Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-05-13
Sandy Spring Suspect
Talks Freely.
Clarence Adams Talks With
Police About Robbery, But
Denins He Was There.

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Clarence Adams, 80 years old, alias
James Kane. alias William Kane, sat in
the office of Marshal Carter, Police H lead
quarters, Baltimore, Monday afternoon
and discussed with the Marshal and
Headquarters Detectives Bradley and
Dougherty the mu rider of Francis M. Hal
lowell and the robbery of the First Ma
tional Bank, Sandy Spring, Md, two
weeks ago.
Adams was brought to Baltimore from
Camden. N. j., on an indictment charg-
ing him with completely in the murder
and robbery. The indictment was found
by the grand jury of Montgomery county
Saturday. after Adams had been identi-
fled by three witnesses in Camden Friday
night as one of the men who did inside
guard work when the bank was robbed,
and as one of the men who were seated
in the stolen automobile.
Adams attitude neither surprised the
police nor did it cause them to doubt that
he was one of the principals in the Sandy
Spring case. There was no third degree
examination, in fact most of the talking
was done by Adams A few questions
were asked by Marshal Carter. and in
long rambling answers Adams told of the
desperate characters who turned the
Sandy Spring trick, " Bradley and Dough-
erty, observing Adams, saw in the man a
dual personality.
Trapped, he had become meek and al
most child like He admitted that he had
served time for safe cracking and that he
had been wrong" for score of years,
but denied knowledge of the Sandy Spring
case lie said he never before saw the
men who identified him and picked him
ut in he jail ia Camden Friday night.
!he Prisoner admitted that he was
.aueht in Baltimore October 22. 1919,
with lhree other armed men and had the
stolen automobiie license of Edward
'rundage, 1911 North Calvert street, in
mis- possession. But he would not explain
now he happened to be caught with An
thony Cugino, alleged Armiger bandit,
now in the City Jail, when detectives
raided the Cary street house where
Adams, Cugino and another man were
hiding.
Marshal Carter, after talking with
Adams, declared there was no doubt in
his mind as to the Identification of Adams
and his implication in the Sandy Spring
case.
adams is one of the most dangerous
men who ever fingered the trigger of a
pistol pointed at the head of a hold-up
victim" said Marshal Carter. Trapped
is to answer the indictment against him,
he is no longer Adams the daring gun
man, but Adams the quiet-talking, ap-
parently inoffensive sort of fellow, and
he is as keen as steel trap. He fought
to remain in Jersey by confessing to
petty crimes there, but he found it use
less"
Adams was taken from Camden at
midnight Sunday across the Delaware
river to Philadelphia, where he was held
for Detective Bradley. He was placed
under guard at the police station until
a commitment is received from the Mont
gomery county off 'ials for his removal
to Jail. Marshall Carter has received in
formation that John Kelly, alias Frank
Wilson. was indicted at Rockvil lille as one
of the bank robbers. Requistion papers
were signed by Governor Richie and
Detective Dougherty has gone to Phila-
delphia to bring Kelly to Baltimore.
Kelly was arrested Saturday after a
fight with the police.