The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-30

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y y ,, $500, 'S ;to,,iSc,,' OAGE, that
the currency OF Samo aa
presentations 4, ORA vi ot On tboso
ith the bank Tor So; dsrcsitsJ
as accepied This ANU UNI SE hon from ron;
correct, ana suoIvE ition proved to
rnlng deposits le'ie renGcrlp kilograms con.
,nk that ColemitaxeS at thdent O'Connor IN
ispiiclon. ON tfmakmg Sanding was above
ith the D Map .siness, he V depo cs ted
i,M Tor, bank draft for
.a , non t;om the PARK
olemah va of this city. As
5a Si% on ,r rsaSe np person
eceiylr nded Tor collection After
nd " money Coleman disappeared
anA n was returned by Ihe pnrk
u tSed worthless" Inquiry WAS
t Cl Sat Norfolk. Virginia, and The
Y Ghtroductlon, believed TO have been
> DIZZY Cashier Bains, was declared 10
Eilliul forgery. Then the Character of
!! glyYnnn became plain, and the circulars
'''' TlolhE hlm were sent 10 the police of
principal cities of this country.
ACTION ny THE POLICE
4 Vh Monday night Inspector Byrnes or.
Hered coleman arrest, and he was accord
mEy taken INTO custody in eddie
Mathews saloon. President O'Connor,
VINO, on several occasions, had converscd
with Coleman, positively identified the
prisoner, who gave his name as John Stew.
art. He said that he was so wears old and
refused to tell his residence. When taken
before President O'Connor, Stewart, alias
Coleman, remained perfectly cool, and bv
his conduct convinced Inspector Byrnes
that he was an old offender. liz
was yesterday taken to the Jefferson Market
police court, and at the request of his can
tors, Detectives Won Gerchten and VIII.
liamson, was remauded to the police cen.
trail Office to await the arrival of the ncCes.
slry requistion papers. Stewart, alias Cole
man was pointed out TO most OF the deteC-
tive force last evening, but none of them
ever remembered having seen him
before. Detective Sergeant Dorsey, how.
ever, thought he knew the prisoner, and
when he saw HIM walk across the floor of
the detective bureau, he felt satisfied that
he had once met him.
THINKING OVER 1T.
When Stewart was taken back to his cell
Dorsey remained in the office rackiug his
bruins to remember, if possible, under
what circumstances he mad encountered the
prisoner. He recalled many things which
mad taken place during the past few years
and at last brOu hit Stewards alias Cole.
mans face back to his recollection. Jack
Cannon, Il criminal OF some note, early in
1879, attempted to sell at the baul ing
house OF preVel Morgan Il Co., IN Phila.
delphia, several bonds which had been
| stolen from the Manhattan bank when its
vaults were pluudered by the Hopes and
| their COniederates, OctOSer y, 1873, Dorsey
I ut a., nt,,t,l.l
| phia to prosecute Cannon, and as result
Cannon was sentenced to fifteen years inn
prisonment. While Cannon's trial was in
progress Defective Dorsey visited Cherry
! Hill prison, and while there talking with
! Superintendent Jones learned that there
was a mysterious prisoner, found guilty OF
| burglary, in one of the cells Dorsey was
| shown the convict, but could not identify
| him That prisoner was Stewart, alias
Coleman, the "layerdown."
When informed that he had been rccog.
nizcd, Stewart admitted that he had done
that" in Cherry Hill and that he had been
only out of prison seven months. lie said
that the burrows in his fingers had been
made by the hard work he had done while
in jail.
| ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
The New York sun of the same date has
the following account of the arrest
A postal card from the president of The
City National bank OF Dallas, Texas, came
to lnspect"7 Byrnes. ON December 18th
1t rected It the bank had been defrauded
of $500 cleyerly forged draft, and that
the mr. had committed the fraud
called II George Coleman. An uu
usuP ate description Of Coleman
was he postal card. 10 specified
amt hings that he had blue marks
on his right hand.
:, ion was given to Detective
~ 'liord and Dusenbury, and
in ~, hey reported that u man gen
err Wng the description was In the
city. Ag in the habit of visiting tn,
liquor 81 at Dey and Greenwich
streets Ao notorious thief and iorger
Then he diss, ppeared, but early in Janu
airy reappcared, and associated with Georg,
Wilkes, one of the members of Pete Burns
famous gang Of forgers, who were arrested
in Florence, Italy, and most of whom dice
III Italian prisons.
On learning of this, Inspector Byrncs re
placed Detectives Radford and Dusenbury
with Detective Sergeants Williamson ant
Cosgrove. as being less likely to be known
to the men who were being watched. Tn,
two now men followed The suspected forger
and learned that his haunts were the Del
street saloon, Red Leary saloon in twenty
"ird street, Eddy Mathews's saloon il
s., cond avenue, Tom Diapers in Sixth ave
nue. and some rcpuied gambling houses
and similar resorts. The detectives coulC
not get look ut his hands. Last Thurs
day night they Swallowed thei
man and Eddy Mathews from
the latter's saloon n, SeconC
avenue and Twenty.seyenth street, to Har
rgan a Hart's theatre, and succeeded IN
getting seats Just behind them. Matthews
companion sat at first with his overcoa
and gloves on, but soon the warmth Of tn,
theatre led him to remove the coat. A
last he took 6M, his gloves. The detective
leaned over and saw the blue marks on tn,
back OF his right hard. The marks ar
marks of India ink, fori2ing no particua
design, but sufficiently disNnct to hav'
caught the eye OF the Texas cishler Us I'M
hand graspcd the banks money. ~.
! The detectives reported, Inspector byyrne
| tclegraphed TO President Connor of the iRl
las bank, and President Common arrived il
this city on Monday evening. About
O'Clock the same evening Williamson anC
| Won Gerichten arrested the supposed Cole
man in Mathews har.room. Mr.. Common
unhestatingly identified him as the mar
who swindled the bank, and Detective Ser
geant Dorcey recognized him as an ex-con
vict. The prisoner described himself a.
John Stuart, 10 years old, but refused L
give his residence.
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