The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-02
BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE.
How RObber Slye's First Crime
Was Revealed.

/ Nv" Ao~DsA csyOo hhSS NAbnuC
Was Revealed.
A dramatic interview took place
yesterday in the Four Courts between
Adelbert Slye, tie train robber, and
Mrs. Louisa Harris, the police mat.
ron, who are old acquaintsnces, says,
the St Louis Republic. Slye then
learned for the first time BY what
means he had been run down and
captured seven years ago, when he
robbed the Am rricsn Express Co., of
S., 900 at st. Joseph, No.
" recognize you Slye," said Mrs.
Harris as she approached the robbers
cell. IL remember your face we'll.
You and my son Fred were old &C.
quaintsnces when you robbed the
American Express company of$5, 900
and then tried to throw suspicion on
my boy and have him arrested. All,
How could you subj ct to possible.
arrest, disgrace and imprisonment.j
one who had never done you any
harm? A poor boy, who was your
friend!"
The reckless robber, who h ID borne
without a tremor of the muscles of his
face the pumping process of Chief
II .rrigan and the detectives, was more
moved at this accusation tien at any
thing that has happened since his in.
generation at the Four Courts. He
changed color and his lips trembled.
81 did not mean to incriminate
Fred. Ms Harris. Upon my honor
l did not" he stammered.
"Yet, when you were given that
package Of s. 900, with lot of other
good, to give to him you destroyed J
the way bill! and pocketed the money,
hoping that the blame would be thrown
upon him and that be would be ar
rested"
"Ah, Mrs. Harris" replied the
desperate, II never thought of your
son at all. That was my 6cst wrong
sep. The sig,t of so much money
tempted me. How bitterly have
regretted it since l wou'd to God /
could exchange places with your SON"
Slye buried his face in his hands as
he said these words.
do you know how you came to be
run down and captured 90 soon for
that theft" continued Mrs. Harris.
NO." was the reply.
at was through your own wife, to =
whom you sent by mail 800 of the
monay you stole, and who, fearing
you had gotten it dishonesty, took it
to the police authorities. Through
that letter you we're tracked, run
down and sent to prison, and the
cloud that for short while threaten
ed to burst upon my sons head was
dispelled. If it had not been for that
letter and your wife's honesty, no one
knows what might have happened"
Slye was greatly affected by this
and said that he had
never known before the connection
Of his wife with his arrest for that
offense.
1t appears from Mrs. Harris story
that Slye at that time was one of the
trus'ed drivers of the American FIX
press company at st. Joseph. Mrs.
Harris son was then messenger for
the American Express company, his
run being between St. Joseph,
Cameron and Hannibal. A package
Of So, 0J0 had been given to Slye to
give to Harris, the messenger, to
carry to Cameron. Slye pocketed the
money and destroyed the way bill.
When young Harris arrived to
Cameron it was discovered through
Geographic dispatcher that the $1,000
package was missing. Harris was
asked to produce the way bill for the
sum, and replied that none had been
been given him. The subsequent in.
vestigation, of course, resulted in the
arrest Of Slye. Harris is still mes
'enger and is greatly esteemed BY his
Slye's wife, when her husband was
,ent to the Penitentiary, hid her
broken heart under q calm exterior,
and by her own hard work supported
their children. When Slye was re-
eased from the Pententiary he went
back to her, promising, with thous-
md oaths and proteststions, to reform.
She believed him. For awhile he
lived IN honest, steady life, earninga
living by making shoes, . trade he
earned in prison, but be could not
keep away from drink and evil COM
panions, and again he fell.
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