Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-15
MRS, ROWLAND,
The Alleged Betrayer Of Bryant
Crandall.
Is 1t All a New Scheme of the Old
FellOwS
VIII the Life Insurance Companies'
Reward for His Arrest Find It's Way
Into His Hands?-Some supposi-
tions About tho Case.

1ne QucntiuA WucbloI DIydub d.
Crandall was betrayed into the hands of
the chief of police by Mrs. Rowland has
been several times discussed, and, not
withstanding Chief Glass's denials
that he knew or had ever known any
such woman were emphatic, they were
taken with grain of salt.
When Crandall's arrest became first
known in the city prominent private
detective said that there was woman
in the case, who had acted either out of
revenge or in the hope Of receiving
rewsrd. He was confident that the
chief had the right man, and that he
knew it.
A false trail was followed by those not
connected with the police, who were
trying to unravel the mystery. Mrs.
Rowland was myth, and as such the
chief of police told the entire truth
when he denied showing her: If more
attention had been paid to Mrs. B. B.
Wilson, who, Notwithstanding her fire.
quent denials to the papers that her
pseudo o-husband was Crandall, is re-
ported to have admitted in Los Angeles
before Crandall did the same thing in
Buffalo, probably something more tam
gible respecting this important capture
would have been learned. 1t may be
that most OF the glamor of the arrest of
a man believed to have been drowned at
Niagara Falls many years before, would
have dwindled into prosaic story.
That OF keen and unprincipled man,
who having succeeded in wrestling q
competency for his wife and children
from several insurance companies, was
now again "doing them up" for the
sake OF reward that was to recon-
pense self-styled betrayer, but in re-
ality merely clever adjutant of the
echemer.
In Buffalo the general opinion is that
Crandall has violated no law and that
he cannot be punished for his disap-
pearance. Here he certainly has done
nothing which might make him amen
able to the law.
If the lady who hides behind the alias
of Rowland receives her reward, as she
undoubtedly will, and Crandall is re-
leased from prison, what is to prevent
him from commencing life anew on the
proceeds of the second assault upon the
strong box of the insurance companies
1t is very probable that this is the solu-
tion of the last mysterious link in the
Crandall sensation.
MRS. CRANDALL DIsGUsTED.
The Buffalo Courier says:
Mrs. Bryant B. Crandal's little cot
tage at So Delaven avenue was dreary
looking place this morning, for the doors
were locked, the curtains were drawn
and everything about the house was as
silent as midnight.
No one was at home. The children
were all away somewhere, and last even
ing Mrs. Crandall went away with a
man who the neighbors thought was
her brother, Mr.. Eaton of North Col
Inns.
None OF the neighbors knew where
she had gone or whether she had yet
seen her husband. But friend of the
family who was seen later told differ
ent story. This person said:
"No, Mrs. Crandall has not yet seen
her husband. unless she saw him last
night after she left home, and what is
more she does not care to see him.
"She is provoked to think that he
should come back here now and make
such a fool Of himself, and Of her and
her family. His talk about the other
wOmhu-tuib MIS- w uSOu, anu Ills IOVo
for her-has simply disgusted Mrs.
Crandall. She went in mourning for
him for six years believing him dead,
and now he is brought back here only to
add disgrace to. her sorrow."
''Is che now satisfied that it is Gran
dall?"
Eyes; she no longer doubts that, but
of course she could not cay go until she
sees him.
MRS. Crandall is a good Christian
woman and she believed her husband
was as honorable and as good Chris
tian as herself. Now she knows that he
has sdeceived and disgraced her and
she feels as though she never wanted to
look upon his face"