Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-13
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corners of the harbor, the kidnap-
pers had found a safe place-the
only possible one.
Day after day those two men lay
in its tiny cabin, no human beings
seeing their faces. Had they been
in the grave itself their burial would
not have been more complete. Nei-
ther ever showed his head above
deck save when one or the other ven.
tured forth at midnight to steal food.
The search for Moshcr and
Doughlas was the closest ever
made, says the ex-Pinkcrtop.
Clues were picked up in the most
incredible place-a word overhead
on a street car, an expression by
some corner loafer, a laughing allu-
sion in some bar-and followed back
by our sleuths with the most incredi-
bic ingenuity. And they always
brought up in what might be called
the vicinity for the mcn-at some of
their friends or relatives. But they
never went further. And they
didn't for the simple reason that not
even those friends and relatives
knew the hiding places of the kid
nappers.
There was an old woman who
lived over in Green Point, back to
whom worG, dropped by chance,
was traced. And in hel we un-
earthed most remarkable old char
acter.
She told us all about Mosher and
Douglas, from the time they re-
turned to New York up to the mo-
mcnt of our conversation with her.
We proceeded to investigate the
story forthwith. And we couldn't
verify single point in it.
When we told her this, she in
sisted that what she said was true.
And she again went over the nara
tive with the most perfect circum-
stantial detail. And again we set
out to verify it. And again we
didn't verify it.
This thing happened many times.
And finally we cut loose from her
as vain hope.
We had many experiences of this
sort, but for long time we could
not, despite our best efforts to get
further than the point at which the
kidnappers and the boy vanished.
The police finally got hold of
man named Gill Moshcr-brothcr of
the kidnapper.
Gill agreed to deliver the two men
into police hands, provided his
brother was allowed to turn States
evidence, and Douglas made the
scapcgoat.
This, Walling, then supcrintcnd-
ent of the metropolitan force, agreed
to. And Gill went off and arranged
with the criminals for them to be at
the even now very tough corner at
Grand and Allen streets, New York,
at one o'clock that night.
Walling tolled off two detectives
to seize them. And these two won
dcrful slcuths took their station and
wasted half an hour. Then they
left. And fifteen minutes later the
kidnappers made their appearance
and went into a bar on the corner.
The proprietor Of the saloon did
not know Moshcr and Douglas, but
he was well enough acquainted with
the criminal class to surmisc that
they were law-breakcrs of one ort
or another. And so, by way of do
ing his friends good turn, he said /:
"rhere were two fly cops on the
corner watching for somebody
a while ago"
Whcrcupon Mosher and Douglas
hurriedly dcpartcd-ncvcr more to
be seen in lifc-saye for one tragic
instant.
In the meantime the crime had so
preycd upon one woman's mind that
it made her monomaniac, and she
reported, in her mania, that she had
seen man named Wcstcrvclt, a
brothcr-ln-law of Moshcr, but very
respectable man, on street car in
Brooklyn with Charlie Ross.
Wcstervclt was arrested upon her
testimony, and sent to the pcnitcn-
tiary for five ycars-perfcctly inno-
cent.
After the police detectives made
their dismal failure of catching tho
kidnappers in New York City, Gill
Moshcr was laid hold of by the
Pinkertons, and an agreement
reached with him by them whereby
he was to toll his brother and Doug
las into trap. But the kidnappcrs