The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22

all right" said. after thinking a mlnuee
Perhaps II is do this way after an -,
rom tbe mint although he insisted had exchanged
good money for all.o them when ne 700, '"0NN
1rben he took me to the attic There he had cruel
netting down gold. We found no money And ne m
sisted no more money was In the house
However Ralston who had been an athlete IN col
Iege amused himself by going around the house break
ing in and occasionally kicking down S paru-
tion. went tour Of exploration oy Inyse-
In the cellar found a iron door opened 1t ana
saw dark cavern SIX teet hTn fa a ana bad bad
odor evidently been used in revolutionary days
attack BY soldiers or Indians this passage
way walked perhaps 100 feet wlsaSus coming " s n
farther. did not know what moment might ran
While was runlmaging around IN the hidden pas
Ralson found large bundle OF letters direct
part simple acknowledgements Of candy and now-
srs In eOaInulns ths ,boDs half busheI OF
expensive pocket knives on the way back to Phila-
Cochrane said he bought and knives because
he wanted to talk to the girls who sold them sra a4S n
You know you can't go into store and talk to & the
young lady clerks business he said a hoor
walker win come along in less than hve minutes and
I asked him if he given presents to
these girls
He declared, however. that the remainder of his gifts
When We reached Philadelphia I put Cochrane in
written to him All worked in the same store picked
a for the girl whose
where she worked. told her what wanted and made
no secret of the fact that cochrane had been arrested
Oh Lizzie. she called out to girl across the aisle
what do think? That old fool OF Cochrane who
candy. robbed the mint"
In few minutes the news all over the store and and
from them as an 70 talk and send flowers and
candy From some of the girls also obtained letters
Cochrane had written to them But not one Of these
missives contained suggestion of anything improper
For the they read practically as follows:
Dear MISS smith init, l was in the store to see YOU
will soon be restored to your usual good health"
ther so we weighed up the gold and the coin we had
recovered from Cochrane and found 1t amounted to
Cochrane's bond which signed by Colonel snowden
former superintendent OF the mint for only $4,000
But Cochrane readily agreed 10 what prop
he had to the government signed what is
known in Pennsylvania Judgment note." by the
of which the government authorized to sell
at auction his real estate and personal property And
by the time the auction or the pub
lie interest in the old there crowd OF buyers
Old Henry" who after serving AZ years in the mint
had robbed it Of fortune Chairs worth only 40 so
had to only few dollars make good the
With cochrane safely n jail most money,
recovered. started to run him out" as detectives
ically from start finish And 1 found he had been
who dealt with the mint I discovered he
had been robbing dealers in old gold for is years
deal Of labor the object Of my already
been more than satisfied This IS the Cochrans
would come to the mint with a lump OF metal
representing watchcase ring old spectacle
bows. perhaps that he had melted COchrane.
the chief weigher. would wait him. He would weigh
the lump and give the receipt for certain
Der OF ounces Of gold the value Of which would later
be determined by its
The man would go away. Coehrane would
lump of metal home with him. it. pour in a large
h quantity OF alloy and the mint Then
10 he would turn, it the
't pure and DIX price accordingly When
10 the cAme would tell him the price
ID Fixed by the assayer and him the low price
le amount OF metal originally by
ID the mint pocketing the difference himself II the
IN dealer protested Cochrane would assay
After Cochranes arrest the mint was overrun with
W dealers in old gold who said they long known he
Id thief One said Coehrane robbed him
so of $500 had his gold
ID before witnesses before taking mint
TO and when Coehrane reported it OF
hneness the point prosecuting desisting
only because Of the difficulty OF lighting what he
se feared might become the government itself
When Cochrane trial he defended by
James NJ Beck, who later famous In connec-
Id on with of the suits brought under Sherman
antitrust law. Mr.. Beck before court
~ opened
Mr.. Drummond. all this an old
thief but II put you the a
ne ness for the defense. what would about his
mental balanceg'
IN would say" said T. that believed he knew exact
y what he was doing when he robbed the government
and that he knew wrong. II direct
re question would that while did not regard him
as insane. considered him not well balanced
tally as most are in other words that he has not
ar
I'll call ass the only witness for the defense
ell Mr. replied your opinion
than the testimony alenists I get"
COchrane behavior. a
out I remember correctly IN 1900.
Dr. He made his home Philadelphia and sometimes
M wandering around the mint But he went
d. in. He died in 1906 at the OF so.
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