A. I guess that is a brick (witness takes out a brick wrapped up in paper); that is what he would get for his 650 dollars; for a 300 dollar deal he would get half a brick; for 10,000 dollars it would have to be heavier than for a less amount.--Vol. iii., pp. 2,575-6. In connection with McNally’s gang there was an Art Gallery fitted up adjoining a saloon used sometimes as McNally’s headquarters. The chief feature of this Art Gallery was a great number of pictures representing treasuries filled with all kinds of money. “Here,” said the Steerer to the Guy, “is the picture of what you will get in reality.” The effect upon his imagination of these painted representations of enormous treasure in gold and silver predisposed the victim to part freely with his money, and believe the plausible friends who so kindly proposed to point out to him so short a cut to a fortune. McNally had a private carriage also, with a footman in livery. “The carriage racket,” as it was called, was thus described by Applegate:-- Q. Now, proceed and describe the operations of the carriage? A. Well, previous to the steerer and the guy coming to the carriage, there would be a satchel put there, a little red satchel. Q. In the carriage? A. In the carriage, with a brick and paper in it; there would also be two or three satchels without anything in it on the seat of the carriage. Walter Haines would get in with the guy. Walter Haines would have the money in the bag, the bank roll, and he would put the money in the satchel, a duplicate satchel to the one that had the brick in it; he would put the money in the satchel, and after the guy had paid Haines his money so--we never received theirs before we gave them ours, and after he made the deal and everything was all right, Haines would say, “I will go to the depôt,” and the steerer would grab the satchel and run out, and Walter Haines would slip the money in the cab, and Haines would say, “The steerer will go with you,” and he would go away with the steerer. Q. Were there any cases in which they discovered the fraud before they left the State? A. No, we worked kind of snug; when we were working the carriage racket we worked a little on the snug. Q. What is that? A. We did not have the protection we ought to have had, and the steerer then would have to go with the guy and keep the satchel and see the guy on the train, and, after he got on the train, he didn’t care a darn where he went. Q. And he did not have the facilities as in the turning joint? A. No, sir; we would not give him the satchel until he got on the train, and would say, “We will give you this at the proper time and place.” Q. Weren’t you in the habit of giving to the guy keys? A. No; we generally threw the key away and told him to cut it open; not with the satchel; with the box we gave him keys.