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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1927)
FAMOUS DETECTIVE CASES By Cleveland Moffett Mysterious Murder and Robbery of an Ex press Messenger and the Final Solution of a Most Difficult Crime Problem HK through express on the Rork Island road left Clil cago at M:40 p. in. on March 12, 1886, with twen ty-two thousand dollai In I fifty and one-hundred dol lar bills In the keeping of Kellogg Nichols, an old- time messenger of the Unit ed states Express com pany. This sum hud been sent by a Chicago bunk to be delivered at the prln clpal bank In Davenport, Iowa, lu addition to the usuttl passenger coaches, the train drew two express ears: the first, for express only, Just behind the engine, and, following this, one for express and baggage. These cars bad end doors, which offer the best opportunity to train robbers. Messenger Nichols wss In the first car, and waa duly at his work when the train stopped at Jollet about forty miles southwest of Chicago, But at the- next atop, which waa made at Morris, Harry Schwartz, a brskeuian, cam running from Nichols' csr, cry ing, "The messenger Is dead." The messenger's lifeless body whs found lying on the floor of the car. Tbt head hsd been crushed by some heavy weapon, and there waa a pistol wound In the right shoulder. Appar ently he had been overcome only after bard fight Bis face was set with fierce determination. Ills fists were clenched, and the bands and fingers cut and scratched In curious way, hlle nnder the nails were found what proved to be bits of human flesh. The pistol wound wss front weapon of 82 caliber: but it was not the cause of the man's death. This, unmlstuk ably, wss the blow or blows, on the bead, probably after the shot was fired. All who knew Messenger Nichols were surprised at the desperate resistance be seemed to have made, for be was email, light man. The express car was Immediately detached from the train, and left at Morris, guarded by all the train crew except Schwartz, who was sent ou with the train to Davenport. After the first cursory Inspection no one was allowed to enter the car where Nichols lay; and nothing was known precisely as to the extent of the robbery. The safe door had been found open and the floor of the car Uttered with the con tents of the safe. An argent telegram was at once sent to Chicago, and force of detectives arrived at Morris on special train a few hours Ister. Search parties were at once sent out In all directions long the country roads and up and down the tracks. Hundreds of people Joined In the search, for the news of the murder spread rapidly through the . whole region, and not a square ysrd of territory for miles between Morris and Minooka station was left unex plored. It happened that the ground was covered with snow, but the keen est scrutiny failed to reveal any sig nificant footprints, and the search par ties returned after many hours, having Hide only a single discovery. This was mask found In a cattle guard near Minooka a mask made of black cloth, with white strings fastened at either aide, one of which had been torn out of the cloth as If in struggle. Mennttme Mr. Plnkerton himself en tered the car and made a careful In vestigation. Coming to the safe, Mr. Plnkerton found that the twenty-two thousand dollars were missing, and that other papers hsd been hastily searched over, but left behind aa valueless. Among these ws a bundle of can celed drafts that had been roughly torn open and then thrown aside. All the train hands were Immeditely questioned, but none of their stories was In any way significant, except that of Newton Watt, the man In charge of the second car. He said that while busy counting over his way bills and receipts he had been startled by the crash of broken glass In the ventilator overlies d, snd that at the same mo ment hesvily built man, wearing a blsck mask, had entered the car and aid, "If you move, the uiun up there will bore you." Looking up, Watt said further, he saw a hand thrust through the broken glass and holding re volver. Thus Intimidated, he made no attempt to give an alarm, and the masked roan presently left him under guard of the pistol overhead, which covered htm until shortly before the train reached Morris, when It was withdrawn. He waa able to locate the place where the crime must have been committed, as he remembered that the engine was whistling fur Minooka when the stranger entered the car. This left about thirty minutes for the murder, robbery, and escape. Returning to Chicago, Mr. Plnkerton Investigated the character of the man Watt, and found that he had clean record, waa regarded as a trusty and efficient man, and had three brothers who had been railroad men for years nd hsd always given perfect liitUfitc tlon. Watt's good reputation and straightforward manner were strong points In his favor, and yet there waa something questionable In his story of the mysterious hand. For one tiling, no footprints were found In the snow on the top of the car. Bntkeninn Schwartz, the only man IT I m (CoprrlfM br W. 0. Chipmsn on the train who bad not yet been questioned, "deadheaded" his way. In railway parlance, back from Daven port the following night ou Conductor Danforth's train, and reported to Mr, Plnkerton 4 he next morning. He waa a' tall, fine-looking young fellow, about twenty-seven, with thin lips and face that showed determination. He waa rutlier dapper In dress, and kept on his glovea during the conversation. Mr. Plnkerton received him pleasantly, and, after they had been smoking and chatting for an hour or so, he sug gested to Schwartt that he would he more comfortable with his glovea off. Schwartz accordingly removed them, and revealed red marks on the backs of hla hands, such as might have been made by fingernails dialing Into them. "How did yoo hurt your hands, Schwartzr asked Mr. Plnkerton. "Oh, I did that handling bugs-line night before last," explained Schwarta and then he related Incidentally that as he was on his wsy back to Chicago, the conductor of th train. Conductor Danforth, had discovered a valise left by somebody In one of the toilet rooms. Later In the day Mr. Plnkerton sum moned the conductor, who said that the valise was an old one, of no value; and, having no contents, be hsd thrown It out on' an ash pile. The only thing he had found In the valise waa a piece of paper that attracted hla attention because It waa marked with red Hues. Examining this piece of paper care fully. Mr. Plnkerton aaw that It had been torn from money draft, and at once thought of the package In the express messenger's safe. Mr. Plnkerton at ones ordered search made for the missing valise, and also an Inquiry regarding the pas sengers who hsd ridden on Conductor Danforth's train between Duvenport and Chicago on the night following the murder. The valise was found on the ssh heap where the conductor had thrown It, snd In the course of the next few days the detectives had lo cated or accounted for ill passengers on Conductor Danforth's train, with the exception of one man who had ridden on free pass. The conductor could only recall this man's features vaguely; and, while some of the pas sengers remembered him well enough, there was no clue to his name or Identity. As It appeared that no other of the passengers could have been connected with the crime, efforts were redoubled to discover the bolder of this pass. So greet was the public Interest In the crime and the mystery surrounding It that three separate, well-organized Investigations of It were undertaken. The Rock Island railroad officials, with their detectives, conducted one; Chi csgo newspsper, with Its detectives, another; and the Ptnkertons, In the Interest of the United States Express company, s third. Mr. Plnkerton, as we have seen, con cluded that the crime had been com mitted by railway men. The railway officials were naturally disinclined to believe ill of their employees, and an Incident occurred shout this time which turned the Investigation In an entirely new direction snd made them the more disposed to discredit Mr. Plnkerton's theory. This wss ths re ceipt of letter from a convict lu the Michigan City penitentiary, named Plunkett who wrote the Rock Island railroad officials, saying that he could furnish them with Important Informa tion. Mr. fit. John, the general manager of the road, went in person to the pen itentiary to take Plunkett's statement, which was In effect that he knew the men who had committed the robbery and killed Nichols, and was willing to sell this Information In exchange for a full pardon, which the railroad people could secure by using their Influence. This they promised to do If his story proved true, and Plunkett then told them of a plot that had been worked out year or so before, when he had been grafting with a mob of pick pockets at county fairs. There were with him at that time "Butch" McCoy, James Connors (known as "Yellow hainmer"), and a man named "Jeff," whose surname he did not know. These three men, Plunkett said, bad planned sn express robbery on the Rock Island road, to be executed In precisely the same way, and at pre cisely the same point on the road, as In the case In question. The story was plausible, and woo Mr. tit John's belief. It won the be lief, also, of the Chicago newspaper; and forthwith the railway detectives, working with the newspaper detec tives, were Instructed to go ahead on new lines, regardless of trouble or expense. Their first endesvor was to capture "Butch" McCoy, the leader of the gang. "Butch" was a pickpocket, burglar, and all-around thief, whose operations kept him traveling all over the United States. The police in various cities having been communicated with to no pur pose, the editor finally decided to do a thing the like of which no newspaper proprietor, perhaps, ever undertook be forethat Is. start on a personal search for McCoy and Ills associates. With Frank Murray, one of the best detectives In Chlcngo, and other de tectives, be went to Galesburg, where the gang wns said to have sort of headquarters. Ths party found there none of the men they were after, but they learned that "Thatch" Grady, a notorious crliul.mil with whom "Butch" McCoy was known to be in relations, was In Omaha, So they hurried to Omaha, but only to find that Grady had gone to St, Louis. Then to St. Louts went the editor and his de tectives, hot on the scent, and spent several days In that city searching high, and low. The method of locating a criminal In a great city la as Interesting aa It la little understood. The first atep Is to secure from the local police Infor mation as to the favorite haunts of criminals of the class tinder pursuit, pacing special regurd in the prelim inary Inquiries to the possibility of love affulrs; for thieves, even more than honest men, are swayed In their lives by the tender pnaalon, and are often brought to Justice through the agency of women. With so much of such information In their possession as they could gather, the editor and lita detectives spent their time In likely resorts, picking up acquaint nines with frequenters, and, whenever possible, turning the talk adroitly upon the man they were looking for. It Is a mistake to suppose that In work like this detectives disguise themselves. False beards and mus taches, goggles and lightning changes of clothing, are never heard of except In the pages of badly Informed atory writers. In his experience of over twenty-five years Mr. Murray never wore such a disguise, nor knew of any reputable detective who did. In this expedition the detectives simply assumed the characters and general style of the persona they were thrown with, passing for men of sporting tastes from the East ; snd, having sat isfied the people they met that they meant no harm, they had no difficulty In obtaining such news of Mi-Coy snd the others aa there was. Unfortu nately this was not ranch. After going from one city to another on various clues, bearing of one mem ber of the gang here and another there, and in each Instance losing their man, the detectives finally brought up In New Orleans. They had spent five or six weeks of time snd a large amount of. money, only to find themselves ab solutely without a clue as to the whereabouts of the men they were pursuing. They were much dlseour sged when a telegram from Mr. Pln kerton told them that "Hutch" McCoy was bsck In Galesburg, where they had first sought him. Proceeding thither with sil dlspstch, they triced McCoy Into a saloon, and there three of them John Smith, representing the Hock Island railroad; John Mc Ginn, for the Plnkerton agency, and Frank Murray, working for the news psper with drswn revolvers captured htm. in spite of a desperate dash be mule to escape. McCoy's capture wss the -occsslna of much felicitation among ths peo ple Interested In the matter. Mr. St. John and the editor were confident that now the whole myatery of the ex press robbery would he solved and the murderer convicted. But McCoy showed on trlsl that be bad left New Orleans to come North only the Bight before the murder snd bad spent the whole of thst night on the Illinois Central railroad. It also appeared that McCoy's associate, Connors, was In Jail at the time of the robbery, snd that the man "Jeff" was dead. Thus the whole Plunkett story wss exploded. Some time before this the man who had ridden on the free paas, and given the detectives so much trouble, hsd been accidentally found by Jack Mul Una. a brakeman on Conductor Dun forth's train. He proved to be an advertising solicitor, employed by no other thsn thst self-ssme newspaper, which would have given thousand dollars to know what Its agent knew; for the advertising man had seen the conductor bring out the valise con taining the all-important fragment of the draft. But he bad not realized the value of the news In his posses sion, and Mr, Plnkerton took good csre to keep him from that knowl edge. Not until he had seen the man safely on s train out from Chicago did Mr, Plnkerton breathe easily; and It was not until months later that the editor learned how near be came to getting a splendid "scoop" on the whole city and country. The Identification of the piss-bolder removed the last possibility that the valise bad been taken Into the train by any of Conductor Danforth's passen gers. And yet the valise was there! Mow came It there? In the course of their examination two of the passen gers had testified to having seen Schwartz enter the toilet room dur ing the run. Ilrakemnn Jack Mulllm stated thst he hsd been In the same room twice that night, that the aeo ond time he had noticed the valise, but that it was not there when he went in first Other witnesses In the csr were positive that the person who entered the room last before the time when Mulllns saw the valise was Schwartz. Thus the chain of proof was tightening, and Mr, Plnkerton sent for 8chwarts. After talking with the brakeman in semi-confidential way for some time, the detective began to queatlon him about Watt, his . fellow trainman. Schwartz said he was good fellow, and, in general, spoke highly of him. Mr. Plnkerton seemed to hesitate little, snd then said: "Can I trust you, Schwartz?" "Ten, sir." "Well, the fact Is, I am little sus picious of Watt, Tou see, his story about thst hand overhead does not ex actly hang together, I don't want to do him any wrong, but he must be looked after. Now, my Idea Is to have you go about with htm as much as you can, set If lis meets any strangers or spends much money, and lot ma know vhutever happens, Will you do It?" .Schwnrts readily consented, on the Durance that the railroad people oiild give him leave of absence. The next day he reported that Watt had met a man who wore a slouch hut, had unkempt red hair, and In general looked like a border ruffian. He hud overheard the two talking together In a Bullion on Cottuge Grove avenue, where the stranger had discussed ths murder of Nichols In great detail, showing a remarkable fnmlllurlty with the whole affnlr. Schwartz had a sort of Jesse James theory (which he seemed anxious to huve accepted) that the crime had been committed by a gang of Western desHradoes and that this fellow was connected with them. Mr. Plnkerton listened with Interest to all this, but was less edltled than Schwurts Imagined, since two of hla moat trusted shadows, who had been following Schwartz, had given liiiu re ports of the In Iter's movements, mak ing It plain that the red-haired dee perado waa a myth, and that no audi meeting aa Schwartz described had taken place. Nevertheless, professing to be well pleased with Schwartz's ef forts, Mr. Plnkerton sent lilm out to track the fabuloua tles;ierndo. Schwarta continued to render false re ports. Finally, without a word to srouse his suspicion, he waa allowed to resume his work on the railroad. The ahadowa put upon Schwartz af ter this reported a suspicious Inti macy between hint and Watt and a detective of great tact, Frank Jones, waa detailed to get Into their confi dence. II possible. He waa given a "run" as brakeman between Des Moines snd Davenport, and It waa arranged that be should come In from the west and lay over at Davenport on the same duys when Schwartz and Watt laid over there, coming In from the east. Jones played bis part cleverly, snd waa aoon on Intimate terms with Schwartz and Watt, taking his meals at their boarding house and sleeping In a room adjoining theirs. They finally rsme to like him so well that they suggested his trying to get transfer to their run, between Davenport and Chicago. This wss successfully ar ranged, and then the three men were together constantly, Jones even go ing to board at Schwartz's house In Chicago. About thla time Schwarti begun to talk of giving up railroad work and going to live In Kaitsua or the far West It waa arranged that Jones should Join lilm and Mrs. Schwartz on western trip. Mean time Schwarta applied to the company for leave of absence, on the plea that be wished to arrange some family mut ters tn Philadelphia. Mr. ' Plnkerton being Informed by Jones of Schwsrtz's application, used bis Influence to bive It granted. When the young man started East he did not travel alone. Ilia every move ment was watched and reported, nor was he left unguarded for moment, day or night, during an absence of several weeks. In New Tork, Phila delphia, snd other eastern cities. To one unfsmlllsr with the re sources snd organization of a great detective system it Is Incomprehensi ble bow continuous shadowing day af ter day and week after week, through tbnussndi of miles of Journeying, can be accomplished. The matter la made none the simpler when you know that there must be chsnge of shadows ev ery dsy. However sdrolt the detec tive, his continued presence In a lo cality would soon arouse suspicion. The dally change of ahadows la easy when the man under watch remains In one plsre; for then It Is only neces sary to send a new shadow from the central office early each morning to replace the one who "put the man to bed" the night before. Hut It Is very different when the subject is constant ly .traveling about on boats or rail ways, and perhaps sleeping In differ ent town each night. Without net work of agencies. Including large and amatt bureaus ratahllahed all over the United States, the shadowing of l man In rapid flight would be Impossible. As it Is, nothing Is esster. Schwartz, for Instance, spent several days In Buffalo, where his actions were re ported hour by hour until he bought his ticket for Philadelphia. As he took the train a fresh shadow took It, too, securing a section In the same sleeping rar with him, and taking hla meals st ths same time 8ehwartz took hla, either In -the dining car or at sta tions. No sooner had the train left the station than the Plnkerton retire, aentatlve In Buffalo reported by cipher dispatch to the bureau In Philadelphia, whither Schwartz was going. The el ect form of the dispatch, which well Illustrates system In constant use In the Plnkerton bureaus, was as fol lows: "R. 3. LINDEN, "441 Chestnut street, "Philadelphia, Pa. "Anxious shoes sucker Broun mar bles msn other dropping eight arrives put grind fifty marbles articles along or derby cost ship very tsn seer wear ing these have and Is ribbon Ink dust central Tuesday for dust to rice hat and and paper vest yellow Ink get must Jewelry morning depot on. "I). ROBERTSON." In dispatches In this sort Important Information regarding criminals Is con stantly flushing over the wires, with no danger of any leak, Tims, from one city to another, and through every part of the country, any criminal may be shadowed today aa Schwarta waa shadowed, one set of detectives relieving another every twenty-four hours, snd the man's ev ery word and action he carefully noted down and reported, without his hav ing the faintest suspicion that he la under observation. The task of shad owing a person who la traversing city streets la Intrusted to men especially killed In the art (for art It Is) of Hiving without being seen. This Is, In deed, one of the most difficult tusks i detective la culled upon to perform, and the few who excel In It are given little elae to do, Where criminal like Schwurts, unon whose final cup ture much depends, la being followed, two, three, or even four shadows are employed simultaneously, one keep ing In advance,' one In the rear, and two on either side. The advantage of this Is that one relieves the other by change of position, thus lessening the chance of discovery, while, of course, It Is acarcely possible for sev em I ahadowa to be thrown off the trail at once. An adroit criminal might outwit one shadow, but he could scarcely outwit four. A shadow, on coming Into new town with a sub ject, reveals himself to the shudow who la to relieve lilm by some prear ranged signal, such as a hundkerchluf held In the left hand. The result of the shadowing In Schwurta'a rase waa conclusive. No sooner was the brakeman out of Chl cngo than he begun spending money far tn excess of his Income. He bought tine furniture, expensive clothing, ar ticles of Jewelry, presents for Ids wife, and laid In an elaborate mpply of rifles, shotguns, revolvers, snd all aorta of ammunition. Including a quantity of cartridges. The shadows found thai In almost every caae he paid for hla purchase with fifty or one-hundred-dollar hills. As far as possible these hills were secured by the detectives from the persona to whom they had been paid. Immediately after Schwarta'a departure. It will be re membered that the money taken In the robbery consisted of fifty and on hundred dollar bills In addition to this. It waa found, by the Investigations of detective at Philadelphia, that Schwarta waa the son of a wealthy retired butcher there, a most respectable man, and that he bod wife and child In Philadelphia, whom he had entirely deserted. This gave sn opportunity to take him Into custody and atlll concent from him that he was ausiiected of committing a higher crime. The Philadelphia wife and child were taken ou to Chicago, and Schwartz was placed under arrest, charged with bigamy, Mr. Plnkerton went to the Jail at once, anil, wishing to keep Schwarta'a confidence aa far as possible, assured hlra that thla arrest was not his work at all, but that of Detective Smith and Murray, who were, aa Schwartz knew, working In the Interests bt the rail road people and of the Chicago news psper. Mr. Plnkerton told Schwsrtz thst lie still believed, ss he hsd done sll along, that Watt was the guilty man, and promised to do whatever he could to befriend Schwartz. The lat ter did not appear to be very much alarmed, and ssld that a Philadelphia lawyer waa coining on to defend him. The lawyer did come a few daya Inter, when a bond for two thousand dollars wss furnished for Schwarta'a reap pearance, and be waa set at liberty. Matters bsd gone so far, however, that It waa not considered aafe to leave Schwartz out of Jail, and he was Im mediately arrested on the cbsrge of murder. Whether because of long preparation for this ordeal or because he was a man of strong character. Schwartz re ceived this blow without the slightest show of emotion, and went back Into the Jail aa coolly aa he had come out. He merely requested that be might have an Interview with hla wife aa soon ss possible. Mr. Plnkerton bsd evidence enough sgslnst Sfhwarts to furnish strung presumption of guilt ; but It waa all cir cumstantial, and, lies I des, It did not In volve Newton Watt, whose complicity was more than suspected. From the first Mr. Plnkerton hsd been carefully conciliatory of the later Mrs. Schwartz. At Just the right moment, and by adroit management, he got her under hla direction, and by taking train with her to Morris, and then on the next morning taking another train hark to Chicago, he succeeded In preventing her from getting the advice of her husband's lawyer, who was meantime making the sain double Journey on pursuing trains with the design of cau tioning her against speaking to Mr. Plnkerton. "She had come to regard Mr. Plnkerton more ss a protector than ss an enemy, and he, during the hoiiri they were together, used every de vice tn draw from her some damaging admission. He told her that the evi dence against her husband, although serious In Its character, was not. In his opinion, sufficient to establish his guilt. He told her of the hills found In Schwartz's possession, of the torn piece of the draft taken from the valise, of the murks on bis hands and the lies he had told. All this, he said, proved that Schwartz had aome con nection with the robhery, hut not that he had committed the murder, or done more than assist Watt whom Mr. Pln kerton professed to regard aa the chief criminal. The only hop of saving her husband now, he Impressed upon her, was for her to mnk a plain statement of the truth, and trust that he would use this In her husband's Interest, After listening to all that ha said, and trying In many ways tn evade the main question, Mr. Schwartz at last admitted to Mr. Plnkerton that her husband had found a package con taining five thousand dollars of the stol en money under one of the seat on Conductor Danforth's train, on the night of his return to Chicago. H had kept thla money and used It for his own purposes, hut had been guilty of no other offense In the mntter. Mrs. Schwurts stuck resolutely to this state ment, and would admit nothing further. Believing that lit had drown from her aa much as h could, Mr. Pinker- ; tou now accompanied Mra, Schwartt to lha Jnll, where she was to see her husband. The first words she salt!, on entering ths room where h was, were: "Harry, I hsvs told Mr. Pln kerton the whol truth. I thought that wss the best way, for h I your friend. I told him about your finding the five thousand dollars under th , sent of the csr, and that was all yog had to do with the business." For the Ilrst time Schwartz emo tions nearly betrayed him. However, ha braced himself, and only admitted In a general way that there waa sain truth In what his wife had said, lis refused positively to go Into details, seemed very nervous, and alinoat Im mediately asked to he loft alone Willi hi wife. Mr, Plnkerton had been ex pecting thla. and was prepared for It II. ..II .1 . I. . L. a. li reniir.ru nit siiucs inui wuuui os caused In Schwartz' mind by hla wife' unexpected confession, and counted . on this to lesd to further admissions. It waa, therefore, of the highest importance that credible wit nesses should overhear all that Iran- ' aplred In the Interview between '. Schwartt and his wife. With this end In view, the room where the Interview wss to take plac had been arranged , ao that number of witnesses could se and hear without their presence being suspected; and the aberlff ol the county, a leading merchant, and leading hanker of the town, were wait ing there In readiness. At soon aa the door had closed and the husband and wife war left Ions, Schwarta exclaimed: "You fool, you hav put rope around Watt's snd my nsrkl" "Why, Hsrry, I bsd to tell htm something, he knew so much. You csn trust him." "You ought to know better thsn to trust anybody." The mm walked hack and forth, prey to the moat violent emotions, hi wife trying vainly to quiet lilm. At each affectionate touch he would brush her off roughly, with curse, and g oa pacing back and forth, fiercely. Suddenly be buret out : "What did you do with that mat the one you cut the maik out of r "Oh, that' all right; It' In the woodshed, under the whole woodpile." They continued to talk for over en hour, referring to the murder and rohliery repeatedly, and furnishing evi dence enough to establish beyond any question the guilt of both Schwarta and Watt. Meantime Watt had been arreatedl In Chicago, also charged with murder, snd In seversl examinations had shown, algna of breaking down and confessing, but In each Instance bad recovered himself snd said nothing. The evi dence of Schwartz himself, however. In the interview at the Jail, takes with tli mass of other evldenc that bad accumulated, wss sufficient to aecure the conviction ol both men, who wer condemned at the trial to Ufa Impris onment In tli Jollet penitentiary. They would undoubtedly hav been banged but for ths conscientious scruple of one Jurymen, who did not believe In capital punishment. About year after th trial Schwartz's Chlcsgo wife died of con sumption. On her deathbed ahe made full confession. Sh said thst her husband's mind hsd been Inflsined by the constant reading of sensational lit erature of the dime-novel order; and that under this evil Influence be hsd plnnned the robbery, believing thst It would he easy to Intimidate a weak little man like Nichols, and escape with the money without harming him. Nichols, however, had fought Ilka a tiger op and down th rar, and bsd finally forced them to kill lilm. In the fight he had tons off the mask thnt Mra. Schwarta hsd mad out of on of her busband'a old costs. It wss Watt who fired th pistol, while Schwartt used the poker. Schwartz had given Watt five thousand dollars of the atolen money, and had kept th rest himself. He had carried th money away In an old tatchol bought for th purpose, A moat unusual place of concealment had been chosen, and one where the money had escaped discovery, although on aeveral occa sions. In searching the house, th de tectives hsd literally held It In their . hands. Schwartt had taken B quan tity of the cartridges he bought for hi shotgun, snd emptying them, had put In each ahell one of the fifty or one. hundred dollar bills, upon which lie',, had then loaded In the powder and the shot In the usual way, so that th ' shells presented the ordinary appear ance aa they lay In the drawer. Th detective had even picked out some of the ahot and powder In two or three of the shells; hut, finding them so Ilk other cartridges, had never thought of probing clear to th bottom of th hell for a crumpled up hill. Thus shout thirteen thousand dollar lay for weeks In these ordinary-look-Ing cartridges, and wer finally re moved In the following way: While Schwarta was tn Jail, a well-known lawyer of Philadelphia ram to Mrs, Schwartz one day, with an order from her husband to deliver th money over ' to him. She understood this was to defray th expenses of the trial and to pay th other lawyers. Superin tendent Robertson remember well the dying woman' emotion a ah mad thla solemn declaration, on calculated to compromise seriously a man of; some standing and belonging to an honored profession. Her body wo wasted with disease, and she knew that her end was near, Ther wat a flush on her fare, and lier eye were bright with hatred as she declared that not one dollar of that money was ever returned to her, or ever uaed In pay Ing the costs of her. husband'! trial. Nor was one dollar of It ever returned to th railroad company, or to the baalx offlclult, who wer th reel owners.