Bucholz and the Detectives

Allan Pinkerton

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BUCHOLZ AND THE DETECTIVES.
By
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.
PAGECHAPTER I.
The Arrival in South Norwalk.—The Purchase of the Farm.—A Miser's
Peculiarities, and the Villagers' Curiosity 17
CHAPTER II.
William Bucholz.—Life at Roton Hill.—A Visit to New York City 30
CHAPTER III.
An Alarm at the Farm House.—The Dreadful Announcement of
William Bucholz.—The Finding of the Murdered Man 39
CHAPTER IV.
The Excitement in the Village.—The Coroner's Investigation.—The
Secret Ambuscade 47
CHAPTER V.
The Hearing Before the Coroner.—Romantic Rumors and Vague
Suspicions.—An Unexpected Telegram.—Bucholz Suspected 56
CHAPTER VI.
The Miser's Wealth.—Over Fifty Thousand Dollars Stolen from the
Murdered Man.—A Strange Financial Transaction.—A Verdict, and
the Arrest of Bucholz 67
CHAPTER VII.Bucholz in Prison.—Extravagant Habits, and Suspicious
Expenditures.—The German Consul Interests Himself.—Bucholz
Committed 78
CHAPTER VIII.
My Agency is Employed.—The Work of Detection Begun 87
THE HISTORY.
CHAPTER IX.
Dortmund.—Railroad Enterprise and Prospective Fortune.—Henry
Schulte's Love.—An Insult and Its Resentment.—An Oath of Revenge 93
CHAPTER X.
A Curse, and Plans of Vengeance 109
CHAPTER XI.
A Moonlight Walk.—An Unexpected Meeting.—The Murder of
Emerence Bauer.—The Oath Fulfilled 115
CHAPTER XII.
The Search for the Missing Girl.—The Lover's Judgment.—Henry
Schulte's Grief.—The Genial Farmer Becomes the Grasping Miser 122
CHAPTER XIII.
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 131
CHAPTER XIV.
The Arrival in New York.—Frank Bruner Determines to Leave the
Service of His Master.—The Meeting of Frank Bruner and William
Bucholz 148
CHAPTER XV.
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 157
CHAPTER XVI.
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 166THE DETECTION.
CHAPTER XVII.
The Detective.—His Experience, and His Practice.—A Plan of
Detection Perfected.—The Work is Begun. 177
CHAPTER XVIII.
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 185
CHAPTER XIX.
The Jail at Bridgeport.—An Important Arrest.—Bucholz Finds a
Friend.—A Suspicious Character who Watches and Listens.—
Bucholz Relates his Story 205
CHAPTER XX.
Bucholz Passes a Sleepless Night.—An Important Discovery.—The
Finding of the Watch of the Murdered Man.—Edward Sommers
Consoles the Distressed Prisoner 218
CHAPTER XXI.
A Romantic Theory Dissipated.—The Fair Clara Becomes
communicative.—An Interview with the Bar Keeper of the "Crescent
Hotel" 226
CHAPTER XXII.
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 233
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Reconciliation.—Bucholz makes an Important Revelation.—
Sommers Obtains his Liberty and Leaves the Jail 244
CHAPTER XXIV.
Sommers Returns to Bridgeport.—An Interview with Mr. Bollman.—
Sommers Allays the Suspicions of Bucholz's Attorney, and Engages
Him as his Own Counsel 252
CHAPTER XXV.
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 260
CHAPTER XXVI.
Edward Sommers as "The Detective."—A Visit to the Barn, and Partof the Money Recovered.—The Detective makes Advances to the
Counsel for the Prisoner.—A Further Confidence of an Important
Nature 270
CHAPTER XXVII.
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 284
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Detective Manufactures Evidence for the Defense.—An
Anonymous Letter.—An Important Interview.—The Detective
Triumphs Over the Attorney 295
CHAPTER XXIX.
Bucholz Grows Skeptical and Doubtful.—A fruitless Search.—The
Murderer Involuntarily Reveals Himself 309
THE JUDGMENT.
CHAPTER XXX.
The Trial.—An Unexpected Witness.—A Convincing Story.—An Able
but Fruitless Defense.—A Verdict of Guilty.—The Triumph of Justice 319
CHAPTER XXXI.
Another Chance for Life.—The Third Trial Granted.—A Final Verdict,
and a Just Punishment 338
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 death—violent and
mysterious—at 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 seas—each with no knowledge of theexistence of the other—to 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 friend—he 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 w