The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-31
CAUGHT AT LAST.
The Adventures of a Confidence
Man.

The STAR of last week contained 9
| OF two young men in the East End. Ont
of them, it will be remembered, namet
VIM. Reed was captured, but his com
panion escaped. He has at last come to
grief through the untiring exertions o
Lieutenant Minshall and Officers Kline,
Weaver and lloyd, of the Fulton Police
District,s ,sall of whom deserve the thanks
OF a bull-1ozed cOmmunity,as the depre.
datious of the adventurers were becom.
ing alarming.
The companion OF Reed was young
man named Geo. Anschuiz, With dozen
aliases. He seems to have been the mOsl
daring and persevering OF the two, and
prosecuted mis- work IN beating lncred-
ulous citizens and business men under
various assumed names. Atone place,
August Dicks dry goods store, he ig-
ured as a son-sn.law of Mr. Tudor, the
weG-Hnown manufacturer, ON the
strength OF which he made raise ol
several yards OF waterproof stuff. Next
he called at all the drug stores on East.
ern aVenu and tried to raise So by Civ
ing the num9 OF well-Snown citizens as
reference.
At one place he was a member Of the
Anderson family; at another he was
Lewis Glenn, jr., then again lie sporteG
tile name of q. d. Elliott;' then again he
was the superintendent OF the East aud
West Eud Street Railroad line. AT 6
clock store al the corner of Third and
Parson streets he had so ingratiatet I
himself with the proprietor that he made
Tue raise Of teE-iollar clock, and was
Iu hr klL IA
the discovery that the horse and buggy
which he drove up to the door haG
walked off.
Then he changed his base from the
East End and tackled Central avenue
From MIR. Jesse Russell, the flour mer.
chant, opposite the City Hospital. he
extracted So, on the representation that
ne WIS son of DR.. Judkins. Dropping
down to Mrs. Dry1oos' he wanted tC
borrow $25, in the role OF Merrill, the
druggisL's. son. He failed to get any
thing here, saying he'd call again. AT
Hume's grocery, ON Wesley avenue and
Clark, he also failed to get a loan, al
though he claimed 10 be brother OF Nj.
Schroeder, lew doors away.
BY this time the trail Of the festive
Anschutz was getting warm, and Lieu
tenant Minshall ana his buys" were
drawing CloSos Ills CApbuIe db ldSb was
effected through the instrumentality OF
his young ana pretty wife, vino, uncon-
scious oil. the fact, furnished the clue
which will rid the city of bold and
dashing confidence man.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Anschutz
called at the Police Court tor the pur.
pose of engaging counsel tor the part
ner OF her nusband-Rsed-who was in
the clutches OF the law. He is het
cousin. Officers Kline and Weaver
dressed as tramps, followed the lady as
she left the Court room. Her route was
east on Ninth to Race, north OH Race 70
the canal, from thence to CLARK, and
down Clark to No. 160 Linn street,
where, oyer the store of Mrs. Antonio,
the couple hal room.
The house was spotted" and las
night Kline and Busker, the latter ON
duty in that locality, visited the place
again and searched the house, much
against the will oil the fair proprie tress
tney failed to find any oil the pIundei
which has been taken but were rejolced
to see the slippery Anschutz himself
issue forth clad in his night dress en-.
deavoring to make his exit by side
entrance.
He was caught, however, and was
brought this morning before the Chief oi
Police, who, after cross-questioninp
him some what, remanded him to a cell
in the Ninth-street Station-house, from
where he will be brought before judge
Lindemann tomorrow morning TO an.
swer several charges OF false pretenses.
The prisoner says mis- real ngm, is A,
Is. Lisle, ana that he vas bvin aad
raised in Philadelphia.