Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-18
less Murder.

All the resources of the vast Pinkcrton
network were at once thrown into the hunt
FOR Schumacher's slayers
Inc elder Rudolphs, who had vanished
from the old mine workings. were located at
the nome of distant relatives They denied
any knowledge of Willie's possible where
aoouts, or the name of his companion other
than that he was called George" They did
ADMIT suspecting the boys" might be in
some sort of trouble" but were absolved of
any other connection with the crimes
check-up revealed that Young Rr
ooiphs real name was William Armstead.
that ne was Jail bird and known to former
prison inmates as The Missouri Kid" a
skilled and experienced safeblower
Meanwhile Pinkerton agents swarmed
over me dilapidated clubhouse in search of
crews one OF them delving into the well,
came up with a heavy canvas sack that
looked as though it had gone through fire
and earthquake
bent blackened penny fell out.
LOOK. he cried eXctedy "Nitroelvcerin
olu thls Heres some of the Union bank loot !"
Inc rest of the contents, $500 in, silver
and gold coins, bore the same mute evidence
and tied the two missing men definitely to
the robbery 1t also proved that Sehumachers
mastery series of deductions had been right
operative George Charlsworth rummag-
covered scrap of wrapping paper. It was
badly charred but he was able IN docinho.
passages OF an unprintable poem. what an
peared 10 be the words Manila" and Hart
Iord' ana the names George Collins" and
George Ladieu" written several times as
II by someone practicing with new pen.
Army officials queried on the Manila
angie, reported their records showed M
George Ladieu in the Philippine service, al
though there had been a George LaPlant
from Hartford Conn.
Equipped with this added information
George S. Dougherty, head of the New York
office, hurried to Hartford where he soon
picked up the trail of a George LaPlant
Dlack sheep son of respected family and
iaVlsh spender and patron of a certain estab-
hshment of not too good repute
Dougherty, with Garrett J. Farrell and
oIher city detectives, set watch on tho
place and a few nights later were rewarded
by seeing a short, stocky man and a tall
Ianky one enter furtivey
ihey waited several hours til an at
Iehdant assisted the shorter down the stems
TO waiting hanson While the others gib-
dued him, Dougherty and Farrell rushed in
side. There was Rudolph
The gded lilies in the parlor screamed
as Dougherty leaped for him. In the struggle
that ensued Rudolph lost his gun. Doughertv
drew blackjack. That, with Farrers help.
finished matters
But the Pinkertons were not through with
them yet.
Three days before the trial. while guards
attention was distracted by a fake fight,
rudolph swung through a skylight, slid
down a 60-foot drain pipe leaped on a bicvcIe
and vanished from the scene
Collins unable TO get out of his cell and
join his pal in the escape was tried. found
guilty and sentenced to hang.
ON Lincolns Birthday, 1905 the Pinker-
tons located Rudolph again. safely hidden
as he thought, in a Kansas Jail where he
had been locked up under another name.
He arrived back in Union just in time
TO see Collins mount the scaffold Fifty-fve
minutes after the trap was sprung he also
had been convicted, and died on the same
5caffold two months later