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JH LLOCrt TIMES.
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It weti\d tni* more than fjve years
t'o coin alktlif/bullion in tliti United
States Treafchn, without an enlarge¬
ment of the lr< sent mint facilities.
Railroad management has become a
desireable line ol work for mem>er«
of the British ariAocracy, writes he
New York World,land there arc sever¬
al peer" of the Aalm who turn sub¬
stantial salaries thlt way.
Two Is mows Parisian pvisous will
shortly cease to exm. They:.jire the
RoqueUe, near Pert Lacliaine Ceme¬
tery, and the Prison of Ste. Pelngie,
with its sorrowful souvenirs of the
Reign of Terror, The Government
intends to build a large prison in their
stead.
In tin new army rifle, a loug taper
bug cartridge thirty caliber, is used.
Ht has a velocity of 2,000 feet the first
second. The rifle, with five cartridges
in the magazine, weighs about nine
pounds. A military authority says
powder will be noiseless us well as
smokeless soon and that all warfare
will be at long range.
Recent insurance statistics show
that the past year has been signalized
by an unusual number ol casualties.
The fatalities between May and Sep¬
tember are placed at 1,117, distributed
as follows : Falls, 71 ; drowning, 116 ;
from trolley cars, 44; burns, scalds
and explosions, 138; railroads, to
travelers on trains, 115; disaster,
atruck by train 56; struck by fallen
objects, 15; runaways, 8 ; run over on
street (besides trolley car accidents),
miscellaneous, 538. This list
does not embrace the 2,000 and more
victims of the storm that swept over
Grand Island, oft' the Gulf of Mexico,
does it include the list of the
dead and injured by the cyclone of
the West and South in 1898, prior to
May lol
James W. Sco.tt, the talented editor
"irSfAnrawKl lm»
great Chicago s public benelaetions
have been within the past few years.
There is the Crerar library, for which
$8,000,000 was left; the Armour insti¬
tute Las teen endowed ivitb $1,000,000
by Philip 1). Armour, aud he has only
begun to carry out liis plans in refer¬
ence to it. Marshal Field has just
given $1,000,000 for the Columbian
memorial museum, and the city has
been asked to contribute $500,000 ad
‘ditiona! for its endowment. Toward
this fund of $500,000 Mr. Leiter has
given $100,000, and several other gifts
of from $50,000 to $100,000 have also
•been made. Not long since ‘Diamond
Joe' Reynolds a well known river man,
left, an estate of $5,000,000 to found a
great polytechnic institute in Chicago,
*ud you know of the generous gift of
Mr. Rockefeller, amounting to nearly
$2,500,000, to establish and endow our
Chicago University.”
Among the persons killed in the
disaster at Battle Creek,Mich.,
not long ago, were Mr. and Mrs.
Charles E. Saxe. So far as the evi¬
dence showed both died instantly and
simultaneously. Nevertheless, accord¬
ing to the New York Herald, the ques¬
tion as to whether the man or the
died first is one of considera¬
importance to the heirs of both,
an inquiry is already afoot to dis¬
cover if possible whether there wa
calculable difference of time be¬
their deaths. If it could be de¬
monstrated, for instance, that the man
•was the first to die, his property would
pass to the heirs of his wife, whereas
if it were shoxvu, on the other hand,
that the wife died first, her estate
would fall to the heirs of her husband.
Considerable property is involved in
this question, and the ease is one of
peculiar interest. In cases involving
somewhat the same question of fact
the law has held that the woman,
being supposedly the weaker person,
would naturally be the first to expire.
In the present instance, however,
"where the death of the persons.appears
to have been simultaneous, the courts,
if it is brought before them, will en¬
counter a problem of peculiarly vexa¬
tious character.
HOWARD CONVICTED.
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He is Foiini Guilty as Ciarpi on EisM
Mctmsnts.
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His Friends Will Not Desert Him and
Will Ask for a New Trial.
A Jackson, Tenn., special says:
■‘Rev.” George Frederick Dug-erne
Howard, the great foreign claim
swindler, was found guilty as charged
on the eight indictments, and he will
do time at the United States prison,
at Columbus, O., unless the su¬
preme court of the United States to
which he appeals, reverses the decision
>f the lower court. The verdict of
tae jury has said the defendant, under
hit various aliases, is guilty, and the
gexeral public upholds it. The sen
tente, however, is a small one, com
parel with the magnitude of his crime
and the large territory over which he
operated. Thousands of deluded, il¬
literate people have been taken in by
Howard.
The ctse went to the jury at 8 o’clock
Tuesday night. They brought in a
verdict cf guilty Wednesday morning’
in all the twenty-two counts set forth
in the indictment.
The result was not a surprise to the
public. The defendant and his wife
received the news coolly, and it did
not seem to take them by surprise in
the least. N
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Howard’s remarkable history.
No more remarkable case has come
up in recent years to puzzle the de¬
tectives of two continents than that of
the Rev. G. F. B. Howard, alias a half
dozen other names, whose trial has just
closed at Jackson, Tenn.
Howard has been known in this
country as a straggling Baptist minis¬
ter, president of a denominational col¬
lege, editor of a religious paper and
railroad president. It was sought in
the trial of his case to show that while
nominally following the peace-voca¬
tions stated he really was engaged in a
systematic and elaborate scheme of
villainy requiring the arts of a practi¬
cal schemer and the adaptability of a
polished man of the world. The op¬
erations with which he was charged
have been carried into thousands of
homes in Amerioa, while in England
leading statesmen and dijilomats have
been used unwittingly to themselves,
but with great effeet by the shrewd
manipulator; and during the fruitless
trial just ended witnesses whose names
are familiar ia public affairs in both
all - ° ° x
pear in parts of this country post¬
ers having the typographical appear¬
ance of English prints, which were
displayed in conspicuous places, gen¬
erally in the postoffices in rural locali¬
ties, and which bore a long list of sur¬
names which were represented to be
the names of families to whose scions
in America belonged estates of more
or less value which were unclaimed in
England. The posters advised the
connections of such families to write
to “William Lord Moore, 5 Ingersoll
road, Shepherd’s Bush, London,
Eng.,” on the chance that they might
be the heirs to such estates.
These posters were mailed from New
York to postmasters in all parts of
America. The postmasters were told
that if they hung up the notice in
their office they would receive $1,000
in cash in case any of these heirs came
into an estate through seeing it. This
offer was signed “Felix Howard, 15
University street, London.” Appli
cants were requested to address the
latter, inclosing 25 cents for reply, and
they were told “we charge nothing for
reply.”
Thousands of answers were sent
from all parts of America. These
correspondents did not hear again
from “Felix Howard,” but from “A.
Goodfellow, 5 Friars’ street, Black
friar’s street, S. E. London.”
HOW THE SCREW WAS TURNED.
The ancestors of a very large per
cent of the people in this country
came from the “old country,” and if
the hope of acquiring a large fortune
were not sufficient to attract the coin
from many such, the anticipation that
they would be found to be connected
with the landed gentry of Great
Britain was an additional inducement
for them to yield a few dollars on the
venture. How many people reached
at the alluring bait will never be
known, but they numbered up in the
tens of thousands. The expense was
made light at first, then came further
information from London and further
demands for cash. Very few of those
who yielded to the first call for pash
failed to respond when subsequent re¬
quests came, especially as each r equest
was accompanied with significant
though vague intimations that every¬
thing was moving smoothly. There
were bonds to be made, stamps to be
purchased and other incidental cash
expenditures which the heirs-expeetant
were required to meet. Each applicant
was mulched to sums not less than $100.
“William Lord Moore” and “Felix
Howard” cut into the correspondence
auite frequently.
SQUEEZING THE DUB®.
Finally would come a letter like
this: SIxgersoll Road, Shepard J iBusH,
No Eng Juii 22, 1892.
Loudon. .
Mrs.- : Dear M»Uam— l liaje the pleas
nre of informing you that our clain in gained.
The court will allow from thirty ti ninety days
low • o claps# other before person notifying who you may inj fish order to claim to al¬
any do but after :hat time they
the property to 60.
will be forever barred- So as you will bo noti¬
fied by tho court some time afar thirty days
that, the property iB yours, I wofid advise you
not to be absent from home ft days, any lengthy
period during the next ninety or until
you get the notice. As soon as you are in
possession I will send in my bill* Looking af
ter the claim has used me up aid I will take a
rest for a month or nix weeks at a health resort
so it will be useless for you to write until yon
get a letter from me, unless yoi write immedi¬
ately. I'he property gained is worth about
$2,000,000, you# Loud truly, Moore.
William
In due time the claimant received
the following communication from
New York.
Dominion Bureau, 451 8th Avenue.
New Y"Rk. September 15, 1892.
Mrs.---, Dear Madame^By order of the
court I inclose a copy of the decree in your fa¬
vor. Send me the $35 by registered letter, bo
that I can make my report at once f s directed.
The only other way of raiding the money would
be bv selling the property for taxes at a ruin¬
ous sacrifice. Yours respectfully, J9sepb Ledger.
Following is a sample of the decree:
sunuorl court chanceey.
Whereas, the decree heretofore made iu fa¬
vor of Mrs.--is her. by confirmed and the
ti:l°8 of the property declared vested in the
said $4rs.--forever, no person having ap¬
peared in the time specified to dispute said ti¬
tle, wherefore the official representative of this
court, to wit: Joseph Led.pr. vt present in
America, is hereby commanded to notify the
said Mrs.-, and after receiving the taxes on
legacies and bequests to issue possession papers
and to report to this court at once.
(Signed.) De Longue, Chancellor.
August 29. 1892.
Amount of taxes. United States money, $35.
(Seal.) G. NY. Kawunis, Assessor.
the police take a hand.
The real cause of Williim’s retire¬
ment to a watering place was not so
much fatigue, the result of the ardu¬
ous labors in “looking up this claim,’’
as the fact that the London police had
been apprised of his little scheme to
rob the unsophisticated. A letter to
one of the claimants from the Scotland
Yard authorities says tint “William
Lord Moore,” alias “Felix Howard,”
was a swindler, and left England fo.r
America about the time Joseph Leger
began to figure in New York. About
the same time the United States post
office department learnel of the oper¬
ations of the gang in Nev York. Ever
on the alert, the schemers got wind of
an intended arrest and decamped
hurriedly. of letters
An examination of scores
written by “William Lord Moore,”
“Felix Howard,’’“JosephLeger,” “E.
Ross” and others concerned in the
conspiracv showsj^hf® the text of it all
is about the same. They were all die
thk W by the name person. Soma of
ijae
required, hut many or them did, and
enough money was paid to aggregate
probably seven hundred thousand dol¬
lars for the schemers.
HOWARD AS A LAWYER.
About this time the Rev. G. F. B.
Howard arrived in- Jackson, Tenn.,
where he had formerly lived and occu¬
pied a conspicuous position. He hung
out his shingle as a lawyer. He was a
learned man and had traveled exten¬
sively. He had some success at the
practice of law in Jackson, but he de¬
voted himself more particularly to
arousing the interest of the citizens of
that place to a railroad enterprise, the
Gulf and Tennessee railroad project
which had been agitated long before,
but never brought to a focus. Dr.
Howard went at the business energeti¬
cally. He went to England to interest
capitalists in it. He organized the
company and was himself made presi¬
dent, after which he established elabo¬
rate offices at Jackson, with many
clerks and assistants,
Although making a specialty of col
lections Dr. Howard did not permit
his railroad enterprise to lag, but got
the matter to such shape that the citi
zens of Jackson were about to vote on
a proposition to give the road a cash
bonus of $60,000 in order to secure it;
but some events transpired which
brought these affairs to an abrupt ter¬
mination.
AT THE END OF HIS ROPE.
Some of the gillies who had been
biting continually at the English estate
scheme from the time it was first sprung
in London began to make inquiries re¬
garding Howard. The federal author¬
ities were interested in the case. Es¬
pionage was placed upon his actions,
his business and his mails. He went
to Chicago early last August, and while
away his office was searched by officers
armed with a warrant, and such dis
coveries were then made that the Chi
cago police were notified to arrest
Howard in that city, which instructions
were carried out and Howard was con
fronted with fraud and illegal use of
the United States mails, the purport of
which was to the effect that G. F. B.
Howard, William Lord Moore, Joseph
Leger, E, Ross and Felix Howard are
one aud the same individual
Endorsed the Wilson Bill.
The Clothing Cutters’ Association
No. 7954, Knights of Labor, at Chica¬
go Friday night adojited resolutions
endorsing the Wilson bill in its entire¬
ty, and earnestly praying congress
for its speedy adoption; also, endorsing
the income tax on all incomes exceed¬
ing $4,000 as equitable and as a means
of relieving the non-possessing class
and placing a tax on whom it belongs,
the opulent.
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