The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-09
BANK ROBBERIES OF 1903
The Operations of Burglars Are or
the Increase.
Statistics Of Tnefts For tho Year rs Com.
piled by the Pinkerton Agency
Burslaries, II; Attempts. 81.

New York City.-Operatlons Of bank
burglars are on the increase, according
to this years statistics. This conclu-
sion is reached by the Pinkerton De-
tective Agency in its annual report to
the American Bankers Association.
There were seventy-one successful
burglaries Of banks, according to this
report. during the year ending Sep
tember Is, 1903. The attempted burg
laries numbered ffty-two. AS a re-
ward for their efforts the knights Of
the Jimmy" obtained q combined haul
amounting to s1SO,99746. OF this
amount only S12,9S6 was recovered by
detectives.
There is slight increase say
Messrs. William A. and Robert A. Pin
kerton, Gin the attacks upon your men,
Lers by burglars this year, as compared
with last year, but the losses sus-
tanned have been considerably dimin-
ished this year, on account Of the
money recovered by US, at times aided
by police departments.
Burglars in six of fourteen suS-
cessful attacks and three Of eleven at
tempts OH your members have been
apprehended. Thirty-three safe burg
lars and outlaws have been appre-
hended. Of this number twenty-six
we're convicted and sentenced and
rnree We're acquitted. three are awit-
ing trial and one escaped. In addition
to this, for operations on members
previous to September Is, 1902. two
have been executed and three sem
, fenced to life Imprisonment.
"Twenty-one forgers and Swindlers
lave been convicted. eleven of whom
were sentenced to forty-fiye years i'm
prisonment, or an average Of four years
and one month each. OF these forgers
the only organized and fully equipped
band was under the leadership OF
John s. Brush. who was finally
brought to justice.
Charles Becker, alias The Dutch
man. who was released from San
Quentin September %, may again en-
gage in forgery, but will. we think.
bear in mind the certainty Of q per-
sistent prosecution for him and any
who may associate with him i'll conf
mitting forgaries."
On the subject Of ''yegg" burglars
the Pinkertons say: "We referred at
some length to the operations of bank:
vault and safe burglars Of the hobo
or tramp type. more frequently re-
ferred to as 'yeSg' or 'yegS men, by
which class all but one Of the burg
laries referred to in this report were
committed, and who for the last few
years have committed most of the
bank. vault and safe burglaries in this
country, which are steadily increasing.
"They operate with nitroglycerine or
dynamite. and frequently shoot inter.
fering policemen. The curtailing OF
burglarles by these criminals is one OF
the PROPOSITIONS we now have in hand.
and we expect to show good results
d':ring the coming year.
zone of the most important arrests
for bank burglary made for your asso'
citation was that Of William Rudolph
and George Collins, 'yegg' burglars, ar
rested by us at Hartford. Conn. March
l., 1908, aided by the police OF that city.
1--WE are confident we have succeed
ed in locating George Parker, alias
Butch Cassidy, and Harry Long
baugh, alias THE Sun Dance Kid two
of the wild Bunch band Of despera-
does. who on September 10. 1900: en-
tered the First National Bank. OF WIN.
| nemucca, New, held up the officials OF
the bank and robbed it Of S32,64O IN
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