Nevada County picayune., 1888-08-01
A Detf ctiVe'S Story

'i'e waking up Washington street, Boston last week. encoun- tered we'll known New York de- tectlve, who said he was going to the Massachusetts State Prison at Char lestown, and invited me to accomua- ny him. We were, of course. speed- ly admitted, when the detective had a mysterious interview with two of the convicts.
 At the invitation of the warden we subsequently y made a tour of the ! prison. h the she shop my detect tive friend called my attention to a pale-faced man who was bending oy- CT begging machine.
 That was Charley Adams" re- marked the detective while we were in ou! train to this city. though he is better known to the police as Ian don w. Moore, He is one of the most skillful bank burglars in this country"
 "ls he in now for robbing a bank l asked.
 Yes. He and gang broke into the Cambridge Bank in 1880, and he Is now serving out sixteen years l sentence. He will be out during the summer of 1892, owing to the communication for good behavior. and we will have to keep our eyes open after that.
 Why. he ia quite gray" said l. "Is he not too old for any more crime!"
 Thieves like him are never to old for work. Adams was borne in 1880 and has spent half or the past forty years in prison. He always aimed at getting big blunder. He got so much once that the authorities were afraid to prosecute him.
 Well you must remember that at the close of the war there was an i'm mcnse amount of money invested in Government bonds. Adams and pal of his enptied the safe of bank and carried off nearly million. When arrested he gain his liberty by surrendering the greater part of his booty.
 The Concord bank. of Massachu- Sctts had for its president MT. George Haywood, who was also the cashier of the County saving bank. and he kept all the securieties be- longing to the latter institution in the vault of the Concord Bank. All of the merchants and most of the farmers in that ncighborhood had bonds on deposit in the vault for safe keeping, though, as it turned ont, they could not have chosen more convenient place for the burg lars.
 "A man named Harry Howard, but more commonly known as 'En- glish Harry was we'll known and very skillful burglar, He had met Charley Adams while they were in prison together for bursting into diff fercnt banks. In the early part of January, 1865 he happened to be in Concord, when the idea struck him that the bank might be safely crack ed. On the impulse of moment English Harry entered the bank and requested change for hundred dol- lar bill. Mir. Chesclr. the teller de- clincd to give it, not liking Towards appearance.
 "This only angered the ex-convict and he at once proceeded to Farm iugham. where Adams was living on his farm The result of their con ference was that week after Adams called at the bank and open negota- tiations for some 7-30 United States bonds. Having his eyes open he he soon discovered that the cashier kept the key to the vault on ledge near inc door. and was also foolish enough to have the combination on q paper besides it,
 Adams and Howard then began working out plan for robblng the ,oult They first took an impression of inc lock on the outer door, ana .ert if to New York to have a key made, Fifteen days and n'gh'S elapsed before they got the Key to Ut and nearly three months elapsed be- fore they could reach the vault safe.
 Even then they were foilsd' for when the two men entered the bahN ope dark. rainy night, they diseov-
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