The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

Obdurate; and when Crawford and his
| friend became violent in manner, he
remarked meaningly that if they made
any more trouble he would deliver the
package of money to the Adams EX-
press company and let the company
decide to whom it belonged This
brought the angry claimants to their
senses, and CrawfOrds friend left the
house and never returned. Finally
CrawfOrd's uncle compromised the
contention by giving his nephew $500
out of the $4,000, and retaining the
balance himself, in payment, one must
suppose, for his silence. At any rate
he kept $1,000 and also a receipt in
CrawfOrd's handwriting for the $500
paid to him.
Other members of the family re-
called the fact that a few days after
the robbery, Crawford had left in his
aLnts stOre-rOOm a Valise, which he
had subsequently called for and taken
away. None of them had seen the
contents of the valise but they re-
membered that Crawford on the sec
ond visit had remained alone in the
store-room for quite a time, perhaps
twenty minutes, and after his depar-
ture they found there a rubber band
ire lIlOSS uSSu dl the DdIlk. Inc de-
tectives also discovered that on the
18th of May, 1888, eleven days after
the robbery, Crawford had rented
safety deposit box at a bank in the
fifth Avenue hotel building under the
name of Eugene Holt On the 18th Of
May he had exchanged this box for a
larger one. During the following
months he made several visits to the
NErha
known.
On presenting the accumulated evil
dence to the Adams Express company.
along with his own deductions, Robert
Pinkerton was not long in convincing
his employers that the situation re-
quired in Central America the pres
cree of some more adroit detective
than had yet been sent there. The
difficulty of the case was heightened
by the fact that Crawford had estab-
Used himself in British Honduras.
and that the extradition treaty be-
tween the United States and England
did not then, as it does now, provide
for the surrender of criminals guilty
of such Offenses as that which CraW-
ford was believed to have committed.
Crawford could be arrested, therefore.
only by being gotten into another
country by some clever maneuVer.
The man best capable of carrying out
such a maneuver was Robert Pinker-
ton himself; and, accordingly, the ex-
press company, despite the very con-
siderable expense involved. and fully
aware that the result must be uncer-
tain, authorized Mr.. Pinkerton TO go
personally in pursuit of Crawford
Mr.. Pinkerton arrived at Balize. the
capital of British Honduras, on Feb.
II, 1890, nearly two years after
the date of the robbery. There he
learned that CrawfOrd's plantation
was about ninety miles down the
coast, a little back of Punta Gorda
PUnta Gorda lies near TIE line sep
arating British Honduras from Guate-
mala, ana is not more than a hundred
miles from Spanish Honduras, O: Hon
duras proper. directly across the Gulf
of Honduras.
Difficulties confronted Mr.. Pinkerton
from the very start. People were
dying about him every day of yellow
fever, and when he started for Punta
Gorda on little steamer the engineer
came aboard looking as yellow as SAT-
from. and Immediately began 10 vomit,
so that he had to be taken ashore.
Then the engine broke down several
times on the voyage, and the heat was
insufferable.