The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-08


he did not go near the room, and when he
failed to do 80 he began to receive telc- .
phone messages from the woman
Finally he said he would meet her in
the hotel reception rCc'r She told him
that she was at the ioiel " ,th her husband.
j. $. Patterson of Pittsburg, and that sbe
wanted Russell TO take her out" He +,
told her. he testified. that he would have J
nothing to do with her, and ~ he left the
reception room he saw Patterson. This
brought 70 his mind the notion that per-
haps he was to be the victim of a badger
game.
Russell Goes to the Police.
Russell communicated with Chief Car
penter Of the Montreal detective force
and explained to him the queer things
that had been going on. He told about
the messages from women, about the hotel
incident and also how he had been iostled
by men In the street, and now he thought
some one wanted to harm him. Carpenter
told him there was a big Job on and the
detective chief gave him "A revolver to
carry. Russell raised lsugh when he
said that he had never carried gun be-
fore and he was afraid that IL would go
on in his pocket.
But Chief Carpenter said he wouldn't
have anything to do with the case and
Russell notified the Montreal branch of
the Pinkerton agency. j. W. Mcnamara.
the Pinkerton representative. came to
see him at the Windsor Hotel. Russell
told Mcnamara that he wanted the Pink
ertons to find out about the wSman and
the man named Patterson. Mcnamara
said he had men watching them In the
hotel and that when the couple left de-
tectives would follow them TO New York.
The following day Mcnamara reported
that his men had lost" the couple, but
day or so later he said they were at
hotel in New York city and that his men
we're shadowing them. Russell testified
that he paid Mcnamara 81, 900.
In couple Of days Mcnamara came to
him and told him that he had received
word from Supt Doughcrty Of the New
York agency that Patterson was the head
Of a 81. 600 900 steel concern in Pittsburg.
that the woman he had with him in Mon
treal was not his wife and that there was
no need TO continue the investigation
This didn't satisfy Russell. who said he
was going to New York to look around
for himself He chartered a special car
took Chief Carpenter. Mcnamara. a de-
teetive named German. his secretary
Bush. and Moses Cochenthaler. a clerk
who was employed by Russell. They
arrived in New York on October II. and
while Russell said he wanted to go to the
Hotel Manhattan. where he had been in
the habit Of putting up when in New York.
they told him that they ought to go to
the Belmont. as they suspected n man
whom Russell though: was employed by
Greenshields might see them at the Man
haitian. They couldn't get rooms at the
Belmont and went to the Plaza
Enter Douxherty OF the Pinkcrtons.
The next morning Russell had talk
with Dougherty at the Plaza and xplaned
TO him the particulars of the episode at
the Windsor in Montreal, when he thought
the bi d ger game was to be played on him
-Doushcrty said" Russell testified.
.'thets not tho way they play the badger
game said. i Id not come here TO
learn how they play the bad ger game
You're al wrong said Dougherty.
Patterson is a respectable man. Then
seid, Dougherty. I'll bet you $1,000 to
SO your report is false Dougherty said
that being a Pinkerton man he couldn't
bet daughter H. slid the woman
with Patterson was n sporting woman.
and I said knew that. She looked like
it
Al this sage Russell decided that he
would get dvce from his lawyers. and he
went TO Abram j Rose of Kellogg 4 Rose.
who had been his New York lawyers for
fifteen years MIR. Rose SIid to me.
Russell testifed This looks like big
game, ard if l were you ! would employ
the W. j Burns Detective Agency az
once tod him that | was going to
Pittsburg, that would take Bush and
Detective German with me. and | would
be safe. You are making a big mistake,
Mr.. Rose said If | were you l would
ahake the whole bunch and get the Burns
men,"
But Russell went to Pittsburg and saw
Chief of Police McQuaig The chief
assigned a detective to go with him TO
the Patterson steel plant we got a
taxicab and rode ten or fifteen miles out. y
said Russ IL, -and when we got there it
looked to me more like a woodshed than
q steel plant When ne returned he
told Bush what he had discovered. but
Buah said that Detective German had
told him that German had been scouting
and that there we're thirty other plants
and that Patterson had a sure enough
$1,000 ,OOO concern.
Pursuit Not Tn at Of Lady.
Russell came to New York, got Cochen-
thaler and returned to Montreal When
he arrived there he got the report OF the
r. g. Dun agency. which did not give
Patterson any such standing as the Pinker-
tons had represented. But before leav-
ing Pittshurg he had had an interview with
Patterson. and the latter insisted that his
concern was capitalized at 100000
Patterson also said that Russell had met
the woman in London. Il told him had
never seen her before in my life said
Russell. Il wouldn't be seen at dog
fight with her"
Russell's first act upon his return to
Montreal after reading the Dun report
was TO telephone to Mcnamara and tell
him he was discharged Il told him
wanted no more to do with him." Russell
said, land he could return the e 900 he
got from me and get his money from the
other people who were employing him
showed him the Dun report and said.
Here's where YOU have been playing me