Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-29

| | families of those lost fishermen know no such pause. Their dead are doubly lost to them, i since they are not even recovered for last 1 looks and reverent burial. It is only their
 failure to return when others return that es-
 tablishes the fact that they have died.
 Rewards Offered for Criminals.
 Very Few of the Big Rewards Paid s1OO,OO for a Graduate of Yale College. From the St. Louis PoEt-D t-Dispatch.l | The reward of $50, 900 offered for the cap l ture of the gang of desperadoe who robbed | the passenger train at Winston this State on the night of July 12, is one of the largest
 sums ever offered for the apprehensions of l violators of the law in criminal records Between 1869 and 1876 the Younger bro | thers did some of the most daring deeds. Their gang included James, Bob, and Cole 1 Younger, Cell Miller, Billy Chadwell Char l ley Pitts, Hobs, Kerry, and Bruce Younger 1 Among other things, these men were wanted for the Otterville train robbery on the night of July T. 1876, when the safes of both
 the United States and Adams Express Con- panies were robbed. The two express com
 panies offered 5000 each for every man of the gang the governor proclaimed $500 re- ward for each man ; the GaIlatin Bank $5,000 for the gang the Missouri Pacific road $500 for each man; the Otterville Vigi- lance Committee $100 8 head Ste. Gene
 
 $S, 900; the Iron Mountain Company, whose train was robbed at Gads Hill, $500 man; the Kansas City Fair Association, whose cash box was taken at midday, $5, GOO and other corporations make it in all $6O, 900 on the heads of the desperadoes. After robbery at Northfeld, Minn., Jim, Bob and Cole Younger were captured and sentenced to the psnitentiary for life. Clel Miller, Billy Chad we'll, and Charley Pitts were killed outright Hobbs, Kerry and Bruce Younger were captured after the Otterville job, principally through the efforts of Morgan Roland, who was then member of the Metropolitan po- lice force of this city. Kerry was sent to the penitentiary for five years and Bruce dis charged. The express companies paid the amounts they offered, but outside of this the one hundredth part of the reward was never turned over to the men who extinguish- ed the outlaws or sent them to the penitentiary.
 There was nearly SIG, ,OOO on the head of Sam Hilderbrand, the outlaw, offered by the State County Court and numbers of fami- lies whose relatives he had killed. He was apprehended in some little town in Illinois, where his body was first duly identified, and then laid away in prison from which he will not rise until judgment day, but the men who did the work received poor pay for their time taken in the job.
 The James boys were never arrested and convicted of the heinous deeds laid at their doors. The rewards became so large, aggre- gating nearly $1O0,0O0 from the time they first gained notoriety to few years ago, that the Pinkerton Detective Agency directed their attention to it, and made outlays of money to capture the prizes. They first sent out Capt. Hull, ex-member of the Chi cago police force. He met John, the younger killed him, and was killed himself. A young man named Wisher was sent out. He made good progress, imperSonating stock man. On reaching the home of the boys, he parti- ally confded his business to deputy sheriff who was in with the gang. The result was that he was tied to horse, taken to the river and his body perforated with hundred bull let's
 The Gibson gang along the route of the St. Louis and San Francisco road became notorious for their stage robberies, and prices aggregating 5000 were placed on their heads. The men were arrested and the re- ward was never paid.
 Canada Bill and several other dare-devils worked the Eureka Springs stages successful ly, but met their match in ex-Police Officer Erskine of this city, who placed five of them behind the bars. The stage company some time ago offered $500 head, and the au- thorities andSother persons $1,000 man. They received sentences of five and ten years each.
 A man named Ladue issued $75, 1000 worth of fraudulent bonds on county in the north western portion of the State, and was on his way to New York to negotiate for the sale of them, when he was arrested by Officer Rein hart in this city in 1872. The reward of $1, ,OOO, offered by the county, was paid for him.
 A criminal celebrity was Rowdy Joe, who planned some daring robberies on trains and banks, and killed two men in Kansas and some half dozen in different parts of the country Over $5, ,0O0 was offered for his captute, which was very cleverly made by Detective Tracy and his partner in this city. Joe had S7, ,0O0 in money on his person when taken to the four courts in this city, but he disappeared when in the police quarters of that building, and has since been free man. He had been up in the Court of Criminal Correction, and before being taken back to jail he was taken to the office of the Chief of Police. From there he easily escaped.
 The largest reward ever offered was for the arrest alone of McDonald and BidweH, the forgers on the Bank of England, whosse- cured S75O 900 before they were discovered Mcdonald was a graduate of Yale College, and did the front" work, such as present ing the notes, making business transactions, &c Bidwell was as shrewd as his partner, and did the t'scratch work altering the amounts on notes. They operated at Berlin, Paris, London, Heidelberg, Edinburg and other European points. All they laid hands on were convented into United States 5-20 bonds of demand. A cashier one day when Mcdonald appeared at the window noticed that the date of the note presented had been omitted. lie Bcnt to hOIucuud dBcuG IO alter this, over McDonalds quiet but deter mined objection. With this Mcdonald dis appeared and the forgery was made public. The reward aggregated nearly $100,000, S75. 900 of which was in lump. Both men were captured, and are now serving life sem tencss at Newgate. The money was distri- buted between the captains of some vessels who were instrumental in McDonald's capture just outside of New York, the New York po- lice some consuls, and many others who jus tified their claims
 Ins 1876 reward of e2, 900 was offered for the arrest of two men who committed an atrocious murder on wealthy Scotchman- The men were traced to the United States, md were supposed to have come to Missouri. 4 circular three feet long, giving an accurate description, and fine photograph of the nen, was sent about the country by Chief Justice McCaw. Notwithstanding the in- lucement of $1O,OO0, the men were never ,aptured
 Among other large rewards put up was hat offered for the return of A. T. Stewarts body. The thieves demanded over $10O, GOO. Nearly $50, GOO was offered by the estate.
 Iittlefield, the janitor of a medical col epe in Boston, also received $10, ,0o0 for tho discovery of the body of pr. Parkman, who vas murdered by Prof John W. Webster.
 London Cats in the Autumn.
 From the St. James Gazette.]
 AS usual at the present season of the year,