The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-23


and Many Thousands s'iess fiis Hs'-
mains.
paw - any az the Thousand - people
WHO CARED or ttse sead body % Thomas
Ilzack as 4: Lar upsen ffse HlsS ~ f9tt~T-
~orfha UaaeFr ak}ag Fes9rEas yesterday -
sslxes fs8e ss4orHsiEy cf bis crimes ~ Tis
oNn ensg faHs40H De naS klIle%g nse people
wslagn she lass f0gr years an2 wounded
~ least tgenty He Was a stage soo0ers
hlzfs uavngau. burglar ard bank Fobis@T.
lis operations extended from British Co
IaffAta throagh M0giarsa and Washington
SD e.en 20 California Following Is his
TegSYd Of murders:
An unknown stase driver. shot down
hear Lake Koo.auai 81 British to3agE bsa.
81 1ss1 fer resisting hold az.
Steve Grosse. a bartender killed at
Mraaesyills Mant.. iB September, tS4t.
A deputy sheriff. killed aeout ttse Same
tfHss IN the same vicinity vale chasing
fsiaHek
e.cnzfaisge William Jeffery. shot through
the heart A. PuyaIiap. September y. is'4.
Charles a. Brid@e]l. shoi through tEe
heart az the Mug saloon 81 this city, DC
tosssr :. 1885,
supposea murders not Included in his
confession.
James skinner, station agent a. Great
belgrade. Most.
Policeman John Flynn. a. Helena. Mont.
What He said ,f Himself.
After Blanck wa eaptureSs In North So
attic hy' Detective Cuftlhee and Officer
Jshn Carisetr ard placed 10 the county
Jail be absolutely refused IA tell anything
ahoat has last history his home Or wise a..
sT his uanas Elarek or Hamilton.
ssslte he told "a Post EufesiigeuceT reporter
with whom IS VAS apparently friendly
tia, he hal really passed under me name
OF Blanck fo~ f6ur years. although Il WAS
not his right name. and that he came
from The state 81 New York When ores
TONED as 20 hfs nationality fe implied that
his parents were Germans. ia also said
that hls early religious training was ia
the Catholic faith. bat that In late years
he bad adopted q religion Of bis agn.
Ahieh Ia substance was ttsat every person,
af.@r what was termed death. returned
10 the earth in some other form. He re-
fafed vigorously any animation that ha
was an IFishnan or thas he was an old
hand In Trime-
His relations w!ta the other prisoners
with oae exception. knowltcns the gold
brick swindieT. were very pleasant and he
Was elected judge OF che kangaroo court
One thing vas noticeable about Blanck
was that ne did rot make any one his
eontdant, and, white treating All pleas
antly. pat up the bars 10 closer relation
ship.
All sorts 90 schemes were worked 10
get confession from him. bat they fail
Cd Tie told everybody he preferred to
So on the Eallowa and ute ar unknown
man
Il don't want my mother TO know the
Trouble ] have gotten int" ne would
sas. and that settled the matter.
still Planning uoId-Ip~.
while ago. however. Jailer Mon
roe found cut about h.a record
at EAirhagen la 1881. and the
fact that be was sac principal
IN the hoia-up az the Broaaaater hotel
su Helena. August is. lSsi After this
nlAnck became snnles hat confidential
With one OF hls fellow prisoners. an1 said
tlas ~ intended "a hold 0p Ihe haRk at
SnohomtNh if oy~r he 60; ntit 81 jail. aud
eventually work hack 70 California.
where as ne remarked. be bad been suc-
sessgul Ga some small hold-ups.
A. that tlme he was thinking of escap-
iug ana what strange ideas popped lrto
his head can he Judged - the fololwinE
One day BE Was walking up and down
TIE corridor. when he stopped suddenly
ans saia
- wonder how IN HI q Teller would
80 70 work 10 hold up an ocean steam
erT''
. His Early history.
Those Is ho heard the remark iaakhed.
and probably replied that the problem
was too hard go hc worked oas. even on
paper. After she jan break P0stIntcl-
ligeucer reporter commenced 70 work en-
islancks record. learning from Jasler
Monroe NEAt he kHew about Montana
and from otaer sources about his COATES