St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-26
ADEPT AT ALIASES.
A Gay Young Man, With Many
Deserted Wives to
Mourn,
Sought in st. Paul by the
Father Of His Latest
Victim.
A Possibility That He Is Well
Known in Fast Life
Here.
He, or His Double, Has Been
Employed by a Daily
Paper.

Kale w. Lane, alias Watson, alias
Coleman and variety of other names,
is a badly-wanted man. Lane has at
different times in the past seven or
eight years resided in Omaha, Kansas
City. and other towns in the West, and
has been known in each under diff
ferent title. He is an EngliShman about
thirty years old, described as of en-
gazing and gentlemanly manners and
attractive appearance. His record, as
given by Morris Delaney, of Kansas
City, to the GLOBE yesterday, reads like
the verieSt romance, and makes the
daShing BritiSher one of the principals
to almost as many marriages during his
somewhat brief career in the United
States. as he has hairs in the slight
blonde mustache gracing his upper
lip. Delancey'S interest in the
career and present whereabouts
of Lane is explained in that a
neice of his, Miss Lizzie Hynes, of
LeavenwOrth, Kan, was inveigled into
marriage with the man, who was sub
sequently discovered by an accident
and proved by letters found in his pos
session to be very much married. What
Lanes real name is, it is impossible to
determine, but it is asserted that he
first showed up in Topeka, Kan, in
1882, and appeared at that time to be
pretty we'll fixed financially. He pur
chased farm of 160 acres near Topeka,
and worked it one summer, but owing
crop and sold the land i'll the spring
at a loss. He went to Kansas
City, where he met young lady, en-
plOyed at that time as telegraph oper-
atOr, to whom he made vigorous love,
and who, after brief engagement, con-
scented to marriage. After living i'll
great style at the best hotels for about
three months Lane
Deserted His Bride
and went to the Pacific coast, the wife
subsequently obtaining divorce on the
ground of desertion and being now the
wife of saloonkeeper in Kansas City.
OF Lanes career at the coast there is no
record, but in the fall of 1855, learning
of his freedom from the matrimonial
yoke, he returned and went to work in
Omaha as check clerk in the baggage
department for the Omaha railway.
Soon after arriving i'll Omaha
Lane, who was then travelling
as Walter Coleman, WOoed and won
for his bride a Miss Alice Daycres,
daughter of reputedly wealthy mer-
chant of Louisville, KY, who was visit
ing in the city at the time. Discovering
few weeks after the marriage that no
financial benefit was likely to accrue to
him from the connection, the man de-
serted this second bride, who returned
in disgrace to her old Kentucky home.
In each Instance Lane escaped punish
ment for his scandalous behavior on &C
count of the reluctance of the duped
women and their relatives to have their
connection with the gentlemanly black
guard become public property. After
this second eScapade, which, it is said,
swallowed up whatever might have
remained of his patrimony, Lane disap-
peared from the locality, only to dawn
upon the city of LeavenWorth, where he
was known as Albert Sydney Watson.
In Leavenworth he was employed by
various firms as collector, and was never
| accused of dishonesty in his accounts,
| but here again he
Became Favorite
with the fair sex, and in a few months
the marriage was celebrated of Albert
Sydney Watson to MISS Lizzie Hynes,
| who resided with her uncle, Morris De-
| lancey 1.-the same Delaney who has by
correspondence and in other ways got
| the career of the man his niece has mar
ried down to splinter. The marriage
was opposed strongly by Mr.. Delaney,
but favored by the girls aunt, who was
quite taken up with the appearance and
manner OF the young man. Seeing that
| the only way to prevent the marriage
was to assure the girl and his wife that
| Lane was a scoundrel, Delaney went
| to work as described, and it was while
| he was absent on this business that
Lane persuaded Miss Hynes into a
clandestine marriage, and when
| Delaney returned to Leaven-
worth ~ with ample proof of the
| mans utter worthlessness, the
mischief had been done. Anxio US, as
the previous victims had been, to avoid
scandal in the neighborhood, how
ever, Delaney satisfied himself by
ordering Watson from the premises,
| and, under threats of arrest, he was in
duced to leave the city. This point In
| the career of the adventurer was reached
| in the spring of 1889, ard at that time
| Lane came to st. Paul, and preSuming
on the affection for him of the deceived
| gill in LeavenWorth, he wrote her nu-
merous letters, Offering to treat her we'll
and be a good husband to her if she
would join him here. This the girl
Was Anxious to Do,
but was dissuaded when proof was pro-
duced that she was not legally wife,
as the Louisville victim STILL lived.
Lane wrote Miss Hynes that he had a
lucrative position on st. Paul news
paper, and that he could maintain her
as became his wife if she would come
here. Search was made by Mr.. De-
Iancey yesterday about the hotels and
boarding houses of the city, but he
could discover no record of a man
answering the description of Lane. He
was anxious, he said, to find the man
and induce him either by bride or in
some other way to cease writing to Miss
Hynes. If Lane refused to do this he
would dare the exposure and hand him
over to the authorities. Evidence was
discovered pointing to the theory that
Lane is now in Chicago. Suisse
quent investigation Of Mr.. De-
lancey's story by reporter
for the GLOBE led to the discovery that
in June last a man answering the de-
scription of the one credited with so
many aliases was employed for month
or more on the circulation department
of the GLOBE. 1t was also discovered
that the name under which this man
worked for the paper was Watson. and