The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-30

remembered that he didn't know the lieu
tenant-didn't even know his name. The
trick was very clever, and the kensington
| bae,k never recovered a dollar.
In 1872 three men went 10 the owner Of
THE rHIRp NATIONAL BANK IN BALTIMORE,
and hired a room adjoining the bank. Gen
| tlemen," inquired one OF the bank officers,
| what are you going TO do with it?"
I'VE are spectators now" they said,
\ land il we succeed in our business We think
OF opening bank" The papers were made
In two .oe weeks thew A did open q bapS@the
Third National bank, next doOr-by burrow-
+, ing under the vault. They left the country
! with 100000, not dollar of which came
/ hack
The vault of
| THE ocBAS BANK
! Of New York was opened by one man-Msxi.
| milan Shinburn, and robbed of 800 600.
| He frequented the bank until mis- acute ears
| learned by the peculiar click of the combine
| ton precisely how to work IL. And he
made it, after listening for months, the very
| first time. He fed to Belgium, where he
! parcba ed q title and is now living there as
one OF the nobility.
About eight years ago several men hired a
room under
THE BoYLsTos BANK or BOSTON
opened business as the trio did in Bslti-
| more, and dug up into the vault at their
| leisure The amount with which they dug
| out was S850000. The. men who did this
| rk were Adam Worth, Ike Marsh, alias
big Ike Charlie BullsrI, alias PIANO."
and Bob Cochran. They got away to Europe
with 5000 600 of negotiable paper. Worth is
living the life OF prince over the water
still. Marsh came back, cracked another
bank, was "pinched" by the PinkertOn
agency, and is now serving out seventeen
years in Philadelphia Billiard went To
Paris with his portion OF the ''swag" and
opened grand bouffet at No 2 Rue Scribe,
said to have been simply magnificent. He
remained 10 the city during the siege, and
might have been there yet had not Chicago
detective who happened over there got
on to him." The Paris police were notified
OF his character, and in short time they
detec ed him in a piece of crooked work, FOR
which he fed the place. He came back to
America, was arrested, and about ten days
ago he esca ped from the Charlestown, Mass
prison. Cochran alone tried to be straight.
He went to Canada, bought 3 farm, and IN
about six months, the turn being called
upon him by the Hidden Hand" he passed
in his checks.
TIRE BENEFICIAL SAVINGS FUND, or PHILADBL-
PHIA,
was robbed of 81, 600, 600 q few years ago by
"bolding up the cashier, who gave the COM
bination. Every dollar of the amount was
recovered by negotiation, and the oracksman
retired on a ompetency.
THE NORTHUMBERLAND VAULTS
gave up their treasures on account OF visit
which masked men made to the cashiers
residence, where he kindly handed over the
combination, and went TO the bank with
them, because he couldn't help himself.
THE YIRsr NATIONAL BANK OF wILNINGTos
DELAWARE,
was entered, and the attempt to rob il was
precisely the same as that worked on the
Manhattan last Sunday morning. The cracks.
men went into the isnitors room and gagged
him and his family. An old Niger woman
crawled under the bed, but forgot to pull her
heels in after her. One of the men dragged
her out. A door CHANGED to be LETT open,
and through it she sped like creased arrow.
She was chased almost to the police station.
and her fight saved the institution.
1t was reserved for the cashier of
THE CHAMBERsBURG, Pa, BANK
to be wooed and won by two Chicago men,
Louie Claremont, the expert, and Abner
Wicks, his brother-in-law. Claremont had
the vaults opened up for him, took the treas
ure, assisted by WIcks, got away, was cap
tured and, as is we'll known, was taken back
under the Plnkerton plan and convicted.
All of the money was recovered. 1t will be
remembered that Claremont's wife made an
effort to rescue him from the central station,
and would have succeeded had not certain
individual hired" the kid" TO give her
away.
IG sometimes happens, as a dete Give stated
TO Times man, that many Of the bonds ana
papers taken by these experts are
RAISED" AND PASSED,
or sold to wild cat spectators. This
scheme, however is not SD common now as
ii has been. There is nothing in the line of
ri IN fCnF r.fn
as lis. And SO few have been able to do II
successfully that it has been almost eban-
doned
There is an old man now serving out bis
time in the Eastern penIientiary at Phila-
delphia, named Jack Canter, VINO was the
most remarkable man in this respect that
ever lived. But he failed at last He was
detected in raising bonos which he bad sold
10 wild cat insurance company. De was
sent TO Sing Sing aud he was there found 10
be such valuable accountant that he was
made book-keeper. When a commitment
was made he learned the circumstances, and
If there was any dust (money) back of the
party, he wosld say 10 the ''pinched' indi
vidual, You give me 50 much and I'll
shorten up your time" 1t was done in a
number of instances. and when the prison
inspectors got on" 10 him they discovered
that he had changed the commitment aud
the record so nicely that detection was oaIy
uisCoNcEcu "Hch nc give ~ AWAY uimsclt.
He was the same man who discovered all of
the frauds in the prison ring and gave them
away. He wrote poem while in Sing S,pg,
in which he causes one OF the stones OF his
cell to soliloquize its history. The produc-
tion abounds in passages which show him TO
be a man of more than the ordinary stamp.
The following extract is taken from the
poem. The stone is telling the story OF an
incarcerated boy:
Though night advanced, and darkness stole
With midnight bacKness DER the skies,
No hope had soothed his troubled soul,
No sleep had closed his weeping eyes.
A sudden thought his bosom thrilled,
A hope by memory long delayed.
His grief su bdued, his passion sttlled,
And on the ground he knelt ana prayed.
And ere he could that prayer repeat,
.'Or echo answer from the hill"
A still. small voice, divInely sweet
said, "Peace. thou troubled soul be STILL"
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