Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-29
STOLEN RAILROAD PASSES.

They Were Sold at Scalpers' Offices in This
City-Two Arrests Made.
E. E. Grannon. chief Of the Baltimore and
Ohio detectives has succeeded in turning up a
theft committed at the Office of General Man
ager Odell in Baltimore which. il not detected
early in the game. would have resulted in the
loss Of thousands of dollars to the company
The game was one which has not been attempted
for long time, if ever before, and two arrests
have already been made
The scheme was this: In the first place a
quantity of blank passes, both employees
passes and those intended for complimentary
use. were stolen from Manager OdeI's office
and put on the market for sale. Exactly how
many passes were stolen is not known. but the
thief evidently had good thing Of it. These
passes were signed by Manager Odell, but be-
fore being good they had to be countersigned
by the managers chief clerk. Mr.. NJ. A.
Powers, or some other official designated to sign
them, and without such signature none Of the
passes were genuine.
HAD REACHED THE sCALPERs HERE.
Detective Grannon learned that some of the
passes had reached the offices of some ticket
scalpers in this city and he came here yesterday
to make his investigation complete. With such
information as he had obtained he was satisfied
on the Chicago limited train advertised to leave
here last evening at S:l5 clock. and so he en-
listed the services of Detective Maurice Quinlan
to assist him in the investigation.
Accordingly the detectives boarded the
Chicago train and went out on the road until
the conductor had made his rounds. Four of
the fraudulent passes showed up and the
persons who had them were willing to tell
exactly where and under what circumstances
they procured them. The passengers who had
them were L. L. Watkins and c. H. Walker of
Gaithersburg Montgomery county. Md. John
Wager of Rochester. N. Y, and Harry d.
Kennedy of Wilmington, Del. They will
ingly returned TO this city with the officers.
TO whom they said they had procured their
tickets at unusually low price from WILDER
joining the National Theater. and J. L. Will
Hams, who has Office at 493 Pennsylvania
avenue.
HOW WILLIAMS WOULD SELL.
To make doubly sure that there could be no
mistake Detective Grannon went to Mr.. Will
iams' Office this morning and asked what WAS
the best he could do on the route to Chicago
The scalper assured him that he could do
very we'll. but there must be an understanding
between them. The passenger must give his
name and must be careful not to say too much
to the conductor. 1t was an employees pass that
the scalper wanted to sell him. and as q word Of
warning ne tOld MIN that he muft look out Tor
detectives, as they were usually on the train.
Z. 8. Griffin was the name given by Detective
Grannon, and when he had been given the
proper warning to keep the matter quiet he
surprised the scaiper by telling him that he was
q detective.
WILLIAMS AND MARMApuKE ARRESTED.
MIR. Williams admitted that he was caught
and he went with the officers to police head
quarters. Then Marmaduke was arrested and
the prisoners were charged with false pretenses.
The passengers charged that they obtained
money under false pretenses by pretending to
sell genuine passes when in fact the passes
were not genuine.
In the cases Of the general complimentary
passes it is charged that the scalpers told the
customers TO tell the conductor. IL the latter
questioned them. that they got the passes from
personal friend Of Manager Odell
Detective Carter assisted in the Investigation
today. The persons arrested were the only
ones who could be found doing the business
for which they were arrested. although 1t 10
known that others were implicated in the affair
and othor arrests are likely to follow.
Judge Miller fixed bail al 81 900 in each case.
which wac promptly furnished by Mr.. Mar
maduke and he was released. Mr.. Jacob 8.
Redman qualified a. his bondsman.