Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1913 — TALES or GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALES or GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES

“High Grade” Men Had Discovered New Rich Vein

NEW YORK. —The lights had been turned on in West Side court the other day to dispel the gloom of the weather, when a short, thick-set man stepped up to the attorney’s table and from four battered leather belts let loose a shower of glittering gold coins that made the incandescents wink and Magistrate Corrigan shade bis eyes. As the gold ran out, like yellow wheat from the mouth of a hopper, the pleasant clinking of the gleaming metal resounded through the place. A few pieces dropped to the floor and rolled away, unregarded for the moment The sight of the stack of coins piled on the table hypnotized every one within view into action. “What is all this ?" demanded Magistrate Corrigan of Detective Phelan of the central office, who had turned on the stream of gold. "It's $2,800 I took from those four men there,” rejoined Phelan, indicate ing with a jerk of his thumb four swarthy men with Bombreros, Saming

red handkerchiefs and other symp-j toms of the wild west as depicted oil “the screen.” “I guess it belongs—to them, all right,” continued Phelan, “for nobody’s put in a claim for Jt.” And so the pile was swept back again into the four worn belts and the gloom of the gray day shut down once more. All this occurred during the arraignment of Romaine Molzire, Eugent Bortilapo, John Perrizini and John Zader, all accused of being “high grade’’ men, which is not as paradoxical as it sounds, for in Leadville, Col. where the prisoners worked as miners, a' “high grader” is a chap who steals gold right out of the vein. The alleged high graders were arrested at the Pennsylvania railroad station by Detectives Phelan and a squad of picked men. The arrests followed a telegram from Sheriff Schrader of Leadville that they had got away with $50,000 worth of stolen gold, the same being contained in their trunks, wllich were declared to weigh almost half a ton. The four were held till Deputy Sheriff William Angus and Assistant District Attorney Quentin B.J Bonner arrived from Leadville with requisition papers. Mr. Bonner said that the men had been robbing the Monarch for months. They discovered a new vein, of which their bosses knew nothing.