Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-09-13
A CLEVER ROBBER.

CLERKS While the Bank IN Kobbed.
New York Sun.
Mr.. Charles Rogers, alias Rufe. was
sauntering through Twenty-seventh
street, between Broadway and Fifth
avenue, on Monday night, when In
spector Byrnes and Detective Sergeant
Handy joined him and held on to him.
Mr.. Rogers is pleasant gentleman,
but the policemen did not join him for
the sake of his conversation. Mr..
Byrnes had received letter from
Police Marshal Fry, of Baltimore, say
ing that Mr.. Rogers had been as
sociated with several other gentlemen
in robbing a bank in that city of $10,-
900. Jimmy Byrnes, one of "Rufc's"
friends, had already been arrested here,
but he had been handed over to the
Brooklyn officials for robbery COM
mitted in the Brooklyn postoflice, in
which Mr.. Rogers is also implicated.
His arrest is partially hard on Mr.
Rogers, because sojourn in the coun-
try towns, where the ''bank mob
usually operates, is at this season par
ticularly pleasant.
Mr.. Rogers is an eminent robber-
No. 1867 in the Rogues' gallery. His
functions require SO much education
and judgment that only half dozen
men have been able to play his part in
what is known rs "bank-sneaking."
There are George Carson, who, like
"Rufe," ranks A /, Jonny Jourdan,
Joe Howard, Jimmy Price and Billy
Flynn.
The bank sneaks, generally form q
''mob" of three or four, and contine
their operations TO country towns,
though they sometimes visit cities. In
country banks there is usually some
time of the day when only one or two
clerks are at their desks-perhaps the
paying and receiving tellers. The
mob ascertain the time of day when
this is likely to be the case, observe the
movements and habits of the employees,
enter the Office on business pretenses,
and get the lay of the land. The
''staller's" function is to engage the
attention of the clerks while the
''sneak" proper lays hands on the un-
guarded valuables. Mr.. Rogers is a
brilliant staller, the most successful
in the business. He has a business-like
air, is slow and easy talker, and
would be likely to get the respectful at
tention of any business man. If he
engages a paying teller in converse
ton, he starts q subject in which pay
ing teller would be especially in
terested. If he is stalling an insurance
man, he has something TO talk about
which will hold an insurance mans at.
tention.
He could engage the attention of the
smartest bank clerk in New York" q
detective said yesterday, ''long enough
for his sneak to get an impression OF
the lock to the door which leads behind
the desks. He could return with his
pals, and they could engage SO many
clerks in conversation that the sneak
could unlock the door and get the
Doodle. He has been implicated in al
such robberies that have occurred 81
frequently in the last few years. TAX,
the remarkable case of the $50, ,00(
robbery in Buffalo safe deposit com
pany, which was not discovered unit
the mob offered to return for none,
the stolen coupons and bonds. Their,
they worked a rich old gentleman 70
months, perhaps for years. They founC
out that at certain times he went to tn,
cOmpany's vaults to clip coupons. TC
get past the guard one of them took
bundle of papers in one hand ant
passed without being challenged. III
looked as if he were going to finisl
some interrupted business. The Ol,
gentleman was busy cutting off cou
poas. Something was done TO distrac
his attention, and in a second tn
Doodle was snatched from the table S
deXterously that he knew nothing abou
it.n
Country banks are most freouentl