The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-12-30
MrsLWittrOok COnfssses that Her Son
Participated in the Robbery
Made Famous by the Jim Cummings
Letters.
rhe Stolen Booty Sent to Her House
for Safe Keeping.
But PinkertOn Exoneratss Hsr from
Guilt In the Crime.
Socialists Knights Refuse to Obey
Powderly's Mandate.

TO the arrest Of w. w. H6ight, formerly O!
Leayeuworth, Kansas, for supposed COM
piicity In the B.. Louis & San Francisco
express robbery, says: Haight evidently
Is very shrewd and sagacicus fellow,
possessed of nerve and GOODNESS. He has
been here about month. He was Joined
afew weeks ago by his wife and their little
four-year-old boy. Since coming he has
heen doing some work a. . roohHg con-
tractor. He admitted to Q reporter that he
had lived IN LeSven worth, Kansas, and for
five years he was train messenger for Adams
Express company, running between st.
Louis and VInita, Indian Territory. He
said ne was discharged because he was
suspected OF apprOpriAting TO himself sew.
pany had lost. He Was discharged lssl
April. The two detectives who made the
arrest have been here FULLY three weeks
watching Haight. The arrest was moi
made until Instructions were received
from Chicago. Haight seemed much ex-
cited when the officers told HIM the crime
for which he was arrested. He denied
the charge but admitted he knew Fvther-
lnghAn, Cock and the other persons who
were arrested in Chicago and KansAe City
at the time. HaIghI had not the remotesI
idea the others were under Arrest. The
detectives, who knew the real names OF The
parties that wire arrested, asked him If he
knew them. He also said he did moi
know who committed the robbery but
would walk ten miles TO shake hands with
the man who did. lie claimed he came 10
Nashville because he beloved there was q
good chance here tor HIM TO make .
lying. HaighI's trunk was examined and
there were found q number of suspicious
papers connected with transactions of the
express company, which may have az in
f1uence in settling upon the actual perpe-
traitors of the crime. The wife and child
Of HaIght are still in the city.
4 FINE ITALIAN HAND.
A local paper says from new evidence
secured il appears that q man arrested
here in connection with the st. Louis ex-
press robbery, was not the one who wrote
The Jim Cummings letters and moved
from one point to another in Kansas and
Missouri aud finally to Chicago. as alleged
nor Yet one OF the men who boarded the
train and did the work. On the contrary
he is the diplomat OF this and similar
gangs, or in other words, "negotIetOr,'
who by fine WORK, discovers bank officials,
express messengers, and others in posi-
tIOBs, where large quantities OF ready cash
are handled, and who have weak sides t.
their character, and by his skilIful diplo.
macy hunts up Jobs by which those trusted
Officials sometimes get robbed according to
q programme of their own making. The
story Is that FOtheriDgham told the whole
story upJn promise of partial immunity
from punishment made to him, to officials
which was to the effect that he neither
Kew the actual robbers nor their where
abouts, but certain man whose name il
as yet a secret except to few negotiated
with him the plans for the robbery, which
were atterWard carried out. He did moi
appear on the scene himself, but met tbs
perpetrators of the crime about 8 O'CLOCK
and received his own and FotherIngham'i
share of the plumber. The name of THU
man and the description by which the de.
tectlVes were able 20 identity him were
given by FOtheriDgham, and from this th'
case was worked up and the man tracked
to this city, where he was arrested OF
Friday along with iNo Others who arr
suspected of being NE beis OF the g-i.
As y,t there 10 little violence txLeL
what is embodied in . we'll founded sus
picIOn against the two men, but as to TIT
other man there is now no doubt Of hi
identity. He ii was who drew FJther.
iGgham mo the scheme, aud who planned
the whole robbery, sharing the spoils. HI
is now lodged in Pinkerton's uppe
story" under strong guard, along will
his two comrades.
sAFE BEYOND DOUBT.
"We have nothing 70 tell the neWspa
pers ab ut Jim Cummings or the expires
robbery case" said William A. Pinkerto
this morning. "You fellows are 60 shar
about finding out things that We won
Interfere with you ii you viii do the sam
with US. I'll tell You this much; We hAV
Jim Cummings beyond all doubt, and "
had two OF his pals Friday aud got tw
more yesterday, besides receiving larg
amount of money. TnGt makes i've 81
rests, but none OF them weT
made on Halstead street TheI
never was q woman mixed up
the case and the cieWs e. published in th
papers never existed. We have all Il
parties safe in custody. Never mind Wherv
but they are out Of the state. No, the
} are not in ST. LOUIS, and they are Whsl
you newspaper fellows, either Lcre or |
St Louis, can't get hold of them until
get through with them and am good al
ready to let them be inteFviewed. Meth,
Superintendent Dsmsel, nor oscar Coo
, nor any detectives from s.. LOUIS are
Chicago or will fe here"
William 4. Pinkerton this afterDoC
1
arrest OF certain parties for participate
IN the Adams Express robbery. He b.
gan by declaring stories printed
Chicago papers a. 70 the affair were wi
and were mainly Misrepresentation
He then declared the agency had eYT0StC
three men here Friday forenoon, betWeS
10 and IL O'Clock. He said she capful
was made two miles distant from the Il
. terseciion Of Madison and Haisted street
A., a. ~. -.
, the letters sigpe1 "Jim Cummings"
the st. Louis papers, and the other e.
: were his coDfederates. They are posittV,
7 lY identified by five witnesses brougl
I here from St. Louis yesterday. II
, three men, together , , o. car Co, +, d
7 rested In Kansas City, and Billy HeiRh
arrested &c Nashville. PinkertOu declare
were now IA Missouri, which c4rrisg u
presumption that the three arrested he
I were taken there last night. Pi kItG
states, however, that they were moi takG
70 st. Louis. Detectives state two Of i
. men were considered as buefD 3 ma
: and none are Of q desperate type.
!. TIE DETECTIVES CHASE.
The complete details II the chase aft
she Adams express robbers, who Rifed
safe on the ST. Louis & San Francis
7 n ID on the night Of October Ash
S5S, 900 70 e60, COO. were rt1Ated for Il
fret time b. the ficiaIs Of the PinkeFtG
detective agency tonight TO 3 HepTl
sentative Of the Associated Pns-. II
agency bae sHef esded IN aITestInR a.
3 men named Fred Whftroek, Who IL q
author OF q . slim Cummsngs' - lette
. and who 10 claimed 20 be the man vi
: peEpetrsted the robbery, W. ". .Hsjgh
: An ex-emplOye cf the sxpress osmpan,
! who Il supposed 70 have sided In plaI
5 Mig the robbery from his kno SEedgs
{ the railroad ssTur, Thomas WesVer.
Chicago iaundFyman. who vas vi
]. WhIsHock before SD efteE the robbeg
! I'd Kinney, brosber-in-laW Of Whi'Hol
, upon whose person was found q ceaeil
) cradle portion Of The express money e