The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-24
THE DEEDS OF A
MASTER. SLEUTH

run swiftly across Yonge street. Fate
willed that he should trip over the extra
overcoat he was carrying and fall head
long. Before he could regain his feet
he was seized by a passing baker on
his way to work, who held him until a
policeman made his appearance on the
scene and took the captured burglar to
the lookup Dain was carried indoors,
attended to by surgeons and rallied
considerably after the operation, al
though it was not expected that he
would recover from the effects Of his
terrible wound.
The officer selected by the Toronto
authorities for the task of running
down Dams n1urderous assailant was
John Wilson Murray. formerly of the
United States secret service force, and
now in the employ of the Canadian
government. Murray's first step was to
visit the captured burglar in the lookup.
His wide experience in the criminal
world stood him IN good stead, for at
the first glance he recognized the pris-
oner as Charles Lesvitt, a desperate
American burglar and thief Buffalo
was his home town. but the police there
knew him so we'll that he seldom dared
to visit the place. Looking carefully
over the overcoat found in the captive's
D
of a Cleveland tailor.
He at once started for the city in
question and. looking up Leavitt's
/ American record, found that one of his
/ intimate frienls was Frank Meagher of
[ Cleveland. a skilled burglar, clever
/ crook and one of the ablest and worst
/ rough ones" at large. Murray was
well acquainted with this desperado's
/ appearance, and # fitted the description
/ of the burglar at DAMS bedside. Tt
also tailed with the tailoT's description
of the customer for whom he made the
/ coat. There was no room in the detec-
| tive's mind for doubt as to the identity
of the escaped criminal. 1t was surely
Frank Meaeher. He and Leavitt, a dar-
ing and INSCRIPTIONS pair, had crossed
the border to Canada, bent on burglary
/ and spotted the Dain home for theiE
first enterprise.
! Meagher had succeeded in making a
clean getaway, leaving apparently nc
clue as to his whereabouts, but Murra
set out in a patient endeavor to follow
his trail in Toronto, after the shooting
! He made a round of all the sporting
resorts, and finally found a young man
| named John Jake Ackermann. The lat
ter was known in Toronto as Keno
[ Billy" and was a bartender and fare
King street. known as the Senate sa-
loon. kept by Mike Ganley, a United
States refugee from Indiana Justice, anC
was behind the bar when Meagher ar.
rived there on the day of the burglary
Jake had taken Meagher's valise il
charge for him One hour after Dair
was shot Meagher reappeared at tn,
Senate. but from that time on no fur
Their trace of him was obtained in To-
rontO.
Leavitt was tried. convicted and
sentenced to Kingston penitentiary FOL
life. He submitted doggedly to hi!
fate and sternly refused to give an,
information which might have led [,
the arrest of his comrade. Dain die
not die Immediately. but lived owe
one year and day. According :,
English and Canadian law. man can
not be convicted of murder ant
| hanged If his victim lives for on
year and one day after the crime j
committed. Dain dragged out a lin
eering existence of agony for a coupi
of months over the year and thei