The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-10-08
A DEVILS DEN.


late cs.ncerning the N sis"n robbery, in CHI
casn, Illinois, ihst which has remained IN
aaid il nv lar The must interesting. Tue ~
rsss s.f D.. Secor.i, young M.rchi~i, aud tn
two women. Mr.. IRWIN aud Mrx. Mitchell
q short time since. created consider sbie tx
citem-mt in Chicago. bit the general l'ut'ii,
vas left in the dark To the c''nnsctissn a.
there pxuple with the robbery Of over SIS.
90 worth If ieweirv. To i'egin nj tie l,e
ginning, the story "f the crime Tor which
thee pes,ple were arrested Was ss f,'llaws:
"rh..se thcils have bern going on fo'
more than four year," il j. snid, "as,d We
have been "a ching f..r the thief for mont h.
E.sme tine ago NJ arcilisl wax caught im Mrs.
Mitciselt's cOmp INV. AMI our su-piciOns
we're ar"u.ed at once, but Mr.. M.l.on
called the young man up snd talked with
him, and MArci,isi pleaded 20 PiteOuslv
that n YES nat discharged. But nfter
that We watched him more carefully. We
found him going tn DR.. Secori's r~,n. and
wer- Sati-i d ia It something was going @"
there. Th~n We called ON Allen Pinkerton.
snd asked him Ia t.ke hold al the Gaze and
work IL up. lie he ard our STORY. aud then
he tunnel Ia ia aud said that he believed
Dr.. S<curd'. den the wOrsi al the kind in
the country. IL wss the headquarters at u
gang If bi .ck N Tiers If very ,iess~ive pro-
portions, including in its ranks not IeSs
than thirty l,er-s,"-. They VIE pivi"g
their infanou. vacation every day under
our very no~.s, but they we're very sharp,
probably better h~dxed than any other cs.n-
Germ any where. IL wss almost impossible
70 GET witnesses to swear against them. ~
they attacked men who could ""t s6.rd M
expOsure. Then they were rich. and even
IL arrested would buy themselves. through
the courts, 10 freedom. Mr.. Pinkeri"n
frankly confessed that he did not h~lieve
they could b punished. aud he did not
care
10 ENrANoLE IN THE BUSINESS,
to take our money, aud then accomplish
nothing. SD We ~ere f.rcesi &" go wItI,o Il
his assistance. Then we concluded 10 work
the case No ourselves. We iss,krd over the
ground, and inaiiy concluded that the
gang mnst he watched vith great caution.
SO re rrnt%si q roOin in the l.uii.iing On the
corner Of VI dis,n aud Dearborn streets, di
richly over Dr.. Secord's private office. Que
Saturday &c began operations. We tO.sk
up the q s"r aud cut away the j''i.is lar
rPsce "f four feei sYnsre. The" ~ecut away
the l.ts'. in small -qu are. aud very carefully
ecraI,ed I'd the 6n.i cOst of plaster. iin
IN awl we picked sm I'll hole, the siza' Of
. pea, through the second cost of pl ester -
the hard finish -and then We thought We
were ready for work. A MN say dove on
the 6sor and put his eye cl.s~e to the hole.
when, 10 his horror. he discovered that in
picking through the hole he hsd knocked
down the lime hust. and there II was heap
Ell up in little pile Om the 6.Or NO Larger
than three cent piece, bmt just large
en"ugh tO give the whole thing away.
Thi. wna Sunday afternoon. and that LITTLE
el.ot Of da~t on the carpet mu-t he removed
t%i"re the Ds,ctor should c"me in. ar Our
game w.s up. We went down stains aud
examined
THE FAsfEHINGs TO TIRE ROOM,
but found them ill secure. asd an entrance
impossible. Then h.ppy Thought s'ruck
u-; ne went Ill over town. aud finally, ~
Dycise's drug Store, On Rs"dulsh strrei.
foun.i long piece "f rui.i~r pipe. euch n.
il uaed for b.t,y's nun.inx b'tiie; We Tel
this down tisrUugh the hole until il reached
within few inches Uf the du.i he~p. and
ihess. after bIowi"g until cur heads "en:lv
blew of, We die-ip~ied the lime Uver thu
carpet ~ ih II in wxs not mOiic-sbIe then
pulled up the pipe n"d awaited deve up
meuta. A m.m lay wuh his eye To ihn'
hole eighteen Gums cusive days. All that
b. saw I can never tell you. IL w.s rimPly
awful. I sio mot lslieve that another such
vile den rxisis sny wher; men and wOne"
acted mOrr like hea>is than human brings.
Well, We learned em"axh To fully sati-iy
~ M To tie guilt of the pes'i'l~-not only
"a TO their general character, hut &" estab.
li-h beyond question the fact that ihr"ngh
=
dav Then ne cau-ei their arrest. Al
though car evidrnce IL abundant, NJ .rrhi-i'.
conisa.ion N skea il practically iasiiapu' able.
Hi~ cssmfe.iom was brought .iHali in this
way: Many yeAn NJ" Mr.. H. F Eame-.
now President ri the Commercial National
Bank, of this CITY. w.s . v"umx man in the
Est Tie b0 srsissl with NJ .rchisi's father.
aud nec0me more or lt-s intimate ~iih this
young man When =. csrd's place wH-
pull Il Mr. Eam-s a..iiced Msrchisis COM
nection With the s6.ir, and Of course he
~. interested.
BECAUSE OF FAvORs
which the Young mans father h.d rendered
him yrans agp. The osnk pr-sidrnt visited
~ arc iii and. after talking wiIh him. nd
visr-d him TO make = clean breast al the
vhole usstirr, which he finally did. Fr .m
thi. .nfe..ion We learn that four yean az
n IRE ago DR.. Sec"rd. who wss then = re-
putable young phy.ician, Wa c.ll~d 10 at
lend Marchi-iis child. He thus b-c.me
n .rchi-,'s family phvxician. The iwO rM'n
became intimate. One d.y Marchisi b,r
row~tl the key to the dect"rs private Office
far purposes Of aaaignsii"n. This put him
in Sesord's p,wer. In . short time the lat
ter, who-e intimacy vith the Irwin w"man
waa recognized, limited that Msrchisi hnd
better pav something On rent, aud when that
vaa aeem To be impossible. "a the young
mans salary vas light and he had fsmi
TO- euppnrt, sugge~led that . watch chat"
for Nina. Irwin wonld be acceptable. This
Aarchisi reluct smily aecuresl. s"d this w.s
found "a Mrs. Jrsims persoa when che Use
arrested. Then . systematic cOunse at ihef,
began. Oncr in the power al Dr. S~c"rd
and hrs INSCRIPTIONS female partner therr
vaa no eacnpe. Aarchiai continued / king
ose-.rticle after another until, during tn
time he waa under surveillance. he w~s
stealing At the rate al 500 day" q
"What evidence have yon in regard to
the blackma.li operationsF' ssked the
r~porier.
'Oh. . good deal, vas the reply. In one
Case
Flssr.cLAss CITIZEN OF MILWAUKEE,
vas trapped into = r@'m wiih rre'iy girl.
He did nothing wronx evidently had M
purpoae Z" do wrnns hat the girl screamed,
the door dec open aud there w.s q di-c"v
cry. The man wne al"ne ~ the rssom with
the girl. He 10 frightened by threats "f
exposure, and Came dawn for 81 600. Then
there Il lending politician OH" has fallen
into their hsn.i.. ihr'ugh . letter which,
they aecurei. aud .n which they blrd him
and ~ much more that ] can not brgin t.'
till you .ll-en"uxh. snyhow. 10 pro e con-
clu~iv. " that they are the ,ns~s nc le's and
unacrupulous hand "f wretches you Can i'm
seioe."
Al the preliminary examination Of the
blAckmailesa. IN the aft~rn.ssn. the ntsovr
stalement v.s ia IL c"rr.iA'r.iesi II - ssi.l
th.t the Uumber al lssas~s cs.n"ecied with
n. Ss,.,>slss sl..n "a Sfev r. s,s.s s,.sre Tl,ssv