Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-04-07

all. He told where the men got o
he train, where they bought pickle
or their lunch, where they got Octa
,on soap, where they got the brac
Ind bit, where they hid the swag afte
hey had completed the job. He de
'cribed going back tn get the swat
md told of the division of spoils.
OF the paper money secured, SIS
lad been scorched and the yeggs wer
Lfraid to handle 1t. This money wa
old to Rabens at discount.
Judge Gary's Retort.
When Rabens was convicted in hi
.bsence, a friend of his told Judg
iary that the Charleston man woul
i've $4,000 cash for the alternativ
# a cash fine. Judge Gary could no
rove that this was an attempt t
,ribe him, or he would have pu
omebody to trouble for it, but he de
Jared meaningly: You tell Raben
his his money is scorched." TIL
ealed sentence did not give the alter
lative of a fine, but sent Rabens t
he penitentiary.
Rabens conducted a grocery" stor
orner of King and Line streets, an
bout a block south on King stree
lad his Star theatre" which was tn
Iang- out for thugs, as testified by Nc
,arthy. This was during the days o
he Charleston exposition.
The Corner Grocery"
The grocery" was half a bloc
vest Of the Southern passenger sta
ion, and on the car line to the expo
ition grounds, and many a thirst
oul coming from the expositio
rounds to catch the trains to the up
ountry got the dust washed dow
With nickel beers In the grocery wit
he sawdust floors conducted by Ra
,ens.
The first and second counts in tn
Indictment charged the defendant wit
,eing an accessory before and afte
he fact to James Johnson, John Fish
r and John F. Mccarthy, who, 1t wa
harged, had on December IA, 100:
,roken and entered the store house G
he Courtenay Manufacturing compa
~ and had stolen $6,S3S.S1. On tn
harge of receiving stolen goods he ha
,een convicted and has served mos
# his sentence.
AS stated heretofore, there Is enoug
# the romantic in this one case to fl
volume, and some things can not b
elaborated, such as the suit Of tn
Manufacturing company
Lttach the $4,000 cash bond put up b
2abens after his conviction. Bu
here Is one incident, more than an
,ther, which caused the secret servic
nen to put almost implicit confidenc
n the confession and testimony Of Nc
Sleuthing an Heirloom.
In the safe at Newry was a beauti
ul brooch, property of the Courtena
amily. Three years after the rob
,ery Mccarthy told Inspector Greg
'ry that Johnson had taken the brooch
lad had it made into ring and ha
;iven the handsome piece Of jewelr
o a woman in Jacksonville, Fla. Nj
Gregory not long afterward was call
d to that city on official bushes!
md there learned that such a woma
lad lived at the address given an
t the time named. From the postof
Ice he learned her forwarding addres!
70 make a long story short, he final
Y, with great care and not little eff
ort, traced the woman from one cit
o another, and finally located her a
Pa, where she admitte
hat she had had the ring, but ha
,een forced to put it in pawn. MI
gregory was eager to confirm ever
letail of McCarthy's testimony, so n
vent to the distant city named by tn
woman and brought the ring out o
,awn, and notified the Courtenay fam
~ that he had recovered it for then
Yesss and Their Work.
John T. Mccarthy, who is now do
ng secret service work and Is trust
d operator, is a native of Philadel
,hia and his real name is John {
)andrell. After he had made clea
,reast of all that he know Of yegg af
airs, the government agents trace
lis evidence step by step and con
irmed each circumstantive detail
They found in the woods evidences @
he camps of the yeggs and of tn
,laces where swag had been buried
or when loot is heavy the gan
plants it" in order not to be ham
,ered in making a getaway.
The first thing we do when W
each our base of operations" sal
IcCarthy, in a story published in tn
state at the time, rs to secure
rams map, giving the names and 10
alton of banks in our vicinity, 70
We always try to proceed intelligent
n our work, and the banks are NOR
INVITING than postoffices. A job
Usually done by four men, althoug
there may be three, bu
our at least are almost necessary TO
successful operation. When we Sc
ure the map, we study the railroa
ime tables and the general topo
,raDhical features of the immediat
ection. We select the bank and on
n more of the gang will go scouting
o see that the job can be safely pull
d off. The police protection of tn
own is investigated, and attention
,iven to the movements of trains an
,eneral avenues of escape, as well as
lace where we may safely meet befor
'eginning work.
"A man will go into the bank o
,ostoffice to have a bill changed tina
le might survey the location of things
md as the scouting is most import
mt part of the job it is always care
ully attended to, sometimes two o
hree days being devoted to this worl
rhe scout returns to the base, and &C
Iuaints the party of his investigation
md if his report is favorable a tim