The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-28
TURNED HIS LAST TRICK
Frank Pine, the Noted Confidence Han,
Squeals On His Pals.
sae In Dying In Deaver and rells what
He Knows of y FamOus Rank Rob-
befy-A Sensational
Revelation.

Moffat of the First national hank, Is GER |
tain, and IL is now the question OF only u
few days before he will be landed behind |
the bars of the city Jail for his crime. |
Evidence which has been obtained proves |
conclusively that Frank Pine, the noted |
confidence man now lying at the point of
death i'm this city, In the man who en-
Rineered the daring robbery, and that II
was through his shrewdness the money |
was obtained , and owing to the manner
in winch he laid his plans there could be
no failure the part OF Wells, who fol-
lowed instructions To the letter. The de-
tectives in nearly every instance
took the wrong scent and il remained
for General Dave Cook, chief OF the
Rocky Mountain Detective agency. tn
show the case UP i'm it's true light, and re-
move the doubt that has Tor the past four
months surrounded the crooked transac-
ton. That Pine was connected with the
sna ssS. 'efS he Laid % sSs plans s g ssnto the
Kansas City man out of SIG, 600 i'm the city
of Washington is equally certain.
not a dollar in the world he could call his
own, and now he offers to pay back the
$1,000, together with the ss.uO eHpend.ed
to hush the matter up. He still claims
that me had nothing to do with the Motiat
neh sfass s ma. ss fsss He was in Denver
with seven members Ef his gang OF cap
agencies have said much about Wells, but
none were able to locate him until the
ofiicer remarked to a Nesos reporter that
and IL they ever dared to visit Denver he
would turn q trick that would surprise the
public. The article caught the eye Of sew
eral detectives, who changed their tack,
and Just at the time ; wnem sne S1's .s were
number of officers forge to the front. and
in a mystified manner. convey the idea
been In their possession for two months.
Strange they never took advantage OF II.
lime was Gor 10 hnyer IN snr ;ha a fsrst t;"e ms IN
| 1876 i'm company with man by the name
| of George Berry. who taught him what hc
men. but Berry was the power behind the
| throne. The first deed in which he was
mixed up i'm was the selling Of twelve cars
| OF ore at 81 900 per ton to Charles Leichen-
ring. Al that time he WAS known ~ =
gambler who seldom lost any money and
who made considerable at the green
| clothed table. He disappeared after that
turned and opened his office on Lawrence
| street. He had IA desk and u safe made OF
tin, which looked large enough to require
n locomotive to bulge il. As "a mining
dollar. SoIiar., ne sS the rsr sorrow a OF S.hers "S
At the same time he met and formed the
acquaintance of n man named Wells. who
| had n son, a scoundrel at heart, who led "a
| very fast life, and he at once saw in the
young r man GoGn eonie.ei sh. sa,hr rs
| the bank with which he was connected OF
$1,000 and fled the country, and died a
terest in young Wells and engaged him to
do his second work. Once he did wrong
i was held over his head. and ON his
managed to get him to do anything he de
sired. The two men lived i'm close rela.
last spring stranded In Denver, and an
urgent demand for money, without orr
samples to work his old game, and in dcs
I'm.
| making "a quick turn by robbing the First
National bank, and the man who robbed
David Moffat was the son of the man wht
defaultcd from the same institution thir
The case is plain and simple. Tn,
not To some look plausible, for the reason
that Pine knew better than to enter int
into ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that Pine was suffer
ing from n terrible disease which de
manded medical attention, and hence the
Pine has confessed his intimacy will
Wells, and has even located him. He i
dying; that he realizes; and he has re re
, tire affair before death. He does thi
with object i'm view. First. one of tin
men who was formerly a cappcr for hin
, betrayed him five years ago and refuses
to give him what money be- had. and goin
to Iowa turned a new leaf, leads a arcspcc'
| able life now, is immensely wealthy am
one of the most esteemed citizens of Iowa
! Pine swore vengeance. and now that d
|
, his own sins by exposing hi
old time confederate, will Ia!
| bare enormous robbery and hav
him sentenced to term in jail
Nindictive he will resort to any means
carry his point. He has use for tn
police department, and speaks very bit
terly of Inspector Hawley, who displays.
a good deal of audlacity and virtual
| spoiled the case the detectives were worl
| ing upon by taking one of the bank guard
! into his room and introducing him. Pin
laughed i'm Hawley's face and said:
"Both you men expect to live man
| years yet. / will he corpse in thiri
days, but don't think to frighten blu
= me. II won't work. Get ont of my rooI
or will take a shot at you," and the al
tective who accompanied the inspect Il
made q rush for the door like a cyclon
Several men i'm the police departmcI
have tried to W ork him, to no avail.
Pine has made that statement, and
usually keeps his word, and why sho,i
he NOS? He has known Cook since IL
and all others strangers to him. I
Mooney & Boland's detectives he does n
care n snap OF his fingers and only tall
to them to pass away time. filling the
mp with his theory of the Moffat bank ro
berry. He denies that he was implicat'
in the hold-up and refuses to state wheth
he Wells was the man not.
Another point which cannot he owe
looked occurred Tuesday. Pine has