The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-07
LAST DAYS OF A
 NOTED CRIMINAL
Jim Brady's Tragic Death on
 Railroad Track
KILLED BY A FAST TRAIN
Old and Poor, With Ills Stolen For. tune Spent, Brady Was Inmate of Almshouse-Some of
 His Experiences.

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 New York Herald,
 Bowed down with illness and his sew enty-eight years, penniless, homeless and friendless, James Brady-"Big Jim Bra dy-almost the last of the greatest band of burglars and daring thieves that ever at Larchmont last week
 Only few hours before, this man, whose crimes once baffled the police of two continents. who once owned $f0O,0 In New Rochelle real estate, had been been discharged from his only home, the Westchester County poorhouse. He had wandered to the railroad track to go he knew not whither. and as he picked his way from one track to the other to escape the New Haven express, he step ped directly in front of the other train. The heavy COW catcher threw his body high in the air and 1t fell directly on the track to be decapitated.
 At the almshouse last night those in charge were repeating the last words of the aged man as he wandered forth; Goodbye. You'll never see me again. Something's going to happen to me"
 No one would have known that the body at the New Rochelle morgue was Brady's had 1t not been for the little bag of picks and knives he had made at the aimshouse to sell for a few pen nies.
 As Byrnes Saw Him.
 "Dashing, handsome, daredevil that he was," wrote Inspector Thomas Byrnes, possibly the greatest enemy Brady and his band ever had. Brady for many years belonged to the most dangerous band of criminals in the country. He was the modern Jack Sheppard, a bank burglar a jail breaker. a sneak thief. forger and high-class all around crook"
 The famous thief-cateher knew where- of he spoke, for he remembered that Brady had been the companion and lead- CT of such men as Scott, Dunlap. Mike Kurtz. George Howard, Max Shinborn. Jimmy" Hope, ''Dan" Noble, Ned" Ly- ems, Red Leary, and last, but not least, Sophie Lyons herself
 Some of the robberies he had partici- pated in were the famous ones of the Ocean bank in this city, the Kensngton bank, In Philadelphia; the bank at North hampton, which shared with the Man haitian bank of this city, the distinction of being the scene of the greatest robber- ASS Ol d CtHldTys lHe wilmington iDel) bank, the bond robberies of Glen Falls and Port Jervis. N. Y. Patterson, N J., and San Francisco. The French jewelry robberles conducted by Brady and So- phie Lyons are in class all by them selves. Within a few months the pair, while the police were at their wits end, succeeded In taking jewery valued at several hundred thousand dollars. They were never arrested.
 The kenslngton Bank Robbery.
 Of all the crimes, the best example of Brady's coolness and audacity Is always said to be the Kensington Bank robbery, in which $GO,000 was taken
 Brady, straight, blue-eyed, and. six feet two inches in helghJ, dressed as a policeman, went to the bank one after noon He announced himself from police headquarters. We understand a band of New York burglars have planned to rob this bank tonight" he explained. I have been sent to catch them. Leave 1t all to me. Say nothing to anybody or they may get tipped off" He was pro- foundly thanked, and at 2 o'clock In the morning. after binding and gagging the unsuspecting watchman. two confeder- ates were admitted and the robbery leis- urely proceeded
 DAHb9 hiitn ilC i1Stut OI q prison, DuI not for very long time. He escaped from Sing Sing in 1872, from a Vermont jail few years before, and from small jails throughout the country repeatedly His expertness as picker of locks made almost all steel-barred doors easy to him.
 Brady was born in Fairfield. Vt. He was the son of a jeweler and after re- ceiving a fair education at the St. AL bans. Acado-nr- learned the trade of A jeweler, and afterwards that of a skill ed machinist He tired of this to become grocer's clerk, but forged the grocer's name and left hurriedly.
 Brady was shot by Inspector Diiks in in the house of Dr. Harrison, in Carmine street, in 1872. He served a sentence of eleven years in Sing Sing for shooting a policeman.
 Brady was married and had wife and several daughters. He bought the New Rochelle real estate and turned the prop- erty over to his wife. One of his daugh- ters married a Swedish nobleman.
 hitn and he went to the poorhouse.
 The death of Brady leaves only Tim my Hope, equally aged living quietly on Connecticut farm. and Dan, No ble. in Dannemora prison. of the old band.