St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-03
The SMELLS ARE IN.
a Batch Of Real High Toned
Crooks Have Come to
Town.
The Narrow Escape Of a
Prominent Texas Repub-
lican Politician.
The Sunday Crusaders Have
the Supreme Court With
Them.
The Lyeeum Stage THIEF Is
in Limb0--A Bold A6-
duetor.

From all appearances Minneapolis is
The mecca for all the crooks of the
country. Yesterday fully two dozen of
the worst crooks in the country arrived
in the city and scattered around looking
for soft places to work. The Chicago
contingent were in the majority and
from the number It would seem that
the Windy city had vomited forth all
her scalawagS. Among the more
celebrated crooks from Chicago are
Minnie DAILY, the handSOmeSt and
best dressed confidence woman in the
country. She interpOSed her magnih-
cient physique and diamonds upon MIN
neapoliS Yesterday morning ana win
her was her husband and stall, the
well known "Clabbv" Burns. Minnie
DAILY has had enough victims on her
string to fill a church yard with COM
Portable array of sOmber slabs and she
is all primed to swell the list at the con-
Vention. Nora Heating and Minnie
May are two pretty and well dressed
young women who are known In Chi.
eagO as the cleverest kink OF "dlpS.
They are also in the city ana
were seen on Nicollet avenue last night.
each having in tow well dressed
The we'll known shell" game man,
O'Brien, who. because of his penchant
for playing roulette and blowing in his
victims money, has been given the sig
nificant if not elegant sobriquet single
o." is also here. He will find dry pick
ing, however, with his ''Shell'' table, for
the police will not stand his work.
"Soapy'' Smith, the soap fakir, is in the
city, though it is hard to tell what he
will do, unless he falls foul of the gas
pipe system. Among the st. Louis
crooks are Harry Hanly, Chris Moore
and Wallace Healy, all three confidence
men of no mean merit in their line.
Mai. Norton, the long, white-haired
politician from Texas, had narrow
escape yesterday afternoon. A conf
deuce man from Cincinnati, one of the
finest by the way. who sports dis
tinguished pair OF side-whiskers and
white Harrison hat, got the major dur
ing the afternoon ard talked politics to
him. The ICON" man represented that
he was a delegate from the Seventh
district of Indiana and made quite an
impression on the major before he
got through with him. A local de-
tective who knew the Cincinnati crook
quietly gave him 10 understand that he
would have to let Maj. Norton and
everybody else alone, so he withdrew
from the field crPStIallen, but by no
means vanQuished. The crack detec-
tives of the city force are stationed at
the West: also several Sleuthhounds
from Eastern cities. Among these is
James Stewart. pOstOfice inspector of
the Chicago department. Stewart prob
ably knows as many crooks as any de-
tective in the country, and will be able
to hold up his end Of the business IN
capable manner.
it is well known fact that, through
the kind Intervention OF the Republican
members of the city council, the police
force is inadequate to the emergency.
The superintendent, however, is deter
mined to do the best he can under the
circumstances. and last night he issued
a sort OF a manifesto, in which he asks
the citizens to keep a sharp eye
on their premises and belongings.
1t behooves all business houses, he says,
TO protect their places to the best OF
their ability and to by no means leave
them without some kind of protection.
The police department will, he says, do
all in its power to protect property and
bring Violators of the law to justice. but
1t is contrary to the law of nature to
accomplish everything without suffic-
lent means, The aid of the people is
necessity.