The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-09
He WAS GREEN.
Fred Briody Flefced By Conf
donce Men on Train.
Two Men / lentified in Topeka
by Victim
LIVE AT GRANVILLE.
One cf Them Owns the Elevator
There.
LIVE AT GRANVILLE.
Old Draft Schem Worked and
Stopped a Wedding.

w F. Quinlan and D. d. Bor-
roughs have been arrested by city de-
| tectives and special railroad detectives
| from Kansas City on the charge of
working confidence game on
ranchman on Union Pacific train.
Fred Briody, ranchman OF Glow
erdaIe, Oregon, was relieved of $95
| bv confidence men as an early morn
| ing L. f train passed through To-
| peka. The men dropped off the train
| at the U. P. and Santa Fe Junction in
the east part of the city. Briody went
on to Kansas City where he was met
| by F. w. Stevens, a Z. P. detective,
who had been wired by the conductor.
| Stevens Immediately telegraphed the
chief OF police here to watch all trains
and taxing the man doubled back to
Topeka. All trains were carefully
watched, but no one answering the
descriptions of the men was seen un-
til last night when Stevens and Briody
saw these men make for a train.
Briody Immediately recognized them
as the men who got his money. Stew
ems and an officer detained the men
and phoned for the patrol wagon.
One of the men who worked Briody
had left hia coat on the train ThtS
coat contained a folder bearing much
figuring, which figuring is remarkabl
like that on some paper found in the
pockets of Quinlan. Quinlan did not
have an overcoat when arrested and
this one fits him very well. BorrOughS,
besides being held on investigation
was tried this morning for carrying
revolver and fined $25 by Judge Urmy.
Burroughs says he is an elevator man
at Granville and carrying much ne
gotiable paper needs a gun. He said
he brought it to Topeka to be re-
paired; but he came up Sunday and |
has been here ever since and had !
not had it repaired, so the judge found /
that he carried it for other reasons /
than to be tinkered by gunsmith. |
The gun is big Colt, carried in a hol- |
ster. and was found to be in splendid |
working order.
Quinlan is farmer living near |
Newman His people, are well known |
and influential. A score of the mems i
friends and a priest We're in confer /
ence with them this morning. 1t is !
expected a conviction will be difficult /
on account of any number of alibis. !
Last night both of the men showed
return tickets to their stations, but the
promptness with which they thought
of this leads the officers to believe |
they had them in reserve as they. are
30 day tickets One of the friends
who had no reason to know that
Quinlan was without an oYercoat vol |
unteered positive information to an
officer that he did not have.
Conk Jones, the once famous king
bee of the Kansas City confidence men
had a farm and lived at Perry in the
at his Kansas City headquarters. The
special agents from there claim that
Borroughs is an old friend of Jones.
The game worked by these men on
Broidy is a feasible one provided
somebody can be found who is green
enough. Briody, living 35 miles from
a railroad on a dairy ranch in Ore
gon, was a fit subject. He wears a
series of gold nuggets linked together
for watch chain. He says he saw
one of these men in Denver and that
is probably where they got an eye
on him, or else were notified by some
accomplice there. Fred was dreamily
speeding on toward Russelville, KY,
to meet and marry little girl he used
to WOO. Somewhere before reaching
Topeka a man giving the name of
Brooks came in and sat down beside
him saying that he did not like it up
ahead where the passengers were all
foreigners. Conversation began and
Brooks said he too. was from Ken
lucky His sisters husband had Just
died in Idaho, he said, and he was
the goods to Oklahoma. Just
then the other fellow entered and ask
ed Briody if he was Brooks. Brooks
spoke up that he was the man. Then
the other, with the air of an official,
said there was some more money due
on that shipment.
Brooks produced a draft for 81 200
not cash it. Brooks then appealed to
Briody for some money on the draft
until they could cash it. He counted
out $95, a reasonably fair price for a
81, 200 draft, and turned it over to
Brooks who made the payment to the
official Briody says he tried to keep +
tab on the men, but just as the train
was leaving the city they dropped off,
which was at the Santa Fe crossing.
Briody is now held up until after the
trial Meanwhile there is much con-
sternation among the good people of
county and little girl waits
lOngingly in RuSSelViIle. XIV. for a tardy |
lover.
Lester Shields, bundle boy for
Robinson & Marshall. who lives at Ala
Lafayette street, has proven himself
pretty handy with his fists
Lester was sitting on motor
cycle belonging to Will Jenicke at the |
Central Cycle shop dreaming of how
many more bundles and how much '
quicker he could deliver, if he just
owned it, when the owner asked him {