The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-07-25

sentenced to 20 years. While await
ing his transfer to the penitentiary
Logan made his escape from jail and
Reed again took the trail, following
him through the mountains of Ten
nessee, Kentucky, North and South
Carolina, being in the saddle for Al
days.
Located in South America.
He learned that Logan had come
to Atlanta, and here he found the
outlaw had bribed a Pullman porter
and had been hidden in berth,
boots and all. Following the trail,
Reed pursued Logan to Texas, then
into Mexico, and from there to South
America, locating him in the Argen-
tine Republic. The Great Northern
had expended $4,000 in an effort to
land Logan and kept standing Of
fer of $4,000 for him dead or alive,
but the expense was so great and the
red tape of extradition from Argen-
tine Republic so difficult that the
chase was abandoned and Logan is
still supposed to be in that country.
The most recent and perhaps the
most important piece of work ever
done by Detective Reed was the
rounding up of the Atlantic City
grafters, which he completed a few
weeks ago. After opening Offices on
Wall street, New York, securing
elaborate apartments at the Waldorf
Hotel in that city, Reed, posing as
J. K. Harris, millionaire contractor,
went to Atlantic City, ostensibly for
recreation. He took suite of rooms
in the Marlborough-Blenheim, which
he connected up with dictagraphs.
Ascertaining that the city was
spending $4,000 year for repairs
to the famous boardwalk, of which
100000 was divided in graft to the
city officials and bosses, Reed gave
out an interview suggesting that the
old boardwalk should be replaced
with a concrete walk; that in the end
it would be cheaper and more salts
factory. He studiously avoided the
city officials and his interest appear
ed to be that of an disinterested but
experienced contractor.
The concrete walk suggestion at
tracted attention Immediately, and
the trade bodies and civic associa-
tions invited him to address them
upon the project. After he had Gre
ated an almost universal demand for
the new walk, one of the leaders
in the council called on him at his
hotel and adroitly negotiated a deal
whereby 13 members of the council,
the city attorney and other officials
were to be paid certain sums for put
ting through the concrete walk ordi-
nance. Seventy-fve thousand dollars
was to be divided among them:
One by one the other councilmen
were drawn into the negotiations and
conversations were had with various
officials at the Marlborough-Blen-
helm, the Waldorf in New York and
the Continental Hotel in New York.
Each of these conversations were re-
corded by the dictagraph.
The ordinance which was passed
by the grafters, provided that Reed
was to receive per cent. of the
s1,5O0,00O to be expended on the
concrete walk for engineering servi-
ces, Z per cent. for his own personal
supervision and $4,000 for his
plans, etc. This last mentioned sum
was under the agreement to be divid-
ed among the grafters.
So skittish were the grafters that
they would not accept the money at
any of the hotels, but insisted that it
be paid over in back room of Ma
lias combination saloon and hotel, a
dive run by an alderman by the name
( of Malta, who was one of the gang.
1t was necessary for Reed to in
stall his dictagraph in this dive. He
must do this without creating suspi-
cion, so he hit upon the idea of send
ing a crew of linemen from New
York to Atlantic City who were os-
tensibly in the employ of a local
power company. These linemen, one
of whom was an expert dictagraph
man, secured quarters in Malia's ho-
tel and was seen about the streets
working at the tops of poles for days.
The dictagraph man spent the en-
tire night preceding the day when
the money was to be paid over in
drilling a concrete floor over the
gangs assembly room, and before
he completed the job so that the die
tagraph could be installed in the cell
ing of the assembly room some one
hoard Tho drilling and he was cOm-