Telegram-herald., 1890-07-17
CAUGHT BY A HABIT.
Some Qassr Cases N TIE Work
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Dariaz tie years tast l s@s IN the
profsssion7 / h4d s0z1e queer s-Sss-
1sa the repSISziou 0f being ~aocEy,S
ana an rezSy 70 admit that lack b2s
great deal - 90 Nlth sCeoesSfal tetec-
I've work. / have known 01zosrs .Ao
were honest. sconse ientiOls, and pains
takiaz b&l Mo alsays 1aSt missed II
II shev haa been On case for SIX
months. aud hsd finally rCn = nan
down un.il he Nss within arms length.
some one else Was sure 70 step IN and
taz the game ~ the last moment Ii -
an old saying that luck brings lack
1t was certainly trae In ny casa NV
first capture vas that OF the famous
Dick Morton, the Tennessee outlaw Of
thirty years AGO. / WAS II Nashville
when ho shot and robbed TWO men on a
highway forty miles distant l was
then on the Cincinnati force and was
interested In getting close description
OF the man. Any description you may
give of = particular man will apply 20
dozens in general way. Dick was
about six feet high. brown hair. blue
eyes. sanly whiskers, etc. Tho only
real point was in his manner OF speech.
1t was said that he always rolled his
eyes upward when beginning SEN
tcnce. He did this on the adviee'of an
old woman 20 break himself Of the
habit of suffering. and il wa$ success
just q week after left Nashville I
was in Evansville. Ind. As sat in the
Office of hotel a man came II and reg
istered, and when he answered the in
quiry 0; the landlord up went his eyes
When had seen him do this three or
four times ! began TO compare him
point for point with my description Of
Dick Morton, and in five minutes | was
satisfied that had my man He had
been shaved, had his hair cut, and woro
suit of black, but there were some
things he could not hide. The little
finger on his left hand was of to the
first Joint; he held his head cooked TO
one side when listening 10 you. and his
right foot toed in IS he walked. l
made no move until after dinner. Then.
as he came out of the dining-room [
held him up with the muzzle of a reyol-
yer right against his breast and
the landlord put the handouts on him.
Then / called lhe local officers and
turned him over. He had two pistols
and knife on him. and his wallet
panned out over 81, 600. At this time
moro than one hundred men were
looking for him in Tennessee
and Kentucky, there being a re-
ward of $1,000 offered for him dead
or alive. 1t was luck, SO far as our
meeting IN Evansville, but had / not
caught him as did, and in the way
did, the affair would have had differ
ent ending. He was going to settle his
bill and take boat down the river. and
once outside the hotel he would have
killed any man who dared approach
him.
In the second year of the war o young
man named Cassius Phillips. cashier in
o State bank in Chicago, skipped out
one night with about $3.50 1t so
happened that / was off service then,
doing bit OF work for Uncle Sam, and
was asked to take up the embezzlers
trail had seen him in court about a
month before, where be was witness
in case His popularity was his voice.
While he was q big, bewhiskered fell
low, his voice was as light and thin as
woman's. He had thirty hours the
start OF me and had left no trace of his
trail Having learned that he was al
ways talking about a life in Paris,
sot out for New York in hopes to hear
something of him at the steamer Office.
he had not been seen, nor had he been
among the passengers sailing for any
foreign country the day before.
argued that he had fingered on the
way somewhere, and would yet turn up
In New York l had been there three
days. and was going up Broadway one
afternoon in a stage when there was a
jam. A stage coming down locked
wheels with US, horse was thrown
down, and amid the excitement heard
thin, piping voice crying out:
why don't you do somethins2 We
shall all be killed before we get ont Of
this tangle!
The voice belonged TO a good-sized
man on the outside OF the other stage,
and l spotted him in an instant for
Phillips. followed him TO his hotel,
and from thence to the Office of the
French line of steamers, and after he
had, purchased a ticket ! stated the case
70 the superintendent Of police, and had
bin arrested and held until the neces-
sary papers could be had. 1t was
Phillips sure enough, but how changedl
tie had sacrificed whiskers and
mustache. He had dyed his eyebrows
and has his hair shipped short He had
changed his fine clothes for an ordinary
suit and his beaver for a soft felt 1
might have sat aud looked at him for
two hours and failed to recognize him,
but his voice had given him away.
In tho fall Of 1868 = paymaster belong