Gunnison news-champion., 1924-08-22
True
Detective Stories
BOLAND, ALIAS
GARDNER


WHEN Hyrnsn and Hess. dealers
w IN ClOass and suits on STATE
street Albany y Y s.nt Il
"hsc. for SSs77 10 Refs and Blum.
Carmen; Manufacturers 10 N~w Yor.
'.'y. they didn't have the ID ghr~sr
lf~s that they were starting chain
Of "'lt-uo. which would land one o,
the cisysr-u crooks Ia America behind
the bars
few days later. before the S-x
York nrln had had time 20 report ne
n"Earr.yEl Of the check and thus per
mit HymHn and Hezs to look into th,
matter. d J0uuE man came Into the
National Commercial bank Iu AIbauq
and presented check Tor tHsu. mad..
out to ~E"Hrcr" The date On the
che. x. nIled ia With rubber stamp.
currrsponi"d % the day on which IL
Mas pr"s-nr"I. and the man who hand.
ed It TO the paying teller mentioned
casually that the check was to cover
an Dp'lnn' and tina, he had to hurry
back tn N"H York In order 10 complete.
the traraa,'lpu The paying teller
feeling 0'r'IlH that the signature was
genuine cushrd the check. and the
man whu had presented II walked out
Il The bank with NlnD Ia his pDrE-t
When Iiyman aud Hess had their &C.
count balanced they found that they
were exactly $3.50 short-fur tn. orig
inli check had never reached It's S.V
YORK GrsIlhailon. but had been lItted
out Of ID" mail box by on. Of q gang
"i clever criminals. the body Of the
check erased with an Ink "radlcatpr
and the date and amount flied In On
top of the original signature.
only one man In the country could
have done that and gotten away with
Il, gr0NIed George 4. Fuller, assistant
superintendent Of the Pink.rion Detec-
tive agency, when the bank called the
details uf the cas-" 10 his attention.
It's Boland's work"
Yes. Boland," replied Fuller. "Or
Gardner, rs he sometimes calls him
self He's got regular organization
for this sort Of thing. Trains boys to
loot the mail boxes, washes the checks
with an acid preparation OF his own
Invention, writes in a higher amount,
makes them payable TO Bearer. and
then another OF his tools cashes
them"
II you know 80 much about the
man" asked TIA" amazed banker. why
hasn't he been arrested long before
thlsT'
rs easy enough to arrest man"
was FulIer's reply. but 1t is sometimes
very difficult to convict him. SO far as
the actual check raising goes Bolund
plays lone hand. What's more he
pays his men we'll, and takes care OF
them II they happen to get caught. SO
far. none of EN- has turned states evI.
deuce, and until they door until We
catch Bolnnd red d-hunded-there's moth.
ing to do but be careful. We've got
out our knowing IL
Warned by Hyman and Hess check
that the BOland outfit was once more
conducting operations In New York
state, the PinkcrtOn man kept close
watch on all persons suspected Of be
longing 10 tn" organizations, with the
result that thrc. men were arrested
and sentenced to terms In prison. But
all OF them steadtastly refused TO i'm
plicate the man higher up"
Finally Boland and three Of his as
sociates were arrested In Boston, aft
er Fuller had shadowed u boy whom
he suspected OF robblng a mail box.
Dano. the boy. and Devine, another
OF the organization. drew short terms
for petty larceny. but Bolsnd escaped
on account OF technicality. and
moved to New York where he tried
10 continue his operations. But the
New York police and particularly Com
missioner George S. Dougherty. made
things so difficult, that he was soon re-
duced to the expedient OF securing
checks wherever he could-a neces-