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FAMOUS DETECTIVE CASES By Cleveland Moffett How Fit Masked Bandits Forced Cashier to Reveal Combination to Vault ia the Northampton National Bank and Escaped With Loot Valued at Over a Million Dollar. BOUT midnight on Tuea- A I day, January 28. 1876, five I masked men entered the bouee or John Whlttelsey In Northampton. Massa chusetts. Mr. Whlttelsey waa the cashier of the Northampton National bank, and wna known to have In hli possession the key of the bank building and Uie combination to the bank vault. The five men entered the bouse noiselessly, with the aid of false keys, previously prepared. Pass ing upstairs to the sleeping apart ments, they overpowered seven In mate of tli bouse, gagging and bind ing them so that resistance or alarm was Impossible. These were Mr. Whit telsey and hi wife. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Cutler. Miss Mattie White, Miss Ben ton, and a servant girl. The bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Whit telsey wa entered by two men who seemed to be leader of the band. One wore a long linen duster buttoned nearly to his knees, also gloves and overshoe; th other wore a Jacket and overall. Both men bad their face concealed behind masks, and one of thein carried a darklantern. On entering th room the two men went directly to th bed, one standing on either side, and handcuffed Mr. Whit telsey and his wife. Both carried re volver. The proceedings were much the same In th other room. After some delay and whispered consultation, th robber ordered th flv women to get np and dress. When they bsd done so, they were roped together by ankle and wrists, and taken Into small room, where they were kept under guard by one of the band. Mr. Cutler also waa Imprisoned In the same way. Then the two lead er devoted themselves to Mr. Whit telsey. They told him plainly that they bad come for the keys of the bsnk and the combination of the vault, and that they would "make It hot" for him un less he gsve them what they wanted. Mr. Whlttelsey was then taken downstair, and commanded to sur render the keys, but he refused. Mr. Whlttelsey kept silent. Then both men came at him, wringing his art, abaklng lilm hy the throat, hurling him to the floor and pounding their knee Into hi chest. For three hours this torture wss continued. More than one the ruffians placed their revolvers at Mr. Whlttelsey' head declaring they would blow hi brains out unlesa he yielded. Finally he did yield ; the suffering waa too great; the supreme Instinct of self-preservation asserted Itself. Toward four o'clock In the morning, bruised from head to foot, and worn beyond further resistance, he surrendered th keys, and revealed the true combination of the vault. Then the robber went away, leav ing two of their associates to watch over the prisoners. One of the band, before his departure, did not disdain to search Mr. Whlttelsey' clothes and take bla watch and chain and fourteen dollar In money. The last of the hand remained In the house until six o'clock ; and It was an hour later before Mr. Whlttelsey succeeded In faeelng him self from bis bonds. He hurried at once to the bank, ar riving there soon after seven o'clock. He found the vault door locked, am) It dials broken off. so that Is we Im possible at the moment to determine th extent of th robbery, or. Indeed, whether there had been any robbery. It was necessary to send to New York for an expert before the vault could be opened, which waa not accomplished until late that nlKht, twenty hours after the sttack had been made. Then It waa found that the robber bad been only too successful, having se cured money and securities estimated at a million and a quarter dollars. Much of this sum wa safe-deposits, snd th loss fell on the depositors; and to some It was the loss of their whole proerty. At this time the authorities had no clu to th Identity of the robbers, though they hud left behind them nu merous evidences of their presence, ucb a dark-lantern, masks, sletlgo bnmmers, overshoes, ani the like. When several month had elapsed, th rinkerton were called Into th case. They began by carefully study ing certain communications that had been received by th bank directors from persons claiming to have In their possession the missing securities. A fsct of much significance to th Plnkertons wa th rather remarkable Interest In the case, and apparent fa miliarity with It, shown hy on J. 0. Evans, an expert In safe and vault nd tli representative of on of th largeat safe manufactories In th country. A h studied th case, Mr. Pinker ton recalled a circumstance that had happened In the fall of the previous year. On th night of November 4, th First National bank of Plttston, Pennsylvania, had been robbed of sixty thoussnd dollars, and Mr. Plnkerton bad gone there to Investigate the case, He met a number of safe men, It being a business custom with safe men to flock to the scene of an Important bank robbery In order to upply new aafea for the one that have been wrecked. Whll they were all exam (Copytifht by W, O. Chapmaav) ining th vault, still Uttered with debris of th explosion, the representa tive of on of the safe companies picked up a (mall air pump used by th robbers, and, looking at It critically, remarked that he would have (worn It belonged to lit company, did be not know that waa Impossible. Th air pump waa, he declared, of precisely his company's model, one that had been recently devised for a special purpose. At th time Mr. Plnkerton regarded this aa merely a coincidence, but now the memory came to him aa a flush of Inspiration that th man who had remarked th similarity In the air pump represented th sum company that employed Evans. In November, George H. Bangs, super tendent of the Plnkerton Agency, a man possessed of very remarkable skill In eliciting confessions from susiected persons had an Interview with Evans. He professed to Evens that the detec tives had secured evidence that prac tically cleared op the whole mystery; that they knew (whereas they still ouly surmised) that the robbery had been committed by the Dunlap and Scott gang; that for week they had been shadowing Scott and Duulap (which wna true) and coald arrest them st sny moment; that there waa no doubt that the gang bad been trying to play Evans false (a very shrewd guess), snd would sacrifice him without the slightest compunction; and, finally, that there was open to Evans one of two courses either to suffer arrest on a charge of bank robbery, with th prosiect of twenty years In prison, or save himself, and at th same time earn a substantial money reward, by making a clean confession of bis con nection wltb the crime. All this, de livered with an air of coihpletest cer tainty, wa more than Evans could stand up. agslnst. He broke down completely, and told all he knew. The story told by Evans Is one of the most remsrkshle In the history of crime. He admitted the correctness of Robert Plnkerton s Inference that th Northampton bank had been robbed by Scott and Dunlap and their associates, snd In order to explain hla own connec tion wltb thla formidable gang he went back to Its organisation four years before. Th leader of the gang was Jamea Dunlap, alias James Barton, who, before he became a bank robber, had been a brakeman on the Chicago, Alton k St. Louis railroad. Hla in born criminal Instincts led lilm to fre quent the resorts of thieves In Chicago, and thus be met "Johnny" Lamb and man named Perry, who took a liking to lilm and taught him all they knew about breaking safes. Dnnlsp' right-hand man was Robert C Scott, alias "Hustling Bb," orig inally a deckhand on a Mississippi steamboat and afterward a hotel thief. Scott was a big powerful man, with a determination equal to anything. Their associates were what one might expect from these two. Other mem bers of the gang were Thomas Doty, Wllllsm Conroy, "Eddie" Goody. John Perry. James Oreen, a professions! burglar originally from Canada, and the notorious John I-eary, alias "Red" Leary, of whom more will be said later on. In addition to these, the gang contained eevernl members of less Importance, men who acted merely aa lookouts, or aa go between or mes sengers. The first Isrge operation of Dun lap's band was the plundering of th Falls City bunk In Louisville. Ken tucky, of about two hundred thousand dollars, escaping with their booty. This wns satisfactory aa a beginning, but Dunlap und Scot dreamed of achieve ments beside which this was Insig nificant They begun a careful Investi gation through many states, to learn of banks of weak structure containing large treasure. One of the gang finally found precisely whht they were In search of In the Second National bank of Elmlra, New York, which Institu tion, being a government depository, contained, aa they learned on good au thority, two hundred thousand dollars In greenback and alx millions In bonds. A purvey of the premises satisfied the gang that, massive though It ap peared, with Its ponderous Iron walls and complicated locks, th vault of this bank wa by no mean Impos sible of access. The floor above th hank waa occupied hy th Young Men' Christian association, one of the asso ciation's room being directly over th vault There wa the floor between, nd under that four feet of solid ma sonry, soma of the (tone In It weigh ing a ton. And under th masonry was a layer of railroad Iron, retting on plate of hardened steel an Inch and a half thick. All this, however, so far from discouraging the conspirator, gave them greater confidence In th success of their plana, one under way, since th very security of th vault, by structure, from overhead attack less ened the strictness of the surveillance. Indeed, th most serious difficulty, In th estimation of th robber, wss to gain essy and unsuspected admission to th quarters of the Young Men's Chris tian Association, on the second floor. Th secretary, very prudent man, had put on the outsld door of th associa tion rooms an Improved Yale lock, which was then new upon the market and offered unusual obstaclea to th lock-picker. Neither Duulap, Scott, nor any of their associate had skill enough to open this lock without break ing It, which would, of course, hv been fatal to their plan. For days, therefore, after all th other details of th robbery had been arranged, the whole scheme seemed to be blocked by a troublesome lock on an ordinary wooden door. Th Yale lock (till continuing an In soluble difficulty, Perry Anally made a Journey to New York, In the hop of finding some device by which to open It There, In th course of his search, and in a curious way, he made th ac quaintance of Evans, then a salesman In th employ of prominent safe company. Before entering th employ of th safe manufacturers, Evans had con ducted an extensive mercantile busi ness for himself In lurge Eastern city, where he waa regarded aa a man of wealth and Integrity. He had large dealings through th South, with ex tensive credits; but the outbreak of the war had forced him Into bank' ruptcy. It waa hinted that there war some overshrewd practice connected with hi failure, and hla subsequent sudden departure for Canada gav color to th Insinuation. At any- rate, he compromised with hla credltora on basis advantageous to himself. On hi return from Canada, Evans took up Ida residence In New York city, and began to cultivate habit far beyond his Income, notably th taate for fast horses. Perry heard of Evans through one Ryan, whom he hsd known as a crook year before, but who waa then running a livery stable la an up town etreet Before long Evana found himself much cramped financially. Being un able to pay Ryan th money be owed him for stabling, be began to talk of selling his horse; and on day, when he waa complaining of b"lng short of money, Ryan said. "If I had your posi tion I'd never lack for money." Evans asked him what he meant. "Oh," said Ryan, "there are plenty of people who would put op well to know some of the things you know about aafes and banks." By degreea Ryan made hla meaning more clear, and Evana grew property Indignant. The subject wss dropped for th moment but In subsequent meetings, Kysn kept reverting to It Meantime Evana found himself grow ing more and more embarrassed, and on day be said, "What I It these peo ple want to knowT" "Well," said Rysn. "they would like to know, for one thing. If there I any way of beating these new Yale locks?" "You can't pick a Yale lock," an swered Evans "that would take too long; but there Is a wsy of getting on open." "HowT "We'll talk thst over some dsy." Having one nibbled, Evan waa not long In biting at th bait thua adroitly held before him. U consented to be Introduced to Perry, who shrewdly showed him what an easy matter It would be for a man who knew th secrets of safe-makers snd could locate weak hanks, to tnske a great deal of money, without danger to himself. Th result was that Evans, In consid eration of fifty thousand dollars, final ly agreed to provide some meana of opening' th Yale lock which barred the robber from th coveted treasure at Elmlra. Perry, In great delight hurried back to Elmlra. and reported bla auccess to Dunlap and Scott. In order to bring Evana to Elmlra In a way not to excite suspicion, a letter was written to th company he served, containing a tempt ing proposition regarding the purchase of aafea. Evans wss at one sent to Elmlra to look after the matter. He atopped at the Rathhone house, where he wua waited upon by Bcott with whom he concerted a plan of opera tion. Scott was to slip a thin piece of wood Into the lock at night so thst the lock would not work. Then, as Evana' presence In the city had been made known, It was hoped that be would be rolled upon, ss an expert In difficult locks, to find out what waa the matter. This would give hlin an op portunity to secure an Impression of the key. Th plsn worked only too perfectly ; and within twenty-four hours the conspirators were able to pass in snd out of the Young Men's Christian Association rooms as they pleased, without the knowledge of any one. Every night they gathered In the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association after the young men had gone home, using their fills Keys to obtain admission; and they remained there hours at a time, doing what would ordinarily he the noisiest work; but their movement were so cautious and well-planned that their presence In the building was never suspected. Every night the carpet and flooring were taken up and, after they had fin ished their excavations, were carefully relald. Tons of masonry and heavy stone were removed, shoveled Into bsskets and carried op to th roof of th opera house, adjoining the bank building, where there was email chance of the debris being discovered. One day th president of th bsnk, Mr. Pratt, was surprised, on entering th vault to find th floor sprinkled with a fin white dust An Investiga tion was made, and th whole plot was uncovered. Th members of th gang, however, got word In time, and all managed to escape except Perry, who wa convicted of attempted burglary and aent to th Auburn prison for Bv years. Undisturbed by th failure, Scott and Dunlap proceeded to scour th country again In search of another bank stilted to their operations, and the next February notified the gang, which now contained some new mem bers, that they had "found something to work at" in Quincy, Illinois, Tit attack on th Quincy bank whs made In very much th same wuy as the attack on th bank at Elmlra. A Baltimore woman runted an old hous which afforded shelter and concealment to th men; access waa obtained to room over th vault by false keys, aa before ; th flooring waa taken up and put down every night without exciting suspicion, th masonry waa removed, th Iron plate of th vault were pene trated, and, finally, on night Scott and Dunlap were able to lower themselves through a Jagged hols tuto th money room beneath. It now remained to tore open th safes Inside th vault; and to accom plish thla tli robber used, for th first time In th history of safe-wreck-Ing In America, what I known aa th sir-pump method, which had been de vised by Evans, and carefully ex plained by him to Scott and Dunlap. Evana' employers were at thla time In troducing a padding designed to mak aafe more secure; and Evans had hit upon tli Idea of Introducing powder Into th seams of a safe door by an air-pump. In th presence of a possible customer, In order to Impress hlin with his need of th new padding. Evana himself waa not present at th break ing open of the Quincy bank, and he had nothing to da with th robbery be yond furnishing Instruction and the air-pump. Scott and Dunlap did tli work. At Drat atrp, all the seems of the safes formed by th door were care fully puttied up, save two small holes, one at the top and one at the bottom. Then, at the upper hole. Scott held a funnel filled with fine powder, while Dunlap applied th air-pump at the hoi below. By the draft thua created, the powder waa drawn Into all the Interstice between the hesvy doors snd th frames of th safe. Then a little pistol, loaded simply with pow der, wss attached near the upper hole, and, by a string tied to th trigger, dls rhsrged from a safe distance above. There were several attempts made be fore a complete exiloslon wss effect ed; but Anally tli safe were Mown open and their contents secured, the robbers making good their escape with on hundred and twenty thousand dol lar In money end about seven hundred thousand dollar In bond. No part of thla money waa ever recovered by th bank, nor were any of th gang cap tured at this time. Th securities were, however, afterward sold hack to the bank. Indeed, so cleverly hsd the whole slTalr been managed that no sus picion fell upon either Scott, Dunlap or any of their associates. Her were fortunes made easily enough, with plenty more to be made In th same way, and th gang were In high feather over their success. Dur ing th following summer Scott and Dunlap lived In princely etyl In New York. By fall their money begsn to run short and they decided to look about for another Job. In th Quincy robbery they had broken their agreement with Evana, paying hlin only a email aum for th use of the air-pump which he had furnished them. Now, however, they called upon hlra again, and, part ly by threats, partly by generous offers, Induced him to assist them again. A aerie of unsuccessful attempts at robbery were made on banka In Sara toga. Nantucket Covington, Kentucky, and Rockvllle, Connecticut In several Instancea failure came at the very tlm when success seemed sure. In the esse of the Covington bank, for In stance, nitroglycerin was used In blow ing open the safe, and th explosion wsa so violent thst the men became frightened and fled In a panic, leaving behind untouched, although exposed to view, two hundred thousand dollars In greenback and on million five hun dred thousand dollars In negotiable bonds. In the case of the Kockvlll bank their plan bad worked out per fectly, and tliey had removed every thing from the top of thevault but a thin layer of brick, when Scott acci dentally forced the Jimmy through the roof of the vault and let It full Inside. As It wss too late to complete the work that night, and a the presence of the Jimmy Inside the vault would Inevita bly start an alarm the next day, they were obliged to abandon th attempt entirely. The gang' most desperate adventure befell In connection with the attempt on the First National bank of Plttston, Pennsylvania. The bank occupied a one-story building covered wllh a tin roof, and the robber decided to make the attack from tli roof. Hut there wa a serious difficulty In th fuct that In case of rain coming at any time after they had begun operations, wa ter might soak through the oxmlng they had made and betray them. Dunlnp'i Ingenuity, however, wa equal to thl emergency; and each night after finishing their excavation, they carefully relald the sheets of tin that bad been disturbed, protecting the Joints with red putty, which matched the roof in color. So well did they put on this putty that although It rained heavily the very day after they began, not a drop leaked through. On th night of November 4 only on layer of bricks separated them from th top of th vault, and It wa decided to finish th work and do the robbery that night. Two hour' hard labor wltb drag and Jack-screw sufficed to effect an opening, arid Scott and Dunlap wer lowered Into the vault. They folind three Marvin spherical ssfes protected by a burglar alarm. But Dunlap was somewhat of an elec trical expert, and was ab,le to so sur round the burglsr alarm with heavy hoards so ss to render It of little or no danger. They experienced much diffi culty, though, In blowing open the safe. Th first on attempted yielded on th lernnd explosion, and they se cured flv hundred dollar In currency and dxty thouauml tloilars In bonds, The next one was fur more trouble some, not leas than ten explosion be ing required to mak way Into It, And Just a tli task was nt last accom plished, and they wer un the point of seising great sum of money, there cam a warning call from Conruy, who wa doing sentry duty un lb roof, aud It waa nuceaaary to fly. When Dunlap and Bcott bad been dragged out of th vault hy their asso elates, they wer found scarcely able to run. During all the twelve explo. alous of powder and dynamite they had never left th vault, but, crouching be hind tli board that guarded th burglar 'alarm, had remained within arm's length of explosion so violent that they tor apart plates of welded steel and shook th whole building. Worse than the shock of thes explo sions wer th noihms gsses generated by them, which Scott snd Dunlap had to breath. On coming out, their. clolhes were wringing wet with per spiral Ion, and they wer ao weak that their lega tottered under them, and their comrade had to almost carry them for a time, But, nevertheless. they managed to walk thirty utiles that night, to Ihlgh, where they boarded a train to New York. It waa on thla occasion thst there wa left behind In the vsult the air pump which Robert Plnkerton after ward recalled ao shrewdly to Evana' disadvantage. Coming, In hla confession, to th Northampton bank robbery, Evana aald that th gang considered making an attempt there for aeveral month be fore th robbery wa actually exe cuted. On the night of th robbery Evan waa In New York, but be had gone to Northampton a day or two after, aa al ready stated. The, for th first time, he resided what lininenae wrong add suffering would be inflicted upon Inno cent people by the robbers, and he aald It waa thla that had prompted hlin In hla efforts to have the securities re stored to th owner. Returning to New York, h at once communicated with Scott and Dunlap by meana of Herald personals, and had aeveral Interviews with them In the city during the month of February. Whll they wer anxious to dlMie of th securities. It wss plain from the first thst they distrusted Evana and proHied to lessen his shsr of the profits While pretending to approve th steps he wss taking for a compro mise with the bsnk, they were really, without his knowledge, carrying on se cret negotiations with the same object The suspicion on either side grew until finally It could no longer be concealed. Meeting Bcott In Prospect park some time after the robbery, Even said. "When sre you going to settle and glv me my hreT" "YouH never get a cent," answered Scott; "you've given the whole gang awny," It waa soon after thla Interview that Evana decided, under the management of Superintendent Bangs, to save him self by making a full confession. He hail fewer scruples about betraying hi associates, because he had become convinced that In th previous rob beries, notably In the one at Quincy, Illinois, be bad been treated most un fairly hy Scott and Dunlap. Evans said that for several weeks preceding the Nortlismplon robbery the gang hsd concealed themselvea In the attic of a school hooe which stood four of five rods from the highway and apart from other houses, Hla state ment waa substantiated hy the discov ery In this attic, after the robbery, of blankets, satchels, ropes, bits, pulleys, and provisions. After hearing Evans' story, th quee- tlon foremost in Mr, Plnkerton's mind was where the stolen securities had been concealed. From what Evans said, and from what he knew himself about the methods of the gang, he was satisfied that Dunlap possessed thl secret, and would Intrust It to no one unlesa absolutely compelled to do so. Th likeliest way of compelling him wss to put him under arrest, which might very well he done now that Evana had consented to turn state' evidence. For weeks Plnkerton "shadmve" dad never been off Scoft and Dunlap. who spent most of their time In New York, the former living with hla wife at a fuahlonnhl hoard ing house In Washington Rqunre. Instructions were accordingly given to the shadows to close In upon them, and on February 14, both men were arrested In Philadelphia, as they were on the point of taking a train for the South. Iesplte tlio lurge sum of securities In their powwsalon, the men had run short of ready money, and, while await ing compromise, were starting out to commit another robbery. They were taken to Northampton, and committed to Jull to await trial. It happened as Mr, Plnkerton fore saw. Brought Into confinement Dun lap and Scott wer compelled, In the conduct of their affair, to reveal the hiding plic of the booty to aom other member of th gang. They chose for their confidant "Red" Leary. The securities, aa subsequently transpired, wer at thl tlm burled In s cellar on Sixth avenue, near Thirty-third street. New York. Th precise spot was Indt rated to Leary by Mrs, Scott, who, in doing so, reminded Leary of an agree ment entered Into by th member of th gang before the robbery, that any of their number who might get Into trouble could. If be aw a necessity, cell upon Ills confederate to dispose of all th securities on whatever term wer possible and us th proceeds In getting him and others If others wer In trouble also fre. At th time Leary scoffed at this agreement, but was perfectly willing, even eager, to havs It enforced a little later, when, by th orders of Inspector Byrnes, bt I wss himself arrested on (he charge of complicity in tli memorable Manhat tan bank robbery, which had occurred sum tlm before. While much of Leary's life had been spent in doeds of violence, lis had shown on occasion such splendid bravery, even heroism, a ultaoat atoned for his crimes, Th sblest law yers wer now secured In III defense, and by every possible method of legal obstruction they kept allv a con troversy In th New York court for nearly two years. Meanwhile I-eary reposed In Ludlow etreet Jail, where he enjoyed all th privilege vur as corded to prisoner. On th afternoon of May T Mrs. Leary called at about flv o'clock wllh "Hutch" McCarthy, and th thro wer alone In Leary room until eight o'clock. After that Leary strolled about In th prison Inclosure, and at about a quarter past ten keeper Wen dell, who had cbarg of th III at tier, In which Leary' room was located, aaw hlin going upstairs from th second to th third tier. Although In this Lenry wa going directly wsy from his own room, ther wa nothing to exclt surprise, for Leery had been ac customed to us th bathroom on Ui third tier. A quarter of an hour later Wendell alerted on hi round, accord ing to th prison rule, to see that each one of th men In hi tier waa se curely locked up for th night When he cam to Leary' room h waa a little surprised to find hlin (till absent, hut supposed he would b ther short ly. But after waiting a few minute and finding Leary (till absent, Ui keeper became alarmed, and began a search. II first went to th bath room, and not finding Leary there, searched In other placea, high and low. Then be returned to the bathroom, and ther mad a discovery which filled bhu wltb consternation. II saw In th brick wall, what at first bsd es caped hi attention, a gaping bole, large enough to allow th paasag of a man'e body, Th hoi oiiened Into a tunnel that aeemed tu lead downward, The alarm waa at one given, and It soon appeared that the keeper' fear were only too well founded. "Bed" Leary had escaped. It was found thst th tunnel from lb bsthrooin led Into a loom on th fifth floor of tenement house nt No, 7 Ludlow street adjoining th Jail. Leary, after hla aecap, fled to Eu rope, but waa afterward arretted la Brooklyn by Robert Plnkerton and three of hla men, who held hlin up In a alelgb at the corner of Twenty seventh street and Fourth avenue, Brooklyn; and before Leary could make use of a large revolver which h had on hla person, the horse wa grabbed by th head and pulled to a standstill, and Leary waa dragged out of the alelgh and handcuffed. He wa taken Immediately to Northampton, and put in Jail there, Koms time previous to thl th Pin kertuns bsd located Conroy, who had also escaped from Ludlow street Jail, In Philadelphia; and Immediately on the arrest of leary, Robert Plnkerton sent one of hi detective from New York to Philadelphia, who waa for lunat enough to arrest Conroy at oaa of hi resorts on IhS same night and he wsa also delivered In Jail At North ampton. home month previous to thl th Plnkertons had also arrested Thome Doty, another member of th band, and lodged bltn la tb Northampton Jail. ' In th meantime, Scott and Dunlap, now In state prison, had made a con fession aa against l-eary, the bolder of the eecurlllra; and when Leary was brought to Northampton, they wrot him a letter, notifying hlin that unlee the securities wer banded over to their proper owners, they would tak th wltnea (land agalust him and convict hlin, but that If h did turn over the necessary securities tliey would refuso to take the stand. Thl resulted In the recovery by th North ampton linuk of nearly all th securi ties stolen from th bank and It da posltors, this not Including, however, th government bonds and currency atolen at the time. The trial of Scott and Dunlap took place at Northampton a year and a half after the robbery. Evana took th stand against them, hla evidence mak ing the rase of th prosecution over wlielmlngty atrong. After three hours' deliberation the Jury brought In a ver dict of guilty, and the prisoner wer sentenced to twenty years each In th atate prison, Scott died In prison, snd I mi n hip, having been pardoned aev eral years Inter, went to live In a West ern city, a reformed man earning an honest living. A far aa la known, sine leaving the penitentiary he neveg returned to hla evil wsys. Conroy also took to new ways, and became honest "Tied" Leary came to his death In a curious way. On night be had been drinking wllh some friends at a well known sporting resort In New York, on Sixth avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets. In th psrty was "Billy" Train, an old bunko man. They wer all Somewhat Intoxi cated snd Inclined to be uproarious, As they ram out on th street, "Billy" Train picked up a brick and thrw It op In th air, yelling: "Look out for your heads, boy." To thl warning Leary paid no attention, and th brick ram down on his head with full force, fracturing hi skull. 11 was taken to the New York hospital, and died there, after much suffering, As for th safe-expert, Evans, he I engaged In legitimate business, and Is prospering. In compiling thl chapter from th record, th writer has, by request, changed some of the name of th parties, who line that tlm hav reformed, and are now respected mem bers In th communities where they re side, and the author bas no deslr to Injur them.