The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-03-06
JUST A SCRAP Of PAPER
Il Proved, However, q Valuable
Clew to the Whereabouts Of
Rudolph and Lewis.
THE UNION BANK ROBBERS PRISONERS.
They Were Captured nj Hartford
Conn. by pink rton Detectives
and Hartford Police and rs'"so %
the stolen Money Recosered-ftn-
kerton's Assertion Made Good.

k~rton,s Assertion Made Good.
ST. Louis. March 3.--"The world -
not big enough to hold the murder
er Of Charles j. Schumacher, was the
statement of William A. 'inkerton.
head of the Pinkerton detective agen-
CIV. during the pursuit of Bill hudolph
and Fred Lewis.
IF live, | will get them" was an
addition 10 this statement that indi-
Gated how determined the great Grim
inal catcher was in the hunt.
Rudolph and Lewis are now in the
hands OF the officers of the law III
Hartford. Conn, and will be brought
10 Missouri at once TO answer 10 the
crimes of murder and bank robbery.
The Bank of Union, Franklin coun-
~. was robbed on the night OF De-
cen.ber 20. 1902. by two men, one OF
whom stood outside and fired AT per-
sons who appeared on the streets with
a rifle. while the other blew open the
safe and secured about $4,000.
Detective schumacher was assigned
TO the case by the Pinkerton agency,
representing the American Bankers
association. and his Investigations led
to the Rudolph home, four miles from
stanton, Mo. where he ate dinner as
hunter and located the robbers.
January "a he returned with shcr-
IFS posse TO arrest the men, In the
fight that followed he was killed
Immediately on receipt of the newA
Of the murder additional Pinkerton
men were assigned TO the case, and
Assistant superintendent George d.
Charlesworth was sent to Stanton.
Mr.. Charlesworth tells the following
story of his efforts. ending in the find
ing OF the two men in the east.
Names written In Pen Practice.
Il got into the Rudolph home Sum
day. January "a. while the chase
across the country was in progress
and there found the scrap OF blood
stained paper that led to the arrest Of
the men in Hartford. Conn, Sunday.
Comparison OF penmanshipshowed
that Lewis was the man who had
done the writing. and Lewis Laplant,
Hartford, Conn, was the name and
luQEt-> lHdt nNtd upoH - AhS ny
to the story, and so il was.
ION this scrap of paper were other
names that were put into the reports
sent out from our st. Louis Office and
looked into. One name was that OF
Fred LeDoux, Hartford, Conn., and
who proved to be the sergeant OF
Company NJ. Thirty-fifth United
States Volunteers. under whom Lewis
had served in the Philippines, and
who was killed in action in that coun-
try, and a name that Lewis assumed.
1.-THE charred portion Of the paper
was carefully taken from the stove
and examined under a glass, and IL
proved TO be similar penmanship
practice.
aside from these names. there was
but one other, that of George Collins,
a name that we noted and one that
Lewis later assumed. The rest Of his
writing was merely parts of old songs
and verses and penmansbip scrolls.
"With the descriptions we had Sc
cured, we were in a position to follow
them. They took an Iron Mountain
train out of Potosi, after being fol-
lowed in there. At Bismarck they
took the head end of Cotton Belt
train. On this train a baggageman
saw then in the dark. and Lewis, who
had a bandage around his head, drew
a revolver and drove the man back in
his car.
Reaching Memphis they went t
Birmingham, then to New Orleans,
from there to Boston and to Hartford
where our men have been watching
them for several days.
CIew saved From the Flames.
Lewis was wounded in the fgh!
with the posse, and it was easy tc
trace him about the house. He went
TO the windows frequently to loob
out while preparing for the escape
and YOU could see his blood on the
walls. On a table where he had
picked up the note paper. blood was
sprinklcd freely. Some If 1t dropped
on this paper.
"There had been a good fire in thu
stove, and he had no reason to doub
that the paper would be burned, 5u
il fell too far back
Rudolph. when captured, had S2,30'
in his pockets, and officers found Sc,
$50 more in the prisoners room. al
probably n portion Of the proceeds o
the Union bank robbery.
Held without Bail.
Hartford. Conn, March civilian
Rudolph and George Collins, accuses