The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-11
CAREER OF A CROOK

Detective Golden in New York World)
When Mark shinburne who got over
81 100000 by robbing the Ocean bank of
this city is discharged from Dame
mora prison on Oct TO- next. he viii
find Robert Pinkerton, the detective.
waiting at the prison gate.
He will be taken TO prison in Con-
cord. N H. to serve term Of nine
teen years
shinburne is now 81 years old and
he viii die doubtless ia jail; il is scarce
~ possible that he VIII live to be So
Mark Shinburne. or Macmillan
Schonbein. is the most successful bank
robber IN this country. lie is Of fine
physical proportions, i've feet eight or
nine inches in height, built like an atm
lete, weighs 40 pounds and might pass
for a college professor. When l first
knew him he had black hair. luXur-
liant "Dundreary'' Whiskers, full,
handsome face. blue eyes and a deep
dimDIe in his chin. This latter was
good means Of Identification He told
me once that he had consulted the best
surgeons with a view to having it re-
moved
Shinburne came to this country early
in the sixties He went to live in Mos
COW Pa He quietly made observations
and determined TO ROB Hannibal But
/ Ter, a stOrekee9eT, who lived near by
He went to Mr.. Buffers house and
entered the room in which that gentle-
man slept. Without disturbing him the
rogue took the keys from the trousers
| pocket Of the sleeping man and made
! wax Impressions.
He then set To work to make duDli-
( cate KEYS. One dark night, having
/ opened the safe. he took out the neat
/ sum of $4,000
Shfnburne came to Nav- York. He
made his headquarters at Harvey
Young's gambling house. avoiding the
acquaintance of crooks. This, with the
/ fact that he was always we'll dressed.
J gave the detectives the impression that
/ he was a gambler.
In the fall Of 1864 he planned another
rObbery-that of the Walpole Savings
/ bank in New Hampshire He took as
J his confederate George Miles. He man
! ageG to secure impressions of the keys
! to the bank vault On Nov. "A. 1864
J ne entered the bank without difficulty
! and secured SS6. O01 He changed the
/ combination of the safe, and the next
/ morning the cashier was unable to
/ open the vault. The bank officials sent
for an expert, who finally opened the
/ safe.
In March. 1855. Colonel Bellows, chief
! of the staff of the governor of New
! Hampshire, received notice from the
J treasury department that stolen bond
! had been received from the Second Ma
/ tionaI bank Of Scranton. Colonel Bel
J lows came to New York and consulted
John A. Kennedy, chief of police.
! That IS how I came into tn" case.
/ The chief told me to go to work on
/ this case. 1t was the hardest job Of
my life.
I started for Scranton and held a
consultation with the bank officials
/ The go-between represented himself as
/ an agent for trees.
[ hired a sleigh and a driver who
/ knew the country. For twenty days L
/ went amOnS the farmers endeavOrlng
/ 40 find the man who had been selling
trees. I finally got hold of an old far
| ner near Moscow, who had purchased
/ trees from just such person. 1 asked
I for the invoice md saw that the trees
came from a nursery in the neighbor-
/ hood Of Rochester.
] On April 10 / went to Rochester. The
/ next morning I drove over to the nur-
sery. I told the proprietor that I want
cd to purchase trees OF the agent who
4 had Deen through Luzerne county, Pa
The agent was James Cummings, whose
father kept a nursery at Irondequoit
( The next dav secured Il handsome
carriage. [ bought "A new silk hat, new
gloves and d spring OvercOat to look
like a wealthy man who needed land
/ scaDe gardener.
On reaching Irondequot I told Mr..
2 UNI lIln2S J. W d. 1OOhl1lS IOI d idiAN4
sCape gardener.
Why exclaimed he, my son James
is the very man you need
] asked to see his son.
Sis" shouted the Old man. and as a
young woman appeared at the door he
said. Where was James when we last
heard of him"
NO. 456 Grand street, Williamsburg,
L. l." replied the girl.
Next day I was Mortified to read of
the assassination Of President Lincoln.
I took p train for New York and went
over to williamsburg. The front of
the house was dTaped in mourning, but
there appeared no indication of ten
] ants. except a doctors office on the
parlor floor I hailed the doctor one
morning and asked him whether there
were any tenants. He said there had
/ been two families, but on hearing OF
Mr. IfnCOIn's death they left for Wash
inCton. He added that at the tailor
shop down the street 1 might get in
| formation.
I told the tailor that Mr. Cummings
! was q friend. and as I was going to
. Washington he had asked me to bring
! along the mail. There was only a
newsnaner-the Scientific American
From the subscription list 1 learned
/ that Cummings new address was boz
346. Saratoga Springs.
aat Il
afterward superintendent of police e
help me In Saratoga ] sent for james
Case. officer of the town. I told him Il
/ ascertain who rented box 346. The box
P had been rented by q New York broker
There was q show in the hall, anC
] the banker was there An oil painting
{ OF the banker was then on the balcony
OF the American hotel I recognized
Shinburne. whom I had supposed to bt
only a professional gambler Now (
new idea came into my head What 1
he was the man who had robbed tn
bank?
I ordered Chase to watch ShinbUrne
Chase went inside hut missed his man
However. ShinburGe came out. He haC
a big job on hand
l recognized him at once, and betor
he knew what was uD he was prlS
Oner 7 took him to the town hall 20
% safe keeping. When ] searched MN
Il found d big derringer in the outsld
D.. DOcker of his OVercOat. l also fOun'
= seven bonds of the Boston & ConcOri
railroad. each valued at $1,000, and
4, lot of coupons. all stolen from the Wal
: pole bank There was no cell in tn
4 town hall only a wooden cage-n
r place for ShiabuTne, who could haV
\ cut his way out with his teeth DeIor
. morning. engaged tWo men, glVlni
7 I each So to watch until morning
Then Kelso and l went out to tn
TO- Gilbert farm. the home Of the banker
. We made an amazing discovery O
n the upper floor we found one of tn