The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

For tho benefit of the ''yegg'' man who taxes to the field of bank burglary in the coming year it may stated officially that the aveiase of his hopes tor tweivemontn snou'u no. allowed to run more than S2,549.26 for ms sue cessful raids. He may have to content nm self and two partners-te say nothing or then four aliases-with a mere $lsSo as the p'o ceeds of raid that cost great oea' oi pns sical effort; or on the other hand. ne may share with one partner possioie s1 oo.S ~ for the mere blowing of a safe with hitro gIycerin, and incidentally standing on ie~ ttfbid citizens at the point of revoNe,s. ~, On the other hand taking the cnances ot the hank burglar as they existed in the year ending on Sept. 15 last. he must race the possibilities of capture and trial witn ,ury verdicts ranging from year m reio, naso.s ., to a sentence of life imprisonhens o' ueeA " the end of a rope. .
 These are some of the figures appearing ih the report of the Pinkerton national detec- tive agency made to the American nahk- CTS, association. whose individual prenss are especially under the protection of the agency Of the loss figures of the banks. no"evei; !. it may be said that only fourteen or the eotai seventy burglaries of the year were as ftemuted against those banks in the protec- tive association. Twenty-one of these purs- lars who were captured and sentenced 70 spe- cihc terms in prison received an average 'erfn of i've years and five months
 Bank pnbbing is Unprofitabie.
 According to these actual results In .he last year and allowing for one mans receiV- ing the total sum from each or the ralus s,,,, fs plain that the "yegg" might more easiy and Iux,rriously stick to his hobo existence than turn to life full of personal oaneers in the first place. and at the best promising an average serv q" of nve years I'd ,s anu
 months in stripes for apaltry S2o4ss se l.. The ''yegg" or the "yeggman, as ne IS fnterchanGeably placed upon the records or the Pinkerton agency, began life ana putsueu ~ with a degree of ennui approacnhs ..'", v.,s- N ,,ntfI fha 0Id .,blity of getting ''something for nofnins seized upon him. Outside of Wal street .ne idea died with the old craze for Iperpetuai fnotfon When the yegg mind took u'up now evJr If was with an overpowering purpose born of ignorance, and of force to coh i, perSsate for his years of former idieness anu Responsibility. ,.s. 4. ,osa with nothing but an aimless life to lose and nothing in the shape of a thought prompt ing a duty toward his fellows the yeggman gets his dynamite Or nitroglycerih wneIe % cani and with his armament Of revoiVer anu madazine pistol he does his work with ooio- ,e-S and disregard for human life, such as so recently has been demonstrated Tn the capIuie of one of tho Chicago car barn raiders. 1nls trio are especially of the yegg ciass[n u.s tinction from the professional burglar anu holduu type wi Ah rapidly is going out or business in these days of detective activiues and Bertillon measurements.
 It is between the burglar and the 1orser that the modern bank stands most m neeo or protection. The sneak thief in the bank IS not a troublesome factor to deal with while tne holdup man. boldest of them all, has I'm ited field for the most part-connneo 1 uo .hie ine far western country altogether as far as this xenort to the Bankers association is con- cernod.
 Few Expert Forgers Nowadays.
 With the forger. as with the burglar ,,' Q. 'ne ns fhe present detective activities are discouT aging With the capture Of John 5. brusn in the latter part of 1902 and his commitment 10 the New York state prison at Dannefhore for a term of five years. of tho most skillful forgers and managers Of a group or confederates was put out or the way oi 'no banks for a period of five years at ieast. With his capture Brush is sald to nave ao- ,nttted that the days of the expert forger are over,
 or the three groups of criminals which men ace the banks of the United states IL may be said that the holdup men, in dasning raid into some mountain or desert town, are the most picturesque. Within recent years perhaps nothing in this line has had the coior and dash that went with the ralo oH Is sWild Bunch gang of desperadoes wnicn charged into the town of Winnemucca, Nev, fin September, 1900. holding up tho officials of the First National bank and taking rom that institution $S2.S4o in gold, escaping on mien it to the hills The noon hour was cnoseh for the raid and the gang which came down upon the bank was armed with rines ana rcyolvers, against which the 'citizehs or he 
 show. The men who made the raid have been identified as George Parker, alias Butch Cas- siday; Harry Longbaugh. alias the sundance Kid; and Ben Fitzpatrick. the Tall IeAah'
 Breaking Up @-'Sers.
 '' Northwest. west, and southwest this gang has worked under different leaderships. ot Harvey Logan. who on occasion had led the ''bunch into bank raids in various places, the current report has to deal in melodramatic UvIth held in the jail at Knoxville, Tenn, awaiting Imprisonment for uttering altered national bank notes which had been taken from an express car of Great Northern train in July JaoI Ionan was to have been taken to the penitentiary at Columbus. O. when on June s7 last he escaped from the Knoxville jail.
 The ''bunch," under Logan had held up the train and gone into the express car where the strong box was blown open and A5O0O in unsigned national bank notes was taken These notes needed the signature Of the presl- dent and the cashier of the national bank to which they being shipped in order that they be passed ascu"rent and 1t was through forging these signatures and passing these notes that Logan was captured
 Representing the American Bankers associa- tion the Northern Pacific railroad, the Great Northern railroad, and the express companies, aided by the sheriffs and police of the west and south, we pursued Logan through Mon tana Wyoming Colorado, New Mexico. Ar kansas and Texas. We continued persistent pursuit of this band and finally drove them to Kansas and Tennessee, where Logan was arrested after passing some of the money stolen in the Great Northern express robbery. Before his arrest he shot and nearly killed two police officials.
 Knowing Logan's record and desperate char acter and believing he would make every pos Eible effort to escape from the Knox county. Tenn Jail, recommended to the Great Northern Express company that a night and day guard be placed over Logan. which was arranged for through the sheriff of Knox county Tenn. Logan's escape was the re- suit of gross carelessness on the part of the iailer and special guards employed to watch him. and the United States government has brought a civil suit against the sherif of Knox county for $1O.O00 damages for permit ting Logan to escape.
 Logan, with Harry Longbaugh and Tom ODay. committed the ''holdup'' robbery of the