The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
IL. G. Cox, alias j. Can
dreWs. Charged With
Holding Up.
MANY PAPERS AND
JEWELS FOUND.
Damaging Evidence Against the
Prisoner Discovered on His
PcrsonBook Contained
Dates for State
Fairs-Dsnies
His Guilt.
Caught almost red-handed. r.

Caught almost red-handed r. c. Cox.
alias ]. c. Andrews, now Ling in q cell
IN tho City jail. charged with the aude-.
cious crime of holding up apd robbinB an.
Eeapoard Air Line train near La Crosse,
Monday morning. will be turned over to
! the Mecklenburg county authorities to-
ds,.s&
w. arrest was made by Officers G. d.
Duke and Il. l.. Norton. OF the Richmond
branch OF the Baldwin Detective Agency.
rear Acca station. on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad,
about $50 O'clock yesterday afternoon,
and the prisoner wus at once taken to
the City jail 10 wait the arrival of
the sheriff OF Mecklenburg
There is no doubt In the minds OF the
officers that Cox. who stout1y denies his
guilt. is the man who was the principal
in the daring robbery, and that he is
ono of the most accomplished crooks In
the country
Upon his person, indeed. was found dam
aging evidence of both. After putting
him behind the bars, Captain Duke and
Mr.. Norton got Conductor Whitehrrst and
Porter Sparrow to look over the pris-.
oner. and both Identified him positively
md at once as the man who engineered
tho crime, and who shot Captain Ever
hart, tile Pullman conductor. Tic latter
has not yet seen Cox, but the evidence OF
the train conductor and porter Is very
strong by way OF Identification.
levels in Pockets.
Tho alleged robber was not armed when
taken Few train robbers are. But in his
pockets were found jewels, such az brace
lets, ladies, rings and Ecart pins, AMI
memorandum books containing dates for;
scores of state and county fairs through
ont the country.
When the officers arrested Cox. ne was
seztcd under IL tras> near Acca Station
withsa young Sco,chnian. and the latter
remarked to Captain Duke and Mr. Nor
ton: :. He's Just reading an account OF tho
train robbery" referring to the prisoner
Captain Duke says Cox was reading the
story from a copy Of the MONDAYS Times
Dispatch. and expressed great surprise at
such a terrible crime.
How long have YOU been In Rich
mond2,, asked one OF the detectives OF
& Cox.
How long have we been in Rich
mond?,' asked Cox OF the little Scotch
man. presumably by way OF duplicating
.the latter. This aroused the ire OF tho
Scotchman, and aftersgiving Cox n gen
teei rating, he gave the detectives ample
assurance that he was innocent OF any
crime; that he had only accidentally
met up With the alleged crook and
that he was on his way North. He was
allowed to go, being manifcstly harm
less tramp.
Grip Sent to Baltimore.
But the evidence against Cox was
strengthened at almost every turn On
his person was found a receipt from
the Southern Express Company in Nor
folk for grip shipped from that city
IN C. Pauley. Baltimore, and dated
January 1st
This is considered such an important
clue that the detectives at once called
up the Baltimore chief of police over the
long distance phone, and asked him to
hold up this grip" until further de.
velopments, which he answered he would
do. if 1t had not already been delivered.
K Unless this man is crook and has
"pals'. throughout the country. he Is
certainly carrying some very dangerous.
goods on his person. They are not piss
tolls or Ebowle-knives. or things destined
to harm others; but they relate to writ
Z ten evidence, which is nearly always
Il dangerous to ones self when he stands
In the fierce light that beats upon the
prisoner at the bar. .s
3 Here is a note, for example, which
taken with the tone OF others OF like
g character found on Cox's person, does
not look at all favorable to the prisoner,
5egpecially when coupled with the &Norfolks
misunderstanding episode:
''Pcrmancnt address
: Mrs. Charles p. Watson,
&. ..Cnre No. 1856 q. IT ST.,
. Earle. Pa.
thereafter write and send all things
to this address.
Upon the pages OF the books taken
4 from Coxs pockets by Captain Duke
4 and Mr.. Norton were no fewer than fifty
or seventy five fair dates. and they We're
I for cities and towns scattered all along
Ii the Atlantic coast, from IN eW Y \ 9rA 4 70
A Georgia.
tt appeared after a careful search by b.,
II the detectives andsn Times Dispatch man
that the Richmond Fair was not book,
ed" by Cox, though whoever made the
memorandums was lighting all around
Virginia. s..t =
Extent Of atoms"
.8 No name cards were found In his case,
\ which was a cheap one, bearing tho adj
vertisement of THE Hub, Glens Falls,
!, New York. Most Of the data in the
Y books referred to or related to fairs sahd
sporting events in 4 New York City and
A State. New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but
the operations OF whoever did the oper-
asating seem to have extended as far
Il East as Vermont and as far South ns
% Georgia. ~
The jewelry found on the man is ans,
III other strong link in the chainsiof evidence
n which seems to he winding itself about
him; FOR It Is not such rs men ordinarily
carry AROUND with them. fEGs
"A diamond scarf pin. not yet taken
X from the ieweler's card was among it,
n and there WIS a. lady's bracelet with
Il lock and key and four or five cheap rings
In one of the pook etbooks or cnrdcases
we're found a large number Of hat checks
given by conductors toy through passer-
4 this shows that Cox had "a hal Dit Of 5ahan-i
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