The Monticellonian., 1916-10-19

not with her. He had been there UNI
til the night before. They had quar-
relied 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
| ops some element of unexpected folly
the criminal does some one thing
that seems. from what would be sup
posed to be his standpoint. inexcusabiy
stupid. Gard was therefore not sur
| prised 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 browning folly from a
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.
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| pawned jewelrY ticket to Balm
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 Bes-
ton gambler. The apartment of Mrs.
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upon occasion, set up, and the woman
herself. who was suspected of being
particularly intimate with Mansfield,
We're watched. The watch was not eff
fectiye, 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 eanvassed 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 he in excess of
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free of charge This singled it out
from the mass Of trunks The ex-
pressman remembered that it weighed
225 pounds, and that the baggageman
! had marked it for so cents excess.
According to the rate book this would
have been the excess charge for that
weight to New York. The trunk was
! Hai5 faE
! ness that its number was procured.
4 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 Temem-
bered that she had been accompanied
by a man At this address a Mr.. and
Mrs Price we're 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 cid 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. however until several suspected
individuals in different cities had been
shown not to be the man wanted, and
many other schemes for the apprehen-
sion of the gambler had failed. For
Walls was married to very attrae-
tive nd rpcnnaf n hlp ,thn
ported herself by keeping a boarding
house after his flight. It could not
be discovered that she was in commu-
nication with her husband Finally
there was developed another woman
with whom Walls was known to have
been friendly. and who had part in
the activities of the faro gang. This
woman's correspondence was watched
and ii was soon discovered that she
was sending letters to and receiving
letters from a man in Detroit, Mich
Traeings of the mans handwriting
were made as the letters came through
the post office. and when compared
with that of Walls, the resemblance
was convincing
address as a lock box A special agent
went to Detroit but the box had been
given UP. Two months later more let
tiers came to the same woman from
Grand Junction, Colo, and also from
q lock box. The postmaster was able
to describe the man holding the box
and the description suited Walls But
ha YJaaF=al auojn hAforn Il
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 We're 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 IS, 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