St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-06
LINKED TO A DETECTIVE
While He Slept in a Pullman Palace
Car.
SUNK ILL-G0TTEN GAINS
After Committing Forgery, a Slippery
Scal0p's Money Disappeared in
Bad Venture.


the central police station just before
dawn yesterday morning, two of them
being detectives in charge of James III.
Porter, the Chicago forger, who is
wanted for defrauding the First Ma
tional Bank of Lake City of 1000. After
series of adventures the prisoner was
located at Portland, Or, and promptly
arrested by a Pinkerton detective, who
was aided by one of the detectives of
the Anglo-American Packing company.
There was no trouble experienced in
obtaining Porter. as the papers for his
eXtradition were regular, and no at
tempt was made to secure his release
on habeaS corpus as had been antici-
pated.
our man was broke when we captured
MIN, said the Chicago detective, land he
stated that he had lost his money in the
fur business at Astoria, where he was
engaged for some time before we located
MN. When Porter made up his mind
to leave the United States he sent his
family to Portland, when they adopted
another name and were very reticent
and held but little intercourse with
their nelghborS. Two of his sons, aged
sixteen and eighteen respectively, are
now at work in stores at Portland and
command pretty good weekly salaries
AS has already been stated, Porter went
TO Central America. and, after engaging
In business pursuits there for awhile, he
concluded to
RETURN TO THE STATES.
'ThS intention was.cemmunicated to
his family, and they moved from the
neighborhood where they were located
to more obscure part of the town.
Throughout this whole matter Mrs.
Porter has been actuated by desire to
| screen her husband as much as possible.
and she used every means at her dis
p0Sal to keep him out of our reach. But
the sons gave their right names to the
1lrmS employing them, and it was not
very difficult to locate the family after
this fact was aSeertained. Despite the
efforts made by his family to shield
Porter, he acted Shamefully towards
them and did not hesitate to abuse his
wife, even going so far as to charge her
with intidelity during his forced sojourn
abroad. But she bore his insinuations
patiently and enacted the role OF a good.
true wife to one Of the cleverest scamps
outside of prison bars. Knowing his
slippery disposition, after we arrested
MN we took every precaution to pre-
vent his escape, and during the jour
ney from Portland to st. Paul
one of us was constantly ironed
to our man, even at night when asleep.
But he seemed docile enough, and did
not give much trouble, stating that
when he reached Chicago he proposed
! make clean breast and trust himself
to the leniency of the officials of the
| FIRST National bank. whom he had de-
| frauded. He will have a tough row to
| hoe with them, am afraid, for they are
anxious to make an example Of him, and
especially as they have sure case
against him, according to
HIS UNSOLICITED ADMISSIONS.
yet our Journey eastward was not
without adventure, for we should have
reached st. Paul Saturday afternoon
with our man about 5 o'clock, but did
not arrive this morning about o'clock,
being nine hours behind time. We
came over the Northern Pacific, and the
first detention was at Lake City, caused
by the wreck of freight train, for
which we had to wait several hours
while the track was being cleared.
After studying the signboard at
Lake City for several hours
| another start was effected, but
near Brainerd we had to stop again.
This time our engine had broken the
eccentric, and the name seemed very
applicable, for another engine sent to
our relief met with similar accident.
These eccentricities cost several hours
more, and when we finally reached this
city we were pretty disguised and
played out.''
The officers left with their prisoner
for Chicago last evening, one of them
being handcuffed to him at the central
station before starting to the train.