Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-02-08
He's Known to the Authorities by
Nine s'Aliases''-His Real
Name is Crawford.
Has Five Living Wives and Three
Daughters, Respectively Aged
8, IL and 20 Years.
A Complete Description of the Cum
ming Rascal Who Has
''Worked" the World.
Wanted in Boston.

AS the days pass, further Developments
regarding Gen. A. B. Ward come to light.
The following from the Jamestown Alert:
The sensational reports in the st. Paul
and Minneapolis papers concerning the
disappearance Of Gen. A. B. Ward of
Grand Forks, took the acquaintances of
that gentlemen here completely by sur
prise to-day. "Gen." Ward made many
admirers here last summer during the re-
publican convention when he eloQuently
championed his measures and sat down
upon other men and measures in most
effective way. He was favorite from
the start, and if the reports are true, has
acted part most admirably, and fooled
all the old timers in Dakota who knew
him.
The following circular sent to Chief of
Police Ford, has been lying around his
Office for several weeks, and read by good
many who little dreamed that the distin-
guished gentleman referred to was one of
Dakota's most prominent and polished pol
iticians whose friendship was being
courted, and whose influence feared. A
cut of the man wanted appears in the cor.
ner OF the circular, and it is claimed to
greatly resemble General ward. This pic
ture shows the face with a heavy mus
tache, which the Dakota gentleman has
had recently shaved clean.
Some time last summer The Alert re-
ceived private communication from SpO-
kane Falls, w. T., which gave a descrip-
tiOn of the way certain party had skipped
out. deSerting wife and leaving many
creditors to mourn. The letter also stated
that the party had located in Dakota but
gave no name. The name he went under
in Spokane, was A. B. WadswOrth. The
following is the police circular referred to:
$25OO REWARD!
For any information which leads to the
arrest of Samuel Oakley Crawford.
ALIAS
Eugene Samuel Bouvier Walton,
MAJOR Eugene B0uvier,
Eugene BOnrer.
E. r. Banne1ton, /.
Mons Bennateau,
Major Horace Oakley Wood,
Arthur Wood,
w. D. Wood,
Arlington Buckinham WadswOrth,
Or any other name or combination of the
above. Has been lawyer, banker, po-
list, st,lltterateur, mining specnlatOr and organ
lZer, bigamist, and confidence man gener-
ally.
Has operated as an expert in New York,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illi-
neis. Wisconsin, Texas. Utah. Kansas,
Washington territory.
Is wanted on $4, 600 forgery, on an in
dictment for larceny after trust, and for
money obtained under false pretenses, also
on a bail bond surrender. He has five living
wives. and three daughters, respectively
aged eight, twelve and twenty years. Two
wives have procured divorces on the ground
of desertiOn.
Is about 48 to 80 years, 5 feet, z inches or
over; 140 to $50 pounds. varied by his bleed
ing at the lungs; without beard when last
seen. Usually he has a good sized grayish
moustache. slightly clipped in front, with
SRwsd sm5g ends %e 9agR 9sWn gas e @ a
over outside edge Of right eve eve.
and worn of a medium length.
Steel blue, grayish and expressive eyes,
(he occasionally wearing eye glasses) per-
feet teeth, showing plainly when speaking:
with fine address; we'll informed and self
possessed.
Neat dresser; claims great intimacy with
prominent public men, and exhibits first
class credentials from high officials, under
their respective seals.
Claims to have been wounded during the
late war, by fragment of a shell upon the
which gives him the appearance Of being
slightly lame or knock-kneed. He has q
scar or mole on his right side, near the
fourth rib. with another scar on the left
side, about midway between his elbow and
shoulder. Wears about No. shoe and a
No. 8 glove.
Was q private in Co. B, 5th N. Y. heavy
artillery in 1894 and '65: smokes the hest