The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-09-28

ness except in the expresses and hotels,
and they have all been overloaded through
the week with people who have been driven
in from the country and we're compelled
TO seek shelter wherever they could find it.
The storm has not interfered with the
business of the Courts, so all the week the
trial of the phenomenal thieves, Ives and
Stayner, has proceeded without Interrupt
ton. 1t is wonderful thing for a robber
to break into bank and crack the great
iron safe in broad daylight, and walk off
with millions as Johnny Hope did with the
loot of the Manhattan Savings Bank; but
to steal five or six hundred miles of rail-
road, with track, engines, cars and all
their belongings while the lawful owners
stood and looked on, has no parallel in the
history of crime. Ives did not call to his
assistance any great number of people; he
used tool here and there as he found 1t
needful, but the whole of the villainous
plot was worked out in his own head till
the scheme almost reached a successful
completion.
The unparalleled cheek of the rascal is
best shown by the fact that when he had
not quarter to pay for his breakfast nor a
shelter for his head except by the suffer-
ance of a casual acquaintance who allowed
him to put little shabby old desk in a
dark corner of his office, he got out his
cards and circulars, "Henry s. Ives, bank
er," and drew small checks of fifty cents
and dollar and half against himself,
trusting to chance and luck to meet them
as fast as they came in. Four years from
the time when he swept out offices for
three dollars week he failed for twenty
millions. Just think Of it,sa penniless
yagabond getting up on nothing, credit
of twenty millions, and in Wall Street the
home of the sharps. 1t must make some
of the old operators sick as they read the
story. But the end.is not far off, The
delicate gentleman instead of riding to
Court in the Black Maria or walking hand
cuifed along the streets to deputy sheriff,
has ridden to Court in cab, and by pay
ing for the privilege has for the present al
least secured an immunity from handouts
but his conviction is certain, for forgery
has been added to his other crimes. and II
he gets a full term for each Indictment he
will be about hundred and fifty years old
when he gets out, making due allowance
for the Communication for good conduct.
For the first time since the case became
notorious, Sheriff Flack, his wife, and the
son, who betrayed his mother, were all in
Court together face to face; but they were
far from happy family. 1t is an unpleas
ant affair even to think of. because the
perjury and conspiracy connected with the
case lies right among the ministers of jut!
tice. The judicial ermine is smirched
high officers and men of repute hitherto
figure as little better, if any, than common
felons; while the son by his treacherou!
act has sunk himself so low that no mar
cares to recognize him. Sheriff Flack ha
strong political pull, but as matters lool
now, if he does not resign, the Governor
ought to suspend him from his Office, fol
if he is not deemed fit companion TO
Tammany Hall that nominated him, he Is
surely not fit company for the people o
New York whom he disgraced.
The question is often asked how it Il
that our police captains grow rich oil
twenty five hundred dollars year. Up t,
the time of their promotion they were al
poor men, but they are not captains a lon
time before they blossom out like Solomon
4. in ell his glory. 1 know one captain VIII
takes the air on Harlem Lane every after
| toon when he is not on duty, and the pal
. of trotters that he sits behind would mort
Q gage five years of his salary. The secre
! was partially explained to me by the keep
A., er of saloon. ON the Eighth Avenue, WIN
: was one of the sufferers. "Why," sale
( he, lyon can do nothing with the polio
without mouey. We saloonkeepers kno,
all about it. There is not one of us coul
5 keep open a week If the captain of the pre-
s cinct got down on us. Every month regu
v lar man comes round to me, and know
just what he wants, and he gets it ever
r time, and no questions asked. / jus
e plunk down my cash, and he takes it an
S either, and l don't ask it. There's hur
4 dred and eightY-six of us In that precinct
e and all of them have to come down. The
4 there are oyer twenty gambling houses
f they have to come down big, but it's wort
e it, for no one disturbs me now, and as fo
s the gamblers, why if there is going to be
d raid on them they always get tip froI
e headquarters, so that none who do tn
D square thing ever get caught" Two pc
q lice captains were on trial last week fo
: allowing gambling hels in their precinct
y but they proved to the satisfaction of som
o of the Commissioners that they had neve
n even suspected it, and so slipped through
The gambling houses in question were o
r Fulton street, Ann street, near the Heral
g office, and on Barclay street. near Sain
J, Peters Catholic church. All these place
have been gambling houses for generations
r They are known 10 every street gamin /
g the lower part of the city. Guards stan a
f the door sometimes chatting with tn
e policeman on duty, then cappers haunt th
IS Astor and other hotels looking out for prey
{ Anybody that has dollar to lose can fin
It his way there, but some policemen hav
: grown grey on the beat and never eve
|, heard of such thing; in point of fact, the
b are so innocent, they wouldn't know
d roulette table or faro layout from pitcl
k fork or haymow.
g A Norwegian named Olsen was arreste
in Brooklyn for manslaughter under YeI
y peculiar circumstances A week ago q gi
IS named Olsen, also Norwegian but no r,
y lation, came to Mr.. Olsen's house and, g
ii she was not feeling well, requested pc
e mission to remain. Mr.. Olsen and his will
T. gave her room and made her as comfort
II able as possible, but in a few days her sicl
is ness developed typhoid fever. The girl r,
d fused to have doctor sent for by some