New-York tribune., 1922-03-28
Gangster Tells
of 8 Killings,
Many Hold-Ups
Story of Alleged Survivor
of the Adams Gang Makes
the James Boys Look Like
Sunday School Scholars
caught After Jersey Job
Prisoner Asserts He and
Three Comrades Robbed
Trains. Banks and Stores

TRENTON. n, J., March 27.-Allee-
ing that he is the last survivor of the
EDDIE Adams gang, which has a rec
ord Of eight murders and more than n
score of robheries, police officials to-
day delivered George Weisgerber. Of
Pltman, n. j.. to the custody of Sheriff
west, of Osceola County, Iowa. The
Sheriff started for Iowa with his pris-
oner TINS morning, where Weisgerber
VIII stand strial on TWO charges Of
murder.
The police say that the recorded
crimes charged against the Adams
gang during September and October
I92l, make the career of the James
boys look like the record of prize
winning Sunday school scholar The
gang, according to the police. terror
i@eo MlddIe Western communities dur
ing the TAN Of 1921, shooting on sight
and rooolng on impulse. Daylight bank
robberes, automobile and train hold
ups, store looting and killings of farm
ers and police have been entered
up against the gang, of which it is al
i7ged Wcisgerbcr has admitted ne was
member.
Adams, leader Of the gang, was killed
IN a gun fight with police at Wichita
hh!a.n., IN which two policemen died
" imam Fentieman and Frank Foster,
other members of the band, are now
serving life terms for murder.
Four Fled Kansas Prison
Weisgerbcr told the police that he
met Adams while he was serving a
term for petty larceny in the sfate
prison at Lansing, Kan, and that he
engineered scheme by which the four
e"ngsters escaped from prison. Once
rec, Adams assumed the leadership Of
the outlaws, and after hiding for q
week IN the woods their depredations
started with the robbery Of a clothing
store and the theft of an automobile
Their first big job was the sticking
Hp OF bank in Kansas. which netted
them 1000. On the same night thev
robbed craps game in another town
ana got away with $1,000 then they
decided to rob the Chicago-Los Angeles
Express, and accomplished their aim
WIN the and Of racing car, which
chcy stole. In the automobile they ran
alongside the train on a stretch be-
tween Ottawa and Holiday. kan.
where the train tracks and the road
run side by side. Adams jumped from
the car to the platform of the mail
coach. held up the mail clerks. threw
several bags of registered mail into
the car and the men got away. This
httlc trick netted the gang $4,000 in
cash and lot of registered Liberty
bonds. which. the police say, Weis-
Gerber tells them were used as cigar
lighters.
Robbed Eleven Stores in Night
Following this exploit general
search for the gang was organized in
Kansas, and the four bandits moved
over into Missouri, making their way
by road in automobiles which they
stole, ran to the breaking point and
then abandoned. In Missouri they held
up eleven stores in one night in the
town of West Plains, and then moved
into Iowa, where they took refuge with
a farmer named Charles Jones, who fed
them and gave them shelter. Jones sus-
pccted their identity and called in tno
police. In the gun fight that followed
Adams WAS killed.
After the death of Adams the gang
split up Weisgerber told the police. He
returned to his former home in New
Jersey, where he settled in Paulsbo,y.
On March II he robbed a safe in the
Paulsboro Railway station, and when
ne was arrested for this crime the
whole story came out
Welsgerber, who was also known as
George Clark, was accompanied on the
return journey by two postof1icc in
spcctors and a member of the Iowa
State Bureau Of Investigation, as well
as Sheriff West.