The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-26
JIM CUMMINGS CAPTURED.
The Express Thief Arrested in Chicago
by a Party of PinkertOn'S Men.
Two of His COnfederates Also Captured, and
$4,000 of the Stolen Money Recovered
Cummings CODfesses lie Is Guilty.

CHICAGO, Dec. 25.-The Herald of this morn
ing prints the following: William A Pinkerton is
supposed to have left for St. Louis last night on
the Wabash road. Report has it that he was
accompanied by his brother Robert and one of
the Pinkerton agency operatives, heavily armed
and al maintaining the strictest watch on TIRES
prisoners. One of the prisoners is the infamous
Bill Cummings; the other two are his accom-
plices in the Frisco line express robbery, by
which the Adams Express Company lost from
$4,000 to 100000 The exciting search for
these men, including the arrest of the mes
senger, Fotheringham, the mysterious Jim Cum
mings letters, and all the details of great sue
csssful train robbery, eliminated yesterday in a
West-sde dwelling, where Cummings and his
accomplices were found languishing in the laps
of deceptive beauties, who were beguiling him
of the proceeds of his CRIME About $40, 900 of
the stolen money, it is said, was found on Cum
mings's person.
The capture OF Cummings, after sixty days of
the most successful lodging from the police, is
traceable to a woman. Robert Pinkerton has
been in the West almost since the robbery was
committed, having come here directly after the
shooting of Begley at the stockyards, and after
short absence he returned and was noticed on
the street in company with Charley Wappen-
stein. an ex Cincinnati detective The two have
occasionally been seen on the West Side, and
their presence there was believed to be dne to no
ordinary cause. 1t at length developed that
clew of Cummings was In the detectives hands
CORRESPONDENT at st. LOnis reported that
Cummings WAS in the tolls of frail and
beautiful woman, who, after being watched.
was observed to be preparing to remove. lndi-
cations were that she was coming to Chicago.
These indications were borne out by what took
place. The woman came to Chicago and took a
room in the West Division The closest watch
put upon her movements She had not
been here long before a man, who, to the detect
ives observing eye. was obviously disguised,
mysterionsly appeared at the house, and was as
mysteriously admitted. No one knew the man.
hut it was noticed that he never ventured out of
doors in daylight, and, even under cover of the
night, avoided contact with everybody. The
watch redoubled. and. day by dav. though
no one iDterfered, it became more apparent that
the mysterious visitor was no other than Cum
mings.
The time for a move by the detectives came
yesterday morning A picked guard of Pinker
tons men, the story goes, descended the
house and found the ST. Louis siren and the
in bed Cummings disguise laid
aside and by one of the detectives he was at
once recognized beyond the POSSIBILITY OF mistake.
The day was spent at the West-sde house
Cummings from being defiant, grew sullen, and
"Ou1V say uoGuiuS. ObEoSS Wf1S OIouSh1 W OroE
upon him. firmly and more firmly.
until he at length, in his own
words, threw up his hands" and
confessed The day was spent IN more or less
successful effort to get at the details Cum
mings was at length so FAR subdueG that he gave
up the names of his accessories and their pres
ent address in the city. These the detectives
easily secured.
Early last evening two closed carriages were
seen to pull up to downtown corner, where
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fed man got into one. Then the whips
cracked and the carriages drove rapidly off.
Both pulled up at a suburban station on the
Alton road. barely in time to catch the night
train for ST. Louis. All the party entered the
train. They We're the PInkertons, their assis-
tants, and their prisoners