The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-13

49, III 10 4 question which
49, IL fully discussed
would be to 20 into
&aW the ethics Of crime
So" without md You
must always consider the motive Of crime.
Burglars. You must remember, have always
one motive, the wrongful acquisition OF
property, while murders are committed
from q thousand and one motives. Burg
lars as n rule will not commit murder I'M
less driven to it in self-lsfense. Tho burg
lar must Of necessity be audaoious, cunning
and secretive to a certain extent. OF
course, he usually has his pals or accom-
plices who are in his confidence. Tho
career of an expert burglar 10 u we'll rounded
succession of skillfnl crime. Take the
notorious Mike Kerrigan, alias John Dobbs.
He is over 60 and one of the most accom-
pltshed burglars in the country. He WAS
bon and brought uu in the slums OF the
Fourth ward; started ont in life a. a pick
pocket; was afterwardc connected with Patsy
Conroy, Larry Griffin, Denny Brady. Pug
sey Hurley. and other notorious river
thieves. Later on he became ono OF tho
most expert bnnk burglars in America, be-
ing known in every large city in the conn
try as a frst-olass workman in his line.
His associates were Charles Adams, alias
I4angdon; w. Moore, George Mason. aims
Gordon; Big Frank Mccoy. old Bill
Meagher, Fairy Mcclure, and, in fact,
MI the best men in the profession. He has
been engaged in almost sill the i'm ~portant
bank robbsries which have occurred in
this country during the past quar-
tor of a century. He was impli-
Gated in the robbery OF the Dexter
bank, Of Maine, and the murder of tho
cashier. He escaped from the state prison
at Weathersheld. Conn, but was rearrssted
in Philadelphia while attempting to sell
bonds stolen from the Manhattan Savings
Institution in New York. Now, doesn't
such = career show indomitable energy and
nsrve2 Or take ''Fairy" MCGUIRE, one of
the most daring and desperate thieves in
years sentence in Bangor, Me-, also i term
in Clinton prison in this state. He was II
slippery fellow and managed to slide out Of
several very tight places. He was arrested
in 1881 in front of No: 50 Nassau street.
ths store, and while looking in tho window
was approached by Mcclure, who began
talkinR loudly, thereby giving the men OF the
inside a chance to escape. Hs was arrested
TOR various o~ffenses, bat managed to worm
put Of each ones but at last was tried and
convicted on three indictments, one for
burglary and two for relonious assault. He
was on Oct. Is. 1881. sentenced to ten years
in Trenton prison on each indictment, max
ing thirty years in all. The picture We
have of Mcclure was taken in 1881 and is
an excellent likeness. While burglars will
not hesitate to commit a dead Of violence
they are towards in tn Q presence of the po-
lice.
"As to murderers. Are they born? No;
that 10 a foolish idea. Murders CONS about
through conditions AZ any other crime. A
man commits murder from motives of re-
will indicate the Characterization of the muir
derer. Probably the worst cass I've han
died was Unger's. You may recall the Dir
cumstances. UnQer murdered Bohls, his
fellow-workman and room mate, in anu
airy, 1887, cut his body in eight pieces,
threw the head in the river. In twenty
four hours from the time the Trunk was
opened in Baltimore we had the murderer
behind the bars and a confession from him.
brought about by our own methods. We
nave the hammer, razor and butchers saw
with which the deed was done in our cham
her of horrors. Unger broke down
in the most uitiable fashion when he
confessed. So did McGloin, the
murderer of Louis Hunier. The
latter was an inoffensivs Frenchman, who
kept a saloon ON West Twenty sixth street.
A number of thieves entered the saloon on
the morning of Dec. 10. 1881. They were
surprised by Hanier, and one Of them shot
him. / found that on the 18th Of Deem
ber a young man, who gave his name and
nddress a. Evans. No. 432 West Thirty
second street, had pawned Il ak shooter in
q Ninth avenue pawnshop. This revolver
carried bullets OF exactly the same calibre
as the one with which the murder was done.
Othe evidence established the fact that the
'Evans' who pawned the pistol was
Michael McGloin, an ex- convict and leader
of a gang of thieves. They owned a horse
of goods from the sidewalk in front
Of dry goods stores. One of
our detectives disguised succeeded in
getting into the good < aces
of the proprietors of the robbers rendez-
vous and loitered night and day about the
place. BY my orders. one night while he
WAS inside with the gang, another detective
entered the place and posted up a notice
offering $500 reward for the arrest and con-
viction of Hanier's murderer. The dis
guised detective pretended to be DOING in
n chair near McGloin who asked Bantield,
one of the gang, after the other detective
left the saloon: Did ! weaken or turn
white when the bill was hung up?' No.
replied Banfisld; Mike, you've got a hell of
n nerve.' But his nerve deserted him when
he was brought to headquarters, and
through the window saw his accomplioes
marched around the yard. And when the
pawnbroker will whom he pawned the pis-
toll walked in the room and laid it down on
the table without a word, McGioin gave
way"
Then there was Chamberlin. the Now
Haven murderer. He was alert, keen and
audacious; and Taylor. who was also from
New Haven. The latter looked like a theo-
logical student. but he was a murder for
all that.
"Forgers as a rule are clever. wsll-appear-
ing men, often Of good education and e1-
cellent engravers. George ilngles. the two
Bidwells and Mcdonald went TO England
III 1871 with the intention of carrying out
gigantic forgeriss on an elaborate scale.
They began operations in Liverpool, where
they obtained Sc. 900. With this capital
they proceeded tn Londo and opened n
banking business and commission house
for the discounting and shaving of CON-
meroial paper. Mcdonald organized the
firm under tho nanls of Warner & Co."
They did q swimming business for y time,
but women with whom Mcdonald
md the Bidwolls became sntun-
nled gave them away. Iiugles ia
dend now. Charles Becker was another
noted forger. He was n very clever en-