Nevada County picayune., 1888-08-01

before doing so.
 If there is anything I admire about these big bank burglars it is the pcrtinacity with which they con- duct their operations. Having vast ed four months Howard was dispos- ed to give it up, but Adams insisted upon making another and bolder at tempt.
 'Onc bright, sunny day, How ard drove up in front of hardware store, nearly opposite the bank. He was dresse like q country farm hand and ordered four or five pounds of nails of different kinds. While the clerk filled the order Harry stood at the door and saw the bank officers and clerks go away for their dinner. A few minutes after Adams appear ed, and receiving signal that the coast was clear, coolly entered the building, locking the ou CT door be- hind him. He found the safe key on the ledge, as he expected, and open ing the vault, soon stripped it of its contents, amounting as 1 have said to nearly a million.
 l need not say that the burglary created great sensation and the po- lice all over the country were put on their mettle by the offer of bix re- ward for the recovery of the stolen money and >ecurietles.
 'Six months elapsed without any clew and with the exception of Capt. John .Jourdan. of the New York po- lice, nearly everybody gave it up as a bad job
 It is curious how often mere ac- cident will put a detective on fresh track, and that is just what happen in this case. Capt. Jordan had dis that man named David Kinney had been selling altered bonds, and as he was known to he pal of Char lev Adams he jumped at the conclu- sion that the latter had had hand in the burglary. He found that Kin ncy was very 'lly.' so there was no chance of working him. In the month of October. 1865, Jourdan and George Elder, we'll known de- tective in his day, were standing to- gether on the corner of fifth avenue and fifty fourth street when they saw Thomas Barton, young fellow who had just served out sentence for counterfeiting. On the impulse of the moment Elder laid his hand on Barton's shoulder, and was sur prise to see him trembling with fear. Slipping his hand into the fellows pocket Elder discovered that his pris- oner was loaded down with two thousand dollars in counterfeit pos tai currency, for we had no silver in those days. Of course State prison stared him in the face. and Jourdan decided to use him as stool-pig- con in order to make the capture of Kinney.
 "How could he do that;" was my natural question.
 Easy enough. It is common practice to use small fish to catch bic ones. so Jourdan obtained the consent of the New York district at torney to promise immunity of light sentence to Barton if he would help the police. The end of it was that Kinney was led by the counterfeiter into a negotiation for bonds, and when arrested he was found in pos session of quantity of Concord Bank bills and several thousand dol lars worth of stolen bonds. Kinney being thus caught in town consented to save himself by revealing the hid- ing place of Charles Adams. It had taken over three months to secure Kinney. and the detectives supposed they were near the end, but they soon discovered their error.
 In January, 1866, Captain Jour dan and George Elder, accompanied by four or five policemen, proceeded to Camden, x. l., and thence drove to the village of Paulboro, twenty miles away. They arrived between midnight and dawn, and approached a handsomd villa standing on the hanks of the Delaware river. Ad- am was found in bed, and being ar rested. was carried off to New York by the Captain, Elder and the rest remaining behind to search for the stolen property. You will stare when l tell you that, after tearing up the carpets and breaking the fnrnl-