Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-11-18
TRACKED BY A PICTURE
Tho Clew That Led to @ Big Grim.
 inaps Arrest.
How a Louisville Detective Aided English Officers In Catching a Bank Robber He Jumped His Bail in Amer
 lea for Larger Game Abroad.

The release recently of Mcdonnell and Hill, who were the accomplices of the famous Bidweu in robbing the Bank of England of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, has a local in- terest, says the Louisville Courier Journal. Mcdonnell was once in this city, and he will never cease regrntting that visit, for it was by his trip to Louisville that he and his partners in that one hundred and fifty thousand dollar transaction were traced and ar rested.
 One day in the spring of 1871, Van kce" Bligh, then chief of detectives, was notified that a bank in this city had been robbed of one thousand dol lars by raised check. Capt. Bligh went to work on the case himself. He first went to the bank and asked to see the check. One glance at the slip of paper and he was | immensely interested in the case. It was beautiful piece of work from the | detectives point of view, one that l showed the difference between the true criminal artist and the clumsy novice. Capt. Bligh secured an accurate de. | scription of the man who had taken the check to the bank. He was soon look.
 
 | an eastern accent and the manner of a man of tho world. The man whom he wanted could speak French, Spanish | and Italian, was an accomplished mu- sician, was devoted to the arts, found | great enjoyment in the dead languages and, above all and beyond rything, was of an intensely benevolent turn oi mind Detective Bligh hunted high and low for his accomplished stranger, and finally caught him. His culture found him out The man said he was MT. Mcdonnell, of New York city. He was living in small room near the heart of the city. He protested in words of three syllables against the detective's blunt accusation, but was marched off to jail, nevertheless. Ho said it was all a cruel mistake, but Capt. Bligh soon had as good case as he wanted against the suspect"
 Hardly had the doors of the jail closed behind Mcdonnell than he sent out for lawyers. He engaged the late Martin Blur and W. L. Jackson, Jr. He told them he had plenty of money in New York city. Photographic com munications with that city showed that this was true. His friends sent word to spare no expense in getting Nc. Donne1 out. The case came up in court in few days, and the cultured stranger, whose injured air seemed born of innocence, was held over for the rather low bond of one thousand dollars. The money was furnished right away and the court issued an order to release the man.
 "Yankee" Bligh saw through the scheme with the quickness of flash. Mcdonnell was going to jump his bail. Liberty for S1,OOO was as cheap as dirt. The detective had already shrewdly gathered an idea that Mcdonnell was a great criminal, who was wanted" in many places. He felt pretty certain that the check raiser's presence was de- sired in Cincinnati. He asked McDon- nell to remain over until the next evening at eight o'clock, so that Detec- tive Larry Hazen, of Cincinnati, could come down and have a look at him. This he of the culture, many languages, and proneness to raise chealrn nernAAd