The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-04-13
Man Who Used Brains to Steal
and to Whom HUI ? n Life Was
the Least Valuable Thing Is Up
Against 1t Now-Bought Real
Estate; Has String of Horses.

| ->fN 1ohh, April lU.-laKe peek
through the checker grated door of
Eddie Fay's cell in the Tombs prison
and see the fierce scowl on the face of
this. "the most dangerous criminal in
the world" who is at last behind walls
that hold him fast.
Eddie Fay is undone and knows it.
The robbery of the Richmond Va.
postotiice of $SS.0OO in stamps and
cash will be the notorious yeggman's
final job
He is like a Gagged tiger now. his an
ger lashing him into furious tempests
of passion. Desperately, hatefully, he
shakes the stout steel door. His
guards are to him what the trainer is
to Gagged wild beasts. Madly would he
tear them to bits if opportunity offered
an escape.
But withal. one can hardly restrain
q sense of pity for this fallen man.
In his record there is audacious viii
lainy, contempt of all laws. thirst for
easy money that would make the man
strike dead anyone who interposed;
and yet, seeing him in his Tombs cell.
you feel that in his terribly mistaken.
vicious way he was a superior sort of
creature.
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world crook of modern times, and used
skill in his work which indicated large
thinking capacity. 1t is estimated that
his various robberi2s brought him at
| least $1,000. 900. some of which he in
vested like a good business man in
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Two Jail Escapes.
Twice he has escaped from Jail,
both times after pistol duels with Of
ficers and guards. Once on board a
swiftly moving train, he held up his
guards and leaped to liberty. He
made postofliccs his speciality, and
when the New York police and gov
eminent secret service men trapped
him and dragged him fighting, kicking
and cursing to the Tombs. the other
day they found in his trunks $4,000
worth of 1 and 2-cent stamps, with
a complete and beautifully polished
set of burglar tools and diagrams, de-
scriptons and other data of post
offices and banks in least 40 cities
Some of His Jobs
Some of Fay's known jobs We're the
robbery of the Chicago postothcc of
! $4,000, the United States revenue Of
! itcc'at Peoria, ILL.,, of S3O,o0o worth OF
| revenue stamps, the Japanese-Amer-
lean bank at Los Angeles of $4,000
cash. the san Diego postoilicc OF
| $1O,73S in stamps and $4,000 in gold,
| a bank at Superior, Wis, of $4,000,
and the recent Richmond job, which
was his Waterloo.
His methods are best explained by
an examination of the Richmond
robbery. Fay, accompanied by pal
named Chester, who was also caught
| here, took quarters at q hotel near
the postoGice, posing as commercial