Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-15
Charles H. MouIten in London,

EE SURRENDERS HIMSELF TO THE POLICE.
A cable dispatch from London last evening
says: AT the Bow street police court on Sat
urday. Charles III, Moulton, an attorney and
real estate agent OF Washington. ID. c., was
brought before the chief magistrate, charged
under the extraditiOn treaty with forging and
altering proEissory note for $lS,0D. 1t ap-
Salop cOnstaSulary that the prisoner had given
himself up TO The police and made statement
before county magistrate at Shifual. The
With obtaining money by false pretenseS at
WashIngiO on and admitted to bail; that he did
not render himself, but escaped to England
and had since been travelling about the coun-
try, in the Liverpool, Welsh, and Shropshire
districts. He was now destitute and had re-
solved TO go to the United States. In answer
10 lnter0gatorIeS, the prisoner said he was not
The forged i . L., etc, having been put in, the
prisoner was committed for the usual fifteen
days, preparatory to his removal to Anne, lea"
hOULTON's CAREER IN WASHINGTON.
MOultOn was formerly clerk in the Second
Auditors office and afterwards a grocer on
18th street northwest, but embarked in the real
estate business and was supposed at one time
TO he doing the leading business here as real
estate agent and note broker. In September
1876, he left his Office, in the basement of LIE
DrOit building on + and Sth Streets and on
his creditors making inquiries and examining
thelr securities number found them to be
worthless. Monlton was followed by DR..
IranSue. one OF his creditors, to Richmond,
and thence to Petersburg, Va, where the pur-
suer lost the trail of the pursued and returned
to tins city without him. 1t WAS mentioned at
the tllne that MoRtOn'S creditors lost as high
as $4,000 by his defalcatiOn. and efforts were
made 10 get clue TO his whereabouts, but it
was not until January following that he re-
turned To the city, and then i'm as mysterious a
manner he left it. Efforts were made to as
certain where he had been, but he declined to
give any information, but promised that he
his creditors. Francis Profit. of 9TH street.
one of the creditors. on the 3lSt of January
procured a warrant charging Moulton with
having. on the 18th of September previous. OBJ
tanned s. $50 from him by false pretences-by
means of a check drawn by him (Houlton) on
the Second National Bank, where he had no
funds. On this warrant MOultOn was arrested
and committed to jail to await trial. A few
days afterwards, PROFIT, on going to the jail
and interviewing MOultOn. concluded to go on
his bond. Moulton promised, if he got out, to
arrange with his creditors by transferring his
property, and Profit, with G. T. Chase, John
Fl. McDaniels and III. III. Talmadge went on
the bond. MouitOn was then released, but by
the time the grand jury found bill against
HIM M0ulton had again left. At the June term
OF the Criminal Court another Indictment was
found charging him with having forged The
name OF Milton Ford to note for SIS, and a
bench warrant was issued OH it, but it was re-
turned, Not to be found.
Some months since the sureties on the bond
MI Profit in particular-cOmmenced inquiries
as to the Whereabouts of MOultOn. and ascer-
tanning that he had left the country, cOmmu-
nleatlOn was had with the detective officers of
t-'ioPS., P"i tiCudiiy Will the ocOlIdilu yaTu
force. 1t was ascertaned that after having
spent some time in England he went to France
and TO Spain, but finding it difficult to get
along in the latter place he returned to Paris.
and subsequently TO England. Mr.. PrOtt about
two months since went to England with a bail
piece to apprehend him. and, after spending
two Wee ks in London, he failed to find his
man. andreturned, reaching home in Deem
Der. The only tidings he got of him was from
a former WaShingtOnian, who about three
weeks before had seen him i'm London Mr..
PrOtt left the papers with justice, as also a
patch above, Charley MoultOn has surrendered,
and he will likely be returned herein the early
part of next month