The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-08
Drill Holes in Rock With Umbrella
Handle, Fire Explosive and
Make Of-Not Yet Caught.

in police circles.
The watchman on duty outside the
cell says he does not know how or
when the prisoners left.
At the present term of the federal
court Moore and Barton were to be
tried for tearing up the safe in the
Pelzer postofice. One year ago they
committed this daring act and South
Carolinians in particular were pecu-
liarly interested in their capture. The
noise made by the explosion which
tore away the front of the safe at the
Pelzer government station awoke the
people of the city, and when Ruther-
ford and Barton were making their
"get away" in a buggy two pistol
shots were fired at them by a man
who stood on the veranda OF a hotel
porch. Neither shot took serious ef-
feet.
Arrested in Birmingham.
They were arrested in Birming-
ham, Ala, early in March and held
for the robbery at Pelzer. Postott1ce
Inspector Gregory captured the two
men. He took them to Atlanta, from
the Jail of which they had once es-
caped, and United States Marshal
Duncan Adams, at Charleston, was
notified of their arrest.
He wrote Sheriff Pool asking that
the men be kept safely here and say
ing that he would furnish a guard at
the Jail.
E. C. Carter, former arresting off,
Ger for the S. P. c. A., was delegated
by the government to guard outside
of the Jail, lest the yeggmen get out
of their cells and away from confne-
ment.
Deputy Sheriff Phillips lives in the
building, a part of which Is used for
the prisoners, and he, his wife and
his children were ignorant until early
this morning that the notorious sare-
blowers were not ready for their
Sunday morning breakfast. Carter
was on the outside, presumably. he
did not know, at any rate, now OF
when the men left.
The two men were in the same cell
one Of the strongest cells IN the
iail-and while Rutherford, the man
with the numerous aliases, had done
most of the talking to the outsiders,
il is supposed that Barton was at
work drilling hole through the rock
floor. It is believed that an umbrella
handle was used for a drill. After
blowing the hole the men dropped IN
to the basement and made tnar
escape through the jailer's apart
ments.
A Notorious Yegg.
CARRIER Moore, alias John Ruther-
ford, alias John Hinckle, alias Ten
nessee Dutch" etc., is one OF the
most notorious "yeggs'' in the. his
tory of the operations OF professionals
safeblowers in America, and his pal'
George Barton, alias "Ch1cago
Army" is almost equally notorious:
Each has a score of postoft1ce and
bank robberies charged against him.
Dutch and Barton were arrested
at Birmingham the first of March,
and Inspector Gregory, who was IN
that section on a still hunt for the
pair, easily identified them, and ne
took proceedings before the United
States commissioner there to have
them held for the Pelzer JOB.
Dutch" employed counsel to night
extradition to South Carolina and
even had his attorney offer reward
for his (Dutch's) return to Mlssls-
sippi, where he escaped from the
Rankin farm of the Mississippi state
penitentiary while serving a nve-
wear sentence for burglary. His ef-
forts. however, were unava1llng, and
the postoffice inspectors had no trou-
BILE in holding him for the Pelzer Joo
along with Barton.
When arrested Dutch" had in his
possession $195 in money, mileage
book, etc. He denied acquaintance
with Barton at first, but not after In
spector Gregory had finished his IN
terview" with the cracksmen. lnspec-
tor Gregory was. thoroughly famlllaI
with the operations of Dutch, ana
VDutch" knew it. Dutch" is Hun
sarian Jew, a native of Tennessee,
and his criminal career was begun
early in life. He has Travelled extern
sively in the United States and Eu-
zone. and it is not unlikely that ne
onerated in the old world. He is
apparently 35 years of age, 5 feet
8H inches in height, weighs about
162.
Barton, as civilian Ward" serV-
ed three years in the federal prison
at Atlanta for burglary Of the post
office at Woodbine, KY. He was AFT
erwards arrested for cracking post
Office safe, but escaped from the At
lanta prison while awaiting trial:
Barton is an American, about 81
years of age; height, feet II
inches; weight, 145; slight oullt'
right arm off at elbow.