The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-26
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 DUNCAN GAMELY PAGES DEATH
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 Last night Mrs. Duncan received small amount toward the fund which is being raised toward defraying the ex- penses of paying transportation for her. self and the corpse to Ohio. It is ex- pected that other funds will come in this morning.
 Duncan's Crime.
 The crime which Duncan expiated on the gallows yesterday is well known to newspaper readers in Birmingham, the district, and, in fact, the entire state Frank Miller and Frank Duncan were charged with killing Officers Adams and Kirkley on Twentieth street about mid night on March 20, 1900. The two officers had arrested Duncan and Miller on the charge of robbing the safe at the Stand ard Oil company and assaulting the night watchman. They were arrested at the corner of Nineteenth street and Third avenue and while en route to the police station the two officers were shot and fatally injured
 
 Ter paid the death penalty. On the gallows he declared that Duncan was not guilty which contention has always been held by the man who died yesterday. Duncan was tried since Miller and sentenced to die, but in January, 1903, he escaped from the county jail and was at large up until few weeks ago, when he was captured In Florida. At the time of his capture he was charged with safe blowing. While Duncan was at large all efforts were ex- erted by Sheriff Burgin to apprehend him. Thousands Of dollars were spent and at last the right man was captured.
 Duncan and Miller belonged to fam ous gang of safe-blowers and all-round srooks. In speaking of the gang, the Gin cnnati Enquirer of recent date said:
 Duncan was brought up in Covington, where his people resided He was known to the police of Covington and cincin- natl early in life. He served a term in Frankfort prison for burglary in Coving- ton
 The capture of the gang in Birmingham was preceded by a regular whirlwind of crime. No fewer than 300 safes from Scioto county, Ohio, through Kentucky Ten nessee and Alabama. Chattanooga, Atlan- ta, Augusta and Louisville, and Ports mouth and Cincinnati, were some of the larger cities visited.
 On March 27. 1900. the gang blew the safe of the Standard Oil company in Br- mingham and nearly killed the watch man. On the same night Policemen Kirkley and Adams tried to arrest them .at Toby Hendricks, alias Dutch John was hang ed and three others given long terms in the penitentiary. Both Duncan and Hen dricks blamed the killing of the police men on New York Harry Manning. the member of the gang who got away. They were safe in doing this as they knew that New York Harry" had gone to some foreign city and he Is now thought to be in Europe.
 Was College Graduate.
 This trio, according to the local police planned the safe blowing jobs. Dutch Johnr was the ''heady' man. He knew how to prepare and handle explosives Dutch John Hendricks was college graduate and a man of unusually high or der of intelligence. He was graduated from a college In Germany and studied for the priesthood. He came to New York and in a wild escapade landed in the police station drunk While there he fell in with some crooks, who recognized the worth of his intellectual abilities. He be- came head of a gang and planned the line of operation. The other New York Harry" was the 'prower' and located
 
 and did the dangerous work and lifting Of the booty.
 He and his partner Frank Stafford were