St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-03-29
Traps Laid by Detectives
Puts Them Behind the
Bars Of Prison.
WORK
OF DETECTIVES
Marked Money Used to Com.
plete Evidence Of
Guilty Parties

= cn6pteE Oh some yellOW-b0cke
novel or culled from film OF
'Bowery" picture show, but NO on
would have guessed that the law
abiding town of Slidell could produc
material for the hold-up game tha
occurred in that town last Saturla,
night. It is more stratling from tn,
fact that the hold-up seems to hav,
been countenanced by an officer o
the law, sworn to protect citizens
in just such emergencies; yet thi.
officer declares his innocence of tn,
charge and has been released on /
bond of $4,000 The bond was signes
by w. E. Cause. N. F. Mcmahon
ID. A. Porter, Mrs. Rither, Mrs
Laura Seruti, Of Slidell, and Warrei
Thomas, of Talisheek. All of thu
other parties who were brought II
and locked up in the parish jail ar
still !ncarcerAted.
Lawless conditions will not be n
lowed to exist in the moral and u
|telligent community Of Slideii
When II became evident that tht
hold-ups and robberies in Slidell
were being perpretrated by men who
lived there and not by transients i
was determined to put stop to it
The closest watch failed to reyeai
the criminals. Chicken houses wer
robbed; brass and copper parts o.
machinery and tools and other thing
that could be sold were taken; rail
roads and sawmills suffered alike
houses were entered and articles
stolen, and the men were held up ans
robbed. Mr.. Albert Salmen, of Sal
men Brothers. finally hit upon ths
plan OF getting a Burns detective
from New Orleans to ferret the mat
ter out. The detective was broughi
over and placed In the machine shol
Of the company, without letting any
one into the secret. He proved t
be no-account laborer. He loafee
at his work, and there were days
when he did not turn up for work
at all. He laid around saloons ant
developed all the characteristics o.
a hOodlum. He became the boon
companion of those whom he lookei
to as being likely to possess the In
formation he wanted. He spotted
his men, and when he had things ripe
he wired to New Orleans for con
federate to come over and assist
him In Opening the ball. Thi
was Saturday morning. There ar
rived on the evening train a man Wn
apparently had nothing to do bus
to spend money and have a GOO
time. He visited the saloons an
..set 'em up literally. He fiashe
a big roll. and when he got with tn
right people his conviviality ap
parently led him to condition Q
that made him an cas-.
prey for hold-up gang. Then q
left them. as he said, to hunt place
to sleep, about ten o'clock at night
The detective was among the gam
suspected of doing the dirty WORK
He listened to the plot to- rob tn
man and went out with them tt
follow him. The man was apparent
" too drunk to resist or to remembe.
what happened, and they got MS
roll.
Half an hour later the robbed maj
turned up at the saloon OF Harrs
Hoyle. and confronted the men whe
had robbed him. They were drink
ing at the bar and the detective wa
with them. Night Marshal White
Deputy A. A.. Parker, two citizen
and the detective arrested the gam
when the stranger announced tina
he guessed he was not quite az
drunk as they thought he was. The
Jig was up and the gang had beer
trapped.
Those arrested and brought to Gov
ington were: Harry Jacques, ca
inspector for. New Orleans and North
eastern Railroad Co.; III. Harvey
inspector for New Orleans Great
Northern Railroad Company; Char
lie Shannon, carpenter; R0ber'
4Gauley and Night Marshal White
Harvey and White, We understand
were not participants In the robbery
but were arrested because of evi
dence obtained by the detectives
upon which they will be prosecuted
Whites arrest came as q grea1
surprise to him. It seems that thu
detectives had marked the bills II
the roll of money and had taken thu
numbers Of the bills. The detective
stated that he had paid White fiyt
dollars to keep out of the way and
let the gang do the work. Wher
the prisoners were searched after thu
arrest the marked money was founf
on them. White wat then informed
that he. also, must submit to beint
searched. a, fiye dollor bill wat
found Ii his pQcket, and when ths
'detective Rad on the num0eFs Of the