Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-05-28
UNCLE SANS WAR
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police of the city were stirred to un-
usual activity in their efforts to run
| It's members to earth. On April IS
ously seeking for came into their
| possession when, by trailing two
men they had suspected or partici-
/ pating in these hold-ups, one of
whom was once in the employ OF the
Cigar Stores Company, they came
upon picture store where wire had
been purchased. The police were
seeking a certain style of picture
wire with which the clerks held up
by the bandits were bound after they
had been struck down. The style OF
wire sold at this store cOrreSpOnded
in minute details to that used on
the clerks.
The house that the two purchas-
crs Of the wire returned to was sur
rounded and watched, but when the
detectives concluded that the time
was ripe for their descent it was to
learn that their quarry had flown.
BY means Of tracing and intercept
ing telephone calls to this house the
police followed, step by step, the fu-
gitiveS, who were constantly in
communication with some one still
| remaining in the house. A guard
was left at the house to watch the
remaining member Of the suspected
band, while other detectives took
taXicabs and sped to the last point
from which the fugitives telephoned.
To their disgust, they learned that
their quarry had again escaped their
clutches, but by telephoning back to
the house where the guard was left
they ascertained that still other
messages had been intercepted, and
again they took up the chase. This
chase led to Mount Vernon and New
Rochelle, and at the last point Wis
tied the detectives learned that the
men they sought had just taken
north-bound trolley car and were
only few minutes in advance of the
pursuers.
Then began a stirring chase, but
the speed of. the taXicab soon over
came the lead the trolley car had
and it was overhauled on the out
skirts of New Rochelle. The fugi-
tives aboard the car scented trouble
as soon as they saw the taxicab rae
ing after them, and they left the car
prepared to give battle. But the de-
tectives were too quick for them,
and when they stepped from the tax
icab it was with drawn revolvers
clutched firmly in their hands. The
fugitives were covered and made to
throw up their hands while hand
cuffs were snapped on their wrists.
They were quickly subdued, loaded
into the taxicab and taken back to
New York.
The trip back to New York was
made in all haste, and returning to
the apartment house in West Forty
fifth street, where the other detec-
tive had been left on guard it was
but moments work to enter the
building and seize the two men to
whom the fugitives had been tele-
phoning. When the prisoners were
lined up they described themselves
as Charles TruaX, once a United
Cigar Stores clerk; Fred II. Clark,
Joseph S. Duvai and John e. Gray.
When arraigned in a police court
three Of the prisoners were held in
heavy bail. There was none to pos
lively identify Gray, the fourth
man, and he was discharged, but be-
fore he could leave the court room
he was identified by Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty as John
O'Donnell, better known to the DO
lice and post Office inspectors Of the
entire country as "West Philadel-
phia Johnny" 1t was asked that
he be held as a fugitive from the
Raleigh On. c. penitentiary until
the North Carolina authorities could
be notified.
But Gray was equal to the occa-
sion. Not for moment did the
braZen nerve which had so often
stood philadelphia Johnny" in
good stead desert him. He let it be
known that when he "squealed" on
his associates while a prisoner in the
Vermont State Prison all the old
warrants outstanding had been
wiped out, and he demanded his
immediate release.
For a time the case against Gray
look ed duhinus and Il annnaroh n..