The San Francisco call., 1909-07-25

of skin under the nails on his right hand After that
| found scrap OF bond paper in the caboose where
the men slept"
While the public and the authorities accepted the
story of the bandits without question Pinkerton
worked for year on the private theory he had
formed He traced Schwartz to Philadelphia, where
he visited his wife. This of the interest
i'll that Schwartz had recently married in
Chicago. On the brakeman's return to that city
Pinkerton caused his arrest on charge of bigamy
well known Phiadeiph;a attorney was brought on
to defend him. Just at the moment when Schwartz
bailed out on the bigamy charge Pinkerton
caused him to be spirited into the hands of the
Grundy county authorities who had papers ready for
his arrest in the Nichols case Schwartz and Watt
were sentenced to life imprisonment for the MUIR
der.
Pinkertons effort to recover the $4,000 loot
came to an end in a peculiar way The Chicago
wife OF Schwartz said that the money had been rolled
into shotgun cartridges and that she had turned it
to the lawyer The lawyer always denied this
vigorously and there the matter rested incidentally
Mr.. Pnkerton took of the unfortunate woman
at his own expense until her death.
The history OF express car holdups is not without
its touches OF humor John Dalton, famous bandit
conceived picturesque holdup on the Northwestern
railroad HI had stuffed buffalo constructed for
his purpose with space inside in which he could
conceal himself Having ensconced himself in his
strange hiding place he had the buffalo shipped by
express.
The messenger admring the lifeke appear
of the former monarch of the praries that occu-
pied one corner of his until the train passed
Deadwood, s. D. He suddenly startled to OBJ
that one of the glass eyes had disappeared
Presently something else that he recognized as a
rifle barrel pushed at him through the socket and
voice that apparently from the spirit of
dead bison ordered him to throw up his hands.
Quick fash the messenger had seized the situa-
tion and with spring to side he out of
range.
Then he vaulted to the back of the buffalo,
reached forward and gripped the gun barrel in both
hands. The stuffed figure sank beneath his weight
until it rested the shoulders of the helpless ban
dit and there he remained until the next station
brought aid
Missouri Their Lair
According to Mr.. Pinkerton Missouri has produced
train robbers of the traditional type than any
other section. OF the outlaws from this state the
James boys were the most desperate. During the
war they were members OF Quantrells guerrilas and
afterward, with Cole, Jim" John and Bob Young
err Charles Pitts the Miller boys, the Tompkins
brothers and others they held high carnival robbng
banks, trains express and individuals right and
left Another well known character was Charles
Buard, known Piano Charlie who with ike
Marsh robbed an express the Hudson River
railroad of 100000 Bullard afterward opened the
notorious American bar in Paris, which became a
kind of international rendezvous for thieves OF all
nations. He died in prison after having been
ciated with Adam Worth, the man who evaded the
Pinkertons for years, stole millions of dollars and
the famous Gainsborough portrait, and who to
a miserable end in poverty.