Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-08-12

els was on the eve Of being shipped
away from tie city. With these two
packages he made his way out Of the
office and went through the principal
streets until he reached a room which
was on Morgan, near Fourth street
In this room be remained for several
days. while the entire detective depart
menr, not only OF this city. but others,
were making a search for him While
IN this room he would walk ont on the
streets TO restaurants. but the detect
ives failed 10 recognize him After
q stay In this room Of several days
be departed for Milwaukee. It was at
this place he was captured and by
his own carelessness. He entered q
trunk. store with only one yalise
which contained over 100000, and
purchased @ trunk. lie instructed the
clerk 90 have the trunk sent TO q Ger
tain address which he gave and to
place the valise which he carried with
him IN the trunk when he sent IT,
He left the trunk store, leaving the
yallse that contained the money be-
hnid him. The clerk, in moving the
valisc must have handled 1T rather
roughly, for II came open and To his
amazement and establishment, nothing
but money Of al descriptions stared
him I'm the face lie at once notified
the police department OF the matter
and TiIler was arrested, and after only
q few minutes he was found to be
none other than the express rohber
who was so badly wanted lie was
brought back to ST. Louis, entered
plea Of guilty and was sentenced
To term Of seven years 10 the Mis-
souri, penitenuary The yalise was
fCund 10 contain nearly all the money
taken, he having gone through with
only about $4,000. After this release
be was seen no more.
In 1890 the United States postal au-
th0rites were constantly receiving
complaints from merchants through
ont the entire country that letters con
tanning money orders and checks new
or reached their destinations. The
checks In a large number Of instances
had been raised, that Is. the amount,
and by the use Of a fluid Of some kind
the check was made payable 10 bear
ct instead II an individual Inspectors
were sent out ia every direction. and
the harder they worked 20 obtain a
clew the more complaints would come
in, not only from one city, but from
dozens, which showed that q gang was
doing the work Inspector Williams
went to work on the case In this city
and after a long hunt came 20 the con
clCsion that a regular organized gang
was at work robbing the street letter
boxes, and in order to reach the con
tents on the inside they used false
keys Charles Hubbard was found to
have been one who was working St
Louis. while Charles H. Price, "hO
afterward proved 10 be Prentice I'lrr,
had been here, but had left for Detroit,
Mich Hubbard In HE stay in ST.
Louis got away with about 5000, ne
raising a number of checks from their
original figures. When Hubbard and
Price CrillcrJ were searched for they
were found missing Hubbard was
found to have gone south, AMI as
stated before. TIler 10 Detroit. Hub
bard was followed south. and az At
lauta, Ca, he was arrested with
Chgrlcs Str8ttou and Thomas Bualeu
They did not deny their guilt, and
Sratton was given a hearing and SER
teueed 20 tyeuty-oue years in the peni-
Tertiary. which be is now serving
Bualen was placed In Jail at Nashville,
Tenn, with Hubbard. and h. made
his escape in some mysterious way
from the Jail while awaiting trial Hub
bard after his pals escape was sen
fenced TO seven years in the Missouri
penitentiauy which he is now serving.
About the time of the arrest Of this
trio in the solth Tiller was arrested
at Detroit He was tried. convicted,
and sentenced to seven years in the
penitenuary, from which he made his
escape recently. He entered The pri-
son on the 9th day Of September,
1870