Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-28
THE EXPRESS ROBBERY.
The CIew Which Led to the Numerous
Arrests Said to Have been Fur
DlsheJ by FOtheriugham,
The PinkertOns Claim 10 Have Made
Five Arrests and 10 Have Recovered
a Large amount Of Money.
Chicago aud 81. Louis Reporters Unable 20
Find out whore the aIen ara Kept
In Confinement.
PARTICULARS on noIaur's ARRKsr

PARTICULARS or HotGHT's ARREST.
CHICAGO, I'LL, Dec. 25.--.A special
from Nashville, Tenn, referring TO the
arrest OF W w Hoight, formerly of Leav-
enworth, Kan, Tor supposed completely
In the 81. Louis s San Francisco express
robbery, says, Holght evidently Is a
very shire d aud sGgaoious fellow, and
possesses nerve and GOODNESS, lie has
been here about a month. He was Joined |
few weeks ago by his wife and their llt.
tie four-year old boy. Since coming he
mas been doing some work as rooilag con.
tractor. He admitted TO reporter that |
no had lived 10 Leavenworth, kan, and |
for five years WAS train messenger for the |
Adams Express company, running be. |
tween 81, Louis and Ninita be said |
he was discharged because he Wac |
SUSPECTED Of approprlating to himself |
several valuable packages which the com.
pany had lost. He was discharged last |
April. Tae two detectives who made the
arrest have been here fully three weeks |
watching Holght. The arrest was not |
made until instructions were received |
from Chicago Height seemed much ex. |
cited when the officers told him the crime |
for which he WAS arrested He denied |
the charge. He admitted that he knew |
Fotnerlngham, Cook and the other per- |
sons who wero arrested In Chicago and |
Kansas City. Al the time Height had not |
the remotest ldea that tn, others were
under arrest, The detectives who |
bad been informed of the |
real names Of tho parties who had
been arrested asked him " he
knew them. lie also said he did not
know who committed tho robbery, but
would walk ten miles 60 shake hands with |
the man who did. lie claimed he came
% Nashville because he believed there
was good chance here for him 20 make |
living. Heights trunk was examined |
and there were found number of sGs-
picious psptra connected with tTRnsac.
lions of the express company which may
have an influence In settling upon the
actual perpetrators OF the crime. The
wife and child Of Hoight are still 10 the
city,
THE PRlsTH or RonBeRs CAPTURED.
CHICAGO, In, Dec. ~ From the new
evidence secured Il appears that the man
arrested here IA connection With the ST.
Louis express robbery Is not the one who
wrote the Jim Cummings letters and was
traced from one point 70 another In Kan
sae and MissoHri and finally 20 Chicago,
40 AttAtIf NV WV 0ui VI AiAN iiti N'uD |
boarded theStl In with the gaagn Of robbers
! thatdfd tho Work tIa1hs contrary he Is the
diplomat OF this and similar gags, or, IN
other words, "negotlatorn who by Que
work discovers bank officials, express
messengers and others In positions where
large quantities OF ready cash are handled
who have weak sides 10 their character,
and by his skillful diplomacy he puts up
Jobs by which these trusted officials some.
times get robbed, according TO a pro-
gramme Of their own making. The story |
liz that Fotheringhgm told the whole plot |
upon promise Of partial immunity from
punishment, made 10 him by the express
officials II was to the effect that he
neither knew the actual robbers, much |
less their whereabouts; but a certain man
whose name IL as yet secret except To a |
few who negotiated with him the plans for |
the robbery which were ailerward carried
out. He did not appear on the scene |
himself, bnt met the perpetrators
OF the crime soon after aud re
ceiyed his own and Fothorlugham's
share oil the plumber. The name Of this |
man, and description, by which the
detectives were able TO identify him,
were gwen by Fotheringham, and from
this the case was worked up, ana the man |
was tracked TO this city where he was
arrested on Friday along with two others |
who are suspected OF being members OF
the gang. AS yet there is out little evil
denoe except what Is embodied Ia the
wsll-iounded suspicion against the two
men, but as 10 the other man there IL
now no doubt as to his identity. He II
was who drew Fotherlngham into the |
scheme, who planned the whole robbery, |
sharing epOilH, and IN now lodAsr In |
Plnkerion's upper story" under a strong |
guard along with his two comrades.
PINBRRTos BLupF.
CHICAGO, ILL, Dec. "a eve have
nothing TO tell the newspapers about Jim
Cummings or the express robbery said |
william =, PiubertoD this morning "You
fellows are so sharp about finding out
things, we won't interfere with you = you
will do the same with US. III tell you
this much; We have Jim Cummings |
beyond sill doubt, and we had Two Of his
pals Friday and got two more yesterday, |
besides recovering a large amount OF
money. Tnis makes lye arrests, but
none Of them were made on Halstead |
street; never was woman mixed up IN
the case, aud the clews as
published In the papers never existed. /
We have all the parties safe In custody, |
neye mlrd where, but they are out Of
the state. No, they are not 10 81. Louis, |
and they are wiiere you newspaper iel- /
lows, either here or in St. Louis, can't
get hold OF them until get through With
them and AN ready 10 lev them be later !
viewed. Neither Supt Damsel nor Oscar |
Cook, n0r any detectives from st. Louis,
are 10 Cblcago or Will be here"
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