Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-06-14

ANCiiuE - anu kDGNtltli clACCt3 anu
or Detectives Dorsey, Slevin or DO
Ian have time after time seen hin
talking with the bartender in tina
saloon. i was even more surprised
one day when / saw him meet IL
the street and talk to Billy Kelly
who knew had been sent to State
prison some eight or nine years agt
for burglary in the first degree, and
who think was pardoned out by
Governor Hoffman. Not a great
while after this / caught him again
in conversation with Kelly. Kelly,
/ thought to myself, needs watching
too, and / put several people on his
tracks. / soon learned that two
Sundays before the robbery Kelly
stood on the bank corner ats O'Clock
when he should have been working,
as he was a night bartender for
man named Flood, who keeps a
saloon at the corner of Eighth av-
enue and Thirty-fourth street. That
incident was carefully worked up
and led to the discovery that on the
morning Of the robbery Kelly left
his position behind the bar at 2
o'clock A. NJ. and did not return to
the saloon until some time about
the middle of the next day. He
thus had ample time to take a hand
in the robbery, and / was led to be-
lieve that he was in the job. His
actions after the robbery also tended
to confirm my suspicious. He
stopped work very soon after and
became very much of a sport in
his manner of living. He went
riding to the Park frequently be-
hind a good team, and Travelled up
and down the road like 'one of
them.' i followed himself and my
detectives dogged him constantly.
We could connect with him only
the bartender in the saloon at Av-
enue G and Seventh street and the
watchman in the bank. These in !
vestigatiOns resulted meanwhile in |
the arrests of Johnny Hope and |
then Johnny Dobbs, who was
caught in Philadelphia four weeks
ago, was brought on here to stay. |
| was satisfied that both Hope and |
DObbs were connected with the /
robbery, and concluded that with
the weight of evidence against him
| was justified in arresting the
He was arrested last
night and has been in
this statiOn-house, with the excep-
ton of a very short time since then.
His name is, as suppose you have
Patrick Shevelin. He
was the Sunday day watchman at
he bank. / was very much afraid
hat the newspapers would get hold
If the arrest and hinder my further
action in arresting Kelly. The
nan had to be taken to court the
leXt day, as twenty-fOur hours is as
ong a time as prisoner can be
Kept without hearing, and how to
the case there without Civ
ng a clue to the reporters and 9TH
rs in the court / did not know, for
f / remanded my prisoner to obtain
urther evidence his name would
lave to come out and my case
would be spoiled. / went and saw
Justice Morgan, who was sitting in
he Jefferson Market Police Court,
nd arranged with him that would
end my prisoner to court that after
loon and every following day in
harge of policeman until arrest
d Kelly, l knew nobody would
xpect a case of this size to be
'rought to court by a policeman.
every morning up to yesterday
,heVelin was taken to court by the
f1icer, and walked down the aisle
n front of him to the Judges bench,
1here he was remanded till the ,
ext day, and walked quietly out
4 court before the officer as if he
1ere a free person. But oncein the
treet he was again arrested and ,
rought to the station-house. / ,
nyself visited the court and OBJ
aimed a warrant to break up dis
rderly house at Bleecker street and :
outh Fifth avenue, In order that !
he magistrate might say that that
yas my business at the court. The {
ouse was visited and thirty-five I
ersons who were making night :
ideous there were arrested. BY {
ursuing this course and question j
1g my prisoner very closely each /
ay, yesterday succeeded in get
ng from him the history of the :
)bbery, of the previous attempts
nd of all the attendant circumstan-
IS which / have related up to this
oint. He told me, / believe, all
e knew. Yesterday evening / re-
lived to arrest Billy Kelly, and )
O'Clock put five men on Sixth 7
venue, between Thirtieth and /.
streets = Detectives
dorsey, Slevin, Sullivan and Gilgar
nd Officer Dougherty. / was afraid
, go myself lest Kelly might take
le scent, and contented myself
ith riding up and down i'm horse
lr. Kelly j knew had gone to the !
ices at Jerome Park, and | also '
new that he would come straight i
, Bennet's saloon at Sixth avenue !
nd Thirty-second street. Gllgar
new Kelly, and as soon as he APP !.
cared he was arrested quietly and !
rought to the station-house. Kelly .
one of the men who guarded Jan v
or Werl1le in his room up stairs in y
le rear of the bank. The janitor 7
as really badly frightened, so bad =
: that after he had given Hope the y
of the vault and safes .
Id the latter had left the room, y
'erkle called him back and gave y
m the combination over again, :,
airing that if he had given it to =
m wrong the first time the bur- II
ars would return and murder him.
ne week after the robbery Kelly u
ent to the bartender in tie saloon q
Avenue g and Seventh street, q,
hose name is Patrick Ryan, and u
I'VE him 81 ,639 in cash, which he n
ked Ryan to hand over To Sheve- ,1'
D, the watchrnan, as a part Of the ~
oceeds Of the robbery, telling Ry-
to say to Shevelin that as soon as 81
ey could negotiate the bonds he al
ould get more money. Ryan de- y
yered to Shevelin the 81 $50. y
levelin took part of it and left the VI
st in Ryan's hands. A few days T"
Kelly went to Ryan and
id he had got to have 5000 Of the ~
oney he had given him for Sheve- y
!, because the gang had got to put u
, 5000 apiece to get one of the gang ~
It of trouble. Kelly himself then
ant to Shevelin, told him that he g
d got the 5000, and also told him y
at the money was to be used to y, ~
nd a man to Washington to defeat u
G bill which had been presented ~
Congress to allow the issue of du- " "
icate bonds for the $2,500,0 COS Of u