The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-11-27
About Dan Seybert.
now DETECTIVE HOLLAND CAME TO Re
EMPLOYED TO FERRET HIM OUT AND
BRING HIM TO JUSTICE.

A correspondent of the Ne,cs Dealer,
writing from Seybertville' under date
of Nov. 2lst, gives the following in
formation about well known charac.
ter:
Dan Seybert and his brother John and
their gang had the name of robbing
the country round for twenty years
past. John was shot in the back after
having escaped from the Jail at Blooms
burg, where he was awaiting trial for
stealing horses and mules, and it is al
legged, killing them and feeding parts
to large drove of hogs belonging to
his brother Dan, and peddling the rest
through the country, telling the people
that it was buffalo meat imported from
the West. After being shot and find
ing that the wound was bad one he
went to Wilkes-Barre, and under an
assumed name died in the hospital
Doctor Walton was the next to die,
leaving Dan alone. He then looked
around him for other tools and he
foand the notorious Abe Whipple, who
had just been liberated from the East
ern Penitentiary,where he had already
served three terms, and who was look
ed upon as a professional horse thief
throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and New York.
Seybert furnished Whipple with a
house 20 live in and horse and wagon
to skirmish with. Grain cribs, stables.
and smoke houses were robbed all the
way from Pittston to Wlliamsport
aud the farmers becoming alarmed
for the safety of their horses concluded
to try to break up the gang, and
Detective Charles Holland was EN-
ployed to work up the case Holland
secured employment from Seybert and
would hav continued in his employ
but Seybert's bousekeeper said that
there was something wrong about Hol-
land; that she knew he was not work
ing man, that his hands even were not
those of laborer, and that she could
not sleep while he was in the house.
After hearing this Charlie knew that
he must try the case from another
standpoint, and one night the detective
told Seybert's men that his feet were
frozen, and with lotion known only
to himself, he made his feet look as if
they were frozen. He had met Whip
pie and after fixing his feet told Sey-
bert he would 60 and visit Whipple
until his feet got better. He secured
board near Whipple; and by the time
his teet were well he han the inside
track of all that was going on. He
never tagged in his work. Money
could not bribe him nor threats fright
en- him, and now as result of his
good work Whipple is in prison for six
years,and Seybert for ten months. with
a true bill for burglary awaiting him
when his term shall have expired
There is great rejoicing over the bre ak
ing up of this gang, that has for
years robbed thd honest farmers here
abouts, and there are still few more
thieves in the neighborhood of Hobbie,
and it is hoped that Holland will eth
er imprison them or drive them out of
the county. A statement will soon be
sent to The Neaos- Dealer from the
notorious George BEEN, alias Capt.
johnson, at one time member of Sey-
bert's gang, and at present serving a
term of twenty years in the state pris.
on at Trenton, n. J. BEEN will tell
where the stolen horses were sold, and
all about the gang.