The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-17
For Whom There is a Re-
ward of $4,000,
Captured in a Georgia TOwn-RecOg-
nized by an Old Friend.
lie Was a Brilliant Newspaper Man
and Slick Rascal.

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 16-Orth Har
per Stein, the mysterious $4,000 man
that the Atlanta police have been so
excited oyer for week past, was ar
rested Monday night at Stone Noun
tain. He is now in Jail at Decatur,
the county seat of DeKalb, six miles
from Atlanta, on u charge of carrying
concealed weapons. al am Orth
Stein" he says quietly. 81 am tired
of being hunted down. Now do your
worst" He certainly does not look
like the murderer, forger, thief and
abandoned criminal that he isreported
to be. He is about 2S years old, de-
cidedly intellectual in appearance,
thoroughly educated, and talks well.
He was
ARRESTED IN HIS BED
at the hotel. He left Atlanta at 6
o'clock Monday afternoon on the
dummy for Decatur, and there took
the train to Stone Mountain. Stein,
whatever else he may be, is a versatile
and thorough newspaper man. He
first came to Atlanta about three
weeks ago and was given work on the
Constitution. For about q week he
reported the Senatelproceedings He
contributed a number of special arti-
cles. In Tuesdays paper was poem,
"That Story Bout Jim," signed j. B.
r. written and left here by Stein.
His name here was Raymond In to-
days Constitution appeared a meteoro-
logical article on Dryenferth's rain
experiments, which was written by
Stein while at work for the paper. His
copy is a peculiar round plain hand,
with never a scratch In it. From At,
lanta Stein went to Rome. There he
met Editor Martin, of the Rome Tri-
bune. Martin was reporter on the
Kansas City Star in 1884, while Stein,
then going under the name Of John
Bell, was city editor of the paper.
Martin recognized Stein.
AND KNEW HIS STORY.
1t was too good not to print Then
the Constitution printed it, and the
Georgia police from Nickajack to Ty-
bee have been looking out for the S10,-
600 man ever since Stein went from
Rome to Calhoun, where he was ar
rested and got out on writ of habeas
corpus. Then he came to Atlanta
He played hide-and-seek with the po
lice until he tired Of it, and left Mon
day night Tuesday morning the news
of his arrest came. STEMS life has
been one Of strange vicissitudes. He
was born in Lafayette, Ind. lie bcgar
his newspaper career ON an afternoon
paper in Leadville, where he ewas made
city editor. He was drinking then
He was in Denver soon afterward anC
wrote play in which there were sew
eral local hits. He was "done up" Oh
account of this, Then as John Bel
he was city editor of the Kansas City
Star. There he became
INTIMATE WITH THE MISTRESS
ofGeorge Fredericks, owner Of a yariet,
theater One night Fredericks foun,
him in the woman's room. All that i
known then is that two men starte
together down dark stairway, Fred
erick slightly in advance,and Bell she
SA Frederick in the back of the head am
killed him. This trial brought out tn
fact that he was then going under a
assumed name. He was defended b
his own father then lawyer in Ii
fayette, Ind, and John w. Woford
Kansas City lawyer, who had the
recently removed from Carterville, G
Stein was convicted and given
years. He got a new trial and va
acquitted. Stein then went back t
Layfayette. His father died, an
STEMS mother gave him blank check
on accountof $4,000 insurance polio,
TO start a paper, Stein made ita brigl
weekly, the Comet After sinkir
about 81 800 in it he filed up chez
for the remainder of the 5000 an
SKIPPED WITH ANOTHER WOMAN.
His next work was on the Globe-Dei