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KEOWEE COURIER ( I i?TA Ul i I8 H101) 1840.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 Ter Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. BTECK, SH BLOB & SCHRODER. Communications of a porsonal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes of respect, of not over ono hundred words, will bo printed free of charge. All over that number must bo paid for at tho rate of one cont a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHA LI*A, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, APRIL if, 1011. "RUDY" HARENS AND YEGGS. Some Interesting History Recalled hy Hlease's Pardon to "Fence." (Columbia State.) Several matters of late have re called the time when South Carolina was the prey of a band of yeggs, or snfeblowers. It was learned from Charleston that Governor niease re C.cntly pardoned Rudolph Habens, the "fence" for a number of thugs who operated in this State during the Charleston exposition. In a re cent number of the Saturday Even ing Post of this week was a clever yegg story. H. T. Gregory, tho special Inspec tor of the United Slates postal de partment, who put Habens behind the bars, and bas likewise secured sentences for moro Gian two score of thugs in the Carolinas and Geor gia, was in the city last, week and discussed with some reserve the Ru bens case. "Was Itabens merely a 'fence' to receive tho stolen goods, or was be Implicated with the gang?" ?Slr. Gregory was asked. Italiens Was Wise. He smiled reminiscently and de clared that Rubens had a joint in Charleston, which was a rendezvous for crooks, and that he actually planned In part tho raid which caus ed him to spend a term in the peni tentiary. Italiens was convicted largely on the testimony ot' John T. McCarthy, who detailed the robbery of the safe of the Newry cotton mill in such a manner that, when corroborating circumstances were presented, the jury found no trouble In arriving at a verdict. The robbery occurred on the tit h of December, 1?) 0 :t, and Ru bens was convicted three years later on February 5, 1007. There were three counts In tho indictment, two alleging felonious crimes and one al leging a misdemeanor. Two Indictments Outstanding. A person Indicted tor a felony must be present in person to be ar raigned, and as Rabens was not In court be was tried in his absence on the misdemeanor charge only. He was convicted and sentenced to serve three years. The Indictments for felony are yet outstanding against him. The whole case was rrfhiantie in the extreme, and the trial Itself was an exciting feature. On account of the fact that Rabeas lived In Char leston and that some of the witnesses lived at a distance, Solicitor Hoggs arranged for the preliminary bearing to be held the day before the case was to go to trial. Itabens was ar rested the 24th ol January and gave $5,000 bond to appear at the prelim inary, February 4. Magistrate Crisp on that date ordered the case to go to trial over tho protest of defend ant's attorney that no evidence had been presented. The magistrate hold that thc defendant, by his absence, practically waived preliminary. Judge Gary Firm. An effort was made then to get .lodge Gary to grant a continuance on thc ground that one of Habens' attorneys, coming from Charleston, was indisposed. Hut the trial was ordered to proceed. Judge Gary di rected ;i new Indictment drawn when tin- original disappeared and Ibis disappearance was pleaded as a ground for continuance. One ot* the attorneys for Raben-, in his brief lie lore thc Supicme ci,un showed re sentment against thc determination of Judge Gary, saying in pari : ' This cause is submitted in mil confidence thal an examination of the record will convince your honor.-; ?hat I he defendant has boon deprived of a lair, regular and impartial trial, l! is far more Important thal the regu lar and ordorly administration of criminal justice should be observed und enforced hy tho courts, so thal the liberty of the citizen might ho secured, than thal any one man should ho convicted ami punished." The Star Witness, .lohn T. McCarthy, tho former yegg, who gave the evidence which con vlcted Rubens, waa given a pardon bj the United Slates government and bj the Governors of seven Stales fol crimes committed In his career as ; yegg. His confessions were given tin most searching scrutiny-and evorj detail was found to have corrobora tion. Hy hl8 testimony and tho at tendant circumstances many crooks have boon put In limbo and the peo ple of the Stato have been Informed as to the ways of these plunderers of the night. As an Instance of McCarthy's be ing corroborated, ho told of the raid upon Walhalla-"my happy home" h the translation of tho German word. Rabeas had lived Ibero. While he was a locomotive engineer on the Southern, Walhalla had been his happy homo. And lt was 'here that ho planned with McCarthy to blow tho safe of the local bank. As a knowing conductor on tho Charleston division of the Southern had foiled plans of the same gang of yeggs because they attracted at tention by traveling together, Habens and McCarthy did not leave Charles ton on the same train, but got to gether after arriving in Columbia, and registered at the Columbia Inn, and were assigned to the samo room. Inspection of the records at the hotel three years later corroborated Mc Carthy's testimony minutely. rimming the .Job. From Columbia they proceeded to Walhalla. The bank being tho "job" In view, Itabens took McCarthy In and Introduced him to the cashier of the bank as manager of the "the atre" conducted by Habens In Char leston. Even tho stern judge, Ernest Gary, had to smile when noncha lantly McCarthy testified that after a quick Inspection of the place he told Habens that there was not enough money In the bank to take the risk. The Courtenay Manufacturing Co., of Newry, was next honored with tho attentions of the yeggs. This was selected for the job. Habens was not present during the operation. He was but a fence, to locate a job and to negotiate the spoil. The danger ous work was done by .McCarthy, Johnson and John Fisher. The yeggs, Fisher and Johnson and O'Day and other cracksmen, celebrated and re nowned, are now behind the bars for some of their crimes. Tho Money was Scorched. In the appeal to the Supreme Court the defense made a very skil ful argument, which, however, could not get a new trial for Habens. This defense was that the robbery of the safe was distinct and substantive from the turning over to Rabens some weeks later of the stolen prop erty. But McCarthy's testimony showed that not only was the crime planned with Itabens' knowledge, but that the fence knew that the money had been stolen, for some of it had been scorched. McCarthy's testimony, threo years after the crime, was a marvel of de tail. He told where the men got off the train, where they bought pickles for their lunch, where they got Octa gon soap, where they got tho brace and blt, where they hld the swag after they had completed the job. Ho described going back to get the swag, and told of tho division of the spoils. Of the paper money secured. $lf>0 had been scorched and the yeggs were afraid to handle lt. This money was sold to Rabens at a discount. Judge Gary's Retort, When Rabens was convicted In his absence, a friend of his told Judge Gary that the Charleston man would give $5,000 cash for thc alternative of a cash line. Judge Gary could not prove that this was an attempt to bribe him, or he would havo put somebody to trouble for lt, but he declared meaningly: "Von tell Ra bens thnt his money is scorched." The sealed sentence did not give the alternative of a fine, but sent Rabens to the penitentiary. Rabens conducted a "grocory" store corner of King and Lino streets, and about a block south on King street had his Star "theatre," which was tho hang-out for thugs, as testi fied by McCarthy. This was during the days of the Charleston exposition. The Corner "Grocery.*' Tho "grocery" was half a block west of the Southern passenger sta tion, and on the car Uno to tho expo sition grounds, and many a thirsty soul coming from the exposition grounds to catch the trains to the up country got tho dust washed down with nickle beers in the grocery with '? a?c?r? t?m Hoi When rt vvnmnn s silent secret B trusts you. Milli stowed this mnr (lenee on Hr. It. of Buffalo, N. 1 where tbcro arc bear witness to working, curiii4-p Pierce's Favorite - which saves tho from pain, and grapples with woi ncsscs nnd stubboi IT MAKI: IT HAKI No woman's fulcnce tiiisplm thc WORLD'S I R, V. Pierce, I Plonnnni Pellets Induce mi the sawdust floors conducted hy Habens. The first and second counts In tho Indictment charged the defendant with being an accessory boforo and after tho fact, to James Johnson. John Fisher and John F. McCarthy, who, lt was charged, had on Decem ber 14', 1903, broken and entered the store house of thc Courtenay Manu facturing Company and had stolen $6,838.81. On thc chargo of felony he has not been tried. On the charge of receiving stolen goods he has been convicted und had served most ol' his sentence. As stated heretofore, there ls enough of thc romantic In this one case to lill a volume, and some things cannot be elaborated, such as the suit of the Courtenay Manufacturing Company to attach tho $5,000 cash bond put up by Habens after his con viction. But there ls ono incident, more than any other, which caused the secret service men to put nlmost implicit confidence in the confession and testimony of McCarthy. Sleuthing an Heirloom. In tho safe at Newry was a beauti ful brooch, property of the Courte nay family. Three years after the robbery McCarthy told Inspector Gregory that Johnson had taken the brooch, had had lt made Into a ring and had given the handsome piece of jewelry to a woman in Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Gregory not long afterward was called to that city on official bus iness, and there learned that such a woman had lived at the address given and at the time named. From the post ofTlce he learned her for warding address. To make a long story short, he finally, with great care and not a little effort, traced the woman from ono city to another, and finally located her at Alleghany, Pa., where she admitted that she had had the ring, but had been forced to put it in pawn. Mr. Greg ory was eager to confirm every detail of McCarthy's testimony, so he went to the distant city named by the woman and bought the ring out of pawn, and n?ttfled the Courtenay family that he had recovered lt for them. Yeggs and Their Work. John T. McCarthy, who ls now do ing secret service work and la a trust ' ed operator, ls a native of Philadel phia and his real name is John O. Dandrell. After lie had made a, clean breast of all that ho knew of yegg affairs, the government agents traced his evidence step by step and con firmed each circumstantlve detail. J They found in the woods evidences of the camps of the yeggs and of the places where swag had been buried, for when loot ls heavy the gang "plants lt" in order not to be ham pered in making a get-away. "The first thing we do when we reach our base of operations," said McCarthy, in a story published in The State at the time, "ls to secure a Cram's map, giving the names and location of banks in our vicinity, for we always try to proceed intelligently in our work, and the banks are more in' Hing than post offices. A job ls usually done by four men, although sometimes there may l^e three, but four at least ls almost necessary for a successful operation. When we se cure the map, we study the railroad time tables and the general topo graphical features of the immediate section. We select the bank and one or fnore of the gang will go 'scout ing' to see that the job can bo safely pulled off. The police protection of the town is Investigated, and atten tion is given to the movements ot trains and general avenues of escape, as well as a place where we may safely meet before beginning work. "A man will go Into tho bank or post office to have a bill changed that he might survey thc location of things, and as tho 'scouting' is a most Important part of the job lt is always carefully attended to. some times two or three days being de voted to this work. The scout re turns to the base, and acquaints the party of his Investigations, and If his report ls favorable, a time is then fixed for the job and arrangements made accordingly. "The preparations of tb nitro glycerine is a matter of the first con cern, of course, and let me Bay right here, it makes a man awfully sick to nored by Women peaks of ber uffcring she ons hove bc k ol confi. , V, Pierce, IT. livery women who the wonder* owcr of Dr. Prescription suffer inn sex successfully man's wcuk n ills. S WEAK WOriP.N STRONG ES SICK WOMEN WELL. nppenl wns ever misdirected or her con? :cd when she wrote for advice, to )ISPHNSAHY M BOIGA L ASSOCIATION, Dr. 'resident, Ruffalo, N. Y. lld natural bowel movement one? a dny. handle lt, oven carrying lt In a grip. Tho fumes will turn a man's sto mach, and sometimes make him sick for two or throe days. On account of Us dangerous nature wo can't buy lt and wo arc forced to extract lt from dynamite, which we usually steal from a quarry or magazine, near the base of operations. Wo never start out on a job with less than a pint of the explosive, for we need at least a quarter or a half pint for a job. Making Nitroglycerine. "We take about IO sticks, six Inches long and a half Inch In diam eter, crumble lt In a piece of cloth, and then place lt suspended In a can of warm water. We keep constantly renewing the warm water, which gives tho operation the name of 'cooking the sont).' "As tho glycerine come* out of the dynamite, lt being heavier than the water, lt drops to the bottom of tho can, and when we have sufficiently extracted the glycerine, we draw off the water from thc above explosive by means of a syringe. The glycer ine ls then strained, for we have got to f,et out all particles of dust In order to make lt safer In handling, and also for better results, when we use lt on a safo. v "One man will carry the bottle of glycerine and tho tools, which con sist of n few cakes of soap, drills and Implements, but generally speak ing, wo do not laden ourselves with tools, for we always find a black smith's shop, or a railroad section house, at some point convenient to the Job, which wo break open and get thc brace, sledge hammer abd a few chisels or crow-bars to prize thc outside door of tho bank or post ofllcc and then to operate with on the bank or vault. "In going to the place we all dc not go together. Ono or two wit make some other point nearby, thal the suspicions of the conductor anc train crew may not bo excited. W< drop off the train as near together however, as we can and then wt make thc point of rendezvous, gone rally In the woods at some point al ready agreed upon. Much of ou success depends upon eluding th railroad people and town authorities and this is not easy when a train I in charge of such a man as Conduc tor Blanchard, to whom ls more du than "any other person that Ibo ban of St. George was not robbed, as wa testified in court a few days ago. J wide-awake conductor will come nea to putting off our job at any time. How tho "Job" is Hone. "The time of operating ls betwee midnight and 2 o'clock in the mon lng. We time ourselves to begl work about 12 o'clock. Well, th lirst thing we do, upon coming trot under cover--and by tlie way, vi don't bother to disguise ourselvc with false beards and all that sort ( thing, usually held In the publ mind-ls to lake a stroll throng the streets about thc hank or po; otflce. We look carefully. It DM be necessary to catch a watch ma gag him and tie him up, but watel men like to sleep when everythh gets quiet and things are quiet tho average country town at ml night. We get the tools, and If 01 keys do not flt thc locks we thi break open the door and reach tl safe or vault. Two men stay on tl outside to watch, while the oth two, with an electric flash light, dark lantern, get to work on t safe. "The Importance of the men i the outside ls shown by the breakc waiting on their signal for the bio lng of the safe. When the holes ha been drilled and prepared for bio lng lt ls tho mon on the outside w give the signal for the act, on t principal that If any suspicious mot mont of an officer or neighbor li been noted, the noise of tho exp sion may be deferred until thin again become quiet. The report glycerine ls a sharp and quick no which especially commends Its u for hardly does lt take place than is all over, and If it should be beti by anybody in the neighborhood, tl soon turn over in their bods and back to sleep, believing thal tl dren mod ol ibo report. "A safe is a 'pete' in the parlai Of yeggmon. The two men on I inside get down on their Uneos for il and begin work. They th OUghly soap Hie crevices of the 0 side door and then begin lo drill hole for tho colton, saturated w Ibo glycerine. Thc hole is dril between the combination and handle, close lo tho combinatl first willi a quarter-Inch drill, ll with a live-eighths and next will half-.neb drill. Into this bole, al the nitro ls poured, ls placed s?i rated colton, connected with a and fuse, which are held In pl with soap, which also deadens sound. Then everything is ready the signal from tho outside. "It ls given and #tho ex plot takes place In the lock box on Inside, breaking tho lock and so times forcing tho door off tho bin Tho operation of blowing the i requires just a certain amount, a too heavy charge of gi yee This tarnt ?hoe tn our "Auto ?raph" brand, 2.50-S3.00.?S Qoodrtar Welt sewed; In our Colite* Worn an'swalklna Shoe. S3.?0 t3.50-U.00. lt t Quals tht best custom makt. Look tor Ik* Bc? ucii on tlie bos Co Every r that he he to or ou it So? $2.00 owes its to the fi comfort You ri snappier greater < Shoe wil you'll sa wearing your tov? CHA might knock oit the handle and Jam the door and give trouble. Once the outside door ls off then the yeggmen turn their attention to tho inside sheet door, which ls called the 'keis ter" in the language of the safe blowers. This is the hardest door to open, and tho blowers are some times at their wits' ends to get on the Inside. A bolo ls drilled and the explosive ls Inserted. Another explosion takes place., and probably only one sheet of metal comes off. A bolt ls loosened or knocked out ?to place, and Into this opening another Charge of glycerine ls Inserted, and this operation is continued until thc door is finally down and the cash drawer ls rifled. "Tho work of blowing a safe re quires about, an hour and a half, and Immediately at ita conclusion the gang makes off as soon as possible. We 'strike across country' unless a convenient freight train passes, never, however, dividing the booty until daylight on the next morning. Sometimes we have to bury the treas ure, or a part of it, and tho tools have to be hidden sometimes, too. When we take the train we never ride more than about 2 5 miles, when we then strike across country, put ting further distance between us and our pursuers. In burying the tool bag or treasure, we always carefully select the place, making it easy of finding upon our return. "Dodging bloodhounds ls done by attaching a small piece of cloth, sat urated with the oil of mustard to the heels of our shoes. We used to use vaseline with lodoform, but the trouble about this drug is that we could not get the smell off our clothes when we wanted to do so, so the oil of mustard is now used to advantage. In dodging officers we have a merry time of lt sometimes, being often forced to face tho music, lt all de pends upon the character of the man or men at the head of the posse." The work of breaking up tho yeggs In South Carolina was performed by a quiet, modest man, Inspector H. T. Gregory, who ls willing to admit that McCarthy's evidence had much to do with putting on the finishing touches. Cood results always follow the use of Foley Kidney Pills. They give prompt relief in all cases of kidney and bladder disorders. Try thom. Barton's Pharmacy, Walhalla ; W. -fl. Lunney, Seneca. They last n lifetime. TT Inexpensive*-Suitable for further detailed information SION Kt A II ARD W ARIO SULPHUR I milln I'AKOK, $1.00. SMALUSOo. rH.UlH'i Effective for Rocema, Itch, lllngworm. Potion Oak. InlettStlngi, eu>. AU skin Kruuttoui. .nd Sonlp Ailments. You need not go to tho Sulphur Spring*; thti RITSI rou *> porreotHuiphur Bath *ud l&vlgoraUnt ronlo Drink. OINTMENT. L**R,SB 'AH. BO?, SWAM. a*. 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