Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-09

got their stun from him. But the celebrated No.
not more elusive than he. Every time put nv -
out 10 grab him found that he had just gone
Still kept an eye out for him. and the year afs. .
midnight visit to the Potts farmhouse Cot
that he was living in a back room Of house a., !,
business district Of Philadelphia chief Rro,t-
whose home was In Philadelphia. happened IN h. p,
town when ! was ready 10 make the raid and no ,..
with MS.
% was frosty winters night wntscy was en-,
posed TO Doe occupying room on the second aoor
stationed man 40 the foot Of the stairs and h,
others under the windows Of the suspected ro
Though every other window In the vicinity was ai,s
these were open as the bright light inside sbow.s
That was promising Indication. Great heat II I,
qulred TO melt the metal that counterfeiters use 49,
when they at work the air about them Is like M,
of furnace. The counterfeitcrs themselves al M,
Tines wear only undershirts. trousers and slippors
Leaving the Chief with the man at the foot ~ n.
stairs ! went up to the room and knocked NJ "A,
door. There was mo- response nor was there a sop,s
inside ] knocked again, az the same time calm,
out "Open this door, i'm the name Of the law d,
will knock IL down" still there was no rosnors
] stepped back three PAGES, took running lump y,
the door striking it with my shoulder and Knocked
70 u
As burst into the room my eye quickly caugs
were cast In bronze aud that Of wntscy leapnr !.
me with "A fifteen inch stilcttoikc carving hnp
claspcd In his hand I leveled my revolver al hi.
head and told him 90 stop or T would kill him. n,
stopped. As covered him with my gun ] presume
twenty seconds elapsed before spoke again rber
! called 10 the man . had left down stairs 10 com,
up As I called Wtseys eyes shifted from me 10
the head of the stairs.
And then ! did what the chief and the other. >abl
was a very foolish thing. ! dropped my revolver on
the floor and grabbed the wrist in which hc held Hf
knife u was all done n twnhlmg uiihof
thought ON my part and for few seconds NO
struggled he trying 10 reverse The direction of trs
knife AID cut the fingers with which cluchcd M,
wrist But In less time than lt.takes 90 tcI it He
Chief and the other man who had stood at jbp ios
of the stairs bounded into The room. The detective
who accompanied the chief thrust revolver FL
Witscys face with command 60 drop the knife l-
have his head blown of the next instant Wisey
released his hold on the knife aud il fen 10 hc floor
] picked q mp aud threw it behind a bureau
'.Wby didn't Won shoot him. said Chief Broosc,
"Ncvcr risk your life like that again"
The woman was Sarah Page We bundled her and
Witsey off to jail and then went back clean ont One
room. WItsey's speciality was the making of trade
dollars and we had caught them IN the midst of thel
days work His method was to buy block tn and
aud then with an electric battery put light plating
of silver over the composition. silver dollar rof
tanned enough silver to plate five hundred tim dollar,
and as tin was comparatively cheap. WiltSey made
good profit though he sold his product a twenty
five or thirty cents the dollar
think we found a bushel OF counterfeit doas,
strcwn about the room and perhaps another bu,he q
melting pots, moulds, metal, batteries and forth
Wntsey was convicted and given long tem-to
years, If I remember correctly The woman va,
acquitted
The last Of the series of events that began with e
ringing of my doorhe the time the servant would NOT
let my caller In occurred year two later William
Carroll had never forgiven for the testimony gave
about him the time was trying TO fix up alb io
Austin kecne IN the Potts case. ] had met Carroll &
the street once afterward and he had taken off bis h
10 me but hose who knew him better than ] did
advised me always 10 keep my eyes on him when h
was around. never saw him again. however and my
attention WAS next directed 10 him when "a friend @
Wilmington wrote me that ne was dead. lie had g0n
into saloon next door 10 his own, fired at Che bar
keeper. missed him, and the barkeeper had put bule
through his brain He died with his boots