The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, July 26, 1912, Page PAGE 6, Image 6
CAREER OF DETECTIVE
READS
LIFE OF THE MAN WHO TRAP1
WITH THRILLING ADVE
COVERED GRAFT 1
Atlanta, July 16.?Original in his
methods, resourceful to an unusual,
degree, shrewd, cunning, quiet witl?3?.
manner which convinces one of his sin-"
cerity, and a personality which is mag
netic and engaging, E. S. Reed, the
detctive who while posing as Henry N.
Porter, a Chicago Attorney, claims to
have entrapped Satn J. Nicholls, a
Spartanburg lawyer, into negotiations
which may involve Governor Blease of
South Carolina in the charge of selling
pardons, is one of the most successful
and remarkable sleuths of the
present day.
Mr. Reed, who is the right bower
of William J. Burns, is spending a
few days in Atlanta, the guest of
Attorney Thomas B. Felder, in whose
employ he was .when he secured the
evidence against *>fichoris and Blease.
It was Detective Reed Who exposed ]
the Atlantic City grafters, 80 of j
whom have peep by the
grand jury, at^d it Was he'who traced (
Harvey Logan, the' famous Montana j
train robber, to South America. A
history of him and his work would
read like a real dime novel. i
Began When Sixteen. <
It was back in 1889, when Mr. Reed 1
then a boy of 16 years, pulled off his f
first big detective stunt. He had 1
been assisting his father, who was
? also a detective, in running down c
some of the criminals who infested *
the Black Hills country in South *
Dakota following the Sioux Indian 1
uprising. 8
Ono .1 .. ?* i.?.1 ' 11?
vuv uaj a juu^c uy tne name 01
Wood, who had learned of young c
Reed's familiarity with the trails and
passes of the then wild and undevel- s
oped territory, came to him and offered
him a large sum to locate a
little girl who had been abducted c
and who was believed to have been ?
carried into the Black Hills.
Judge Wood told Reed that the v
child's name was May Chase; that e
her grandfather, an unscrupulous
Chicago millionaire, had hired a daring
cowboy to kidnap her and hide ?
her away. It was explained to Reed
that the child's mother, the daughter
of the millionaire, had been her '
father's private secretary and in this 4.
capacity had become familiar witW^j
many of his crooked deals. She de- ^
vciupcu reugiuus icuueiiuies ana ner
conscience prodding her, she threat- .'
ened to confess her father's rascality. "
Becoming alarmed, the.father sought
to force her into a marriage with a v
man whom he had selected, believing
the marriage would close her w
lips.
The ceremony was arranged and
when the prospective groom appear- *
ed the girl spat in his face and declared
to the officiating minister that w
she .would not marry the man. Neith- 01
er threats nor persuasion would ?
cause her to relent and her father
made her a prisoner in her own home.
One day she sought to elope with a
former sweetheart and, in jumping c<
out of a window, broke her leg. She
was kept to her bed for months, but ^
finally escaped, married the sweet- }
heart and disappeared into South
Dakota. A little girl was born to
the woman, and when the child was c<
three years old it was kidnapped. Af- v
ter considerable search it was locat- sl
ed and returned to the mother, only L
to be kidnapped again when it was six u
years old.
FinH? h*? hi 1/1
It was the second case that Heed a
was engaged to run down. He laid b
in a supply of clothing and food, li
purchased a carriage and two mus- a
tangs and traced the child to a ranch n
house in the Black Hill country, g
where he found she was in the care
of an old woman and guarded by a si
half dozen cowboys. n
Reed awaited his opportunity and c:
one uay, wniie the cowboys were n
absent at a round-up, he came upon
the old woman and girl at a spring. t<
He seized the child, bore her away e
in his arms to his carriage and drove v
night and day until he got her to s<
Yankton, where he took a train for v
a city in Michigan ,where he turned a
her over to an uncle. On the wild
ride from the Black Hills, Reed was t
followed by one of the cowboys, who n
overtook him. Breaking the glass a
y out of the rear curtain of the car- s
riage, the detective took deliberate t
aim with a Winchester and shot the b
horse from under his pursuer, lie s
says the rescued girl is now married ii
and has a small family of her own. f
Detective Reed was employed by v
the Great Northern Railroad to run f
down Harvey Logan, whose gang had t
held up and robbed an express train p
near Wagner, Mont., n 1902. The t
robbers secured about $50,000 in un- t
signed bills, which were en route by c
express to a bank in Helena. Logan e
was traced all over the country, final- c
iy Deing captureu in Tennessee, alter a
shooting down three police officers
in a South Hnoxville Pool room. He
was convicted in Knoxville and sen- ^
REED.
LIKE A DIME NOVEL.
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PED SAM 1. NICHOLLS FILLED
JNTURES?H? HAS UNIN
ALL SECTIONS
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tenced to 20 years. While awaiting
his transfer to the penitentiary Logan
made his escape from jail and
Reed again took the trail, following
him through the mounting of Tennessee,
Kentucky, North and South
Carolina, being in the saddle for 47
days.
Located in South America.
He learned that Logan had come to
Atlanta, and here he found the out
law had bribed a Pullman porter and
had been hidden in a berth, boots
and all. Following the trail, Reed
pursued Logan to Texas, then into
Mexico and from there to South
America, locating him in the Argentine
Republic. The Great Northern
had expended $40,000 in an effort to
land Logan and kept a standing offer
of $10,000 for him dead or alive,
but the expense was so great and
red tape of extradition from Argentine
Republic so difficult that the
chase was abandoned and Logan is
still supposed to be in that country.
Atlantic City Case.
The most recent and perhaps the
nost important piece of work ever
ione by Detective Reed was the
-ounding up of the Atlantic City
rrafters ,which he completed a few
veeks ago. After opening offices on j
Wall street, New York, securing elab- ;
>rate apartments at the Waldorf Ho- l
ei in mat city, Keed, posing as J. K. 1
larris, a millionaire contractor, went 1
o Atlantic City, ostensibly for recre- i
ition. He took a suite of rooms in 1
he Marlborough-Blenheim, which he J
onnected up with dictagraph:
Ascertaining that the city was <
pending $40,000 a year for repairs 1
o the famous boardwalk, of which
30,000 was divided in graft to the '
ity officials and bosses, Reed gave
ut an interview suggesting that the
Id boardwalk should tie replaced
nth a concrete walk; that in the
nd it would be cheaper and more
atisfactory. He studiously avoided
fie city officials and his interest ap- 8
eared to be that of a disinterested i
ut experienced contractor. n
The concrete walk suggestion atracted
attention immediately, and v
lie trade bodies and civic associa,pp?
invito^I lTftifgv L
?
wlfiilR.. .%MVfc^*.re^Wafers ?
i the council called on him at his
otel and adroitly negotiated a deal
'hereby 13 members of the council, p
tie city attorney and . other officials
'ere to be paid certain sums for put- ^
ing throueh the concrete walk or
inance. Seventy-five thousand dol- p
irs was to be divided among them.
One by one the other councilmen *
'ere drawn into the negotiations and ^
onversations were had with various a
fficials at the Marlborough-Blen- a
eim, the Waldorf in New York and t
he Continental Hotel in New York.
c
lach of these conversations was re- (
jrded by the dictagraph. (
The "Divvy" Planned.
The ordinance, which was passed *
y the grafters, provided that Reed
as to receive 7 per cent of the
1,500,000 to be expended on the
sncrete walk for engineering ser- (
ices, 7 per cent for his own personal f
jpervision and $80,000 for his plans,
tc. This last mentioned sum was,
nder the agreement, to be divided
mong the grafters. I
So skittish were the grafters that
hey would not accept the money at
ny of the hotels, but insisted that it
e paid over in a back room of Maia's
combination saloon and hotel
dive run by an alderman by the
ame of Malia, who was one of the
ang.
It was necessary for Reed to in- .
tall his dictagraph jn this dive. He
lust do this without creating suspiion,
so he hit upon the idea of sendlg
a crew of linemen from New
'ork to Atlantic City who 'were os- {
ensibly in the employ of a local pow- i
r company. These linemen, one of 1
rhom was an expert dictagraph man, |
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY I
FARMS FOR <
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145 atres six miles of Chest*/1 I
C. H., and three miles of Ruta A
acres in cultivation, balance i n
some "good timber, grey pebbl* *'
clay subsoil; six room resident
but buildings, two tenant h 0 \
good- water and orchard; s U
through place; school and churcl ,
mile. Price $35.00 per acre* ten i ,
application. S{ j.
.,150 acres hafl mile of PatridJ j
S. A. L. Ry., ten acres cleared] !
ance woods; sand with clay sulp
same class of land producing baj n I
bale and half cotton per acre, pre ni
ly cultivated and fertilized. 1 ].
$15.00 per acre, terms to suit. J
2,160 acres located on publifc I
leading from Cheraw to Darling ^
about seven miles of Cheraw; A, t
L. Ry. runs through place; border J
Pee Dee river, about half river U
and balance sandy up-land, with
subsoil ;seven buildings. A ds*|
proposition at $12.50 per acre, teh I
can be arranged. ' \
86 acres 2% miles west of Mt. I
cyVion C?.-1- -
K uutuviD Ull l/CCU VjieeKj . 'I
orse farm open, sandy loam soil v6!
some stiff bottom land on creek,
bargain at $20.00 per acre, easy teraj
450 acres 3% miles north of |g|
Croghan, known as the Redfev
place; two hundred acres cleared, In i
ance in woods, two old and four no
tenant houses; some clay and soN
sandy, all clay subsoil. This 'is y^j
chance to buy a good farm on et j
terms; will sub-divide. Price as,
whole, $25.00 per acre, terms, op
fourth cash and balance in one, tv!
and three years at 8 per cent. i
97 acres on Bear Creek, three milt ^
from Station on C. & L. Ry., and onl:
six miles from Chesterfield C. H.; 2
acres open, sandy loam with clay sut
soil; near good school and churches :
Price $2,250, terms easy.
83% acres near McFarlan; one five
room residence; two-horse farm open
made in one year 26 bales cotton an J|
350 bushels grain; too cheap at $20.0
per acre: terms ,one-third cash an '
balance one and two years at 8 pe J|.
sent.
25 acres one mile of Guess, a sta '
tion on C. & L. Rv., one two-roor ,
louse and good well water, made 1 t
sales cotton last year; level sand; j
oam soil; tract will probably surve; li ,
>ut 35 to 40 acres; price for the tracl '
5700, terms to suit. I.
Vfaynard-Raley Realty & Trust Cc
Capital $25,000.
Phone No. 84: Cheraw, S. C t
SOUTHERN RAILWAY \
Premier Carrier of the South
Schedules from Union, S. C.
WEST BOUND.
No. 3?For Spartanburg, Ashevilh
ma ivnoxvuie, z:zt> a .m. I
No. !)?For Spartanburg, Asheville |
Cnoxville, Cincinnatti, Atlanta, Bir I
ningham and points west, 9:20 a. m
No 27?Carolina Special to Ashe
ille, Knoxville, Cincinnati and al
>oints west and northwest. 3:07 p? m
No. 13?For Spartanburg and Ashe
tu m
ii ? & "Ttafburg and loca
\ -J^ST BOUND I* to
No. 42?^r Columbia and locaT
loints. 9:00 a .m.
No. 14?For Columbia and loca
toints. 11:55 a -m.
No. 28?Carolina Specia lfor Co,
umbia and Charleston, S. C. 2:37 p"
n. .
No. 4?For Columbia and loca .
loints. 6:40 p. m.
No. 10?For Columbia, Charleston
lavannah and Jacksonville. 9:22 p. ip
Nos. 27 and 28?Carolina Special^
rhrough electric lighted train, con ,
isling of day coaches, Pullman cfiri
ind observation car between Charles J
on and Cincinnati. i
For further information call on lo? J
al agent, or address L. D. Robinson
3. P. & T. A., S. H. McLean, D. P. A.,
Columbia, S. C., W. E. McGee, A. G.
? A. Columbia, S. C., S. H. Hardwick,
\ T. M., E. H. Coapman, V. P. & G.
1., Washington, D. C.
County Democratic Committechen.
Union County Democratic Club
Committeemen: You are hereby notiied
to assemble in the City Hall, Un- \
on, S. C., at 12 noon ,on Saturday,
uly 27th, to transact all business necssary
and urgent. Fail not.
By order of
Attest Macbeth Young, \
F. M. Ellerbe, Chairman.
Secretary.
ecured quarters in Malia's hotel and
ra.s seen about the streets working j
t the top of poles for days.
The dictagraph man spent the enire
niorht Drecedinir the dav when the '
loney was to be paid over in drilling J
concrete floor over the gang's asembly
room, and before he completed
he job so that the dictagraph could
e installed in the ceiling of the as- .
embjy room some one heard the drill- |
ng and he was compelled to stop.
Jot to be outdone, Reed had the j
vires thrown out of a window, and a i
ew minutes before the gang assemiled
he skillfully pinned the dicta- j
rranh behind a curtain. The nneru
or, working upstairs, recorded all
hat transpired Such a complete rec- 1
>rd was obtained that when confront;d
with the evidence the gangsters
iwned up and refunded practically
ill of the bribe money.
Remember the Hospital Rally Day, ,
fuesday, July 30th.
Teacher?"Don't say, 'How it is I |
ainin'!' Pronounce your 'g.' " . j
Little girl?I knota, teacher, Let me 1
ay it. j
Teacher?Say it. |
Little girl?Gee! How it is rain- t 1|
Your Capital. 1
Your SPARE TIME is your unem- 1
jloyed capital- Think of the idle mo- { ,
nents you lose at night that could | f
je prolitably spent in taking, BY ;
VIA 11 , lessons in Bookkeeping,
Shorthand, Penmanship, Business )
Letter Writing, Business English, I
Arithmetic, etc. For prices on Home f
Study BY MAIL, address Jno. F.
Draughon, President, Nashville,
renn. For catalogue on courses at.
rollege, address Draughon's Practical I
Business College, Columbia or Green-!
ville, S. C, or Nashville, Tenn.
Final Discharge. ?
Notice is hereby given that J. I.-.| '
lolly, Administrator, of the Estate of
Bell F. Jolly, deceased, has applied to
IV. W. Johnson, Judge of Probate, in
?nd for the County of Union, for a(
Ftnol ili<i(<har(A> a a enph A Hminiofra.
lor. . j ;
It is ordered, That the 8th day of'{
A.ugust,A. D., 1912, be fixed for hearing
of Petition and a final settlement. J
. W. W. Johnson,
Judge of Prodgate for Union Co..
Published in the Union Times. 28-4t':
Notice. \
I will give a first-class barbecue
at Union on the day of the State Dem- 1
Dcratic campaign meeting. Barbecue
will be on the grounds where thq
speaking is held. > 1 V ,
23-tf. 4. D. ChaVles.
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