New-York tribune., 1912-02-28

the door after splaine. jumped on the
! seat with MOntani. 49,; b,,t
| ] did not look in the rear OF tho IeLAl,Uid eLAl, Ia
| | knew that Dutch and. Splaipt Muulu WIZ
go to work with their blackjacks 'as uiie'
| said they would. .rood
Montani Immediately put on tull s.eeu'
and | sat motionless and stupehed 'i'st MDn
tani shouted to me to put my hand ~ 'ata5o' al
him or TO point a finger against ms slGv
| did not seem to clearly hear VIVA lS
said and il was not until we got otI o,
the taxi that reInembered, II scene ~
me that we were driving at the rate ol q
hundred miles an hour. :. u '.-
once we were sandwiched in between a
trolley car and two trucks but the tVoCS
was opened by a.. traffic. policeman, f5Gi
Montani went on fsstef tfan ever arc 'nh
side streets that l. can't re1nemher.
The taxicab finally stopped In the r!e,rr
of big truck loaded With boxes. "Dutc.?,
and Gene" jumped of, 'samning the tan
bag containing the money i hoped of,
The street seemed blocked with people
Almost Immediately Montani began TO yell.
looked for Dutch" and found him reel
ing around like q drupken man In the mid
die Of the crowd In his hand was the brown
telescope bag containing the money. his
collar was blood soaked The whole front
OF his clothing was dripping In blood, even
his face was smeared up go red that you .
could not recognize MIN: He was In the
centre of the crowd Jess was almost OPP
seemed to stagGer. ] could hear the Shouts
and the cries and the crowd seemed to be
moving toward the taxi. A minute later
saw a policeman on the running board OF
the taxi and Montani sped on and the
crowd followed, '...
Get Aboard Crowded Car.
We three got on On Eighth avenue Gsi,a car at
from the face and clothing Of Dutch and
| the clothing of Gene" Yhe car was
packed with people and Dutch" carried the
bag and eysrs people aSkfa ST 6f nm tbs ~het re
mark and heard the word fight from
! "Dutch's" lips. Gene" wiped off 'Dutch's
| handkerchief away and they brushed of
| their clothing the hest they could In the
| streetcar. The car was so crowded that !
had to hang TO the rail- and stand on the
| back step. a., .'....
We got off at a corner where there was
an a. station and climbed aboard the
| IL and got off at Bleecker' street We
hustled over 10 Thompson street. to divide,
as agreed. II was the tap room. We found
all hands there. There were seven In the
! job among whom the money was TO be dl-
sented the chauffeur. Montapi, VINO, OF
| course was arrested, as he expected to ne.
To my astonishment and to the astonisn,
ment Of Dutch. ana '.Geneii Genleii TIN mar,S. BY,
ands" entered the place Jess talked with
"Matty" and Paul excitedly and did not
! hear their conversation, but II was appar-
ent that they had decided TO lift share OF
Dutch" still had the bag in his possession
| and threw il on the floor II was opened.
| The money seemed to spring up like jack
| in-the-box. | never saw so much money
/ before. 1t was all in the original wrappers.
Matty stepped over and grabbed big pack
age sl0OOo-narked plainly. He took the
green stuff and waved II in the air and
shouted: This Is for Paul and myself. and
81 con OF It will go to get Malloy out OF iail
| in BROOKLYN" There was row over IL. but
| in the excitement and as time was short
and we were fearful of the police, The
! Brigands" got away with the $4,000, 70 be
divided S90on apiece and Sl,N0 10 get Malloy
ont OF jail for highway robbery In Brook
| lyn Malloy was to be tried the next day.
| The division Of the money. was as follows:
Tho three brlsands and FOR Msnoy. $1,000
Jess Jess collected for Montani .............. 5000
Splaine ........ ........................., 8OOO
| Myself .:....:................. 2.75o
| Joe the KID Kid...............,..-... 20
got less than Dutch and Splaine. as
they had done the strong arm work in the
taxi Joe the Kid worked with Dutch. and
suppose Dutch looked after him. There
were no further remarks. no handshaking
and no talk. and we left the place Spalne
and went uptown together
First Thoughts Were Of Annie.
Ny first thoughts were Of Annie. some
I times Callen SWebe+ ANNE, and i went
hp 10 our roominG house and got her
SplaIne bought q new coat and threw
away the blood-soakcd one We hired a
taxi at 23d street and Sixth avenue, I'm or
der 10 avoid railroad stations and ferries
We drove as far as Peekskill There al
about o'clock that afternoon, the three
of as boarded q train for Albany Annie
Nanted TO go back 20 New York and
straight4n out her affairs and Join us later
| bought her a now hat, gave her some
money and gent her hack 10 New York
after spending the night in Albany ] Went
around TO various cigar stores and changed
the s. bills into bills OF larger denomina-
tions. Splaine and took train 10 Chi
cago.
/ believe n was Saturday night We ar
| rived there. and the first thing did was
| 10 get some new clothes--a suit made 10
order n new hat. silk shirt. silk under,
! wear-shd with my diamond ring bought
! In Albany. considered myself well
| dressed and "a ttsfied bur ] could not
sleep. On the tram or in Chicago. / was
| haunted about the job. ! wanted TO see
al the newspapers and read the details.
/ had q lively time in Chicago. and
went around to han in red sweater In
| the Armour avenue section, They called
/ IL the Knights-of Kent ball The dance
was given by the Coliseum Club. and the
manager OF the affair eof jn a row with
some stranger took the managers part,