Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — JACK WINTERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JACK WINTERS.

Bullion Thief Who Bto'r $289,000 la Gold from Felby f melting Work*. It now transpires that Jack Winters, who tunneled under the Selby Smelting Company’s works near San Francisco, and removed $280,000 in gold bars from the vaults of that company, is an ex-con-vict, who has served time in the Missouri penitentiary. He is wanted for various crimes committed in Missouri. Winters was formerly a railroad conductor

running from St. Louis to Kansas’City and from Kansas City to Fort Worth. Following are the salient features of Winter's odd exploit: Winters tunneled under the snfe of the Selby Smelting Works with a common fire tfhovel. He was six weeks In the tunneling. He worked within five yards of the entrance to the smelter and within twenty feet from the tracks of the main line of the Southern Pacific Company. He carried the dirt from his tunnel In a l>ag fifty yards and dumped it into the bay. He concealed the excavation by day with a screen made of laths and a piece of cloth covered with loose dirt. He was three nights in cutting under the brick foundation of the smelter. He drilled 104 holes in the bottom Of the vault. He carried the stolen gold 500 yards and threw it Into the bay. He made fourteen trips from the eault to the place be selected for biding his plunder. He traveled nearly seven miles. The stolen gold weighed 1,130 pounds.

JACK WINTERS.