Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-22
NOTORIOUS SAFE
CRACKER MEETS
HIS DOOM
DUTCH is
KILLED WHILE Ar WORK
Led Postoffice Authorities a
MerryChaSe for Years. Nerve
Of Seventeen -Year-0Id Boy
Ends Infamous Career
Morning Journal Bureau.
6iS MunseN Building.


ono OF the two burglars killed az
Tallahassee. Florida. in the act OF
robbing the p%ostofice curly sunday
morning. January Sth. ha- been identi-
fied ats Tennessee Dutch a notorious
safe blowcr who has heon leading the
postal inspectors y merry chase for
several YEARS. The other burglar kill
ga has not boon Identified "rennes-
see Dntehts' real nane was CARRIER
Moore. During his career Of safe
cracking and postofliee robbing ne
had been travelling under various ALI
asses. being more Familiarity known 10
his associates. and the detectives, ass
Tennessee Dutch.
Moore was Born az Clarksvillc.
Tenn, IL son Of q Hungarian Jew. He
attended the public schools at chat
place with Mi. II. T. smith, postmas-
ter at clarksville. When in school he
was called "Gobble' or "tiobbler' hy
the hoys. While in his youth he ran
away from home to live the life Of g
tramp.
After leading the lite Of q p%rofes.
sianal beggar he hecamc an expert II
is said BY the postal Inspectors. az q
safe cracker and all around burglar
ana ono Of the hardest TO take int'
! custody. at the time he was shot he
was a fugitive from Justice, having IS.
caped from the GrcenNille, $. C., jal
on April 5th last After being recap
tured near Ashevine. \ C.. the follow.
ing day. with his pal, George Barton
he again escaped. with George Bar
ton. a well-known safe blower, an'
Others. Moore robbed the postoffice a
seneca. :. G., November IA. 1907. ant
Pelzer. :. G., December 2nd, 1907
Canton, GA, February Sth. and Mary
willie. Tenn, during the past year
Under the name of John Ruther
ford, Moore was convicted oi burglar.
In Carol county, Miss and in April
1901. sentenced to serve five years i'm
prisnnment on The Rankin Plac
Farm, near Jackson, Miss, from
which he escaped in september OF til
same year. Under the name of 10
Martin. he was received In April, 1900
at the lin smith Farm. Smithont
camp. in Oglethorpe county, G~orglt
from Lawrenceville, Ga, to serve tW.
sentences or nino months each on IN
charges of malicious michief and yag
%rancy. Re WAS also suspected Of hav
ing participated in two safe blowing
at Carl. Ga. While confined IN tho iai
he set fire to the building in an eTtoT
To make his escape. He was diSchare
ed from this prison in October, 1901
on different occasions, at varlou
places. he has been committed to jai
temporarily for various offenscs.
Tennessee Dutch was shot 10y
seventeen year old hoy. Paul Saul'
while he and one Of his pals attempt
ed TO rob the postofficc at Tallahas
see. Young Sauls WAS on duty for hi
father. who Is night Waterman ia
the building, when he heard a knoc
at the door. He took NJ a pistol be
fore answering. some n on the out
side shoute thai q mail pouch la
been picked up in the street The 30
opened the door to receive IT. II
found himself looking into the barrel
of two pistols. and at the same tim
was greeted with the command 20 hol
up his hands. When the burglars trie
to BIND the boy With q ropc he mar
aged to get his pistol in a strained pc
: sition and fired. The shot took elte'
and the man remaining to conten
with, he shot over his shoulder, EA
I. cry shot fired BY the boy took clfec
which WAS shown by the bullet hole
found in the dead men. one had TIRE
holes In his head and the other wa
shot through the stomach.