The morning call., 1891-12-31
sLY's FORMER RECORD.
Served a Seven-Year Term in Missouri
Uses Dynamite.

Served n Seveu-Year Term in Missouri,
Uses Dynamite.
ST. LOUIS. Dec 30.-'rhe leader of the
gang who robbed the Adams Express Com
pany's messenger at Glendale on the night
of November S0th. together with female
accomplice, are under arrest in San Fran
cisco, and the capture of the remainder of
the gang seems only matter of time. The
leader is Albert d. Sly, noted ex-Missouri
convict
BEGAN A SERIES.
The latest series of exploits by Sly and
his gang began with the robbery of the
Omaha street-car barns last October. Then
came the robbery of the Pacific Express
Company on the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
near Omaha, November 4th, and the Ameri-
can Express Company, near Western Union
Junction. Wis, November 18th. In all
these affairs Sly was the leader, and the en-
gine of war was almost invariably dyna-
mite. After the Western Union junction
robbery, William PinkertOu found that Sly,
in 1883 while in the employ of the Ameri-
can Express Company at st. Joseph, Mo-,
defaulted with package containing $40, 900.
MADE A BIG HAUL
After long search he was apprehendei
in California, returned to Missouri and sem
fenced to seven years Imprisonment in the
Missouri Penitentiary. He associated him
self with gang of rough burglars. their
headquarters being Kansas City and Oma-
ha. A quiet investigation was begun, and
Sly was located in St Louis a few days pre-
vious to the Glendale robbery, it being
thought he was connected with the Western
Union junction robbery
FITTED UP A HOUSE.
Chief Harrigan learned from furniture
dealer that a house on Swan avenue had
been fitted up for fouI men and one woman.
the gang disappeared from the house three
rl,l.
furniture behind them. Their baggage was
traced to the depot, thence to Omaha, where
the party split, taking different routes West.
From descriptions of the fugitives no doubt
was left in the minds of the police and the
detectives that Sly was their leader.
SLY RUN DOWN.
Friday last a man answering Sly's de-
scripton was arrested by Robert Pinkerton
in the Los Angeles Postoffice. He denied
that his name was Sly, saying it was A. S.
Denton. That clinched matters, as Siy's
full name is Adebert Denton Sly. In his
possession was found $1,000, lot of per-
sonal property and the watch taken from
Messenger Mulrennan of the Adams Ex-
p!ess Company, at Glendale. Sly's arrest
was kept quiet until to-day. with the view
of getting some of the balance of the gang.
THE WOMAN ARRESTED.
This hope was partially realized to-day,
when, as announced in the press dispatch
from Sau francisco, a woman calling her
self Florence Waterman, who, the detect
ives assert, is connected with the gang, was
arrested in that city. The officers feel con-
fident now that it is a comparatively easy
task to secure the rest of the gang Sly's
avOwed ambition is to be second Jesse
James. but aside from his daring and utter
disregard OF the rights of property, his most
| notable Characteristic is his singularly abb
stemious habits.
The other men associated with Sly In the
robbery are equally desperate and we'll
known to the police. Marion Hedpeth.
whose wife or mistress was to-day arrested
in San Francisco. was first connected with
the affair by the local detectives under
| Chief Desmond. Another man whom the
detectives want for the robbery, but who is
| still at large, is L. R. Wilson of Omaha, a