The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-17

'ti1 5oAi6f buLfu wa j lithl Dthtl-
burglar and all-around thief, whose
operations kept him travelling all over
the United States
The police in various cities having
been communicated with to no pur-
pose. Mr.. Stone finally decided TO do a
thing the like of which no newspaper
proprietor perhaps ever undertook be
tore-that Is, start ON a personal search
for Mccoy and his associates. With
Frank Murray, one of the best detec-
lives in Chicago. and other detectives.
he went TO GaIesburg. where the gang
was said TO have a sort of headcuar-
ters. The party found there none Of
the men they were after but they
learned that "Thatch' Grady notori-
Gus criminal with whom Butch" Nc
Coy was known TO be in relations. was
IN Omaha. So they hurried 10 Omaha,
but only 10 find that Grady had gone
To 81. Louis. Then TO ST. Louis went
Mr.. stone and his detectives. hot on
the scent. and spent several days in
that city searching high and low.
The method Of locating d criminal in
a great city is as interesting as il is
little understood The first step is TO
secure from the local police informa-
ton as TO the favorite haunts of GRIM
inals Of the class under pursuit, paying
special regard in the preliminary in
/ quiries 10 the possibility of love af-
Ialrs; for thieves. even more than hon
est men, ARE sWayed in their lives by
I the tender passion, and are often
. brought 10 justice through the agency
OF woIhen. With so much of such in
formation in their possession as they
could gather, Mr. Stone and bis detec-
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picking up acquaintance with freouept-
ers. and. whenever possible. turning
the tax adrOitly upon the man thev
/ were looking for. II is a mistake 10
suppose that in work like this detec-
ives disguise themselves. False boards
ana mouslaches, goggles and lightning
changes OF clothing are never heard of
7 except IN the pages of badly informed
story writers. In his experience of over
twenty-five years MIR. Murray never
wore such disguise, nor did he know
OF any reputable detective who did
In this expedition the detectives sim
ply assumed the characters and general
style of the persons they were thrown
with, passing for men OF sporting
I tastes from the east: and. having sat-
I lsfled the people they met that thew
meant no harm, they had 10 difficulty
IN obtaining such news OF Mccoy and
the others as there was. Unfortunate-
~, this was not much.
After going from one CITY 10 another
on various clews, hearing OF one mem
Der or the gang here and another
there and in each instance losing their
man. the detectives finally brought IN
IN New Orleans. They had spent five
or SIX weeks OF time and q large
amount of money, only 90 find them
selves absolutely without a clew as to
the whereabouts of the men they were
pursuing. They were much discour-
aged. when q telegram from Mr.. Pink
erton told them that Butch" Mccoy
was back in Galesburg where thew had
hrst sought him. Proceeding thithar
with all dispatch. they traced Mccoy
into saloon, and there three of them
John Smith. representing the Rock
Island railroad; John NfcGinn. for the
Pinkerton agency, and Frank Murray
working for Mr. Stone-with drawn re-
volvers. captured him. In spite of a
desperate dash he made TO escape.
McCOys capture was the occasion of
much felicitatiOn among the people in
terested i'm the matter Mr.. St John
and Mr.. Stone We're confident that now
the whole mystery of the express rob
berry would be solved and the murderer
convicted. Nut Mccoy showed on trial
that ne had left New Orleans To come
north only the night before the murder
and had spent the whole of that night
on the Illinois Central RAILROAD It
also appeared that McCoy's associate.
Connors. was in jail az the time of the
robbery. and that the man JEFF" was
dead Thus the whole Pluni1ett story
was exploded.
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had ridden on the free pass and given
the detectives SO much trouble, had
been accidentally found by Jack Null
Inns, a brakeman on Conductor Dan
forth's train. He proved 70 be an adj
yertising solicitor, employed by no
other than Mr.. Melville +. Stone, who
would have given a thousand dollars
Ia know what his agent knew, for the
advertising man had seen the conduct