The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

Then I'll not point out the man to you.' said
pected they would be.
When | went back to the Office I wrote a letter
the chief of the service asking him to send W. W.
Hall to Towanda Pa, to await orders from me- which
was done Then / wrote to F A. Bates, a police
official of Scranton asking his cooperation And to
both Hall and Bates forwarded the draft of letter.
which asked them to copy and mail, letter be
directed to Jim Rogers and the other to Jim Martin.
The letter follows:
Friend JIM expect to be down to the city next
next week | wish you would let me know whether
you have any high grade stuff, either paper or silver
/ anxious TO get hold of little If it's the kind
want"
The letter copied ana sent, Hall signing his
note Emory Powers" and directing to Jim Rogers
and Bates signing his letter William Stark" and
directing it to Jim Martin.
In each instance reply received almost by
return mail Bates received letter from old Gopher
Bill himself, knew from the handwriting Bill,
however merely told the correspondent to come and
see him when he reached Philadelphia
Halls letter answered by man whom shall
call Moran, since understand he is now leading a
comparatively decent life and has reputable relatives
Of course, Moran signed the name of Rogers but
knew who he In his reply ne was as frank and
outspoken as Gopher guarded, describing his
merchant
urging Hall to come down and make deal.
at wrote to Hall and Bates to make ap-
pointments for meetings l also instructed Rates to
arrange to Gopher Bill few days prior to the
meeting between Hall and Moran. To make Gopher
and Moran feel entirely at their when the time
came to put through the deals laid little trap for
them Gopher and Moran, it will be remembered
had represented themselves in their correspondence
to be Rogers and Martin, respectively Rogers, alias
Martin, was tall Gopher and Moran were
short and fat So told Bates and Hall to feign sur
prise and to appear suspicious when they kept their
appointments-to comment on the fact that old Jim
whom they should declare they knew we'll, was tall
and lean, while the who to deal in his name
were the opposite
Bates carried out his instructions to the letter
Playing the part of sceptical old farmer he refused
for some time to do business at all. Bill at first at
tempted to reassure him with general statements and
finally told the story of how old Jim had died and
willed him his customers This explanation satisfied
Bates and he bought two hundred trade dollars.
In the case of Moran thought saw an oppor-
unity to his incriminatng letter Hall as evil
dence against him. In order to do so, however, it
was necessary to devise way to get him to identity
it without knowing he doing so After photo
graphing his letter therefore out the words in
which he had described the goods he had for SALE and
wrote on the back of the sheet what appeared be
memoranda regarding the purchase OF household eff
fects-this for purpose that shall make clear
When the day came for Hall to meet Moran
told Gopher wanted him to go with to Camden
to tell me if man whom pretended / expected to
arrest was of the men concerned in a robbery
that Gopher knew about. The old man, knowing
he would get 81 for his trouble readily consented to
go. What wanted was to get Gopher out of Phila-
delphia while Hall and Moran negotiating as
knew Moran, in order to protect himself would hire
Bill to pass out the counterfeit and receive Halls
good money. With one excuse and another / kept
the old man in Camden until afternoon. by which time
calculated that Moran would have tired of waiting
tor him and finished the deal himself.
Hall afterward told me that Moran ran all over
town, pretending he was trying to find the man who
had the counterfeit, and eventually passed 1t over
himself.
The next thing was to get Gopher into Jail as
quietly possible in order to give Moran an op-
portunity to fee before we could get him too. So
told him / wanted him to go with to help me den-
tify man for whom pretended to be looking. We
walked over to the entrance of the building in which
the United States marshals Office located, and
then told him thought we had better go inside as
did not want to be seen. Before he realized it I
had him in the marshars office. gave signal to
Tom MARBLE, the chief deputy, and he put the old
man under arrest
Marple and I then started for Morans saloon. AS
we drew near the place Moran came out and walked