JIM CUMMINGS

OR

THE GREAT ADAMS EXPRESS ROBBERY

With a portrait of the notorious Jim Cummings and
illustrations of scenes connected with the great robbery

By Frank Pinkerton

Vol. I, March 1887.
The Pinkerton Detective Series,
issued monthly,
by subscription, $3.00 per annum.

Chicago




CHAPTER I.

THE CONSPIRATORS--THE FORGED LETTER--THE PLAN.


In the rear room of a small frame building, the front of which was
occupied as a coal office, located on West Lake street, Chicago, three
men were seated around a square pine table. The curtains of the window
were not only drawn inside, but the heavy shutters were closed on the