The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-06
Thieves Die Poor.
w York Mail &nd Express.

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"About thieves who s:ole fortunes and
died poor, ell? Come to think, so /
did. But say? wouldn't the other
kind do; them that stole and kept the
money? No? Take more stock in the
other gang? Queer! Well, sit down
and let me think" And tEe old de-
tective pushed chair over ta the re.
porter and filled his pipe, with sigh
that sounded good deal Ikea growIe
Seems to- me-" he resumed a,little
ungraciously, "you ought to be satis-
fled with what you have had in chat
line lately. 1T isn't but week or
to two ago 9ou were writing the
obituary OF the king pin OF that gang,
who died som'eres up in Massachus
setts. 'Plin White was the boss thieS
Tor cheek as weA as for luck, as one
might know, for he is newspaper
man from the start. and it was when
he was druv out of the business that
he taught on to the Boston suckers
and showed his metM Plsn was the
boss swindler and rp' mistake. He
was she only man Fever LTeew who
robbed man twice OF all ne had;
ruined him the first time; and cleaned
him out the next; all ui,der the guise
of friendship. When he stole he
jumped, it-there never Was a
mean hair in Pins lead
and wenp for stake of 100000, Or
$50, 900 cr $50, 900 if funas~were low.
Pm blamed if don't believe he stole
a couple OF millions in his time. and
yet he died poor. Where did it all go
to? You ask me too 1nuch. One
thing | can'5eil you, very little went
back to it's owners. Some of: it wigs
lost in the flood that swallowed sp
his fowl farm on that louisiana Is
land, where lis' had fortuneirveste5;
doubtless much of it was 'blcWn I'M"
at faro. That's the way niner tentlis'
OF all stolen money goes, and that's
how gamblers live. TO my mind 'thas
Is the principalebiection to gambling
you bet your money against thief S..
put up by his lSznkers, and the frances
are not even.
1.-THE real thief iSn't the mars that
steals, but the one who puts un for
the tools, and takes the profits. but
none OF the risk. He is the fellow who
gets rich at the t.ssiness. The others
iie'poorer than rats. in jai! or in their
boots, according 20, their luck ocr to-
5he. whim OF theirnnBster, whoseslave
they are, even The best of them.
George Howard WINS one OF them. He
vas q regular mechanical genius snd
Ii IL H.
their mechanism and the way to over
come it Cor months'and months in his
room, before he woiilc5 tackle the job
When he was shot Gown in a row with
the rest OF the gang uN III Winchester
county, hedidn't leave cent, so far Is
anybodT ever heard though he hehadstcLt
erachousanos. Idon esuppose smart
er chief ever lived til &n Jessie A Ian, one
of The. Allan family the New Yorks
know so well. He stole more moneg,
than wosald have made any man COM
fortablv sieh before seWas found dead
at5strailroad depot, with kit OF bur
glars. tools beside him, stricken dowrg
by apcplexy or heart disease, Just as,
he was looking at a 9s,- He had just
got out OF the Ohio panltentiary, alter
serving ont a seven years sentence.
No money was ever found after him,
and Ter good reasons-he didn't have
any. There was tatak burglar shot
over IN Jersey when re was blowing up
u SAFE John Hughes, was his name,
and ha gambled away nore'n one for
tune IN New York. but for all that
enough money to bury him decently
couldn't be got together.
Big John Garoty, the second story
thief. Who fell through stair hole in
q house on the hill ever in Brooklyn
and was killed, with his arms tull OF
rich silver wedding presents, was as
poor as Jobs turkey He was clever
4 at tEa trade, aud nod ruined scores
| OF nnar. When he escaped from Sing
| Sing once he did it sG neatly that his
/ Keeper never COULD find out how till
| tate sent him back to- show them and
| havs d laugh at theirexpense. There's
! lots of other thieves that die in their
I boots. but these wilk do. Just let me
I co,iGut in jim Casey, who comes to
my mind in that connection. jim
/ WAS a bank burgla y and good one.
Ellen, his wife wss a trump, too.
i LIZ the July riot N 1871, when She
was q pickpocket on Eighth avenue,
SlIc " 6tS Sllo1 III kISC ltp, anu III ilie
: hospital they fols,sd twelve pocket
books and purses 'n her clothes. jim
4 and her worked tie racket together
\ for all they were worth till Jim WAS
q shot dead by Tom Mccormick, his
r pal, IN Twenty seventh street salcon
in an argument about sharing the
Doodle from Philadelphia bank they
had cracked. That busted the tia+n,
and no assets were found to adn.Snis.
trate on. jim had 'blowed it ira at
faro The old woman is stealing il,
England now-i:she isn't in jail.
i ''Tommy Stalks who stole $4,000
in government bonds-good as goId-
from an edltorrin this town, was pardt
oned out OF tho. Charlestown Heniten-
tiary couple. of years ago., blind,
parylized, and without penny O.,
friend. l suppose he is deaaI now
Dutch Heinrich, who worked with the
best OF them.a and helped to steal ilnil
lions, got silly from drinking and bum
ming, and died in a madhcuse i'll Ger
many. Theme was q chap they used
to call the king prop mans'. from the
handy way he had Of gsttinl
away Vatih gentlemens- props,
which IS, to say pins. His
real mama, WAS William Eoger alad his
ALA, Boils. They had to, scrapa to
. gether snfew pennies on the sly DO bury
him. harwin Carr, who, was one o
; the thMea' that got away with 5000,
900 in hard cash froms the house OF s
! Mr.. Moore on Madison n.avo,a,e, is bur
,, ried in p@tter's field. He died a luna
4 tic IN Btackwell's Island Troy Den
mis-, who was one Of his two pals il
tha.job. was killed while robbing ;
house, in Thirty fourth street, and th
! Other, Bill Nosburgh, had fallen to tn