The San Francisco call., 1903-09-20
Conductors Forge Pay Checks.

BOSTON. Sept 1e.-Five conductors of the
Boston and Northern Street Railway were ar
on the Boston Railroad. Two printers also
were taken into custody and the police say
more arrests will follow 1t Is expected that
the two companies have lost SlG0, 600 the
counterfeting already having been traced back
as far a. last November.
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later IN the presence OF witnesses. Then
the Marshal requested United States Sc
cret Service Agent William ]. Burns to
pinto his Office and listen while Gam
Bile repeated his confession.
GAMBLE WAS RELUCTANT.
''It was hard to get Gamble to confess,
but Burns assisted me, and he proved to
be a shrewd cross-eXaminer, added the
Marshal.
He proceeded to relate that on the con-
fession made last Monday Gamble con-
nected only HON Toon and Wong Tin
with himself in the transaction On
Tuesday Marshal Shine had another con-
ference with Gamble, and after a, session
of an hour and a half succeeded in get
ting the truth out of him with regard to
his white confederates. The Marshal said:
l said to him: II have been your friend
since your boyhood. and ] think you owe 1t
to yourself to your family and certainly to
me TO tell me the whole truth about this mat
ter. IL L have to lose every man in my Of
flee j want to know the truth. / was conf
dent that Pete Gamble never went in there and
put up that job himself / was positive Of
that. l had known him long while and it
the first lie that he had ever told
when he said at the start that he inno-
cent. I said to him, You know I have been
and Burnett get the best Of you you'd better
quit right here. This is your last chance to
talk. l want not only the truth but the whole
truth Then he told all about Dasha
and Burnett and Dempsey and how the sub
etitutions we're made at night in the County
and Parish and in the presence of these wit
nesses he repeated what he had said.
SHINE DEMANDS THE TRUTH.
On Monday the first day I had Gamble go
ever the whole story from the time he left
ship. As soon as he went over the story
knew that it was an untruth. | said: you
are telling me an untruth; want your star
and your gun. Pete. want you to tell me
everything about it,. Then he told me about
those two Cinnamon. and then L asked him
about the jailers.
That was the first time that Gamble
mentioned the jailers, and the Marshal
said that the confessions of Dasha. Bur-
nett and Dempsey corroborated that of
Gamble. After the jailers had been ar
rested Dasha was examined first Burnett
second and Dempsey last. They admitted
that they started in the business of sub
stitution shortly before last Christmas.
and took Gamble in later on
According to the statement of the Fed
eral officials the three jailers and Gam
BILE were the only white persons engaged
in the business.
1--WE were assisted in every way by the
police officials and the Sheriff. added the
Marshal.
The prisoners said that they had not
made more than twenty substitutions in
all, and that the largest sum of money
received for a single transaction was
$1,000 for five substitutes. Dasha and Bur
nett were interested in the last transac-
ton, that was discovered, but none of the
conspirators received any money for the
job on account of it's failure.