Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-23
MONTE MANIPULAToRs
|.,rered By yigilant Officers and Ar
rested at the Muzzlc OF a Re-
y0lyer.
ne Money Packages. Monte Tools and
Other Queer Things Captured.

will be remembered, several
"a robberies have occurred
,elv on the trains of the
Mis.,gsuri Pacific and Texas & Pacific
Calls at points near this city.
For some days past officers have
oen watching the trains arriving
ere with the hope of catching two
I'm Of whom they had accu-
Ne descriptions, but the men got
Ba the cars at points distant
cm the city, walking to town and
ms eluding the officials. Special
abroad detective Robert Buchanan
ad worked the case up so well that
III pirht the coil frightened and two
3nen Robert Calhoun and John Milton
we're arrested. 1t was known
kbat Calhoun had u woman
rho was at Madam Browns, and also
hat this woman had gone to the train
night or two ago 10 meet her "lovor.n
kyith these facts i'll their possession
he officers felt certain that the men
.Fould sooner or later visit the house
there the woman stopped and kept
kigilhnt watch.
| About o o'clock last night Marshal
Farmer saw two men come ton window
Nj the house in question, and gain adj
knittanee the window being raised by
&ome one supposed to be Nellie Hay
len. the woman above mentioned.
Hrhey were the men wanted.
"a Sandy Dodd, living near by,
vas sent for to aid in making the ar
Fest When the officers entered the
house, the men jumped out of the
window through which they had en-
Hered, Calhoun making good run for
&iberty, but Farmer with drawn six,
khooter backed him into the house,
Where he was arrested. In the mean
line Milton had been captured by
EDodd and Rowin Tucker, who had
Joined the officers. When Farmer
hacked Calhoun into the house a man
blamed Ware met them and got the
&irop on Farmer, but put up his pistol
when informed of the reason of the
hrrest. Detective Buchanan was at
work at the house to
discover if possible the par
6phernaia of the monte business
used by the men and was most sue
tresslul.
Farmer and Tucker returned to the
blouse and found that Bob had COR
Failed monte cards, the thimble-rig-
yer playthings, $3.50 in good money III
(bne package aud about $500 in anoth-
br. Two other packages used in queer"
business were also found. One is done
Rip in bank style, marked on the
Wrapper $500, the top bill is SO note
hhe rest of the package 81 bills, total
En $500 package $47. The other pack
hge was marked $500, had q so note
bn top with ones below, total value
US. Searching farther the officers found
false shirt bosoms, cuffs, collars, etc,
the whole making first-class, COM
piete set of queer" tools.
Calhoun and Milton are now in jail
and it would look as if the case against
them il invulnerable. After being
tal1en to Jail Nellie Hayden visited
calhoun and took charge of such eff
fleets as he could not take behind the
bars. A paper filed with opium, which
drug Calhoun said he used, was left
|n his hands.
The robberies which aroused the of.
Ulcers of this county were those OF
West at Alvarado, who lost
$50, and "a wealthy New
Yorker at Arlington, who was
robbed of $76.
Too much credit cannot be given to
Detective Buchanan, Marshal Farmer
and Sandy Dodd for the fine work