The Harrison times., 1912-10-26

berry occurred in broad daylight at an
hour when the street is most crowd.
ed. Yet after a long search l only
found one person. who had seen any.
thing which might be Of value l ran
across 4 street vender who must have
been within twenty-five feet Of the
messengers when they were attacked.
"He did not see the assault, but a
second later, and before he under
stood what had happened, he saw
two men, very well dressed, hurry
across Broadway and turn down Ce-
dar street toward the North river,
That was the natural course which
thieves who knew their business
would have taken. The yender had
a pretty fair idea Of the appearance
Of the two men and their clothing.
With that as a guide l went through
Cedar street l traced the men to
West street by witnesses who had
noticed them moving quickly as if
they were in a hurry to catch train
but lost track Of them in West street
until l reached the Liberty street
ferry Then I picked up the very
clue I was after.
"The ticket agent had seen tho
men, and his attention was attracted
to them particularly because in buy.
ing a ticket for Scranton one Of them
took some money out Of a bag, This
was red.hot stuff A moment later /
struck something better While
searching for information from the
ferry hands ran across a porter who
had found a valise in the layatory and
had taken 1t to the lost and found de-
partment It did not take me long to
get there and see that bag, It was q
medium.si2ed affair and had been
found unlocked and empty There was
no mark on 1t TO indicate where 1t
had come from. / sent it to the bank
and in n few moments received word
that it was the bag which had been
used by the messengers.
"That point being cleared up, I
next started the telegraph lines work
ing, and kept them hot until the train
dispatcher held up the Scranton train
at a station, and got the conductor on
the wire, ITo had noticed every ono
on tho train simply as n matter OF
business, soon after leaving Jersey
City. Ho was positive that no person
answering the descriptions Of either
of the men who had brought the bag
to the ferry house had been on board
his train, This settled beyond reason.
able doubt that the thieves had not
left the city, at least by that route.
"Tho porter who had found the bag
had got n very good look at the two
men, lie remembered them even more
accurately because ho had assocIat.
cd them with the lost bag. His de.
scrlptlon tailed with that given by
the street yender, except that he gave
more complete details, In thinking Il
over Il suddenly struck mo that had
read q similar description somewhere,
I could not place It until the next day,
Then II came over me like a fash.
What I had seen was tho alarm which
had been sent out at the request OF
the Eric county police giving the do
scrlptlons Of Sam Ellis and Phil Helm,
rich, fugltlyos from Justice,
"Tho case then appeared perfectly
plain to mo- Ellis and HoInrlch, after
leaving Buffalo had como to New
York instead Of going to Canada, aa
had been generally believed, They
probably had adopted tho red.peprer
scheme Of robbery IN order to raise
money at once, since their scheme
had been frustrated to food Canada
with counterfeit money Tho Job was
not exactly In tho limo OF either OF
tho men, but they were, | knew, fully
competent to undertake anything In
any branch Of thIoyorS
Unfortunately tho newspapers got
hold Of the story Of the finding Of tho
bag and tho description Of tho mon,
This was, Of course, sufficient warn.
Ing to the team Of worthos to dive
deeper into their hole, and made my
work no much harder How was I to
got to ELLIS and Henrleh2 I did not
know They werc n cunning LOT, aud
| know had q atifr game,
a. know all tho hounia Of both mcn
and 0rter putting on 8omo toRs to suit
tho occasion | spent my days and
nIFht8 bummInF around booltng tips.
It was slow work, but II was all that
could be done | got I'm With u lot Of
people and heard all tho gossip that
was going on among crooks but II
was over a month before | heard any.
thing Of Importance, I had to 70
very quietly In order not to excite
suspicion did not dare to ask lead.
lng questions Of anybody or | might
have got tip sooner
zone evening, whllo 7 was having
aome oysters IN BILLY the Bites IN
Wooster street mck Grimm came In,
A few moments later IN came his old
friend, Reddy tho Blacksmith. They
were both friends Of Ellis and Helm.
rich, To my utter Ama2omont Grimm
began telling IN my presence about
the arrest Of both Ellis and Heinrich
IN Pittsburgh for hghtIng and clean,
Ing out "A lolnt Grimm Waa with