The Bourbon news., 1913-10-03
Notorious Yegeman Who Had Seen
TraiIed Through Seven States
Is Taken in Baltimore.
CONCEALED IN COUCH
BESIDE WIFE AND BABY.
Defied Police and Was Prepared
For Battle When Climax Was
Reached.
Baltimore SUM-

tBalJlmOro sum-
Of all the thrilling experiences Fed
eral officers have had in their wal
on postoffice burglars and safe blow.
erS none was attended with more hair
breadth escapes than the celebrated
roundup and raid which had it's eli
max in Baltimore, where twenty-five
of the most desperate yeggmen Oper-
ating in the East and South were cap
tured, each man being taken at the
gun point.
Word had gone forth from Wash
ington that the band of yeggmen op-
Grating in the East and South were
| becoming daily bolder and thir post
! office safe blowing SO frequent that
| they must be checked at all hazards
and the yeggmen brought to justice.
Inspectors Bulla, Hooton and Greg
Ory were the mendetailed on the
case.
Inspector Hooton trailed a number
of yeggmen and their followers to
Mrs. Herr'S saloon in Baltimore.
After a long campaign of prepara-
tions a number of these men were
captured. Most of these were the
smaller fry of yeggmen, but the post
office inspectors were especially
elated over the capture of Robert L.
Shainback, alias William Johnson"
alias WILL" James Sherwood, alias
James Shannon" FATTY Ghee," Jno
King, alias James Brennan" alias
John. B. Stilwell," alias "Pa (Pennsyl-
vania) Swipes," John Adams, alias
I'D. c.. District of Columbia) Jack"
and Charles Nor, alias Charley Nor
way Slim
The captives were speedily arrign-
Rogers, and each was held in default
of $4,000 bail
The inspectors elated over their
nights work, called on the police to
institute raids on the other resorts
that he'd been watched Detective
Bradley led in the invading party on
one of the Caroline street cribs, and
while only a few shots were fired,
nightsticks and blackjacks were free
ly swung, and it was badly batter
ed band Of burglars that was hauled
to the city prison at the conclusion
of the hearing before the commits
siOner.
In the haul John, Smith, alias
Emerson PAM" alias Frisco Slim"
(but the original Frisco Slim,")
Frank Burns, alias Thomas Grady"
John Collins, alias John Warren"
William Smith, Edward Fitzpatrick,
alias Burlington Fatty" and James
Gallagher, alias est Louis Jimmy"
! were seized. All of this group were
taken to La Plata, Md, where three
were positively identified as partici-
pants in the robbery of the village
bank. 1t was an easy matter to con-
meet the others, together with some
of those taken in the earlier raid
with the Mt. Airy band robbery, and,
this done, they joined their compan-
ions in the Baltimore city Jail for
! safe keeping. Detective Bradley
meanwhile had arrested Robert Cassi-
dy, alias big Casey" alias evil
mington Rad" after knock-down-
and-drag-out fight.
But one more of the yeggmen's re-
treats remained to be raided. The
detectives on guard had conveyed in
formation to the Postoffice Inspectors
which led them to believe that the
very men working under the direc-
ton of Med" and Connecticut Shor-
ty" were in this dive, and furthermore
they had reason to believe that the
principals themselves were not fan
away. The roundup must be made
at any cost, for the striking while the
iron was hot dozen desperate roughs
and thieves had been seized and
thoses till lettering about the yegg