The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-18

SPECTATORS and his enormous winnings
and losngs were commented on by press
and public. For nearly nfteen years ne
kept up this pace, and then series OF
unfortunate speculatons left MIN PENN
less 49,, a.,
At about this time Piano Charley, Bull
lard Ike Marsh, and Adam Worth ar
rived in Paris, having robbed the Boyls-
ton Bank Of Boston or 100000. Under as
sumed names they opened an Amerlean
cafe at Rue Scribe, and ShinDnfn, having
left Brussels, wandered I'm there one DAY
and recognized in the proprletors ms 9ld
pals At the same time an American ue,
tective recognized the men and informed
The French police of their Identity. rms
broke up the cafe. and Billiard ana Shlh-
bnrn fled TO Mons, on the frontier, where
Shjnburn unfolded scheme Tor the ron
berv of the Provincial Bank at WHERE'S,
Belgium Shinburn always clalmeu that
the directors OF this bank got the money
he lost on the bourse. ana there was Ne ht,-
sire for vengeance as well as nope OF Dig
gain i'm the attempt. The robbery was at
tempted In 1888. The plan was 70 MAKE
two or three visits to the bank before
finally robbing It, In order TO give shln-
burn an opportunity to examine ana study
the locks.
An entrance was effected through a rear
door, an old-fashioned lock being IN
screwed Shinburn put the lock in MS pOck-
81 40 that II might be replaced when ne
and Billiard were through accommodating.
An hour was spent In examining the
vaults and then the two men came out,
and Shfnburn screwed the lock on again.
one of the screws was missing. WINE
they were looking for this screw the men
heard footsteps coming up the aneyts =
IT was the Waterman, who, having round
Billiards. shoes. had started an inVestiga-
ton. Billiard hauled out revolver; ana
would have shot the Waterman deau, put
Shinburn hastily ordered him to put the
weapon away, and then began rolling
around and singing like drunken man.
Bullard took the cue. and the Waterman
concluded he had come across couple OF
ordinary druken men. He whistled Tor help
and two policemen ran up. AS matter
of preeaution one of the latter examined
the lock on the door of the bank, and
made the discovery that a screw was miss
ing Billiard and ShinbGrn were searched
and the missing screw was tound IN
piece of wax in pocked OF 70 t reyoo ,1e's eli
traces OF his work at the lock: me men
were arrested, tried. and convicted, ana,
while shinburn was sentence "a, 10 1ea nve
years in prison, Billiard got ten years.
Billiard died in prison
one of the cleverest Jobs Shinburn ever
was engaged in was the robbery OF the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company 5
office at Whitehaven, Pa. The money for
the payment of the hands, usually about
10000, used to arrive some time between
the first and the tenth OF .each mohtn-
rived because a different messenger
brought IL each time, and so he began
making regular visits TO the company 8
vault on the first he opened the safe
without any difficulty, but as there was
only $4,000 inside he took Just enough to
nav his immediate expenses, and then
locking II up again went back to his hotel.
The next day clerk in the Office was dis
charged on suspicion of stealing the
money. On his second visit Shinburn
found Sc 900 in the vault, and once more he
took a few small bank notes and went
away. The following day another clerk
was discharged for dishonesty and the
first was reinstated.
On his third visit Shinburn found SAG. 900
in the vault, and gathering up this and
several thousand dollars worth of bonds
and securities, he left. After several
traced to him and he was arrested in this
city and taken to Whitehaven, where night
after night he slept In hotel handcuffed
to a detective. Each night his clothing
was taken away from him and locked up
in another part of the hotel. The hand
cuffs used were the best of the day, yet
despite all these precautions Shinburn
escaped one morning the detective awoke
and found himself in bed alone. An ex-
animation revealed the fact that Shin
burn had succeeded in slipping the point
of a steel pen into the ratchet Of the hand
cuff without being observed, so that while
the cuff snapped shut as usual, when
had then simply waited for the detective
TO go to sleep. After freeing himself he
went into another room and appropriated
a guests clothing. The discovery of the
pen point reminded the detective that in
the afternoon he had observed Shinburn
ed him what he was doing ana the TSson-
er had replied that he was simply anus
ing himself. The truth was that he was
heating the pen to take the temper out of
the steel II was years after this when
Shinburn was captured again. Shinburn