Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

fraudulent bills OF ladlng anu JULIET
pieces of commercial paper.
Barney Mcclure, when the green
goods trade was in full bloom, could
sign his check at any time for SlOO,OOO,
and it was very poor year when MS
profits from the business would not
reach 5000, 600; and even today when
the police and postoffice authorities are
making a dead set against the trade,
there are confidence men VINO make
from S25, 900 to $1,000 year,
The hackers of the policy shops OF
this city manage to get from the several
hundred offices that are run at cigar
stores, about $4,000 year to keep the
wolf from the door. Ike Washburn,
who started several manufacturing com
panies, was shown after he was arrested
to have received over 500, 600 In one
year from speculative partners who
never got any better security than
mortgages on the waters OF New YORK
Bay.
The forgers and counterfeit money
makers reap a rich harvest in their line,
but there are so many safeguards
thrown around bonds and other securi-
ties that the trade is considerably re-
stricted, and there is not as much proht
as there was when Bill Brockway and
Dave LYMAN flooded the market with
bogus bonds and money. There was
one deal in counterfeit $40 and 500 bills
that was Matched in this city that netted
Pop Aaron and mis- gan over hall mill
lion OF dollars.
The most profitable branch Of thiev-
cry is that of the bank burglar. In this
line enormous fortunes have been made
in few hours, and some OF the figures
are startling. The bank burglars have
perhaps not made so much money as the
bank wreckers, but they have generally
got a fair share of the assets.
The gang that was led by Dave Cum
mings, whose exploits as thief would
fill book, made tour OF the country q
few years ago, and they left string OF
robberies behind them that has never
been euualed. These are few OF the
places they paid visits to strictly for
business purposes and the v"lue OF the
property stolen: Devlain's jewelry safe,
in New Orleans, 100000; City Bank,
New Orleans. $500, 600; the Macon Bank,
Georgia, $3.50, 900; First National Bank,
Quincy, Illinois, $3.50, 600; San Francisco
Bank. 5000, 900; First National Bank,
Kansas City, S325,000; First National
Bank, Louisville, KY, S125, 900; Spring
field Bank, $4,000; First National
Bank, Buffalo, 100000; Falls City
Bank, $500, 900; Northampton Bank,
s325, 900; Kensington Bank, Philadel-
phia, 5000, 900; and the Reading Bank,
S495. 600. Besides these banks several
other smaller institutions were visite d,
and the aggregate plumber on this trip
reached s., 900, 900 in money and securi-
ties. There were eight thieves in this
gang. the very brightest collection ever
gathered together, and only four OF
them fell by the way. The others fed
to Europe to enjoy themselves as thieves
do from their standpoint. Then there
was the Manhattan Bank in this city,
which Jimmy Hope and his gang at
tackled and secured 50, 225, 600, though
the actual loss in cash was compare
lively small.
II is estimated that Dave Cummings
received as his share Of the proceeds OF
bank 0urglarleS dOOus SO,OOV'OOO, dnu
that Jimmy Hope has had and spent
81 600. 600 of other peoples money. The
hank burglar requires such high or
der and peculiar combination OF talents
that there are comparatively few Of
them.
The number Of successful thieves is
very large, and enough has been shown
70 indicate how much money clever
men in the different branches OF thiev-
ery have made. II they were all care
fuI business men, who made invest
msnts of their capital with care, 1t Is
easy to calculate how long it would
take a thief to save sufficient money TO
give him an income that would make
him independent. Although thieves
have the acquisitive instinct largely
developed so far as the getting Of
money IS concerned, they very rarely
think OF saving money They live only
~ the nresent. The future must take
care Of itself. There are no WEALTHY
crooks.
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