St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-07
A CRANK GORRALLED.
The Commander in Chief,
Grand Army of Labor, Ar
rested in New York.
He Is Evidently Acquainted
With the Man Who Tried
to Kill Sage.
His Scheme to Have People
Travel Across the CONT
nent for ST.
Some Of the Franks of This
Lunatic While He Lived
at Seattle.


mite on Friday last was increased to-
day by the arrest of William D. South
worth, the man who sought
to interest Harry Horne. the
dime museum lecturer. in an OrganiZa-
ton for the general betterment of man
kind by the overthrowing of monOp-
olies. 1t was said yesterday that
Southworth had gone to Central
America. but he was found by In
spector Byrnes' men in the city
and taken to police headquarters.
Southworth is undoubtedly crank and
confessed to Inspector Byrnes that he
had been an inmate of lunatic asylum.
He was taken to the mOrgue and
shown the head of the dynamiter,
but said he had never seen 1t
in life. In that particular he contra
dicted the story of Horne. who said that
the dead man introduced SOuthworth to
him at the museum two months
ago. One David B. Shaw called
at police headquarters during
the day and identified Southworth as a
man whom he had met on Oct. 9, on
which date there appeared in a morning
paper the following advertisement:
" ANTED-A young man who has trav-
w eled considerably to act as an advance
agent for lecturer. Address Morris Hotel,
IL West st.
He UnfoIds His Scheme.
Shaw went to the place designated
and met SOuthworth, who unfolded
scheme for the organization of a secret
society, with branches in the larger
cities. He (SOuthWOrth) was To
be the head of the society. The
organization was to be of a political
nature and could promulgate the idea
of getting the votes of the people to
take away all telegraphs, railroads
and other mOnopOlies from indi-
vidualS, and place them in the
hands of the general government
SOuthworth asked Shaw if he could ad-
vance him $500 to begin operations with.
In this conversation he referred re-
peatedly to Gould, Sage and other cap
italists. They had controlled things
too long, he said. He thought
people ought to be able to go to San
Francisco for 81 and thought three or
four meetings of his society would get
the people interested in the scheme. He
claimed to own property inSanFranciSco
co. Several days after this Shaw received
letter from SOuthworth asking him to
meet him again. This he signed Com
mander-in-chief,G Grand Army of Labor"
Enclosed in this letter was a lengthy
proclamation headed, =
"OverIand for One DoIIar."
and signed i'm the same characteristic
way. Inspector ByrneS learned that
the man came to the city about two
months ago, and went 10 Masonic
Temple and presented his creden-
IN Of
The detective force of the police
department and the detective force of
the press of the city were yesterday as
busy as bees in a bucket, scurrying
after an Identification of the dead
wretch who blew himself into
pieces at Russell Sage's office
Friday last. The detached head of TIE
bomb thrower, with its hair, pallid fale
and staring eyes. is now on exhibition
for purposes of recognition at the
morgue. Identification was believed
to have been effected, and along
with the Identification there comes a
story. 1t is remarkable, be it true or
not. 1t goes to show the experience
and existence or an organized
band of dynamiterS. The identi-
fication was made by, and the
story comes from one Capt. Harry
Horne, who identified the head at the
mOrgue as that of a man whom he had
met several times and with whom he
had frequently cOnversed. Capt Horne.
who was originally Interested in wild
West shows, Is now lecturer in
Worth's museum. and it was there
that he first met the bomb-thrower i'll
the latter part of September.
How He Worked It,.
ale came to me with letter of intro
duction from some person whose name
| do not remember" said Horne to In
spector BYrnes, land made an engage
ment to meet me the following after
noon. | met him and he asked me to go
with him to lecture OH mOnoplies in
railroads and Shipping interests which
he wanted put under government con-
troll, Offering me 500 for every lecture
delivered. One of the features of
the lecture was TO be a proposition
that all railroads carry passengers at the
same rate as freight, by which arrange
ment man could travel across the con-
tinent for few dollars, whereas it now
costs 500 to $50.
''He said that all the prominent rail-
road men, Gould. Sage, Depew and
other magnates, would be invited to at
tend the lectures. and be convinced of
the errors of their ways. In case they
did not accept the invitations a letter
would be sent to them, and ii they per-
sisted Ia refusing. then bombs would be
used.
HE said he was a member of a
strong organization to revolutIonize
matters. 1t was a religious organiza-
ton and would be the largest in the
country i'll two years. God was with
it, and it was bound to succeed.
If any one of the mOnOpolists refused to
do hot isrI, ri 81
would be killed by some member of the
organization, TO be chosen by lot.
In order to get me to accept the posi-
ton of lecturer he assured me that.
while must become member of the
organization, l would never be CON-
PEELED to do any of the killing.
Liable to Become Excited.
"He said he could do the lecturing
himself, but he was liable to become ex-
cited and make remarks of too radical a
nature. This he claimed to have done
i'll San Francisco, and as a result had
been arrested three times and heavily
fined" :
He introduced me to several people,
one of whom, as short, dark COM
pleXioned man, with black moustache.
and short beard, talked 10 me in the
same strain. i
OCCdllC VI Tile Two
men, and avoided them as much as pos
sIble. One day, about six weeks ago. /
saw Dynami ter No. standing In front
of the museum. L slipped in a side
door. ana a few minutes later the door
keeper brought me card, on the back
of which was written:
called, but failed to see you. Would you
please write me where you are stopping and
when l can see you there aud oblige
care of West hotel W. d. Souihworih
San Francisco. No. ii West street. On
the face of the card was printed: W.
SouthWorth. Cornish Arms hotel, No. IL West
street. Agent for all European steamship
and railway lines. Tickets to all points.
Drafts from 81 upward payable anywhere in
the United Kingdom.
That was the last time ! saw him
until saw his dead body in the morgue
today"