St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-25
Won ARNOLD's SIDE
The Ex-Detective Gives a LuciC
RenIY TO Il l. Cash'S Alicia

The Ex-Detective Gives a Lucid
Reply TO L. L. Cash's Allega-
tiOns.
c. j. Won Arnold, the aeronaut, feels
aggrieved at the stories that have been
placed in circulation concerning his in
tegrity. His story seems to be sub
stantiated by ample documentary evil
dence, and there seems to be no doubt
that he has been grievOusly wronged.
The papers have charged him with alb
scOnling with a balloon that was
claimed to be the property of another.
Mr.. Won Arnold says:
The story charges NE with going to Gin
cinnar under an assumed name and the Ike
! never was III that city in my lie. Inc
whole story is Just like this. May 70 last
fellow named T. l. Cash, who is printer,
and was at one time employed in this city,
employed me to make a balloon ascension
and a drop with the parachute. L assumed
the name of c. W. Gray Tor convenience. i
had not been an aerOnaut, but L learheu
enough about il to do the business success
fully, and made two ascensiOns ana para
chute drops and one plain balloon ascension
under his management He agreed 10 pay
me SO q week but he failed to 90 TINS.
Originally Ned Hathaway made these as
tensions for him, but he met win an accI-
dent and is permanently injured. One day
he fell distance of 200 feet IN southern
Illinois because the parachute failed TO work;
Ii was on account OF this that ash hlTeu
me- Cash came on to ST. Paul, and here Is q
letter he wrote me- and Van Arnold eX-
nibited a letter signed Il. ]. Cash, IN which
il is related that he had been doing the sym
pathetic racket or gag, as the eplstle words
it, upon the people here 1t was about the
injury of Hathaway
But the balloon had been pawned with
Mrs. j Nj. Radclitf, of 1911 Washington ave
nue. ST. Louis. resumed Van Arnold. Here
are the papers in the case. Here Is the paper
showing that $3.50 was due Oh the thing,
and here is the receipt she gave me, ana
these were also exhibited, and they have
every appearance of genuineness. Il PAID
this money at his request and took the trap
pings out. / worked for him besides fourteen
weeks at SO a week making $3.50; paid this
SIS, and all l ever received from him was
paltrv SIS. See what he owes me? Wen ne
gave me bill of sale of the entire outht. ana
here it is, and the papers were again Iortn-
coming, clearly substantiating the claim
But he got foxy, and stole the property
away from me. He shipped 1t to Minneapo-
lis through an eXDressman named Lynch,
and have seen nothing OF the property
since.
''At Saltwater our aeronaut Louis Cradon,
got hurt as has been printed IN your paper
Cash owed him, too but did not pay him. l
hired another man, and he fell in with cash
and helped him get the balloon and appur-
tenances away. That is the story.
Cradan was with Won Arnold, and
testified that everything is correct as
related above.
1t was not Won Arnold who took Bissel S
Clothes he said. They were left with me
to secure me for the money paid out for
him We had attachment papers out for the
balloon, but Cash was too cunning Tor US,
and ran it off before we got hold of the prop
erty However, we will find him some day,
and then there viii be a settling. Won Ar
mold Is an honest and industrious man, and
it is a shame the papers published Cash S
lying statements"