The evening times., 1896-09-21
GlUGHT BY INSPECTORS
Mail Robbers Run to Earth by
Government Officials.
LONG RECORD OF CRIME
Report OF Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Maxwell Contains Chapters
More Interesting Than Books OF Fic-
tion-Murderer Holmes Was Appre-
hended by special Agents.

Almost as interesting as any Look or 1ic-
tion on brigandage and crime are the
characters If Assistant Postmaster GEN
eral X. A Maxwell's report, u portion Of
which WAS published III this Morning S
Times, relating to the robberies of the mails
IL was through a postofficc inspc ctor that
II. IL Holmes, the mulli-nurderer, was ap-
pretended. Every form OF crime is cal
endarcd as having teen committed asa.ns:
the postal laws. Highway robbery III re-
mote places of. the West. weltpanned
swiDdiing schemes formulated 10y some
Eastern crtok, the use OF the mails for the
distribution Of obscene matter, Inade not
able by the trial and conviction Of Joseph
k. Dunlop, of the Chicago Dispatch, who
was sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years; also told daylight robberies OF post
office safes, schemes TO defraud, embezZle-
ment, green goods swindle:s and the hold
up Of mail cars are some of the crimes
dealt with by the postal authorities.
For swindler Abe Rothschiid, alias Jo-
seph jaeger, alias Henry Smyth, was the
acme Gf success. Having learned the name
Of n business man ofhigh commercial stand
ing he would forge an order in his name on
su;ne wholesale dealer for goods to bc
shipped To the place In which the aforesaid
merchant resided or to sumc other locality.
where, as the writer alleged, he was about
to open racket store"
ACQUITTAL COST A FORTUNE.
AS rule these orders We're promptly
lied and the goods shipped. BY inIrerson-
ating the real merchant Rothsciild would
secure the gods upon their irarrival ana with
the tewelry would disappear. His largest
haul was made ON March 13, 1895. at
Swainsbsro, Ga. where he secured 81 400
worth OF diamonds.
He is forty-fivc years old, and the son
of wealthy Cincinnati banker and lew
eier In 1877 he killed " Diamond Bessie
Moreo near jefferson, Tex. Just before
his arrest for that offense he attempted
suicide ami shot out his right eye. Upon
his recovery he was taken to Texas, mar
rowly escaped lynching, was indicted for
murder, anu sentenced TO be hanged. After
several trials. which cost him S35 900,
he was finally acquitted.
On the night of June Ii. 1893, in the
midst OF "A barren sagebrusb prairie, "a
bighwnyman accostcd the driver OF the
mail stage one mile south of Houston
Idaho, and commanded him to halt and
hit the hack trail. and hit it hard which
command was oheyed with alacrty. The
robber took possession of the mail stage
and contents
There was 10 trace 4 to the identity uf
the robber, excepting thatthe driver thought
he recognized tie Voice of one William 3.
Marsh. The case was given to an in
spector, who worked on the clew of
Marsh's voice. and finally secured evil
dence sufficient to warrant his arrest,
which was accomplished in April. 1891
GIVEN A LIFE SENTENCE.
Marsh was notorious character in
that part OF Idaho. He openly toasted
OF being a horse thief. At his trial last
summer Marsh was promptly cunriCted
aud sentenced to imprisonment for the term
of his natural life in the penitentiary at
Detroit. Mich
Another high way robbery OF the mail
stage was accomplished by George r.
Hayes and Ulysses Ii. Pitte. near Spea rfish,
s. D., in February. cS4. These men left
their homes in the night and rode some d is
tance to convenient SPOT on the mail
route. They blackened their faces with
Shoe polish, and when the mail stage ap-
preached, sprang upon the carrier and cum-
PEELED him TO hold mp his hands, while
they rifled the pouches.
This robbery was so carefully planned
and skiilfuliy executed that no clew what
ever was obtained until June. IsS5, six
teen months alter the robbery occul-ed.
With this Clew as basis the inspector at
once resumed work on the case, and after
several weeks of persistent effort succeed
ed in effecting the arrest of Hayes at Eoli-
var. No, on August 9, SS5.
Pitts was arrested four days later at
Pittsburg, No. The evidence secured by
the inspector was so complete that Pitts,
by the advice OF his attorney, pleaded
guilty, and this compelled his confederate
Hayes, who was the principal actor in the
crime, to do the same Thus. after a lapse
OF one and half years. these two criminals
were apprehended 1000 miles from the
sceDe of the robbery and taken TO Dead
wood. 5. D., for trial. Both were convicted.
Hayes receiving sentence of ten years in
the penitentiary, and Pitts sentence OF
five years.
TRAIN ROBBERS CAUGHT.
The Pacific coast furnishes a gratify-
ingstory ofthe successful purs lit M pros
ecltion OF james Pool and John Case who,
robbed the noTthbound Oregon mail train
near Riddles, Greg. The train was running
at high rate of speed. when it was sud
denly brought to q staBdstill by the ex-
plosion OF dynamite under the engine. A
'usillade of dynamite was kept up on the
outside for the purpose OF intimidating the
train crew and passengers, while one of
the robbers walked through the train and
gathered in the booty.
So thoroughly awed were the crew and
the passengers that not hand was raised
against the bold intruders. An Oregon
sheriff who CHANGED to be on the train is
said to have surrendered his pistol grace
fun V and TO have held his hands up higher
and longer than any of his feIlow-trayel-
ers.
The postal clerk and express mcssengcr
were not overlooked by the rot-cr. He Sc
cured large sums ofmoDey. HiSvictinis werr
always wealthy, and were confined to ex-
press companies. railroad companies, banks
and large business houses. He has beer
frequently arrested. but by the liberal -ut-.
of money, with which he was usually wei.
supplied, always managed to escape con