The herald., 1896-09-20

layed for some reason. The tools were
got and brought in at different times
by Mccarthy and everything was sup
posed to be ready by Saturday night.
the 18th of June, 1896. They broke
through the cement and came up in the
cellar and they sized up things and saw
they could go no further. They ex-
pected when they broke through the
cement to be inside of the vault, and
then they gave the, job. up.
1.-THE digging was done by Mccarthy
and three other men whose names I
do not know, and the work on the vault
was done by Jack Mccarthy, Jim Stew
ems, Jack Stewart, and one of the other
men who helped to do the digging. I
was called to the little room where the
trap door was, leading to the cellar
about 8 o'clock of the Saturday night of
the 18th of June, and they told me that
they could do no more, that they broke
through into the cellar. So they waited
until I closed up and then explained
everything and said they could go no
further. When 1 closed up 1 went into
the cellar and ! saw some papers that
they had brought out from under the
vault through the tunnel. The big hy-
draulic jack was brought in by Stevens.
Mccarthy and Stewart about o'clock
one evening and the lumber for the
tunnel was brought in one afternoon
in an express wagon. ,
FIRED L. JONES"
Witness: WALTER H. AUBLE.
Mccarthy han been an interested wit
ness to the proceedings and great beads
of Precipitation stood on his forehead
When the confession was handed to Col.
Hotchkiss he and Mccarthy read 1t to-
gether. The prisoner read it greatness
", and when he had finished, laid back
in his chair and remarked, Well' the
Ii-
brief but emphatic. Jones then identi-
fed the other confession, and in answer
tc questions by Mr.. Williams, plunged
into his oral confederation and elucida-
ton of the written statements.
He had met the defendant, Mccarthy.
about year ago, while ne was running
the saloon One day Mccarthy ap-
preached him and asked himi he wanted
a chance to make some money, $4,000
or $50, 900. At the time Mccarthy did not
give any details of his scheme, but called
the next day on him In his room at 22I
North Hill street and unfolded his plan.
He wanted to use the cellar under the
saloon, to drive tunnel under the bank
vaults. There was a lot of good people
in the scheme, he said, and there would
be no danger. One of the men employed
in the bank was in the job, and the owner
of the property wanted it done.
Mccarthy also said there were two
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stand by them in case of trouble and get
them out all right. After thinking over
the matter three or four days, he finally
gave his consent to the use Of the cellar,
and a little later the work was COM
menced. This was in October or Novem-
Der, 1895. The tools were brought by
Mccarthy and nearly all the work was
done at night. The men would come at
night as he was about to close up his
saloon, and after the doors were shut.
would go down and commence digging.
At that time there was a front room par
t:tioned off in the saloon and in this they
would sometimes wait until favorable
opportunity to go to work. After he had
had the boxes made and the closet and
trapdoor over the cellar stairs, they
could work at any time, day or night,
and, in fact, a good deal of the labor was
performed in the daytime.
Everything was ready by Saturday
night, June 13, for the entrance into the
safe. About o'clock at night Tom
Campbell, John Mccarthy, Jim Stevens
and Jack Stewart came to the saloon,
took a drink and sarted to work, intend
ing to keep at it until the job was fin
ished. All of these men were in the tun-
mel that night. About 8 o'clock Jones was
called to the little box over the cellar
step and told by Mccarthy that the thing
was failure. They had broken through,
but come out into a sub-vault directly
under the main vault Into this they
entered and had removed a layer of
bricks from the crown of the arch, but