The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-04-25
REWARD FOR WRONG MAN.
Detective Was Fooled and Burglar
Saved bv Favnbroker.

! Il PEAKlNG of luck versus cunning,
said Captain Toole, the former de-
tective, the biggest reward
ever got and the best piece of work
ever did were both realized by a stroke
Of laundering luck, says the Chicago
Record-Herald l was coming fast in
The Scotland Yard service, when the
De Num- Russell robbery took place
I in Chelsea. 1t was really the begin
ming of a remarkable series of rob
/ berries committed upon members Of the
rich St. Vrain club gambling hive
for the elderly swells that hourished
| twenty years ago in Pail Mall. The
cute thieves found out the doings that
| went on in the club rooms. Swallowed
the winners as they left during the
night and either robbed them in the
dark highways or followed them home
and burglarized the house.
1T seems that Colonel De Num- Rus
sell, who was a retired East Indian
merchant. had won about $4,000 that
night, and left for his Chelsea home at
/ ! in the morning in a chaisa. he WASH
drunk, but he had his fill of liquor, ana
, probably had boosted at the door OF
his winnings. He lived in great style,
his son alone occupying the big house
with him, though thare were three serN-
ants in quarters specially built Tor
them over the stable. When the rob
berry was first reported il seemed d
straight case OF porch climbing, as we
call it in this country, and nothing was
missing except the $1,000. But the
same morning Captain Beverly Russell,
the SON, came down and notified the
inspector that al the family jewels,
which had been kept in d steel safe in
the office or library OF the house, were
gone.
Il found upon investigation that the
robber must have opened the combina-
ton lock and secured the rich haul be-
fore the young captain woke up and
discovered him. According to the son
story, it must have been about $50 In
the morning when he was awakened
by the click of the heavy safe door.
Suspecting nothing, he supposed that
his father was just coming home, so
he made a light and went into the hall
in time to see a strange man, pistol
leveled, retrea ting down the staircase.
He had a good look a the intruder be-
. fore he ran back for his own pistols,
but meanwhile the burglar quickly de-
scenGed the stairs and escaped by d
! side window, which he had left open
for the purpose. Then the captain
gave the alarm. but when the servants
came Colonel De Num- Russell was
found sleeping soundly, the dressing
case by his bed ransacked and the
pocketbook which had contained his
winnings gone. had got thus far
with my investigation, when, as [
said, the colonel and his son discov-
cred that the family jewels-mostly
damond-set necklaces, tiaras, rings
and brooches, which had been worn by
Mrs De Num- Russell, who was dead
were gone Perhaps there had been
; G6,000 or $4,000 worth of valuables, but
the old chap was heartbroken over the
loss and said that he would not have
lost them for ten times their worth III
money.
THE case looked easy to me by rea-
5 son of Captain Russells certainty that
, he could identify the thief, and in
/, about three days, having corroborated
the first description with what the cab
/ bies had seen about the st. Vrain club
: felt pretty sure that a young Ameri-
| can thief, then beginning to win police
attention in Paris and London, was my
+ man. We called him Cardinal Kin
me- but he earned dozen other aliases
5 later, and finally graduated into d
t high-class bank swindler and forger
( : But I'm getting ahead of my story.
naturally supposed that Kinney, ii
I guilty, would jump for the continent
, him just where l expected. He Wasn
2 a bit f1ustered and admitted as cool as
you please that he knew I'd be after
: him for the De Num- Russell robbery
: But you're wrong this time. Mister
e Toole, he grinned, and asked me tC
: have d drink. 1 knew he was the
q burglar then and there, but you see the
Y business end of my work now was t.
d recover the jewels, so ! reported Sc
cretly that l had my man and resolved
g to keep him at my elbow till | haC
. traced the swag.
n He was very agreeable about it
d took my orders amiably and swore he'C
do his best to help me, if I'd get hin
\ a first class fare back to New Yorl
q where the whole affair was settled anC
n ] had my G1,000 reward. | agreed t.
| ship him when l caught the real thief
n and the way he made believe to hell
> me would have fooled anybody eXcep
a smooth sleuth. l thought he'd weak
Il en- when l took him to the Russell
S house at Chelsea, but he carried him
:; self very swagger, said he had no fea
, of being identified and laughed in m.
i face when old Colonel De Num- Rus
sell said that he son had gone off t
81 Vienna or somewhere with Count Raou
+ Perignan, a young French rakehel
y who had been raising the devil in Lon
k don | resolved to follow him to Paris
= for besides suspecting that Russell
u would daily there, l had a shrewd sus
+ picion that the jewels had already bee
l. disposed of to some Partisan dealer
ie Meanwhile our fellows were search
y ing the pawnshops and bazars of Eng
', land. and | took Haney, my partner
,e to Paris with me to help take care g
my prisoner.
! The way the cardinal acted all thi
II time was puZz.er for me, and, l ad
- nit it freely, he fooled me. He kne'
ic every fence in Paris, and, when b
n found that Captain Russell and hi
friend had left for Monte Carlo. bu
III III would return in a fortnight, Kline
IN and I spent our time searching til
as shops with the aid of the Paris DC
y lice. Haney watched the depots fC
III our friend, the captain, and my pr:
w oner. seemed to set so interested
at the wor kof locating the jewels an
OF so eager to display his knowledge
ne the men and firms who traffic in sue
bloo contraband riches, that I began
tie doubt whether, after all he was NJ
at the burglar. To make a long stol
e short. we found the whole swag in
shop in the Rue St Martin, and n
1it prisoner was almost as glad as ! wa
dis The gems had been unset. but the
err scriptions | had of the metal work p
~ all doubt out of my head. tel
ne eraphed to Colonel De Munn-Russen
come at once to the Hotel Continents
and was delighted the same afterno'
to hear from Haney that Captain Ru
vd sell had arrived
~ ITO show how stupid / really WI
% in those DAYS. my. plan now went