Morris tribune., 1886-12-29
JIM CUMMINGS RUN IN.
1nr aAhDlT e. t4O ROBBED THE
ADAMS EXPRESS

Run to Earth at Chicago and Gathered
in with Two of His Pals-A Clever Cap
turc by the Pinkertons-Fair and Fran
Woman an Unconscious Assistant OF
the Detectives.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-The Times printed the
following, Saturday morning:
1.-TWO mouths ago this evening an Adams
express-car attached to train on the st.
Louis and San Francisco road was entered
by a daring highwayman and robbed of
$4,000, and yesterday Pinkerton's National
Detective agency arrested on tho West side
the man vino committed the act and two OF
his pals who participated in the robbery.
The capture is one of the cleverest ever
made i'll the annals Of crime, and the un-
raveling of the mystery that surrounded the
robbery bears out the reputation OF the
agency whose operatives have quietly and
etfectually shadowed the train-robbers. The
guilt of the men under arrest-one of whom
is Jim" Cummings, who bound and gagged
the express messenger, Futheringham-is
proven beyond all reasonable doubt, and
about 5000 was recovered, being
found on his person, while he was
squandering laviShly his ill-gotten gains with
one of the demi-monde who was resident OF
q house Of asSiguation on the west side. The
details of the arrest and the names of the ac-
completes Of Cummings are not known to
more than half-dozen of Pinkerton'S
Shrewdest detectives, and as the prisoners
were taken to St. Louis on the early train
last evening by William A. Pinkerton, Rob
ert Pinkerton, Charles Wappenstein, and
others, no information as to what part they
played prior and subsequent to the robbery
can be ascertained
For the same reasons the details of the
capture sire not public property, but 1t is
known that Robert Pinkerton, the New
York manager and head of the agency, came
to this city about three weeks ago. His
clear-cut features were seen around the
haunts of his boyhood days, and to any one
who was inquisitlve he gave the reply with
characteristic urbanity that he had simply
come up to see how my brother Billy was
getting along He stopped long time,
however and was observed in close consulta-
ton with some of the shrewdest of the Pink
erton staff. Finally the secret leaked
out amoug a select few that they
were OH the track of Jim" Cum
mngs AMI his confederateS Robert Pmker-
ton and his men had traced him all over Mis-
souri, and Kansas, and in his Investigations
Pinkerton made the discovery that Cum
mings had been keeping company with dis
reputable woman in ST. Louis She was
handsome, and Cummings had become infat-
uated with her, but after the robbery he was
careful to keep away from her for time.
She was kept under a close watch, however,
and for month no progress was made. At
the end of that tina Robert Pinkerton was
informed by one Of his operatives that the
woman was preparing to coma to Chicago.
This aroused the suspicious of the cunning
detective, and not only was she accompanied
here by QUE of his men, but Mr.. Pinkerton
also followed close in her wake.
ARRIVING in this city Cummings lady
friend was located in the west side aSsigna-
tion house, and she could not make a move
without being Swallowed. About three weeks
ago the expectations of Mr.. Plnkertou and
his subordinates were realized, when Cum
mings joined his lady friend AMI began his
carousal. Cummings seemed to suspect that
something was wrong, and was afraid of
daylight, and he seldom if ever left the house
except after dark. When he did so he was
never lost sight of by the detectives, who did
not want to arrest him until they ensnared
his partners. They let him play his string
OUT and when they had the accomplices
in Pinkerton's sweat-box they yesterday
afternoon went to the assignation house and
found Cummings with his woman. He and
the woman, too, were taken quietly to the
Pinkerton establishment on Fifth avenue,
and whether or not he made a statement
is not known. On being searched nearly
s., 1000 was found on him, and this Is sup
posed to be part of the plunder.
Last evening three hacks drove up to the
agency Office. A few minutes later, Cum
mings, handcuffed, and in company with two
of the Pinkerton operatives was hustled into
one of them. The party was driven to the
Twenty-second street station. The PinBer-
tons wishing to observe secrecy did not go to
the Union station, and therefore went to
Twenty second street, where they took their
prisoners on board the Alton train and went
to st. Louis"