The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-13
BANK ROD5En WHO
EXPOSED SECRETS
IN BOOK IS DEAD
George White Regarded Burg
larry as a Respectable
Profession.
BOOK RINGS WITH PRIDE,
Gang Got s2,75o,ooo in One
Haul and Named Detec-
tive Chief Here.
BOOK RINGS WITH PRIDE,

Old George white died the other day
ct Keene. New Hampshire. He was
pripce of bank robbers In his time. II
his later years, broken in health ant
poor, he wrote the story Of his crimes
It 10 q book every bit as interesting q!
fiction and a marvellous contribution &c
TIT literature of criminology. This book
vas the means Of George Whites scan
living. He wandered around the Wal
Street district selling copies Of 1t to the
officers and clerks Of banks, many oil
them institutions which he had robbed
In his prime.
George White regarded bank burglary
a. q respectable calling. His book rings
with his pride In his profession. Ha
lived as became one who had large In
como and refined tastes was acquainted
with all the high police officials and the
politicians of the generation immediate
~ following the civil war. Furthermore,
he gave dinners at Delmonico's and
other famous New York restaurants at
which plans were made for some Of his
biggest robberies or the loot was d.
vided.
Named Chief Of Detectives
AZ mere instances Of his right to feel
an unholy pride In the success OF his
undertakings, two suffice.
In 1869 George White and his friend
Max Shinburn. after seven months Of
study and preparation-which included
giving advance information to members
Of the Detective Bureau at 800 Mulberry
street-took t,,5o,cO0 from the vaults Of
the Ocean Bank at Greenwich and Full
ton streets. Again, in the same year. ne
and his associates caused the retirement
from office of the chief Of the De-
tective Bureau. and, through their infiu-
snce with Boss Tweed. had James
Irving appointed to his place: from thst
time on, SO White solemnly states In
his book, the Detective Bureau played
square with the Bank Ring" and never
demanded more than ten per cent. Of the
proceeds Of robbery.
To the day Of his death White always
insisted that he was innocent Of the
crime Of which he was first accused,
the robbery with Max Shinburn and
burglar named Cummings. OF the bank
at walpole. New Hampshire. He was
then a hotel keeper at Stoneham, Mass.
According to Whites story, he became
implicated in the robbery because he
hired out one of his teams to the
thieves, and was afterwards 'jobbed'
because he had property with which ono
OF the stockholders was able to rsooup
the loss occssioned by the thsft.
Met Gang Of Thlevsl
yhs Jury disagreed. White escaped BE-
tore his second trial. and came TO New
Yxt. whore he looked UP Soma of Shin
bmHs associates with whom he had be-
como acquainted during the first utal.
Biuy Matthews. . faro dealer In Harvey
Younys gambling house, then At No. &l
Broadway. introduced him o. gang Of
hank thisvss, who initiated White into
ths mysteries Of their calling.
WIKI this sang. who included Eddie
Angts2, '-Tsll JNm," (who by Whites
failure to nanttfy him more closely
ssans b haVs bssn alive when the book
w. W1ttano William Utley, George VII.
son and another man living In 1907
(whthts bodk hstrays no living MANI,
Big BIZ
IhV -ropecssd" N Ohio and settled
Wsn ths Cadts Bank for operations
Rsusisins ths cashier. who was In bed
= - home they stole the bank ksys
4nan hs trousers POCKET beside his bed
md. after using these bound ant
saggsd the night Waterman Of the bank
NJ proceeds Of the robbery were owe,
. WsrtsI Of million dollars. but
White md Eddis Hughes wsre the onl,
two who escaped with their share Of
ths procseds- White tails with the ut
most indignation how the New Yori
police found him after his return t.
this city and made him give UP 10 pei
cent Of his forty thousand odd dollar
to conceal him from tho Ohio au
thorities.
The Ocean Bank Robbery.
The robbery Of the Ocean Bank h
chronicled by White with rest which
he did not sndeavor to conceal. A cieri
In tho bank. one Taylor. was q fire.
quenter Of John Morrisey's gambling
house In the Tenderloin. The crooks
who hung about the place knew ht
employment, and won him at tim,
when he was IN serious straits fol
money. White was called in. Taylo
was induced to act as fence for bonds
the proceeds OF bank burglaries. Whel
he was once in the power OF the thieves
he was persuaded to betray the Ocear
Bank.
Under Whites tuition, he was treine,
In the art OF detecting safe combina
tions. White went to the makers o.
the locks on the Ocean Banks vaults
and spent hours every night witt
Taylor, teaching him what each clicI
OF the dials and each shin Of tn
tumblers meant Taylor thus learne,
the combinations Of the banks vaults
An office under the bank was hired
as well as one across the street 70
seven months the gangs waited thci
chance. The ''iig.t" detectives a
police headquarters we're notified VIVA
was 10 Happen.
Dug Tunnel Into Office.
ON the High; OF the robbery, white
with his partner. Shlnuu'n, complete,
a tunnel into tho bank from the of!c
underneath, and opened all OF r
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