The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23

on the train, and the company had pro-
vided sufficient safeguards to prevent
colluSiOn with crooks
The case ran on for a. week or ten
days without any developments, and
then / got a, telegram to hurry to the
express office. I found there a, great
deal of excitement over a. story told by
Jacob Hoffman. the assistant secretary
Of the company. 1t was in brief that
he mad met a man named Robert Howe
in a. billiard saloon, perfect gentle
man, who had saved him from being
whipped by a drunken scrapper. They
became good friends, used to have jolly
| times together, and he remembered in
| casual conversation telling Howe about
the express car and money traffic bust
ness. He would never have thought of
it again if he had not met Howe that
morning. Howe told him that he had
been burying his mother. I saw from
the way the young man had been led
along by Howe that he had been up
against clever bunko artist, Who got
correct Information about everything
done in the money business, even to
the time of shipping the Doodle.
Howe had agreed to meet Hoffman
in the evening and take dinner in
Broad street. 7 knew that if Howe
really was in the robbery that his bust
ness with Hoffman was to get Informal
ton about the work being done to
catch the thieves. L had several men
in the restaurant, and to my surprise
Howe met Hoffman. Howe had part
ner, and when 1 got the light on them
IL recognized them at once as old Bill
Kinny, the prince of confidence men,
and Solly Myers. the meanest crook
ever heard of. After the dinner I fol-
lowed Myers into a house in Seventh
street, Jersey City. where 7 arrested
him and lingo Horn. In their room I
found about three-fourths of the stolen
iewelry. but none of the express money
The case against them was perfect
Did you ever notice." said old Bill
Kenny, how it is that one fellow gets
along with his work without any fuss
and feathers, while another puts on
great burst of speed and don't go half
as far in a day as the quiet fellow?
Some people make hard work out of
very simple and easy things. Just look
at Molly Matches there, a, quiet, happy
go-lucky chap, who never gets excited,
was never known to hurry in his life,
but when it comes to getting a watch
or a leather out of anybody's kick
without interfering with the ordinary
rules of politeness, there's melody can
give Molly any points.
Then. take Molly's partner there,
little Jim Brady. He's the sport to
make a fuss about everything. Why,
he could not get watch without put
ting hole in a guys ribs to save his
life. That's just the difference between
crooks the world over. and l acted as
a sort of a balance wheel when
worked with him or he would have
spent his whole life in Jail.
There was all the difference in the
world between me and Solly Myers in
the methods of doing our work when
we were railroading for safes and mail
bags. Softly was a rough diamond, and
he had the biggest heart of anybody
met. Ee loved opposition, and he would
sooner win a bank roll in a fight than
pick it up in the street or from Sleep
ing gent. He hadsnerve that the devil
himself would have been glad to pos
sess; but his splendid courage de-
stroyed all his caution, and if it had
not been that he was clever there
would have been trouble. guess the
same thing goes in everything else,
whether It's crooked. or honest Brains
are what counts i'm everything, after
all. 1t does not make much difference