The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-15
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| The harvest Of ill-gotten gains con-
tinued. The loot grew bigger. All
places where the goods could be sold
were watched, but nothing came of
| the detectives efforts.
That gang was the Canton gang.
The goods went to Canton, where,
Caster says, it was handled by Jake
Frailey, "the man who bought the
swag from all the boys"
From all over the country sparklers
came. Many of them came from
Pittsburg and Cleveland. All found
their way to Canton, where, Castor
says, they were handled by FTailey.
When the job came off in Cleveland,
when the tray of diamonds was stolen
from a jeweler in the Arcade, Castor
says Frailey sent him to Cleveland to
try and have them brought to the
Canton fence for sale. The Canton
gang did not know who had pulled off
the job, and as the work was near to
their territory, Castor was sent to
bring the parties in, for FTailey said
that there should be some sort of an
understanding over the job.
In detail the condemned man told
Of the way in which the guns"
squared so that they might WORK out
from Canton and not be disturbed by
the police.
SAYS CROWLEY RAN THE JOINT.
"Jim," alias Jumbo" Crowley, ran
the "gun joint" low saloon which
was the hang-out for the boys of the
road We paid to Crowley, each one
of us, our bit for protection. That
went to the police, so Crowley
said, and guess it did, for once when
| was suspected of job at a post
office near Canton, and an unwise cop
per made talk about me. l hustled
back from Cleveland to Canton and
Crowley sent for the cop, and he was
brought in by another one. Crowley
gave them an awful calldown, and l
was told that / would not be molested.
never was.
I'VE paid for our protection, and I
must say the police were cheap lot.
They were 'pikers,' and the guns knew
/. But we did not get the benefit.
When we pulled off turn we sold the
oot to Frailey, and he got the big
profit. He is now rich and pays no
heed to my request for money to carry
my case to the federal supreme court. |
He has made a fortune off me, and l
suppose he thinks that l am gone
low and i will not again be able
% do him good or III. l will fool him.
will tell all l know, and the truth.
You can corroborate every statement
make.
DIVIDING THE PROFITS.
We'll, Crowley would get the rest
If the coin after we had got through |
with Frailey and his gambling joints. 7
Many of us were too wise to go up
against the pinch spindles and stuff, |
20 we blew our coin at Crowley's |
md so either one OF the other of them |
got it all.
"One time ! was hired to blow up !
he steps of the homes of the Youngs- !
own chief of police and detectives. |
They had given offense to one Of the |
canton gang. So it was decided to |
yive them a scare and let them know |
hat they must not monkey with the |
yong. 1t was one of the big ones who |
got sore; not we boys who did the !
work. We did not care anything about |
I, but we were to do the work just |
he same. Doc Mayer was the chief
# detectives of Youngstown and Nc
Oowell was the chief Of police. They |
ived just opposite one another, on
! street near the depot. was picked |
o do the job. Two big sticks of dyna- |
mite were bought for me-big enough !!
o blow up the town. The fuses were
to be slow, but / thought |
hey were a bit fast did not like
he looks of the layout.
TOOK FUSES OUT.
~ was taken to the place and |
showed the lay of the ground. The
light came for the job. and with the
wo sticks, ] blew into the neighbor- |
lood. But knew that the dynamite
would not stop at those steps and |
lid not want to be tangled up in
illing anyone that way. So ] took
,ut the fuses and burned them. Then !
put the ash back In the sticks, and |
aid them gently down beside the |
,teps Of the two chiefs. The scare
vas there, and got my coin, but
here was no blow up, for the man
Who hired me to do that Job thought
hat the fuses were bad
81 will tell you soon who II was
hat hired me TO do that Job. / have
Wired Chief Meyer to come here. He
s not the chief now, but / want to !
ell him about the job, and who it /
vas put 1t up on him. ] have also
written to Mr.. Houser, who lost the