The Green Forest tribune., 1916-10-20

cated It was found that TOllman was not with her. He had been there un- til the night before. They had quar- reled and he had gone away. The cause of their quarrel was the fact that Tollman had no money. She had cast him off as dead husk. She did not know his whereabouts.
 In practically every case of other wise Well-executed crime these devel- ops some element of unexpected folly the criminal does some one thing that seems, from what would be SUD- posed to be his standpoint. inexcusably stupid. Gard was therefore not sur prlsed when it developed that Toll man had not so much as a thousand dollars out of all he had taken from the bank. He had made no provision for the time which he must have known would inevitably come when he should be detected. This, however, was not the crowning folly from criminal standpoint. Despite the dash and cunning and the determination he had evinced in his lootings, he lost his nerve when his woman threw him out. He purchased, with the proceeds of pawned jewelry, a ticket to Bain- bridge, Mass, went there, and gave | himself up to the police. His nerve was broken.
 The theory of find the woman" was applied in the case of the third of the offenders, John R. Mansfield, the Bos- MT Siddons where the faro game was upon occasion set up, and the woman herself, who was suspected of being particularly intimate with Mansfield were watched. The watch was not ef fective, however, for the woman dis appeared with no one seeing her.
 The janitor at the apartment house reported that in going she had taken a particularly heavy trunk Special Agent Stephens undertook to follow | that trunk. He canvassed half the eXpressmen of Boston before he found the man who had taken the trunk away. This man stated that he had taken it to the Back Bay station at a certain time, and that it had been weighed and found to be in excess of | the baggage passenger might carry | free of charge. This singled it out 1 from the mass of trunks. The eX- | pressman remembered that it weighed | had marked it for 50 cents excess. According to the rate book this would | have been the excess charge for that weight to New York. The trunk was thus located with sufficient definite ] ness that it's number was procured.
 In New York it was found that the excess trunk had been sent on to North Philadelphia with the charge c. o. D. Here the record showed that the trunk had been called for by a Mrs. Price, living at an address on Broad street, and the agent remem- bered that she had been accompanied by man. At this address a MT. and Mrs Price were found to be living Special Agent Stephens watched the Broad street house until Price came out. He was none other than Mans field. He was placed under arrest.
 With confidence in the old detective theory of the woman, the special agents applied it again in the case of Walls, the one-time gambler on transatlantic liners. This was not done -basTsssss asiEasSsrallss2qsssRaasse..ss qsRas.ss $ individuals in 9f&Aef5f cities had been shown not to lie the man wanted, and many other sch emes for the apprehen- Gi nf thc Lo Walls was married to a very attrac- tive and respectable woman, who SUD- ported herself by keeping a boarding house after his flight. It could not be discovered that she was in commu- nicatien with her husband. Finally, there was developed another woman with whom Walls was known to have been friendly, and who had a part in the activities of the faro gang This woman correspondence was watched, and it was soon discovered that she was sending letters to and receiving letters from a man in Detroit, Mich Tracings of the mans handwriting were made as the letters came through the pest office. and when compared with that of Walls, the resemblance was convincing.
 The writer of these letters gave his address as lock box. A special agent went to Detroit, but the box had been given up. Two months later more let ters came to the same woman from Grand Junction, Colo, and also from . lock box. The postmaster was able to describe the man holding the box and the description suited Walls But he moved again before a detective got there to identify and arrest him. There was a chase of six months on such clues, always through the same woman, but Walls was still at large.
 Eventually there appeared among death notices in New York the name of Edward T. Walls. Subsequently Mrs. Walls went from her boarding house in Boston and took charge of the body. Suspecting that this might be a trick to throw them off their guard, the special agents took every precaution to identify the body. Event ually they were convinced that the man they had pursued so diligently was dead. The case was closed.
 The three principals in this case, Tollman, Kelliner and Mansfield, were given 15. IS and 10 years re- spectively. After their conviction both Tollman and Kelliner talked freely to Billy Gard of the whole case and threw some interesting sidelights upon it. Kelliner told particularly of the inception of the plans of the faro gang. He said it came into being at Atlantic City where he and Mansfield and Walls happened to be spending a LEnlli,nnr. nt al