The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-06-25
ROBBED HIS UNCLE.
THE STORY YOUNG WALLACE TELLS
AFTER HIS scJouRN IN CUBA.
Details OF Some tf the Doinss'.of Lively
Iouns!Nfan

Young Robert II. Wallace and lg-
paz. Batch Lowitz, who robbed WaN
lace's uncie and employer John d
Wallace, proprietor of Wallaces
Monthly, o; $4,000 III bonds and fed
TO Havana, were brought back yes
se-day by Inspector Bsrnes detect
ives Thomas Adams and Robert Nc
Naugh:, and locked up at police
headquarters. Wallace toldssthe IN
speceor remarkable story OF his
downfall and fight wita Lowitz.
One day last October Wallace SAID
he met Lowitz IL the corridor OF the
Stewart building, where the sotfices
of Wallace's Monthly are, and Low
itz asked him to cash . $50 check
s2c him. Wallace casheG the check,
vhich was on the Woonsocket Silk
dil; Company, and was signed Il.
". Watts. Wallace sent the check
70 the bank, and before he had time
to hear from the bank Lowitz asked
him to cash similar check for 5000.
Wallace accommodated him. The
next day the first check came back
toWaEace marked worthless: Wal
lace says that when he asked Lowltz
to make good the checks Lowitz said
that he had lot of diamonds IN d
pawn shop, and that if Wallace
would advance the money to redeem
the stones he would sell them and
more thanrepay Wallace. Wallace said
that he gave Lowitz check for 81
100. Lowitz redeemed the diamonds
and sold u few Of them, but did not
repay lin any part Of the $3.50 be
had advancetll him Oh the bogus
checks. Then Lowitz said to him:
You are in a box, my boy. But
I'm going in the booknakng busl-
ness, &nd Will soon be able to repay
you
Wallace says thst Lowitz had no
luck. but told him OF a ''sure thing,
on which he wanted to bet s., SOC.
Wallace told him that he could give
him no more checks, as the money
had run out. Then Lowitz, Wallace
saws, showed him how he could SWIM
de ms Uncle out Of $4,000 without
being discovered. He told Wallace
10 snow his uncle two checks. one Tor
s. and the other for S., and when
he had signed the 81 check to slip
along one for S2.500 and he would
sign 1t without reading it. The ruse
worked and Wallace cashed the check
and gave $4,000 to Lowitz to invest
in the races.
Lowitz reported in few days that
ne had lost the money, and Wallace
SAYS he then told Lowitz that he had
ruined him. Lowitz consoled him
by telling him that the best thing they
could do was to make another bold
strike and run away.
s:You have keys Of the safe deposit
Box where your uncle keeps his
bonds, Lowitz said to him Rob
the box and We VIII leave this town
behind us.
Wallace, according to his own sto-
ry, thought over the proposition for
several days. He saw no way out Of
the trouble he had brought upon
himself, and concluded to take the
final step. Lowitz accompanied him
to the Bankers and Merchants safe
deposit vaults, but remained IN the
street. Wallace took,S35, 900 In bonds
out Of the box and joined Lowitz
in the Cafe Savarin. They fon2d
broker who hypotheeated eight 81
900 bonds with Vel7nilyea & Co., and :.
$4,000 of Jersey Central bonds1a
$1,000 OF Chicago, Buringeon s.
Quincy bonds at a plassin Wall
street where a bg2ser OF Lowitz
works.
They She Astor Bouse,and
y 3 sIsgsce senS for his mistress, Sadie
assszEssls,to whom they n5rusteG the
0ads while they Knocked around
.sown tnat evening.
They boarded the Havana steamer
at night and bought their tickets on
board. Wallace sailed under the
name of E. A. Collins, and Lowitz
took the name of 6. B. Lewis. AS
the steamer was nearing Havana,
Lowitz told Wallace that it was not
unlikely that he would be arrested
upon reaching their destination, but
that it would be an easy matter t.
secure his release. He then directed
to Wallace q statement eNonerat
inc himself from all blame in the
robbery. Wallace signed the pa
per.
IL Havans they deposited $4,000
In bonds and $4,000 Ii money with
J. Il. Vanza & Co., and received a
receipt which they deposited in the
safe of the Hotel Passage. The next
day they were arrested. They en-
gagged Lawyer Miguel Gerner to de
fend them and upon his recommen-
dation Wallace raid 5000 to R. N.
TaIrafa, runner for the hotel, to
abstract the receipt from the safe
and bring it TO him. Then Genner
told them that for $4,000 ne could
get the bonds and money at Vanza's,
and Wallace gave him $4,000. Then
Genner told his clients that he want
ed $4,000 for his services. He warn
ed Wallace that It was a very serious
offence in Havana to bEibe an officer,
and unless the money was paid to
him they'd get in further trouble.
Wallace gave Gennet $1,000 IN cash
and TWO $1,000 Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific bonds.
Frank McInerney, an American
merchant who was q prisoner IN the
Jail, told Wallace that he had better
get his bonGsbefore Genner disposed
of them, and Wallace did So
Detectives Adams and Mcknight
arrived in Havana on May Goth and
learned Of Genner's transaction.