The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-04
FINDING MINNEAPOLIS LOOT.
POLICE RECOVERED S1OO,00O IN
FACE IALIE YESTERDAY.

charged with stealing jewelry, silverware,
stocks and bonds valued at 500 900 from
DR.. Nicholas j. Pinnult, a surgeon Of Mime
apolis, was arraigned before Magistrate
Moss in the Tombs police court yesterday
and remanded to the Tombs prison for
forty-eight hours without bail, pending
the arrival of extradition papers from
Minnesota. Bartlett is the man who was
arrested by Detective Dougherty OF the
Pinkertons and Detective Sergeants Muir
ply and Pollock under the name o Thomas
j. Wainwright.
Inspector Mclaughlin succeeded in get
ting a full confession from Bartlett before
he went to court yesterday. He learned
that all Of Bartlett's booty which had not
been disposed Of was locked up in the Hud-
son River branch of the Corn Erchange
Bank at Seventy-second street and Column
bus avenue, the Lincoln Safe Deposit Com
pany on Broadway, between Twenty
fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, and in trunks
in the rooms at ll0 West Forty-ninth street,
1873 West Ninety-fourth street and Al West
Forty-sixth street, in all Of which place
Bartlett had lived in his ten days stay
here.
The inspecto or sent Detective Sergeants
Murphy and Pollack to the Corn Exchange
Bank to test the truth Of Bartlett's con-
fession, The detectives worked all day
and when they returned to Police Head
quarters late in the afternoon they had
succeeded in rounding up over $l00,0 900
worth of booty, face value. q
The detectives will tackle BartlettS de-
post box in the Lincoln Safe Deposit Com
pany to-day, and they expect to make
another big haul which will bring the total
n,AN,,nt - "a al at . ataalinra tn NIEl 0D
The list Of articles recovered included
four wills. One was a French will which
Bartlett used to show that he was settling
a French estate when he sold the antiques
to Wrone and Wrone, which led TO his cap
ture. The other wills were that OF Mary
j. n. Pinault, drawn up at st. Cloud, Mimi,
and that Of Nicholas j. Pinault of the same
place and tina Of Louis G. Fourier.
Several letters Of PRODUCTION and recon-
mendation, which Inspector Mclaughlin
thinks are forgeries, were also found. These
letters came from the Republican national
committee of Massachusetts,, from The
Fair, Chicago, and from several Boston and
Chicago firms. They gave Bartlett recon-.
Inendations for honesty, and it is supposed
that he showed these letters to DIR. Plnault
when he applied for the position OF care
taker in answer to the doctors newspaper
advertisement.
Bartlett also told the inspector how he
got into DIR. Pinault's vault in Minneapolis.
He watched the doctor for days while he
worked the combination to his private safe
and finally solved the combination. In the
safe Bartlett found the keys to the vault.
He hen ingratiated himself with the en-
ployees in the Minneapolis Safe Deposit
Company by hiring a vault there for his
W use. Then he led the clerks to believe
that he had charge of his own and the doc
tors vaults One day he emptied his W
vault and then said to a clerk:
Il guess I'll empty the other one, now
too"
He did 1t without arousing the slightest
suspicion.
ault's vault, Bartlett's movements we're
Kaleidoscope, and with every move he made
he took on a new name. In chicago, aG-
cording to his own statement, he met with
a pretty girl. He gave her lclothes,. paid
his various movin gs from place to place.
He also stored some OF his loot in trunks
which he left with >his brother, Edward
Bartlett, in Bridgeport, Conn,
q do not believe that Bartlett's brother
has any connection with the case at all,
but was merely used as a tool and con-
venienoe," said Inspector Mclaughlin.
In searching among Bart let's effects,
Yesterday, besides the magazine automatic
~revolvers found, the police found a copy
OF a paper published in Toledo, Ohio, and
devoted exclusively to matrimony.
Chief Watts of Bosto on got into telephone
communication with Inspector Mclaughlin
Yesterday morning and told the inspector
that the Thomas j. Wainwright who was
arrested was really Albert W. BARTLETT of
ard that he was wanted in Boston for pass
ing worthless checks. Chief Watts also
told Of the mans prison record.
On July o, 1885, Bartlett was arrested
| for highway robbery, and on February
20, 1885, was sentenced to the Massa chui it's
ID FN-~ tA~tv For ~ N.nn a Tl hU tho ~ am
| Superior Court. He called himself Clinton
b. Hadley then.
on September -, 1890, he got twelve
wears in Connecticut for highway robbery
and burglary. He and a pal entered a
! iewelry store and at the point of a revolver
held UP the clerk and robbed the store,
| GEORGE W. Wallace was his name then
and until he was released on January IA,
1901.
1t is said by the Boston police that BARTLETT
was mixed up some years ago with TAN
dolph c. Surbridge in some crooked legal
work. Surbridge disappeared and has
never been found.
Just what the police expect to recover
in the Lincoln Safe Deposit Company's
vault to-day is not Known, but it is said
that a large amount of cash is vet unac-
counted for, even in Bartlett's confession
The list Of property recOyeren yesterday
included, besides the items mentioned
above the following:
Note. two years. November 20, 1904. y. J. Pinsu!t.
planE form OF credit statement. Security Bank
Of Minneapolis.
National Bank OF 81. Cloud, MINI, In three certih-
overland Gold Mining Company. of Oregon,
seven certificates 10 Nj. pinault amounting TO
sS7. 900.
eighty Ave shares OF 500 each, In the MINES OF
Alice ". whitney and Mrs. Albert q. Whitney.
500.
Two safe deposit keys,
Rcrplpts for rent, II. Williams.
Memorandum OF combination lock.
Florcntine Mosaic cAsket oval
silver watch,
MAY -. 1908.
Deposition signed Paul Berthoy, notary, June p,
Power OF attorney, Louis G, FoumIer to Frank
ZiCr.
Letters patent. W, d. Young. Minnea polls. MINI.
Wallet containing real estate bond coupon.
No, 5G2i. 4. Erickson (&l Carrie Erickson. First
National Bank OF Red Lake Falls, MINI,
Blank checks on First National Bank OF Min
"Cancelled check, $4,000. oil First National Bank
OF Minneapolis signed n. j. PinAult,
First mortgage note, Albert G. Whitney and
Certificates OF stock, SIS shares, First State Bank
OF Red Lake Falls. Mimi, Theo. Garceau.
First mortgage note, Jennie S. Crevter and Louis
p. Crevier, IS 5000, April, 1895. minneapolis MINI.
Certificate OF title, No. 525. Marie J. Pinault.
Registrar Henepin Co., Minnesota.
Certificates OF stock, Int. Elevator Company,
Ltd, $50 shares. to Mrs, N. j. Pinault.
Da,oI Lincoln Safe DPDnSlt On an