St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-10
The Strange Mania of Prominent Young
Man for the Possession of Other
Peoples Property.
A Long List of Thefts Committed in
Chicago, Minneapolis and
Other Cities.
An Ohio Desperate DeIuged With
water from a Hose in the
Hands of Firemen.
rAce, Accused of Assault on Miss
AIdridge. Dismissed--A Dou-
bic Murder.
A Constitutional Crook.


CHICAGO. March "a prisoner at the
central police station, who is held there as
Z. Eg0ert Johnson, has been identified as
Homer l.. Andrews. a former postal clerk.
whose arrest in 1881 created a sensation.
Homer L.. Andrews entered the postOffice
When boy as stamp clerk His family
was excellent. He was a member of
blsnop Cheney's church, and sang in the
cholr there. A brother was in another de-
pdrthent or the Office, and an aunt held
pace Oh responsibility. She holds the same
place stu. a young girl in the registered
letter department, who was TranLIv ac-
knowledged by her associates To he the
prettlest girl in the government building.
was his f1ancee. On April 9, 1881, he was
seized Dy a postoftice Inspector and
searched. Letters were found in his
pockets, and he confessed that his stealings
had oeen going on for a long while. A
tremendous pressure was brought TO extri-
cate him. Even after his trial and convic-
ton Judge BlOdgett suspended his sentence
ninety days because a pardon was prom
lsed, and he was pardOned before he ever
entered on his term of punishment. While
he was at the Jail, and before his pardon
arrived,
THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL
WHO ndu Deen engaged to him married him.
"hen PRESIDENT Arthur released him an
uproar was made, but the matter was soon
forgotten. The prisoner had been, while in
tue poStofllce. attending the lectures at the
Rush Medical college. After his release he
graduated and went to Minneapolis to
practice his profession. This was the last
anybody who had known him here heard of
MN. IL Is learned now that Andrews led
tue pretty woman who had clung to him so
ueVOtedly terrible life. She found herself
tied 70 man attractive in mind and affec-
uOnate in disposition, but who could not
avoid crime. Together they went TO ST.
Louis, and there, while in the employ of
his uncle, he robbed him of 81. 900 worth of
lewelry. That charge was compromised.
in Minneapolis, shortly afterward, he was
found IN possession of a valuable lot Of
stolen billiard cloth, but his accomplice in
this theft was the son of rich man. They
were let go. He then went to stealing
horseS, and three times was arrested for
crimes OF this character. He never failed
to elude capture, or to
wRIGGLE OUT OF CONVICTION
after being caught. He was landed in the
station this time by the clever work of Pri-
vate Detective c. S. Stanley. He tried tn
borrow $50 on stolen horse from G, l..
Eaton & Co., and while Stanley was in
pursuit of him, and almost within reach Of
him, he leaped into buggy belonging to
Maxwell Bros, drove to w. H. Kings
Office at SO Madison street, and under the
name of G. a. Thompson, boldly asked for
loan on it. There Stanley caught up
with him and seized him. Quick as a flash
he flung into the fire the mortgage which
would undoubtedly have shown his guilt.
Inc pretty woman who clung TO him through
his hrst escapade is now the mother of three
children. She has never once been smirched
by any of mis- crooked doingS. but now she
IS oroken-hearted and discouraged. After
proving her devotion. when his and her
relatives had cast him off, she will now take
her little ones to the home of her husbands
mother.
Il Think" said Detective Stanley, THAT the
man mas passion for stealing. I believe
that he is most peculiar example of some
sort or psychologicol crookedness without
being crazy. He can't help being a criminal