ALLAN PINKERTON,
AUTHOR OF
"THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE," "THE MODEL TOWN AND THE DETECTIVES," "THE SPIRITUALISTS AND THE DETECTIVES," "THE MOLLIE MAGUIRES AND THE DETECTIVES," "STRIKERS, COMMUNISTS, TRAMPS AND DETECTIVES," "THE GYPSIES AND THE DETECTIVES," ETC., ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK:
G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers,
MADISON SQUARE.
MDCCCLXXXII.
COPYRIGHT BY
ALLAN PINKERTON.
1880.
Stereotyped by
Samuel Stodder,
Electrotyper & Stereotyper,
90 Ann Street, N.Y.
Trow Printing and Book-Binding Co.
N.Y.
CONTENTS.
THE CRIME.
PAGE
The Arrival in South Norwalk.The Purchase of the Farm.A Miser's Peculiarities, and the Villagers' Curiosity
William Bucholz.Life at Roton Hill.A Visit to New York City
An Alarm at the Farm House.The Dreadful Announcement of William Bucholz.The Finding of the Murdered Man
The Excitement in the Village.The Coroner's Investigation.The Secret Ambuscade
The Hearing Before the Coroner.Romantic Rumors and Vague Suspicions.An Unexpected Telegram.Bucholz Suspected
The Miser's Wealth.Over Fifty Thousand Dollars Stolen from the Murdered Man.A Strange Financial Transaction.A Verdict, and the Arrest of Bucholz
Bucholz in Prison.Extravagant Habits, and Suspicious Expenditures.The German Consul Interests Himself.Bucholz Committed
My Agency is Employed.The Work of Detection Begun
THE HISTORY.
Dortmund.Railroad Enterprise and Prospective Fortune.Henry Schulte's Love.An Insult and Its Resentment.An Oath of Revenge
A Curse, and Plans of Vengeance
A Moonlight Walk.An Unexpected Meeting.The Murder of Emerence Bauer.The Oath Fulfilled
The Search for the Missing Girl.The Lover's Judgment.Henry Schulte's Grief.The Genial Farmer Becomes the Grasping Miser
Henry Schulte becomes the Owner of "Alten-Hagen."Surprising Increase in Wealth.An Imagined Attack Upon His Life.The Miser Determines to Sail for America
The Arrival in New York.Frank Bruner Determines to Leave the Service of His Master.The Meeting of Frank Bruner and William Bucholz
A History of William Bucholz.An Abused Aunt who Disappoints His Hopes.A Change of Fortune.The Soldier becomes a Farmer.The Voyage to New York
Frank Leaves the Service of His Master.A Bowery Concert Saloon.The Departure of Henry Schulte.William Bucholz Enters the Employ of the Old Gentleman
THE DETECTION.
The Detective.His Experience, and His Practice.A Plan of Detection Perfected.The Work is Begun.
A Detective Reminiscence.An Operation in Bridgeport in 1866.The Adams Express Robbery.A Half Million of Dollars Stolen.Capture of the Thieves.One of the Principals Turns State's Evidence.Conviction and Punishment
The Jail at Bridgeport.An Important Arrest.Bucholz Finds a Friend.A Suspicious Character who Watches and Listens.Bucholz Relates his Story
Bucholz Passes a Sleepless Night.An Important Discovery.The Finding of the Watch of the Murdered Man.Edward Sommers Consoles the Distressed Prisoner
A Romantic Theory Dissipated.The Fair Clara Becomes communicative.An Interview with the Bar Keeper of the "Crescent Hotel"
Sommers Suggests a Doubt of Bucholz's Innocence.He Employs Bucholz's Counsel to Effect his Release.A Visit from the State's Attorney.A Difficulty, and an Estrangement
The Reconciliation.Bucholz makes an Important Revelation.Sommers Obtains his Liberty and Leaves the Jail
Sommers Returns to Bridgeport.An Interview with Mr. Bollman.Sommers Allays the Suspicions of Bucholz's Attorney, and Engages Him as his Own Counsel
Sommers' Visit to South Norwalk.He Makes the Acquaintance of Sadie Waring.A Successful Ruse.Bucholz Confides to his Friend the Hiding Place of the Murdered Man's Money
Edward Sommers as "The Detective."A Visit to the Barn, and Part of the Money Recovered.The Detective makes Advances to the Counsel for the Prisoner.A Further Confidence of an Important Nature
A Midnight Visit to the Barn.The Detective Wields a Shovel to Some Advantage.Fifty Thousand Dollars Found in the Earth.A Good Night's Work
The Detective Manufactures Evidence for the Defense.An Anonymous Letter.An Important Interview.The Detective Triumphs Over the Attorney
Bucholz Grows Skeptical and Doubtful.A fruitless Search.The Murderer Involuntarily Reveals Himself
THE JUDGMENT.
The Trial.An Unexpected Witness.A Convincing Story.An Able but Fruitless Defense.A Verdict of Guilty.The Triumph of Justice
Another Chance for Life.The Third Trial Granted.A Final Verdict, and a Just Punishment
PREFACE.
The following pages narrate a story of detective experience, which, in many respects, is alike peculiar and interesting, and one which evinces in a marked degree the correctness of one of the cardinal principles of my detective system, viz.: "That crime can and must be detected by the pure and honest heart obtaining a controlling power over that of the criminal."
The history of the old man who, although in the possession of unlimited wealth, leaves the shores of his native land to escape the imagined dangers of assassination, and arrives in America, only to meet his deathviolent and mysteriousat the hands of a trusted servant, is in all essential points a recital of actual events. While it is true that in describing the early career of this man, the mind may have roamed through the field of romance, yet the important events which are related of him are based entirely upon information authentically derived.
The strange operation of circumstances which brought these two men together, although they had journeyed across the seaseach with no knowledge of the existence of the otherto meet and to participate in the sad drama of crime, is one of those realistic evidences of the inscrutable operations of fate, which are of frequent occurrence in daily life.
The system of detection which was adopted in this case, and which was pursued to a successful termination, is not a new one in the annals of criminal detection. From the inception of my career as a detective, I have believed that crime is an element as foreign to the human mind as a poisonous substance is to the body, and that by the commission of a crime, the man or the woman so offending, weakens, in a material degree, the mental and moral strength of their characters and dispositions. Upon this weakness the intelligent detective must bring to bear the force and influence of a superior, moral and intellectual power, and then successful detection is assured.
The criminal, yielding to a natural impulse of human nature, must seek for sympathy. His crime haunts him continually, and the burden of concealment becomes at last too heavy to bear alone. It must find a voice; and whether it be to the empty air in fitful dreamings, or into the ears of a sympathetic friendhe must relieve himself of the terrible secret which is bearing him down. Then it is that the watchful detective may seize the criminal in his moment of weakness and by his sympathy, and from the confidence he has engendered, he will force from him the story of his crime.
That such a course was necessary to be pursued in this case will be apparent to all. The suspected man had been precipitately arrested, and no opportunity was afforded to watch his movements or to become associated with him while he was at liberty. He was an inmate of a prison when I assumed the task of his detection, and the course pursued was the only one which afforded the slightest promise of success; hence its adoption.
