The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-09

of Gallagher, the willy Prussian did not
take offense nor deny that he ever
handled such goods, but he began TO
put KennOch through a course of ques-
tioning concerning his past. Kennoch
claimed he had served in q. New York
penitentiary, but he could not furnish
such proofs as demanded, for the rea-
son that no such proofs existed. and
Biebush was cutting enough TO know
genuine proofs from false ones. Here
was failure number two.
j did not consider myself any shreWd-
er at. such work than Kennoch but il
Is a universal trait for one to believe
he can do Il thing better himself than
anyone else can do il for him. [ deter
mined to see whateI could do toward
leading the old fox into our trap.
was not known to BiebuSh. I allowed
my beard to grow into a stubble and
chose the makeup of "a river man II
l may be pardoned the depression 1 will
say that with a few days growth OF
beard and rough clothes 1 could look
tough enough to satisfy even the fas-
tidious Biebush TO whom the appear
ance of "toughness" was II strong re-
cOmmendation. Thus attired / made nv
debut at Bosses. There was a card
game in progress most of the time, and
L sat in. Biebush and others whom
[ afterwerd learned were members OF
his band played IN the game with me.
L AIEQuGhlly SdI Opposite quarry and
studied him closely. Friendly relations
were established between us. and /
thought matters were progressing IA
vorably until I limited to odd Fred
that L would like to handle some of his
goods. Then 1 found 1 had made just
as much progress as Gallagher and
Kennoch had made-and no more Bic
bush said he did not object TO doing
business with me. but he had no
coney just them" From the way be
spoke ] knew L was wasting my time
and that before we landed him behind
prison bars we would have to practice
deeper and more circuitous methods in
'roping." Failure number three.
Before I took charge of the ST. Louis
district ] had been Informed by q dep
uty warden in the Joliet penitentiary
that certain prisoner in that institu-
ton had intimated to him that ne had
information which migAt be OF value 10
the secret service. l bethcught myself
of this and went TO see him. He proved
10 be John Bridges alias ''Hoosier
Bill, under sentence for horse steal
ing. This worthy was an Indiana pro
duct and something over 40 years old.
he was cOngenial criminal stopping
only at murder. His favorite form OF
crime was 'garrOting," that is. grab
bling a pedestrian by the throat from
behind thrusting his knee into The
small Of the victims back and thus
pinioning him while his ASSISTANT re-
lieved the prey of valUables But i'm the
form of crime .'Hoosier BIZ was not
over particular taking side excursions
into the field of burglary. horse steal
ing and petty acts of knavery. The Chi
caso police knew him as q West Side
hold-up man OF dangerous character.
L listened to his story with deep in
terest as it bore directly Oh the case
IN hana-the landing Of the big fish
We were playing for--Fred Biebush.
"Hoosier Bill knew Biebush intimate
y. He had established this intimacy by
presenting proper penitentiary creden-
tlals, of which he had plenty. Before he
ran afoul of an Illinois Sheriff and had
been settled for driving or the wrong
horse, Bridges had operated in St
Louis as burglar and turned over to
Biebush such Of his ''swag'' as was
suitable TO the latter's purpose. eSpec-
tally the solid silyerware. On one oc-
casion he had arrived at the Biebush
residence at o'clock in the morning
in cab. bringing with him a package
of silverware. The paper wrapper broke
as he was about to ring the door bell,
scattering the loot over the porch. The
"cabby' helped him gather it UP. after
which Biebush appeared and took Il
into the house. i found this cabbv',
later and used him as a witness against
BiebUsh
The 'swas brought ia by burglars
~a= paid for IN 'cnne,-' .sccording. To-