Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-04-28
FOUND ROBBERY Easy.
"Johnny" Mccarthy, Yessmar, Talks
of Exploits.

of Exploits.
BALTIMORE, April 25.-"John.ly" Nc
Carthy, alias Dandrell. alias Johnny
Wilson, notorious yeggman and bank
burglar, is now here on his way back
to the Vermont penitentiary, where he
is serving seven-year term for bur-
g!ary. He has just been brought
back from Charleston, 8. c., where he
was taken to testify against yeggmen
arrested here and now convicted of
postofflce robberies in South Carolina.
Mccarthy no longer attempts to con-
ceal the details Of his criminal career.
81 was one of the gang Of yeggmen.
who last year robbed country stores
and small banks throughout Mary
land, Virginia and Delaware" he said.
TT was our push that got into the
safe in the cotton mill office at III
chester, Md, and we also blew open
boxes (safes) in Dover, Brfdgevilie
and Townsend, Del, and Churchill,
Md.
Mccarthy is only twenty-five years
old, and Is possessed Of considerable
intelligence. He says he has made up
his mind to sever all connection with
"crookdom," and after he Is released
from prison will endeavor to lead an
honest life.
81 was a clerk in a Philadelphia
manufacturing concern said McCar-
thy, land occasionally I used to take
run down to Wilmington. There I
met Ned Morgan, who was the leader
of a band of yeggs operating in the
East and South. This was In 1897.
The first job I did was In Murfrees-
boro, N. c. Morgan sent me down
there to look over the ground. re-
ported favorably, and the gang went
down there and blew open q safe.
Well, we worked that section Of the
country pretty thoroughly, and then
came UP through Morgan.
Irish Jimmy Charlie Cross and my
self.
In the winter of 1908 Morgan, Maude
Morgan. and had a house In Alexan-
dria, Va. Morgan got into trouble
there by shooting a man who insulted
Maude. The man didn't die, but Ned
skipped town. Last March year ago
we all came to Baltimore, and worked
off the Jobs at Illchester and Church.
III. / wasn't in the burglary Of the
Sandy Springs (Md.) bank or the La
Plata bank. Just then was attending
to some work on my own account.
Our gang at first hung up on Platt
street, near Gay. Then Steinbach,
alias Johnson, came to Baltimore from
the south and opened saloon at %
South Front street. Morgan knew
him, and we made his place our
hang-o out. While the main part Of the
gang hung up at Steinbach's place,
Morgan, Charlie Cross, Ohio Hump,
another membe- Of the e;iig, und my
self took a flying trip through Della
ware.
I'VE blew a safe at Dover. the cap
ital Of the state, and at Brtdgevtlle.
This was in April or May, 1904. We
got safely away with the goods, about
s., 200 in all, and the next job we did
was at Port Norfolk, Va, where we
tapped a safe in the postoffce and got
$265 In money and $195 In stamps. l
went up north then with the other
section Of the gang The southern
bunch stayed here, and all except four
were rounded up when Pumphrey and
his men raided Steinbach's place, at
23 South Front street.
"Whew! but that was warm raid.
It gave people Of our profession a ter
rible Jar. l was picked up In YER
mont: Morgan and the rest Of the
gang were landed here. Con Shorty,
the Guinea not the Con Shorty who
is awaiting trial on the charge OF
burglarizing the bank at Sandy
Springs, Md, and Charlie Cross went
down south. Both Of them were shot
while attempting to commit burg
larry at Wadesboro, N. c., last week.
Cross will probably die, but they say
Shorty will recover.
THE gang Is pretty well broken up
and I'm out Of 1t for good. We USED
nitro -glycerine exclusively In blowing
a safe. We made the soup as we
call 1t, from dynamite. We would
crumble the dynamite on piece or
paper, and then mix 1t with warm
water In a gauze bag. This bag we
would put in e bucket OF warm water,
and then squeeze 1t with our hands
and the nitro-glycerine would be ex-
tracted and would precipitate on the
bottom of the bucket. Then the wa
ter would be withdrawn with a syr-
inge and the ro-glycerine bottled for
use 1t Is a dangerous stun to mix,
and IL a piece Of sand or anything
gritty gets into 1t It is likely to cause
f,.io and aYDlOsiOn."