The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-21

only $4,000 of the $4,000 1t had held when
1t was stolen.
Brady pretended the greatest astonishment
The authorities believed no was lying, but
nothing could shake his story. He went to
prison to begin life sentence still declaring
that he and his partner had buried the entire
$4,000 and had never seen or touched any
OF II since
Six months later and nearly two years
after the Davisville robbery, man came to
the head detective OF the express company
and informed him that he suspected man
known as Carl Norman Of having gained pos
session OF the missing $4,000 in gold.
"I have known this man Herman for years.
said the detectives informant. 'He never
did days work in his life, never had any
money and has always been veritable vaga-
bond In fact everybody who knew him
called him Carl the Tramp
about two years ago, to my surprise. he
blossomed out like millionaire with expen-
sive clothes, diamonds and a pocketbook that
apparently held an inexhaustible supply Of
ready money. He gambled heavily at the
racetracks and entertained lavishly at the
most exclusive restaurants and hotels This
eytravagant way Of living has continued up to
the present time. Only last week he enter
tanned gay party Of chorus girls at dinner
that cost $500.
when anybody asks Carl the reason for
this remarkable change In his mode Of living
he becomes very mysterious and will give no
satisfactory information. It Is safe to say
that he did not make the money honestly, for
he IS without education and has no aptitude
for any kind OF work. What strikes me as
remarkable coincidence Is the fact that his
astonishing leap from poverty to wealth dates
from the very month OF the train robbery at
DaYisyille.
The express company officials we're much
impressed BY this story, and at once set
several sleuths TO shadowing Herman. Their
reports made the mystery OF his suddenly
acquired wealth all the deeper. Although
there was no tangible evidence 10 connect
him with Browning and Brady or the money
they had buried warrant was sworn out for
him.
Herman was arrested Just as be was sitting
down to dinner with fashionably 5gowncd
woman who for several months had been
sharing his prosperity He was e2pensiyely
attired in evening clothes OF the latest cut
and looked lil5e anything but thief or
receiver OF stolen goods.
night in a cell, However. FOLLOWED by a
cruel third degree" examination unneryed
him so that he made full confession
"My right name" he said, sis John T.
Harms. On the night of the Dayisvile train
robbery was sleeping in tho woods near a
place called Jackwoods Caleb. II must have
been long after midnight when l was
awakened by the sound of mems voices.
"Peering through the underbrush surround,
ing the little clearing where I had spread my
blanket | saw in the waning moonlight two
men dragging some heavy object into the
gulch below me. One OF them carried a rail-
road lantern. and as they drew nearer saw
that they both wore black masks and that
What they were carrying with so much dffi-
Guilty an iron box such as Is used In eX-
press cars for keeping yaluables
when they were less than a dozen feet
from me they put the box down. Then with
their hunting knives and With sticks they
started digging in the sandy soil. When they
had dug deep hole they dropped tho box
into it, covered it with earth and started OF
in the direction Of Sacramento
~ had not said word all this time for fear
that IL was discovered they would kill me
when daylight came, however, my courage
returned and seeing no sign OF the men
J could not resist the temptation to dig up
the box and see what was in it.
When ] threw open the cover I was
amazed to sea that it was nearly full Of bags
OF gold coin and dust did not stop 10
count the money and I had no idea how
much the dust was worth but ] realized that
this was more wealth than I had ever seen
in my life before and enough to enable me
to live like a prince
looked carefully In every direction TO
Then ] filed my pockets with as much OF
the gold as l could carry put the rest back
INTO the box and filed up the hole again
when | reached San Francisco | found
that had in specie and dust s360Oo."
or this amount Harms had spent in two
years time $4,000. The remainder was on
deposit IN various banks and was recovered
by the express company by civil suits.
Harms was convicted Of grand larceny and
sent to prison.
The difficulties which thieves have In dis
posing of the plumber they secure al such
fearful risks offer additional evidence IN
support OF my contention that CRIME DOES
NOT PAY. But even If this were not So
even II it were possible for the criminal to
spend his Ill gotten gains without molesta,
tlon from anybody do not believe his lot
woulq be any the happier. 1t has been nv
lnVarlaole experience that money dishonesty
acquired carries curse with it and leads
tne misguided man or woman who tries 10
nerlVe some enjoyment from It's use ONLY ia
remorse and misery.