The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-01

| determined tnat II was impossible u
catch the guilty men.
| But some of the most clever detec-
tives that could be employed were put
on the case. Some failed and gave up,
| but others perseve.'ed and finslly Chief
| to obtain a cle.@.
| A Mrs William Flight. of Forty Fort
! declared that while in the woods she
had overheard two men planning to
| dynamite train. Then they disap-
peared and little while afterward she
heard an explosion. Hurrying to see
| what it was, she met the men running
away. She knew them both well.
! This Usher story, and on the strength
of it Chief Lotus. with the patience Of
the true detective, waited and waited
until the time came and he caught
George Smith. Two weeks later he
captured Nick Calvey,, Smith having
been indicted by the grand jury.
In the meantime, there had occurred
that which made the Lehigh Valley off,
eials doubly anxious to get the two
men. In the latter part of January
Superintendent Pindell, of the Wyom-
ing division. received a letter postmark-
ed Wilkesbarre. declaring that a train
would be dynan1ited unless there was
placed at a certain spot on the noun
tain side a package containing $4,000.
This modest request was accompa MED
by full directions. It was ordered that
preceding the midnight passenger train
an empty engine should start down the
mountain side, stop at the designated
place and one man should then deposit
the package.
This order was, to all appearances,
faithfully followed by the railroad COM
pany, but the dynamiter did not ap-
pear. Perhaps II was because he divin-
ed that there was only blank paper in
the package, that on the engine were
armed men, and that in circle about
the spot were gathered scores of
Sheriff's deputies and special police
men,
Again, in the middle of June, Wilkes
barre came TO the fore as the head
quarters Of a train-wrecking and tly-
namiting threat. President Charles s.
Mellen. OF the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad, received a let
ter at his New Haven office. postmark-
ed Wilkesbarre. In it a man calling
himself Michael J. Sullivan declared
that ne knew all the details of a plot
to wreck the special train on that road
the Chicago convention.
'IIe offered, for $4,000. to tell all the
details of the plot and asked that $40
be sent by postoff1ce money order to
Tunkhannock, a small town 80 miles
above Wilkesbarre.
Postmaster Baldwin was notified to
keep the man there if he appeared, and
there was sent, in care Of the postoffice.
a carefully worded telegram. 1t told
Sullivan that the railroad was very
anxious to get the information he offer
ed and that on Monday morning, June
20, there would arrive at the postoffice
for him the desired money order. In
the meantime detectives were sent to
Wilkesharre and then to Tunkhannock,
where they lay in wait. Sullivan, who
appeared on Saturday night, anxious
TO get the money, was appeased by the
telegram. and on Monday he again ap-
peared. The. money order was there. |
He got the $40 and Immediately the de-
tectives got him.
Then there was revealed a remark
able story. Taken to New York, Sui
Ivan was recognized by Inspector Nc
Clusky as ]. Edwin Stoddard, alias
Paul D. Hart. James NJ. Wilson, David
c. Adams and. John Mason, and also !
by the nickname in police circles as
The Lost Child" He had been re-
leased from the Clinton Prison in New |
York State, on May 4 last. and, it is |
stated, confessed TO McClusky after he. |
with three Others. had on May %, three |
weeks after his discharge from prison. |
fastened railroad ties to the tracks Of |
the New York. New Haven and Hart |
ford Railroad near New Haven for the |
purpose Of wrecking the PittsffeId ex-
press. The logs were discovered and |
the express was saved.
The wrecking OF the express, it is be-
lieved by the officials, was part of the |
dangerous game that Sullivan was |
playing TO get $4,000 from the railroad. |
This is the kind OF man with whom |
the railroads have TO deal Shrewd. |
clever. plausible eonscienceless.-Phila
dsIphia North American