The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-10

the money by giving him false informa-
ton, but to listen patiently to what he
had to say and lead him on as far as
possible without giving him any money.
This done Mr.. Pinkerton further pre-
dicted that Hooker would go back to
his cronies and boast of the way he
was fooling Pinkerton and how much
money he expected TO get and that
eventually. through his boastings, ne
would prove the means of locating
Burke, alias Mccoy.
And so, precisely, It fell out. Some Of
Hooker's companions were Pinkerton
detectives, although Hooker did not
know them as such, and they in time
reported back that Burke was really
the Pollock robber; that after commit
ting. the robbery he had gone back to
Omaha, and from there had gone to
Denver. From Denver he went to Salt
Lake, and visited a prisoner in the SAT-
Lake penitentiary, gave this prisoner
some money, and went from Salt Lake
west to the Pacific coast.
Mr.. PinkertOn next Instructed that
the record be examined for daring
*.hold-ups" that might have occurred
in the country lately traversed by
Burke. 1t was than found that a faro
bank at Colorado City, a small place
between Manitou Springs and Colorado
Springs, had been entered late at night
by a mas led robber, who compelled the
dealer and other persons to hold up
their hands, took the money In the
drawer ana GSCaDGGs That 4dLcI Oh q
similar robbery had been perpetrated
at San Bernardino. Cal; that later still
the pool-rOoms of James Malone q
noted gambler at Tacoma, Wash, had
been treated in the same manner; and,
finally. that a light or pane OF glass
in a jeweIry store at Sacramento had
been broken in and a tray of diamonds
snatched from the window by a daring
thief And all of these deeds, Mr. Pink
erton learned ultimately, through
Rockers talk, had been done by
Burke.
The watch on Denton at Omaha de-
veloped little. II anything, except that
close companionship existed between
him and the Omaha pawnbroker.
During the summer of 1898, learning
that an intimate friend of Burke's,
burglar who had been in priso'e with
him in the Utah penitvntiary, was con-
fined in Jail at Georget6 wn, Tex, Mr..
Pinkerton decided to go and interview
this man. and see If he could get any
trace through him, of the robber. In
the meantime he instructed the detec-
tives at Omaha and Denver to keep
a particularly close watch on Jack Den
ton and Hooker.
On Mr. Pinkerton's arrival at Austin,
Texas, he found awaiting him dispatch
es from Superintendent MCFARLAND OF
the Denver agency, stating that through
Hooker's talk they had learned that
kid" Mccoy, or Burke. had been ar
rested at EdEIE, AOA.s Will Il nit VI
burglar tools in his possession, and
was then in jail at Leadville, Col.
Mr.. Pinkerton at once telegraphed to
have Conductor Ashmore and MI Shaw,
the well digger, go to Leadvfile ana see
If they could identify the prisoner. Word
was also sent to New York for Mr. Pol
lock to do the same. He also instructed
Superintendent Mcfarland at Denver
to send his assistant J. G. Fraser 70
watch the case. to that If Mccoy gave
bail or attempted to escape from the
Ileadville Jail, they could be ready with
a warrant for his arrest on account OF
the Pollock robbery.
Having wired these instructions, MI
Pinkerton proceeded on his journey to
/ Georgetown, Texas, where he called on
/ McCoy's former prison associate N me
/ Utah penitentiary. but was unable 10
get him to tell anything about Mccoy,
/ though he volunteered, if Mr.. Pinker-
ton would furnish him a bond ana gel
/ him out Of his Texas scrape, TO 60 70
omaha and compel the renee VINO
had received the diamonds to turn back
/ the nroperty. But the rule Of the Jew
elers' Protective union was TO gel the
/ thief FIRST and the property afterward;
50 no treaty was made with the 1e1ds
/ prisoner. r1o.
CITY. and found awaiting him there dis
matches from superintendent McFar-
{ land of the Denver agency, statlIg thaC
/ Conductor Ashmore and Messrs. oht"
and Pollock naQ POSITIVE AN144 tAtl-e~ -
prisoner James Burke, alias KID. NC
+ Gov. as the man who assaulted MI
pollock and robbed him of his dia-
Burke WINGED perceDtibly- when he
saw Conductor AshInore and Mr.. Shaw,
and went fairly wild when confronted
bv Mr.. Pollock. Requisition papers
we're obtained from the governor OF
the state Of Iowa on the governor OF
/ colorado. and the Colorado ofense be-
/ ing a minor one, Burke was turned over
to Assistant Superintendent Fraser and
another detective to be taken to Logan
Harrison county, Ia. Before leaving
I,eadvilIe Mr.. Fraser was conf7dental l
warned BY the sheriff of the county that
he could not be too careful OF ms
prisoner: for that Burke, through a
/ friend of the sheriff, had made pro
position to the latter to pay him tnou-
sand dollars if he would secretly furnish
/ him with a revolver when he left the
| iail his design being, with this revolver
II either hold up or kill the two de-
/ +ectives who had him in CUSTODY ana
make his escape from the train.
on trjN at Logan. IA, the man was
easily convicted, and was sentenced TO
imprisonment for q term Of Il years.