Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
WHOLE NO. 2.361

e bar from outboard. Pinkerton hai
) lost a good deal of sleep, and was
/, little careless. He went before hi
| prisoner, and Harrington took ad
vintage of this to pull the detec
2 tlve's revolver from his pocket
: using both OF his euffed hands. Th'
J detective felt the pistol leave hi,
J hip-pocket, and knew there was
} trouble coming. He grabbed Far
, rington and pushed him over against
the railing. The prisoner cooked
the pistol, and the click was heard
by Pinkerton. FarFingtoa got the
Il weapon against Pinkerton's head,
but the detective kept moving his
4 knowledge box around so rapidly,
/ and Harrington being at disad-
vantage, couldn't get a good shot.
When the weapon was fired the
bullet glanced off Pinkerton's head,
and the detective let go OF Earring
ton, who fell overheard, and was
i drowned. sfH4
About a dozen OF the express rob
4 Ders were Killed and the others We're
sent TO prison, which has had the
effect of deterrlng attempts against
the express companies in the care Of
the Pinkertons.
BANK WORK.
Mr.. Pinkerton says that there are
now no celebrated crooked men at
larged who are wanted" as he
knows of. There are a great many
professional burglars at large, but
they are all nearly poverty stricken,
and are not doing anything big.
There have been no heavy bank
robberies of late. All of the last
big bank Jobs that have been done
in this country were planned by an
expert of Herring's, named Edison.
He is a hank safe locksmith, and
whenever he could get to repair a
bank safe lock he made the neces-
sary diagrams, etc. He thus plan
ned the Falls City, the Northamp-
ton, the Pittson, the COvingtOn
bank robbeEies and others. The
mob who did the work was the man
Scotty, with Draper, Dunlap, Con-
nors and Leary to assist. The job
at Covington ought to have been
successful, and had it not been for
Connors weakening it would have
been. He was the outside man,
and the noise made by the nitro
glycerine was so loud, Connes got
scared and gave the signal for a re-
treat. 1t will be remembered that
the Job was not discovered until
o'clock i'm the morning, and all the
work had been done except reach
ing in and getting the money, which
was lying there, regular gift for
the robbers. If Dunlap had been
the outside man he would not have
got frightened, aud tine money
would have been secured as sure
as fate.
A WITTY CROOK.
Mr.. Pinkerton related a story told
him once by very witty thief
named Papes. There used to be
very celebrated detective in the /
East named Taggart, who was en-
pioyed at a large railroad depot. /
Papes wanted to work The passen- !
gers, and one day, slipping up be- 4
hind Taggart, he placel a twenty |
dollar gold coin over each of the |
detectives eyes, at the same time 1
asking him If he could see.
"No," responded Taggart, as he /
the money. 81 can't see a |
wink
Papes started into the crowd AS
sembled, but Taggart called him |
back.
"What's the matter now ?" cried
Papes.
fPut one in my mouth, ? answer
ed Taggart, ''and / can't speak"
1t should be stated here that the
detective Papes referred TO is not
Uncle Billy Taggart, the jolly de-
tective stationed at the p. w. 4 b.
railroad depot at Philadelphia.
Another incident in which Papes
figured was as follows;
An officer or station-house keeper
had died in New York and the Cap
tain of detectives went around coli
Letting money to bury him.
Meeting Papes, the Captain told
him about the death Of the man
and asked him for dollar toward
The fund.
"What ~ blurted Papes, ga dol
ar to bury policeman ~ 4
Eyes, that's all.
Shy HerOd ~ calculated Papes,
there's tive-dollar bill. Take il
Ind plant -four more"