Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-08-22
PINKERT0N SAYG H..
A SINGLE CRIglE PAYS

MUM l. t'ttA lilt Wv i'Ns w sAA-
dress before the annaa convention of
the international association Of chiefs
IF police in jamestown. his subject
being Train Roboeries. Train Robbers
and the Hold-up Man"
According To Nj. Ptnkorton the train
,obber evolved from the '~hold-up'
man of the mining camps. who held
up the stages CARVING treasure. Then
came the train robber. who MAS also
often Il bank roDbe: and general road
agent.
1T is somewhat rouaarkahle.' he
said. and peculiar that MANY of these
criminals We're brothers or members
If ore family. OF those | recall the
Reno brothers. John. Frank. sim and
,Hill; the Ecitenhouse brothers, the
Miles brothers. James X. and Joe. all
of Indiana: the harrington brothers.
levy and Hillary. of wast Tennessee.
;the Younger brothers. Cole. Jim. John
and Bob. the Logan brothers. Harvey
and Lonny; the Collins brothers, part
of the Sam Base gang. joel, William
and Albert: the McDaniels brothers.
lpart of the Jesse James gang. Bud and
William. of Missouri.
The Dalton brothers,. Bill. Bob. En-
inett and Grafton. of Kansas: the
Burrows brothers. Rube and Jim. of
Alabama: the Sontag brothers.. John
:tNu GEORGE. OF MlllileSptt, tuc idt'
brothers. of California: the Jones
brothers. the Mccarthy brothers, Tom
and Bill. of Colorado. the Cook broth
ers. Bill and Jim. of kansa h
We're part of the Dalton gang. and the
Carver and Fitzpatrick brothers., OF
Texas.
shortly after the close of the civil
war there was an epidemic of traii:
robbcries in Indiana. The Adams EN-
press company. which was the prin-
cipal loser In those raids, determined
to disband this 'hold-up' and My
father, Allan Pinkerton, representing
the express companies, undertook this
task. 1t was early determined that the
robberies were perpetrated by a bad
gang who made Seymour and the adj
tacent town of Rockford their head-
quarters. practically under he leader
ship of four Reno brothers.
The Gangs Crew.
AT the close of the war the Renos
and their associates returned to their
homes in the neighborhood of Sey-
mour. Ind. had plenty of money, with
which they diss.pated and gambled
The other young men il. the neighbor-
hood observing their r~oci.less eXpendi.
lures. naturally desired 10 also acquire
none quickly and began holding up
and robbing messengers on express
trains on railroads near Seymour. The
gangs grew, among them Albert
Sparks. Henry Moore, John Gerrold
and Thomas Henry.
1.-The Renos met their first Waterloo
when. in the winter of 1867 and 1868,
John Reno went to Gallatin, Mo.
robbed the county treasurer'S Office OF
$4,000 returned to Seymour. Ind, not
fearing eXtradition from his strong
hold. but one day a Missouri sheriff
with six deputies entered Seymour on
a through train. John Reno had beer
decoyed by one OF our secret opera
tives to the station. and while the train
was in 1t the sheriff and posse quickly
pounced on Reno and pulled him.
aboard the train.
Served His Time.
There was no time for the writ OF
habeas corpus. or any other legal for
mality to prevent his removal. ano
John Reno was kept flying fast until
he was landed over the Indiana line
and finally landed in Jail at Gallatin
Mo, where he was tried. convicted and
, sentenced to twenty years ut the Mis-
souri, penitentiary. He served every
day of his time.
, The rest of the Reno gan continu-
, ed in their criminal career until the
farmers took them from JAIN. where
they were lodged after robbing the
: Adams Express of 10000 near Sey-
% and lynched them. That endeo
: train robbery in Indiana.
There is no crime in America sc
hazardous as 'hold-up' robbery. Oyer
W. " " w b''iI VII
gagged In it nave eventually either beer
killed outright. operating or RESISTING
. arrest, lynched by POSSES or what is
! known as died with boots on Many
d were wounded and died from the ef-
. fcctS of wounds. while nearly all Others
we're either captured or sentenced Il
long terms of imprisonment or driver
from the United States, becoming ex
lies in distant foreign climes.
i, Il have maintained that no crime
1 naNc nd a. ,,nv cont IF ar;,.,;.aI, 1t
!, IN debt and frequently in want. Wher
the criminals time comes for punish.
ment nearly all leave their families IL
!: actual wart.",.
> Detectives Killed.
: Mr.. Pinkerton said:
: IN the early sixties. when we begar
! operating in the interests Of railroad
|, and express companies. the disband.
' ment of these outlaws, then numerous
. WAS extremely difficult. and only ac,
!. complished by considerable loss of lift
= of many brave detectives. sheriffs
' marshals and policemen. Two OF GU
detectives were killed in ar effort Il
s apprehend the James and Younse,
|. bands. but each time they were killed
= their comrades In our ranks were read,
= to supplant them In the work. An ex
= sheriff, farmer who resided near TIL
James home and citizens who wer'
suspected of cooperating with us wer'
ut the same time a~ssassinated."
70 Mr.. Pinkerton has a poor opinion o
W the James boys and their companion,
"a in crime. the ~Youngers, who terrorize,
h Missouri and Kentucky. The publiahe,
h tales of their powers, he declares
n. were overdrawn. and the statemen
10 that they were never arrested h
IT. stamps as false.
to "Black Bart"
ly He told of the more than fifty stag
o. robberies of BLACK Bart" the lon
highwayman of California. who neve
Oh had a confederate never shot M