Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-28
discovers this usually tries again. and
ultimately becomes confirmed stick

discovers this usually tries again, and
ultimately becomes a confirmed stick
UP.
when the Pollock case was called
to my attention officially my mind re-
verified Immediately to the Reno stick
up, and the kid who as l have been
informed. was guilty. I had not used
this information at the time, but l had
preserved memoranda of what gatnb-
lers had told me in Ogden two years
before. This youth was known by the
name of Mccoy. We found he had en-
gagged permanently in stick-ups in Kan
sas City, Topeka, Lincoln. Denver. Col
orado City. San Bernardino, Call
pretty much all over the west, in fact.
l discovered that the gambler friend
with whom Mccoy had associated was
one of the gamblers who had been in
the pawn shop when Pollock traded the
diamond and showed his goods. I
found he had served g. term of one year
in the Utah penitent airy, and had left
Omaha shortly before the Pollock job
was done. In Utah we got a good pie,
ture of him. We finally captured him
in Leadville Colo, and he was posi-
lively identified We brought him back
to Iowa, where, in spite of the vast
array OF money and influence brought
against us, he was convicted and sem
fenced to serve seventeen years in the
penitentiary. He is now out and lead
in a different life.
"This man was known as Frank
Shercliffe, which was not his name,
nor was Mccoy. We Investigated his
history and found him to have been
raised in Aurora, Ill When Is years
old, he had stuck up store there, and,
on being pursued by crowd. he stood
off a goodly portion of the population
with pistol. This was in 1883. He
was caught, convicted and sentenced
to three years in Joliet. From his pic
ture obtained at Joliet we found he
had been arrested at Gallatin, Mo-, for
the same crime. While being led along
the street by the sheriff, Shercliffe
dropped dollar and asked the sher-
if:
rs that your dollar"
"The sheriff STOPPED to pick it up,
and as he did so the prisoner wrested
his revolver from him, covered him
with it, forced him to accompany him
through alleys and byways to the out
skirts Of the town. where Shercliffe
gave him a kick and babe him good
by. We found his tracks in Kansas
City and Denver. in the latter place,
with an accomplice, he entered an i'm
moral resort patro1lized by the best
men in Denver. The accomplice herd
ed all the women into the parlor, while
Shercliffe stuck up men-all there
were in the house--relieving them of
their money and vsluables. Owing to
the prominence Of the men none Of
them made any public outcry. In
Colorado City Shelcliffe stuck up a
faro bank and sixteen men. In San
Bernardino, Cal, he. repeated this per-
Torrance and later accomplished the
same feat in Tacoma, Wash. In Seat
tie he was arrested, but escaped on a
straw bond. Going to Lincoln, Neb.,
he smashed the glass in a jewelry
store window, grabbed tray of dia-
monds and stood the crowd off with
pistol.
81 have related at some length the
principal points in the career Of Sher-
cliffe because he was the first of his
kind and a perfect type of this class.
Since the Pollock stick-up in 1898
have noticed an alarming increase Of
this class of crime, especially in the
large Cities