Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-24
UNRAVELING OF THE PLOT.
The Dying Denver Bank Robber
Likely to Confess.
HIS coNFeoERATEs IN SUSPENSE
Sensational Disclosures duplicating
Prominent Iowa Citizen An.
icipated-DramatioE Ending
of Life of Crime.
CLOSING I'm.

DENVER Colo, Sept. 23-tSpooial Tele-
gram to The BEEl-A dying confidence man,
attended by physician who has travelled
1000 miles in response to n telegram to come
to his bedside, watched by detectives who
note every word and action which they may
never be able to obtain again; a partial con-
fession which may make some crimes clear
and throw partial light on others men travel
ing with eager haste 10 obtain the restitution
offered for money fraudulontly obtained;
gang of swindlers trembling lest tho utter
ance of death stricken con-
federate may land them in the peni-
tentiary; regulations, never questioned,
threatened with exposure; cloud of officers
closing in on his most fearless and trusted
pall-such are the dramatic Incidents which
are now clustering around house on Curtis
street, in this city, whore lies Frank Pine, a
confidence man of international fame. The
News this morning published some facts in
conpection with Pine which have brought
out more and which now leave no doubt that
he was the man who planned the bold hold-up
of President Moffatt in the First National
bank last spring and got most of the S21, 900,
of which our famous Denver man was re-
lieved
While the officers still deny it, your
correspondent can state on the
best authority that Pine has con Messed this
much
The story 50 far as reliably obt lined is in
teroSting. Briefly stated II will be remem-
bored that last spring man walked into the
FIRST National bank, presented u revolver to
the head of President Motfatt and demanded
and received 81 900. That man was q. j.
Wells, a confederate of Pine. The two went
to Kansas City and thence TO Washington,
where, under the name of George Hail,
Pine did up a Kansas City capitalist To- the
amount of $4,000. One motive of
this last job was to divert
the attention of detectives from the
First National bank affair. Returning west
Pine went to Ogden where he was arrested
on the Washington DEAL but released. He
was shadowed and in Denver was again
placed under arrest, but being sick was al
lowed to retain his room at the Windsor. He
is dying, and prominent young Philadel-
phia physician, DR. HERSHEY, was tele-
graphed for to attend him and is now here.
He has offered to pay back the $4,000 to his
to receive the money. A gang of five conf
dence men who have operated with him
also threatened with exposure. So
also is prominent and reputable citizen of
Iowa, who is now worth 100000, who was
once confederate that did not play fair but
whose name he yet refuses to give up. Wells,
who held up Mofatt, is either in Iowa or
Minnesota, and officers are on his track with
the nope of catching him soon. Pine can
not live much more than month, and the
doctors are quite as much Interested in the
case from their professional point of view as
are the officers and detectives from theirs.
Certainly no more dramatic incidents ever
centered about death bed which at any
time may become more sensational IL the
dying confidence man should attempt to ease
his troubled conscience by telling the adven-
lures of his checkered and criminal career.