The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-10-28
LED HIM On TO RUIN.
Another Woman Responsible for
Broker Lewis TheftS
From His Wife.

escape from Detective Sergeant Won
Gerichten by jumping from a train
coming from Hartford. Conn, 10 this
city, the story of which has b. en-
fully told, was arraigned in the court
of general session yesterday. He
seems to have been badly injured by
his jump for liberty, as he walked as
If lame and sore. The detective, on
the contrary. seemed little the worse
for his leap after the fugitive. The
prisoner was held without bail to
appear for pleading to-day.
The arrest of Lewis furnishes an
other chapter in the sensational Ca
reer of Mrs. Joseph Swift Richards of
Brooklyn, whose husband secured an
absolute divorce from her, 1t was by
shadowing her day and night that the
detective finally succeeded in locating
Lewis. When her husband sued for
divorce be named five well-known
residents of this city and Brooklyn as
correspondents. Among the number
was Lawyer John r. Dunn, who is
now serving pine-year term in pris-
on for conspiriug to rob the Msnhat-
tan bank. 1t was he who advised
Teller Scott to commit the theft.
Dunn held The proceeds, and refused
to give up the money. 1t was claimed
that he had spent all of it on Mrs.
Richards, and Broker Lewis seems to
have got into trouble for the same
reason.
When Mrs. Alice Botswick secured
q divorce from her husband, and
became the wife of Lewis, she handed
the latter $47 900 of her money TO
invest for her. 1t was n until long
after that she discovered he was lead
ing double life, and that ell of her
money had been squandered. At the
time she made the discovery, Lewis
was living in a fat at Ala Myrtle
avenue, with Mrs. Richards. Every
day the couple were in the habit of
driving through Prospect Park in the
private carriage of Lewis wife.
The broker at that time was play
ing a triple role. In this city be
appeared as the irreproachable nus
band of Mrs. Botswick that was. In
Brooklyn he was known as an admirer
of Mrs. Richards, while at the same
time he was on visiting terms with the
relatives of Mrs. Richards injured
husband. He represented to them
that she had reformed, and pleaded
her cause SO well that she finally re-
ceived from them $500. This saved
one of her houses from foreclosure
sale,
Lewis and Mrs. Richards occupied
the Myrtle avenue fat together from
June, 1889. until July this year,
when they were forced to leave be-
cause of the scandal their actions
created. He had been in the habit
of visiting the fat every day in a
stylish carriage. This was allowed to
stand in front of the door until COM
ment was made, then it was brought
around the corner. The two would
then walk around the corner to CIin-
ton avenue, and start for their driye
through Prospect park.
During the greater portion of this
tune Lewis had the full confidence of
his wife, and kept on "investing" her
money. 1t was only as far back as
Cast spring that he made the visits to
the relatives of Mrs. Richards hus.
band. In July last for the first time
the eyes of Mrs. Lewis seemed to have
opened, and she began to make
quiet examination into the ''invest-
ments" that her husband had made
with her money. 1t did not take
long to discover that the investments
were a myth, and that all had been
lost. Lewis did not wait to be con-
fronted with the facts, but disappear
ed instead. At the same time Mrs.
Richards gave up her fat on Myrtle
avenue, Brooklyn. She went through
New England, and is known to have
travelled through Connecticut and
Rhode Island in a coach drawn by an
expensive pair of horses. She stop
ped at the best hotels, and seemed to
be well supplied with money.
The manner in which the police
first obtained a clue 10 the where
abouts of Lewis was in itself peculiar.
She called On the council
for Mrs. Bostwick-Lewis one day
to ask information about Lewis, and
the lawyer concluded she was worth
watching. A detective was at once
placed on her track, with the result,
already known, that the broker was
captured. Mrs. Richards was on the
train with the detective and Lewis
when the later made the juLp.
Joseph Swift Richards, who OBJ
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