Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky Mountains Detective Association

AN EXPRESS MESSENGER ROBS A TRAIN IN NEW YORK OF THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS--HE LOSES AT CARDS AND DRAWS UPON THE FUND IN HIS KEEPING--OFF FOR THE WEST--TRACED TO DENVER AND THE...

WIGHT'S COMPLICITY FULLY ESTABLISHED--THE STORY THAT THE CRIMINALS TOLD--A HORRIBLE RECITAL OF COLD-BLOODED MURDER BY WITHERILL--WIGHT GOES TO THE PENITENTIARY FOR SEVEN YEARS A...

ARREST OF GRISWOLD--HE IS TAKEN JUST AS HE IS LEAVING THE COUNTRY--PREPARED TO FIGHT, BUT CAUGHT IN A TRAP--HIS NECK SAVED ON THE FIRST TRIAL, AND WHILE AWAITING A SECOND HE ATT...

STIRRING CLOSE OF THE HAYWARD STORY--SEMINOLE AND WOODRUFF TAKEN TO GOLDEN AND LODGED IN JAIL--VISIT OF THE GRANGER VIGILANTES, WHO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS BY HANGING THE MURDERERS...

SPOTTING THE FUGITIVES--THEY APPEAR IN PUEBLO AT BREAK OF DAY, AND THE OFFICERS ARE SOON AFTER THEM, WELL MOUNTED AND FAIRLY ARMED--A DASHING SCENE--A THIRTEEN-MILE RACE ACROSS...

FEELING AROUSED BY THE ROBBERY OF JUDGE BROOKS--PURSUIT OF THE HIGHWAYMEN, DUGGAN AND FRANKLIN--THE DETECTIVES OBTAIN A CLUE--THE OUTLAWS OVERTAKEN IN GOLDEN--DUGGAN SHOWS FIGHT...

SEMINOLE'S CONFESSION--HE FURNISHES GEN. COOK WITH A VALUABLE CLUE AS TO WOODRUFF'S WHEREABOUTS--DETECTIVES HAWLEY AND AYRES ON THE TRAIL--THE WRONG MAN, BUT A CRIMINAL ALL THE...

THE BAD CHARACTERS BROUGHT TO DENVER BY THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD BUILDING--L. H. MUSGROVE AND HIS GANG--ARREST OF MUSGROVE--ED. FRANKLIN AND SANFORD DUGGAN COME TO HIS RESCUE-...

MRS. NEWTON'S ASTONISHING RECOVERY--MEYERS' TRIAL--A STUBBORN FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE IN THE COURTS, AND BEFORE THE TERRITORIAL EXECUTIVE--ALL TO NO AVAIL--THE PRISONER SENTENCED TO...

SEMINOLE AND WOODRUFF, THE MURDERERS, MAKE THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE IN MIDDLE PARK, WHERE THEY TURN UP AS ROBBERS AND TRICKSTERS--A VISIT TO LEADVILLE AND GEORGETOWN WITH ACCOMPAN...

THE MYSTERY UNRAVELING--A BANK CERTIFICATE LEADS TO IMPORTANT RESULTS--DARING DEED OF WIGHT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION AS TO THE PLANS OF THE DETECTIVES--FLIGHT OF THE MURDERERS ON S...

A FOOL LEGISLATURE RELEASES WITHERILL AND HE RECOMMENCES HIS CAREER OF CRIME--A SWEDE MURDERED FOR HIS TEAM NEAR SILVERTON AND HIS BODY NEVER FOUND--HE FINDS ANOTHER VICTIM--CHA...

A FOUL MURDER ON DRY CREEK, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY--A QUIET SUNDAY DESECRATED BY A PAIR OF ASSASSINS--L. K. WALL KILLED BY E. E. WIGHT AND G. H. WITHERILL FOR HIS POSSESSIONS--HE IS...

One of the most horrible crimes that ever cast a silhouette athwart the darkened pages of criminal history was revealed to the startled citizens of Denver on the 21st day of Oct...

THE MURDER OF "CHEAP JOHN" IN DENVER IN 1866--GEN. COOK HEARS THE MAN FALL AND RUSHES TO HIS RESCUE, BUT TOO LATE TO CATCH THE MURDERER--A NIGHT'S SEARCH RESULTS IN SOME STARTLI...

ROBBERY OF THE EXCHANGE BANK--FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT WITH THE OFFICIALS PRESENT--GEN. COOK GOES TO WORK WITHOUT A CLUE AND SECURES THE THIEVES AND THE BO...

ON GALLOTTI'S TRACK--A LETTER REVEALS HIS FLIGHT TO MEXICO WITH FERNANDEZ, ANNATTA AND VALENTINE--DETECTIVE SMITH IN SAN LUIS VALLEY AS AN OFFICER FOR UNCLE SAM AND A SHEEP BUYE...

WHOLESALE THIEVING FROM THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD AT KIT CARSON--TRAINS ROBBED BY AN ORGANIZED BAND INCLUDING THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE PLACE--GROCERIES, DRY GOODS AND LIVE...

A SAN JUAN FIDDLER IN THE ROLE OF ROMEO--SALLY BERNHEIM LEAVES A WIFE AT LAKE CITY AND STARTS TO EUROPE, FINDING A NEW JULIET ON BOARD SHIP--A FLIRTATION OF THE SEA RIPENS INTO...

THEODORE MEYERS AND THE TRAGEDY OF 1871-3--EMPLOYED ON A RANCH NEAR DENVER, HE KILLS HIS EMPLOYER, GEORGE BONACINA, AND MAKES AN EFFORT TO MURDER HIS SISTER, MRS. NEWTON--HE PLA...

AN INTERESTING BIT OF COLORADO HISTORY NEVER BEFORE PRINTED--THE REYNOLDS GANG OF REBEL GUERRILLAS LEAVE TEXAS TO INVADE COLORADO--AFTER A LONG RIDE, WITH MANY EXCITING INCIDENT...

CANDADO COSTILLO, A RED-HANDED MURDERER, DEFIES THE OFFICERS FOR YEARS AND RAIDS THE COUNTRY AT WILL--FINALLY CAUGHT UNAWARES BY MARSHAL HYATT AND SENT TO THE PEN--SERVES OUT HI...

L. P. GRISWOLD AND HIS DENVER EXPERIENCE--HOW HE TOOK A "CASE" WHICH HE WORKED UP SO WELL AS TO PRODUCE THE DEATH OF THREE MEN--HE MURDERS AN INNOCENT MAN, PRETENDING THAT HE WA...

THE ITALIAN MURDERERS TELL THE STORY OF THE CRIME--A SERIES OF BLOOD-CURDLING NARRATIVES, INTERESTING ACCOUNTS FROM THE MOST PROMINENT OF THE BUTCHERS--GALLOTTI GIVES HIS VERSIO...

A BAND OF STAGE ROBBERS IN SOUTHERN COLORADO TERRORIZE THE WHOLE COUNTRY--THEY EVEN LOOT ENTIRE TOWNS--A BIG REWARD OFFERED--CAPTURED BY FRANK HYATT, ONE OF THE SHINING LIGHTS O...

A LONG AND PERILOUS RIDE--THE MOTLEY MOB COMES UP--TWO MEN, BY EXERCISING A LITTLE COOLNESS AND A GOOD DEAL OF COURAGE, STAND OFF FORTY--AGAIN ATTACKED AT THE DEPOT--WADING THRO...

THEY ARE STARTED TO FORT LYON--THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE TO BE KILLED--A BLOODTHIRSTY SERGEANT AND A BUNGLING EXECUTION--LEFT FOR DEAD, JOHN ANDREWS ESCAPES--THE GANG FINALL...

PURSUIT OF THE ITALIAN MURDERERS BY THE DETECTIVE ASSOCIATION--SMITH AND FORCE ON THE TRAIL--THEY BECOME DISCOURAGED AT PUEBLO, BUT ARE URGED ON BY CHIEF COOK--PART OF THE GAME...

INVESTIGATING THE TURNER MURDER--A WICKED DEED FOLLOWED BY A GENERAL DEBAUCH--FLIGHT OF THE ASSASSINS WITH THEIR VICTIM'S REMAINS--SALE OF HIS TEAMS AND WAGONS--THE FATHER'S UNS...

C. P. JUDD, THIEF AND JAILBIRD, PULLS THE WOOL OVER THE EYES OF THE FIRST CLEVELAND ADMINISTRATION AND GETS A SOFT BERTH IN THE LABOR DEPARTMENT--GEN. COOK EXPOSES THE RASCAL, A...

A TRAGEDY ON THE UNION PACIFIC IN '68--JOHN KELLY'S COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF CHARLEY MAXWELL, A COLORADO BOY--SHOT DOWN FOR ASKING FOR DUES AND THE MURDER FINISHED AS THE BOY PRAY...

Frank Howard was a member of the party as it started from the north for the purpose of committing the robberies planned as above stated. The party came south to within a few mil...

SAEGER APPEARS IN DENVER UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME--HE MEETS AN OLD FRIEND IN THE PERSON OF GUS POTTER, TO WHOM HE MAKES A FULL CONFESSION--HE FALLS INTO A LITTLE TRAP SET BY GEN. C...

LYNCHING OF MUSGROVE BY THE DENVER POPULACE--AN ILLEGAL HANGING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY MEN ENTIRELY UNDISGUISED--THE DESPERADO MEETS THEM BRAVELY, BUT IS OVERCOME AT LAST AND DIES...

WHITE'S ESCAPE TO DENVER--ARRESTED IN A GROGGERY BY GEN. COOK AND W. A. SMITH--A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A SMALL MOB--TAKEN BACK TO PUEBLO--STRUNG UP TO A TELEGRAPH POLE AND LE...

TWO DRUNKEN NEGRO HOLDUPS MURDER STREET CAR DRIVER JOE WHITNAH--OFFICERS ON THE WRONG TRACK--THE MURDERER TALKS TOO MUCH AND GEN. COOK HEARS OF IT--BOTH MEN SOON IN THE TOILS--G...

GEN. COOK DEALS OUT JUSTICE TO BOTH THE STRIKERS AND THEIR EMPLOYERS--PREVENTS BLOODSHED AND DESTRUCTION AT LEADVILLE BY HIS UNPREJUDICED COURSE IN HANDLING THE STRIKE--STRIKERS...

DETECTIVE ARNOLD "SMELLS A MICE"--HE WITNESSES A PECULIAR WEDDING IN A JUSTICE'S OFFICE IN DENVER, AND CONCLUDES THAT THE BRIDEGROOM IS NO OTHER THAN MR. SCHUTTLER, OF IOWA--A V...

CHARLES H. FOULK WANTED IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR ARSON, LARCENY AND PERJURY--HE PROVES TO BE A LEADVILLE GAMBLER, MAKING "PILES OF MONEY"--SPOTTED IN DENVER BY GEN. COOK--ARRESTED AN...

CHASING THE HAYWARD MURDERERS--DETECTIVE AYRES' ADVENTUROUS TOUR INTO THE INDIAN COUNTRY--SEMINOLE AS HE APPEARED WHEN CAPTURED AT PINE RIDGE AGENCY--A BRIEF BUT FIERCE STRUGGLE...

Along in the '60's and early '70's when Colorado was not covered with a network of railroad and telegraph lines as it is to-day, bankers and others who wished to transmit large...

THE ASSASSINS STILL AT LARGE--GEN. COOK OFFERS A REWARD FOR THEM AND UNDERTAKES THEIR ARREST--A CLUE--OFF FOR THE SOUTH--TRACKING THE CRIMINALS DOWN UNDER DIFFICULTIES--OUT ALL...

THE OFFICERS IN CHARGE OF FOULK STOPPED BY A LOCAL OFFICIAL AT TOPEKA--THE HABEAS CORPUS DRAWN ON THEM--A LONG FIGHT FOR THE POSSESSION OF FOULK--HE IS LIBERATED AND AGAIN ARRES...

THE STORY OF CLODFELTER AND JOHNSON, WHO SHOT OFFICER WILCOX IN 1875--JOHNSON CAUGHT MISUSING THE MAILS FOR FRAUD--HE TRIES TO ESCAPE FROM THE OFFICER, AND IN DOING SO, SHOOTS W...

ED. M'GRAND, A TEXAS DESPERADO, SHOOTS AN INOFFENSIVE BOY NAMED JOHN WRIGHT, ON THE NORTH PLATTE--THE MURDERER GETS AWAY AND IS THOUGHT TO HAVE DISAPPEARED FOR GOOD--ACCIDENTALL...

BILL WHITE, A CANADA CROOK, AND "HANDSOME" LARNIGAN ARRIVE IN DENVER--A HEAVY ROBBERY AT THE BROADWELL HOUSE TRACED TO THEIR DOORS BY GEN. COOK--THEY ESCAPE JAIL AND WHITE LEAVE...

THE LAST OF THE MUSGROVE GANG--DUGGAN CAPTURED NEAR CHEYENNE AND RETURNED TO DENVER--HOW GEN. COOK OUTWITTED THE MOB--DUGGAN IS TAKEN FROM THE SHERIFF AND EXPIATES HIS CRIME FRO...

FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN FROM A SALOON SAFE ALMOST UNDER THE OWNER'S EYES--THE THIEF ESCAPES AND IS WELL GONE WHEN GEN. COOK GETS ON THE TRACK--A REWARD OF A THOUSAND DOLLAR...

ON THE TRACK OF THE ASSASSIN--A VISIT TO THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY--THE BODY OF BONACINA FOUND--SHOT WHILE SLEEPING--MEYERS' NATURALIZATION PAPERS REVEAL HIS NAME AND HIS PROBABL...

A STRANGE AND STARTLING DREAM WHICH PROVED TRUE--ALEX RAMSEY AND HIS HONORABLE CAREER IN HAYES CITY--PURSUIT OF A PAIR OF HORSE-THIEVES--HIS WIFE'S FOREBODINGS--HER TERRIBLE VIS...

FRED WELCOME, A FUGITIVE CRIMINAL FROM UTAH, APPEARS IN CHEYENNE--HE IS WANTED FOR THE MURDER OF J. F. TURNER, NEAR PARK CITY--THE VICTIM LURED FROM HOME THAT HE MAY BE KILLED F...

JOHN DOEN, A DESERTER, STEALS A HORSE FROM RUFUS CLARK, NEAR DENVER, AND GOES TO CHEYENNE--DETECTIVE CARR NOTIFIED BY GEN. COOK, AND BECOMES A PURCHASER OF THE STOLEN ANIMAL, AR...

THE LIVELY TIMES OF '76--HOW THE ROAD AGENTS BETWEEN CHEYENNE AND DEADWOOD FLOURISHED--AN ATTEMPT TO DITCH THE UNION PACIFIC TRAIN AT MEDICINE BOW BRIDGE, WHEREBY A HUNDRED LIVE...

THE WHOLE COUNTRY AROUSED--HUNDREDS OF ARMED MEN ON THEIR TRAIL--REYNOLDS BECOMES ALARMED AND BURIES A LARGE PART OF THEIR PLUNDER--THE PARTY ATTACKED IN CAMP--SINGLETARY KILLED...

A MURDERER FROM MISSISSIPPI IN COLORADO--A "NIGGER HUNTER" AND A BAD CITIZEN--$500 REWARD--THE R. M. D. A. HEARS OF GATES IN SILVER CLIFF, WHERE HE IS ARRESTED AND WHENCE HE ESC...

MORE OF MRS. RAMSEY'S DREAM--SHE STARTS TO FIND HER HUSBAND AND FINDS HER HORRID VISION VERIFIED--A TWO AND TWO FIGHT, WHICH RESULTS IN THREE DEATHS, MR. RAMSEY BEING ONE OF THE...

A COAL-OIL JOHNNY LOSES FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GREENBACKS IN PETROLEUM CENTRE, PENNSYLVANIA--HIS SAFE BLOWN OPEN WHILE HE IS AT SUPPER AND THE MONEY CARRIED AWAY--JAME...

BROUGHT TO JUSTICE AT LAST--WELCOME, OR HOPT, AS HE CALLED HIMSELF, GETS FOUR TRIALS--IS NOT ABLE TO BREAK THE WEB OF JUSTICE--CHOSE TO BE SHOT INSTEAD OF HANGED--HELD HIS NERVE...

On the 12th of the same month Schamle was taken to Georgetown by Sheriffs Ellis and Easley. It had been discussed on the streets and elsewhere that he was a proper subject for l...

THE LEADER OF THE AMISH SOCIETY OF IOWA DISAPPEARS AND IS MOURNED AS DEAD--HE LEAVES HIS HOME HEAVILY IN DEBT, BUT CARRIES THE CONFIDENCE OF ALL--WHEN LAST SEEN HE HAS TEN THOUS...

Such was a telegram received from Georgetown by Gen. Cook, on Saturday, the 15th day of December, 1877. Robert Schamle was a brute of a tramp who murdered an inoffensive man in...

Johnny Van Pelt, a cowboy, who used to make his headquarters at Alamosa, was as reckless a lad as ever punched cattle in southern Colorado, a region particularly known for its t...

HORSE-STEALING IN THE EARLY DAYS--GEORGE BRITT AND WILLIAM HILLIGOSS, AND SOME OF THEIR OPERATIONS--OFF WITH A RANCHMAN'S VALUABLE TEAM--GEN. COOK ON THE TRAIL, WHICH IS FOLLOWE...

THE FUGITIVES SURPRISED--THEY ARE INCLINED TO FIGHT, FINDING THEY ARE TWO TO ONE, BUT CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND SURRENDER--A LONELY RIDE--AN EFFORT TO KILL GEN. COOK WHILE ASLEEP F...

It would seem from the evidence and their own confessions that this band would surely be hung. But such a fate was not in store for them. On Saturday, December 4, 1875, the prel...

THE BAND REORGANIZED--ANOTHER RAID ON THE UNION PACIFIC AT ROCK CREEK BY A GANG OF SEVEN--THEIR PLANS SPOILED BY A TRAITOR--A SHERIFF NEGLECTS TO DO HIS DUTY, AND THE ROCKY MOUN...