The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-27
WILLIAM A. PINKERTON SAYS THAT
MATTERS IN HIS LINE ARE
STANDING STILL.
ALL GOOD ROBBERS SETTLED
BANKS FOR THEIR VIC
TINS.
SOME CROOKS KNOWN LOCALLY.
Thinks If the YOunEers We're Par
dOned All They Could Do
Would BE Farming.

William A Pinkerton, Of Chicago,
manager of the Western branch OF
the Pinkerton detective agency, is
at the Ryan. Mr.. Pinkerton, who is
authority on matters pertaining to
crime and criminals of the major clas5,
says things are at standst1ll, so to
speak. The Bankers Protective as
sociation, assisted by the Pinkerton
agency, had, Mr. Pinkerton said, re-
duced crimes against these institutions
to a minimum. The reason for this
was that whenever one of the banks
was robbed or swindled by means of
false checks the matter was at once
placed in the hands of the agency, and
neither time nor money spared to bring
the offenders to trial. In some cases
it took considerable time to run the
parties down, but there was no let: up,
and with the various branches of the
agency, in all parts of the country anI
on the continent interested and on the
watch, there was no chance for the
criminals to escape. There was but
one person now at large who was want
ed for offenses committed against any
Of the institutions belonging to the
association and the agency had located
the fellow, and within few weeks
he would be brought back to Cincin-
natl for trial. The culprit named Fish
er, who had mixed up in the robbery
of the mail boxes in Minneapolis some
years ago, and who broke out of the
county Jail at Cincinnati while await
ing trial, was serving a three months
sentence in London, Eng, and as soon
as his term there expires he would be
brought back to this country.
Speaking of Chicago, Mr.. Pinkerton
said that Mayor Harrison was giving
the city good administration and that
things in that city were booming. He
had not paid particular attention to
the Leutgert murder case which was
the main topic in police circles in Chi
cago just now, but from what he had
read and knew of the case was in
clined to the opinion that it would be
a hard job to prove that Leutgert had
committed the crime.
Talking about one thing and another,
Mr. Pinkerton asked if there were any
steps being taken to secure the pardon
of the Youngers. He had an idea that
the two brothers would have to spend
their life in the Saltwater penitentiary,
but advanced the opinion that should
they ever be pardoned, about all they
could do would be to go back to their
native state and settle down to farm
ing.
Fleury, the bank robber, now in
Saltwater, who has recently made ap-
plication to the British government
claiming to be citizen of that country
and that he was Illegally convicted,
Mr.. Pinkerton thought was undoubted-
ly insane.
Mr.. Pinkerton said he had called on
Mayor Doran, yesterday afternoon, in
company with Chief Schweitzer and
had been surprised to learn that the
mayor was in rebel prison in the
South during the civil war, and had
witnessed, in 1868, the execution of one
Of the employees Of the Pinkerton
agency.
Mr.. Pinkerton will spend today in St
Paul in connection with business of the
local branch of the agency and leaves
tonight for a trip to the Pacific coast.