The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-28
PINKERTON.
His Labor in the Gum.
,mings" Capture.
SOMEADROIT DETECTIVE WORK
Cable Roads IN San Fran
oiscO-Murde-E
Detective Work

ST. LOUIS, No, 26.-Since the capture
in Chicago on Friday of three of the
supposed perpetrators of the st. Louis
and San Francisco Express robbery, the
history of Pinkerton's work in the case,
from a source which renders its correct
ness unquestionaole, has been made
public. Fotneringham was the first
person suspected, his story containing
inaccuracies. The first really useful
clue was Jim Cummings letter to the
GiObe-DemOcTdt, dated October 81, and
telling of package being found CT the
Union Depot. Among the contents of
the package was a bit of paper giving
the number OF q house on Chestnut
Street. Detectives visited the house and
learned that two men roomed there q
short time before. The room was ex-
amined and a bottle Of medicine was
found. Upon examination the clothin 2
found near the track after the robbery
was discovered, being evidence of a con
tagious disease for which the medicine
found was prescribed Dy the doctor.
Finally a man was found who said ne
had mailed one of Cummings letters
and being told by him that Fothering-
ham was in the scheme TO rob the car,
he had committed himself in his testi-
mony. These and other clues enabled
the detectives to trace the other two men
20 various places and finally TO Kansas
City, There arrangements were made TO
arrest them. The plan miscarTied. but
when the news came from Chicago of
their arrest there, the detectives at once
captured Oscar Cook, who is believed to
be implicated IN the case.
CHICAGO, December 27.-William A
pinEarfnn This Of HE
first public statement respecting the
arrest of parties for participating in
the Adams Express robbery on the St.
Louis & San Francisco Railroad. He
began by declaring that the stories
printed as to the affair were wild and
mainly misrepresentation. He de-
clared that the agency had arrested
three men last Friday afternoon. One
of the trio was the man who wrote the
letters signed Jim Cummings" to ST.
Louis papers, and the other two were
his confederates. They were positively
identified by FIVE witnesses brought
here from 81. Louis yesterday. The
three men. together with Oscar Cook.
arrested in Kansas City, and Bill
Haight, arrested in Nashville. Pinke--
ton said, the men are known in
Missouri, which carries the presump
[ EA0l Auak .N4AO1t AIEtsLG4 mere were
taken there last. The detective states
that two of the men were considered as
business men, and that none are of the
desperate type.
Complete details of the chase after the
Adams Express robber who rified the
safe on the 81. Louis & San Francisco
road. on the night of October 25th, of
$50, 600 or $4,000, were related for the
first time by officials of the Pinkerton
National Detective Agency, tonight, to
a representative of the Associated Press.
The agency has succeeded in arresting
five men. namely, Frederick Witrock,
VINO is the author of the Jim Cum
mings" letters and who is claimed to be
the man who perpetrated the robbery /;
w. w. Haight, an employee of the ex-
press company, who is supposed to
have aided in planning the robbery
from his knowledge of the railroad
run" Thomas Weaver, a Chicago
laundrymau, who was with Witrock
before and after the robbery; Edward
Kinney. a brother-in-law of Witrock,
upon whose person was found q con-
siderable portion of the express money.
and Oscar Cook, who had the Witrock
letters. The detectives have turned
up about SIS 900 and estimate that from
$4,000 TO $4,000 is still unaccounted
for