The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 21, 1917, Image 2
One of the most notorious sneak
thieves this country ever knew, and
one who figured In one of the most
daring robberies ever perpetrated
In this country, after serving his
time in prison emerged with the do
termination to "turn straight and
live honest. M Ho is fairly well-to-do
to-day and lives In New York city,
with an office within the shadows of
the very bartk he once looted. This
reformed sneak thief told the writer
that had he saved and invested the
money he stole he would be worth
several million dollars to-day instead
of being compelled to attend to the
daily routine of the little business
h»* conducts. It was after consider
able hesitation that lie consented to
ltd! of his own and the operations of
bis associates, many of whom hav
srrv«*d terms representing the best
y**rs of their lives
Among tt»e known of-th
thieves w ere such men ss Adam
Worth, alias * Little Adam.'* stll
rharsetertfed ss the "King of 4fte*k
Thieve*. ** " It life kllaor. alias "Uttle
Hafs." ’*IKw" litis*. Georgs ('arson
sites **f Jttle Georgs." * Phllly
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the old time thief an a smile flitted
arrlss hia wrinkled face, "but l*have j
used a Jong, Ttyedally made hook
with which I raked money from n
denk at which the toller waa worklng.
I have stood directly In front of my
victim, and, you might Bay, look'd
poHit Company’s vaults in Philadel
phia.
Another sneak equally- versatile
and far more fortunate was "Joe”
Killoran, alias "Joe” Howard, a pic
turesque character of an old and
highly cultivated family of New
York. He was the brains of the band
ho operated with, and although he
invariably outlined the whole line of
procedure he always acted as ‘Jthe
stall,” of the victim In^conversatlon
while one of his clever confederates
procured the lootT* He bore all the
earmarks of a well to do man of af
fairs, and could enter a bank cash
ier's office and at once Interest him
in one of the many schemes he pro
pounded. with the bank, of course, as
the one to finance the proposition
he outlined. The role of cripple In
a carriage wag one of bU-most suc
cessful ruses, and following his cap
ture here he figured In a sensational
escape from the Ludlow Street Jail.
Harry Russell and Charlea Allen,
federal prisoners at that time, also
figured In this escape.
IMsinfleld, K. J., has Just cause U
remember a visit paid to It by Kil
loran Accompanied by "Patsy**
Klannigaa and "Rid** Yeaals. Klllor-
a:i smt to lbs First National Itaab
of the pretty little ss barbs a city,
sad while bs engaged Ihe clerks la
him squarely la tbs eye an, with my
espsrtally enaetrsrted kook. I raked
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srs It was an ear? matter for the
'master thief to slip behind the mil-
lags enter vault or toller a rage and
corral all the money or aecurttiea
that happened to be laving around
loose Hi# esit safely made, the con
federates followed at their lelaure
and without eicitlng nuapldon. Some
times the robbery would not be dis
covered for an hour or more after
its commlHHion. A well trained sneak
theif and I know whereof 1 apeak —
could pass within a few feet of a
bank clerk and rob vault or cage un
der his very nose and not arouse the
slightest suspicion of his presence In
the hank.
"An old ruse that I worked with
marked success on more than one oc
casion was to have my confederates
drive up to the hank in an open car
riage, taking due^pare to have him
exhibit a eruteh. A woman always
accompanied the ‘cripple.’ and r.he
would ent»«r th** hank and ask the
teller or e* lR h 5 er to step to the car
riage, as har companion wan too lame
to walk. In manv oases this paved
the way for <»>*» real Oref to si ; p be
hind the harrier and make a rich
clean up while the busy clerk was
talking a big loan or generous de
posit with the cripple in the carriage.
The majority 01 tin* real big sneaK
jobs were committed in small towns
on circus days, when the town vyas
alive with strangers and all the prov
inclal clerks were on the qul vlve of
expectancy awaiting the passing of
the animal cages and the like. Of
course, the sneak thief had conceal
ed himself in the bank at an earlier
hour, and when fbe rush for tbe win
dows began he was free to srorh at
leisure
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many thowaasd? f dollars was dots
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como aa sell to aa
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dollars ahils la Ravapa.
lag ta Ihm msairy aaa captarsd a ad
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s past affkro After hla
a oaf bark la Kurapo. had aaa
Mb from a bank ta tkat rlfy RU
years was mated oal'to him la aa
Austrian prison
A partlcslarly
saw that of the First National
of San Francisco A sneak boldly
entered the hank and panning be
hind the railing picked up k satchel
containing K'ft.ooo In gold. Ha aa
quietly left and It was not until an
hour after the robbery that the Ions
was discovered. When the assistant
cashier of the hank went out for lun
cheon he spied a man he had seen
lurking in the bank and accosted
him The bank official seized the
thief ami the satchel he had tucked
between bis feet under the table. In
the scuffle that followed the thief
escaped, but the money was recov
ered intact. The Pinkertons took
up the case and after an exhaustive
investigation determined that Wil
liam Barrett, who bad been operat
ing with "Fritzie” Diehn and G. H.
Hanlon, was the culprit. The trio
»v» re arrested‘in Portland, Ore.rnno
flu* hank cashier who had recovered
the loot fully identified Barrett ai;
the in jin lie had accosted in the res
taurant. But tiie Baltimore author
ities exercised a prior cl«ini to the
prisoner, and he was taken to that
city and convicted of a similar Job.
for which he was given a long term
in the Maryland penitentiary. He
has a long prison record, and while a
product of Chicago, he served time
in the Ulinolsreformatory* Joliet pen*
ttenttary and the Western peniten
tiary. Harrctt and "Mickey** Glea
son are credited with mulcting tbe
Rank of Frame of f'0.04P. Two of
the four bank'i messengers had tke
money between them In n mb nUt-
tioawd in front of tbe bonk betiding
Tbsy wars waiting for g third
•eager when. Rnrvsft and kin
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got away, bat later was
to tea
be ro-
tu raed to kls life of crime, but from
then on he operated with yeggmea.
• ad post offices still ara hla special
ity. He Is being vigorously pursued
now. but so far he has eluded cap
ture.
Flannigan la still earning In hlR
body the bullets a night watchman
shot into* him when he was discover-
ed robbing a hank in Montague.
Texan. Although desperately wound
ed, he escaped and hid away until he
was able to travel and shake the dust
of Texas from his feet.
A remarkably clever bit of detec
tive work had to do with the capture
of Walter Shetidan, "Philly” Pear
son and "Charlie” Hicks. As a de
tective boarded a atreet car in Chi
cago he spied the trio as fellow’ pas
sengers . The detective tnailed his
nnarry to the Chicago and Alton
Railway station and saw them pur
chase tickets for Springfield, Ilf. The
following day the vault of the Spring-
field National Bank was looted of
J35.000 by Pearson while Sheridan
engaged the attention of tho bank
officials, Hicks performing outside
picket duty. Hicks was soon captur
ed, convicted and sentenced to eight
years in Joliet prison, Pearson fled
tQ Europe. Sheridan was apprehen-
ded in Toledo. Ohio
of the loot was iveovered. Sheridan
had long been Identified with a suc-
resaful band of counterfeiters, and
federal authorities constantly trailed
blRL
A criminal with a remarkable rsr-
ord attributes bU downfall to
WkUs mailing to plend guilty to tke
charge he walkod out of tho prtsoo-
em* pen lu tke Court of Geueral Ses
sions and fled to Philadelphia, where
he was raptured. Following hia trial
Ind conviction he was sentenced to
eighteen years la the State Prison,
but later, soqn after his Incarcera
tion. he was transferred to the Clin
ton Prison at Dannemora. from
which he escaped. .He was again re
captured, hut two months after his*
recapture he escaped again, and since
then has managed to elude all pur
suers. He was a remarkable crimi
nal and rather prided himself on his
prowess as a jail breaker.
\Vith ffuch brainy men as these to
direct their efforts it is little won
der that, thos'e bands of yeggmen,
headed by sneak thieves of the old
school, are reaping such a harvest in
the rural districts as well as in the
big cities. The one-time sneak thief,
whose reminiscences have been quot
ed in the foregoing, asserts that
every big job of the yegg type that
has been pulled off in New/York
city within the last years bears all
the earmarks of the handiwork of
sneak thieves he was once associa
ted with.
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