The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-02-18
HOW II WAS DONE.

IN this department OF mechanics was
John Clare, alias John Gilmore, .
truly scientific craftsman, who IL now
I'm temporary retirement In conse-
quence of being found in possession Of
q number of cleveriy constructed inn
plements evidently designed for use in
his cuisines"
EGilmore, who IL now . handsome.
we'll preserved man Of so, began life rs
. photographer, but for the past
thirty years has devoted himself TO
q career of crime which has not been
without its reward He is a person of
refined appearance and manners,
dresses well, and usually affects q
dropping mustache and long flowing
side whiskers of the Dundreary type,
which give him rather mild and ben
evolent aspect He first came into mo-
toriety in 1865, when he was arrested
In Baltimore for shooting and killing
Henry b Grove, was convicted and
Sentenced to death. He succeeded.
however, in getting q new trial. which
resulted in his aoquittal. For nearly
ten years afterward he was the asso-
ciate of such eminent felons as Ike
Marsh. Jimmy Hope, big Frank Nc
Coy" and Eddie Geary. His master
stroke. which gave him his unique
fame and only failed of complete sue
cess By the merest accident, was made
in 1874.
In the early spring of that year
dapper, smartly dressed, glib-tongued
young man, who introduced himself
as John Gilmore, recently Of Boston,
entered into negotiations for the pur-
chase of the premises at So Eighth
avenue, with the view of opening q
frst-class oyster and chop house He
paid %, 600 down. and gave mortgage
for $1,000, payable on Aug. J. The
owner said he would have no objection
to extending the mortgage, but Mr.. Gill
more replied that he guessed business
would be good enough to enable him
TO clear Of the mortgage The
neat day he took possession and
force of carpenters, plumbers and
decorators was set to work to trans
form the store floor into a restaurant
Business prospered, and it was wonder
full what . popular man Mr.. Gilmore
became The neighbors swore by
him. and certain timid depositors in
the New York Savings bank and the
New York County bank in the big
trownstone building at the corner Of
Fourteenth street, next door to the
chop house, even went to the length
OF declaring that the close proximity
Of such respectable man ~ Mr.. Gill
more actually added to the security of
the two institutions
Pretty soon Gilmore leased the
building at 3o3 West Fourteenth street
ON the other side of the bank building,
and opened billiard hall The billiard
room had . passageway leading to the
rear of the oyster saloon. 70 that he
had the bank building comp etely sur
rounded Toward the middle of June
. big truck drove up to the saloon door
and q boiler and 6ve-horse-power
upright engine were dumped on the
sidewalk. Jocular customers asked
Gilmore whether no was doing such .
big business that he was going to have
his oysters opened by steam Gilmore
smiled softly and said that the engine
was 70 run . dish-washing machine
and set Of ventilating fans At that
the customers said:
Contemplating man. that Gilmore
tell you, he's daisyr'
He was. I.
In due time the boiler and engine
were erected in the cellar and then
Gilmore had a double plank partition
erected across the cellar He said that
IL was to deaden the noise e tho en-.
gfne.
It happansd that year that July 4
fall ON Saturday. and that ~ this
would leave all the banks olosed for
two dsya the pohes. - ID customary,
were directed 70 exsrciss special vigi-
lansA There was NO reason Why Po-
llssaan Keller should havp hpsa sps-
LILY anxious for ~ sasu(y a lie two
- bst - h passsA y shortly
800 aSdnight on July Z HI sar