
water closet and Gates reached up and took
from between the roof and wall OF the water
closet a $500 note. Halleck looked at the
note and returned 1t to Gates, who put IL
back from whence he had taken it. Hal
leck told Gates that he must move
the package or ii would be discovered;
and directed Gates 10 remove the package
from the paper room to the water closet in
t. Hall N<lA
Gates moved the package, and he (H) went
aud saw where it was concealed and felt the
money in II. a day or two afterwards Hal
leck said ne told Gates that IL should be
removed TO different place, and Halleck
said that he unscrewed one of the seats and
placed the package behind some of the lead
sheathing or coping. Ii remained here some
time, Gates being afraid to carry the pack
age out of the building, and witness did not
like to take IL ont himself They talked the
matter over, and Gates suggested that they
find third party TO carry out the package.
Halleck said il was dangerous to take in
another person. One evening in Ottman's
saloon he heard the robbery spoken OF, and
Halleck told Ottman that he had some
knowledge; that he knew the whereabouts
of the package, and after some conversation
Gilman said: 'If IL is sure thing, (O1
would like to be in;" that III. then said he
would convince him, and went 10 Welcker
& Haggerty's and got the note out, and took
" to Gilman, with whom he shook hands,
because there were others present) and
Pc SSed the note to 9th ian, who went out
aid returned saying IL was all right, and IL
was arranged that Gilman should come to
the Treasury at two o'clock the next day.
Ottman met him as agreed, aud he (H.) got
the package and gave 1t to Ottmau, who
went away with 1t. Several days after,
Gates came TO him (H.) and asked for money,
and he told him that he did not have the
package, but McCurdy had, he thought.
Gates finally said II Halleck would give
him the 500 note that he (G.) would give up
his claim TO IL. Halleck went to Ottmau
and told him what he had promised, and
Gilman said 'Let Gates GO to hill; re dare
not squeal any how" Halleck had arranged
10 meet Gates at the Ebbitt house drug store
Gilman said that he did not have the $500
note, that he had given IL to "Peg Leg"
Brown TO change for him. They then took
another note, cut it like the original. en-
closed it in an envelope, and it was directed
TO Charles Andrews or Anderson, and they
started TO the drug store (Ottman and he) TO
pointment, and Halleck put the note In
Ottman's pocket and destroyed the en-
velope. A few days after Gates asked him
he was going 70 New Yolk, they made 'u an
arrangement to meet there, but they failed
The next he saw of Gates was after he III
toned for him to leave, and when In the de-
pot henudged Gates saying, al am pulled"
and Gates got of In double quick. Halleck
f a,Se1 Gags M was 4 working on farm near
feet inches, 80 years of age, wearing q san
dy mOustacbe. Halleck told him that be-
IOic Dis dIIcsb NC udu ncaIu Oh Lne Priest OF
Brown and wrote a letter to Gilman to
"work carefully. see signs in the Skies"
did not post 1t, and this letter with another
he threw into the river while crossing; thet
one 500 bill he had in the band of his hat
which the detectives did not find when they
searched him, and he also had Ottman's
check in blank which he slipped from a roll
of $50 bills while the officers were examining
some silver he had and concealed il IN his
shoe; and he afterwards gave the check to
Gen. Henkle, lGen. H.-That's not true.l
who returned IL to him, and last week he
and Gilman destroyed IL; Halleck also told
him about the figures In the memorandum
book, stating that he had purposely changed
some of them, and that be frequently
walked up the avenue saying, "I'm worth
S23 600" ILaughter.1 Witness had a con-
versation with Halleck yesterday about the
same as the preceding one in the main.
Cross Witness was known In
the prison as James Fletcher. Had been an
assistant in the Pittsburg district of the
secret service. before was a hotel keeper and
previous thereto an oil speculator In which
he got busted; never was a prisoner before
Tor did &c wish to play prisoner again.
MCURDY's TESTIMONY.
DGttd NcClTdy, sworn.-Witness was en-
ployed In the cash room last June, and on
the day in question he left the Office about