The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-23

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ordered four or five pounds of nails OF
different kinds. While the clerk was
filing the order Harry stood at the
door and saw the bank Off ers and
clerks go away for their dinner A
few minutes after Adams appeared.
and receiving a signal that the coast
vas clear coolly entered the building,
locking the outer door behind him.
He found the safe key on the ledge, as
he expected, and, opening the vault,
soon stripped it of its contents,
amounting, RS have said, to nearly a
million.
II need not say hal the burglary
created a great sensation and the pc
lice all over the country were put on
their mettle by the offer Of u big re-
ward for the recovery Of the stolen
money and securities.
six months elapsed. however.
without any cew. and with the cxcep-
ton OF Captain John Jourdan. of the
New York police, nearly every body
gave it up as a bad job.
Its curious how often a mere acct
dent will put y detective on y fresh
scent, and that is just what happened in
this case. Captain Jourdan had dis
covered that a man named David Kim
ney had been selling altered bonds,
and as he was known to be a pal of
Charley Adams he jumped at the con-
~clusion that the latter had had a hand
in the burglary. Ii, found, that Kin.
ney was very ely Sc there was no
chance of working him. In the month
OF October. 1865. Jourdan and George
Elder, a weIl-known detective in his
day, were standing together on the
orner of Fifth avenue and Ffty.fourth
street when they saw Thomas Barton,
a young fellow who had just served
out a sentence for counterfeiting. On
the impulse of the moment Elder laid
his hand on Barton's shoulder, and
was surprised to find him trembling
with fear. Slipping his hand into the
fellows pocket Elder discovered that
his prisoner was loaded down with two
thousand dollars in counterfeit postal
currency. for we had no silver in those
days. OF curse State prison stared
him in the face. and Jourdan decided
to use him as n stool-pigeon in order
to capture Kinney"
"How could he do that?" was my
natural question.
Easy enough. 1t is a common
practice to use small fish to catch big
ger ones, so Jourdan obtained the con.
sent of the New York district attor-
ney TO promise immunity or y light
sentence to Barton If he would help
the police. The end OF it was that
Kinney was led by the counterfeiter
into q negotiation for bonds. and when
arrested he was found in possession Of
n quantity of Concord Bank bills and
several thousand dollars worth of
stolen bonds. Kinney being thus
caught in turn consented TO save him
self by revealing the hiding-place Of
Charles Adams. 1t had taken over
three months to secure Kinney. and
the detectives supposed thatthey 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, N. j., and thence drove to
the village of Paulsboro. twenty
miles away. They arrived between
midnight and dawn, and approached
a handsome villa standing on
the banks Of the Delaware river,
Adams was found in bed, and
being arrested, 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 furni.
ture, they next proceeded to examine
the house. finally dc m%olishing the en-
tire building. The work occupied
several days, and the neighbors were
informed that a new and handsome
villa was to be erected in its place"
did they find the bondsP" ! asked.
mot one. They knew that Adams
had bought and paid for the villa and
contents. SO they had no conjunction
in smashing every thing, but no trace
of the plumber could they find. Adams
took things very coolly. and laughed
at the police whenever approached.
Then there was q conference. The
district attorneys Of Concord and New
York got together and made certain
re, reservations to the Governors Of the
two States. The police superintendent
aud several judges took a hand in the
case. the end being that Adams, Bar.
ton and Kinney were promised their
pardon il Adams would surrender the
plumber. This being settled, signed
and sealed. Charley Adams told the
story of the burglary, and stated that
English Harry had taken for his
share over one LuuJ red thousand duL