St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-19
Chicago Yields Up the Mer-
chants Bank Thief.
GAMBLING WITH THE PlUNDER.
His Identity Fully Established
by a Globe Portrait.
LITTLE MONEY ON HIS PERSON.
Willing to Return Here With
ont a Requisition.
BARK OFFICIALS MUCH ElATED.

Two OF the men who took part i'm the
robbery OF the $1,000 bag of gold from
the messenger OF the Merchants bank
Monday are under arrest, and by this
noon it Is confidently expected the other
two will be in custody. AS soon as the
officials of the bank learned of the rob-
berry the case was placed in the hands
OF the Pinkerton agency. and the re-
suits thus far show this move was an
excellent one.
Supt. Weber, in charge of the Pink.
erton agency in this city, received u
telegram yesterday morning from w.
A. Pinkerton announcing that Thomas
F4eury. one of the four men concerned,
had been arrested in gambling house
In Chicago. The publication of the
likeness or Fleury in the GLOBE
wednesday. together with an excellent
description of him and the others, assist.
ed materially in the capture. Fleury.
or Harvey, as he is known to the Pink.
ertonS, was arrested in a gambling
house by the well-known thief-taker,
w. A. Pinkerton, and. although lie had
made great change in his appearance
since the robbery by shaving off his
beard. he did not succeed in fooling the
detective
No money was found OH Fleury ex-
cept some small change. and so conf
dent does the prisoner feel that he cam
not be identified that he slgnified his
Willingness to come to st. Paul without
requisition papers.
When the telegram was received veg
terday morning the services of Assist
ant County Attorney Donnelly were as
once secured, and nearly the entire day
was spent in preparing Teguisition
papers with which to bring Fleury
back 10 st. Paul. f.. A. Seymour, cash
ier of the Merchants bank, was much
elated over the capture and was profhso
in bis compliments to the skill of Mr.
PiBkerton. 1t was decided that as au
officer from the city force would have
to go and bring Fleury back, Chief Of
Detectives McGinn should be sent, Me-
CHM having been long in the employ OF
the Pinkertons, and knowing the meth
DDS OF the agency so we'll, readily con.
sented to make the trip.
Shortly after o'clock last evening,
and just after McGinn was about to
start for the depot. telegram was re-
ceived from the Pinkerton agency in
Chicago announcing that Flenry had
consented to come without requisition
papers, and would start from Chicago
with an operative of the agency at once.
Owing to this. the trip planned for Nc
CHM had to be abandoned, but the chief
aud the entire force will be at the depot
this morning to meet the prisoner on
his arrival.
The story Of the robbery as told by
RenaldO Lares. the bank messenger, is
now known to be not at all borne out by
the circumstances which actually Oc-
Cured. The money was not missed by
the meSSe nger for several minutes after
it was taken. and his statements about
chasing the thief to the bank door with
revolver is not credited by the detect
ives. The only means of Identifying
the man who took the bag of gold will
be furnished by an employe of the First
National bank who saw him moment
after he had grabbed it. Shown
the pictures of the four men
who had been arrested and photo
graphed in Minneapolis on the Friday
before the robbery the bank man at
once identified Fleury as the person
who passed in front of his window a
few minutes before the robbery oc-
Cured. lJ was understood that this
person was to go to Chicago to identify
Fleury in case any trouble should arise
about the right to bring him back with
out proper Identification, but as the
prisoner has decided to return without
the formality of papers the trip will not
have to be taken.
While the Pinkerton agency IS en-
titled to deal of credit for the capture
of the thieves. some credit should be
given to the man who tipped the thing
off. About ten days ago j. w. Camp
bell, an elderly man, was arrested by
Detective McGuiggan, charged with at
tempting to pass forged draft for S1S
at the Adams Express company's office.
He was locked up, and when searched
had in his pockets a number of blank
drafts and checks from various
banks throughout the country. He
was directed to leave the city
after being arraigned in the police court
on charge of yagrancy and having
sentenced suspended. The draft on
which he had obtained loan of 81 from
the cashier at the Adams express office
was returned by his paying the amount
and nothing more was heard from the
old man, Having been treated SO nicely
by the officials, Campbell felt like re-
paying the kindness, and it is said to be
owing TO his disclosures that the officials
were able SO quickly get onto the men
who were concerned in the steal. 1t is
also reported that the four thieves
were clipped off" to the detectives in
Minneapolis by the same man, who con-
sidered he had been badly treated. and
wanted to get even. From the pointers
given by the old man, the place where
Howard roolned was located, as was
also the stopping place OF the other
members of the gang. The detectives
deny that there is anything in the story,
butt gentleman who is somewhat inter-
ested in the case is authority for it. and
he also claims that at the proper time,