The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-02-13
FIFTH EDITION.


A clever swindler giving his name %
Thomas II. Mtlliken, and his residence
as Walnut Hills. suburb OF Cincin.
natl, Ohio. was arrested yesterday
In Baltimore on the charge OF the lar.
ceny OF goods valued at s94.75, from
Mrs. Lizzie Dunlap, of Philadelphia.
The arrest was made by Chief OF Pc.
lice Francis and Detective Hatton,
who found Milliken at the Carlton
House.
Milllken's way OF doing business
was OF deceiring young girls by pre-
tending to give them positions as act
resses With the Latest Sensation
Company" of Cinelnhattl, and when
the girls had their trunks ready for
shipment he would send them away
and thereby dupe the would.be
actresses.
On Monday last Millken came to
this city with this scheme in mind. 1t
Ia said that he worked the scheme sue
oessiully In other cities, and while In
Philadelphia had succeeded In getting
Miss Dunlap to come to this city with
him and afterwards stealing her trunk.
The couple engaged a room at the
Clayton House and registered as Mr..
and Mrs. I. II. Million. On Tuesday
he had Inserted this advertisement In
the Evening journal;
Wanted. lady Tor the the.
atrical company to travel; experience
not necessary; give age and address
Theatre, journal Office"
The advertisement was answered by
II number OF young women, among
them being Annie Brewer, whose dis.
appearance from her home was noted
In these columns, and Miss Maggie
McCailerty. These women met Mtlli-
ken at the hotel, and after being Offer
ed neat sums, the girls decided to az
cept the offer and met on Thursday
night to close the contract. Miss
Brewer told him that she wished to
leave homo without letting her parents
know of II. and IL WAS therefore i'm
| possible to secure her trunk.
Aliliken then said as pretext that
he could not afford to pay the girls,
| fares and buy clothes and after con.
| ference Milliken accepted the gold
watch which Miss Brewer had taken
from her fathers home, They were
to meet their manager at the Balti.
more and Ohio depot on Friday night,
and after waiting until nearly mid.
night the girls found that They had
been duped.
Saturday night Captain Evans found
Annie at the lodging house at No. I'll
King street, when she told him of MILL
ken.
Sergeant Wigglesworth and the Cap
tain then started out to look for the
swind Ter. Shortly aiterward, Lizzie
Dunlap, who Milliken had registered us
his wife. informed the officers that he
had left town, taking with him her
Miss Duniap's) trunk. The officers
went to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road and learned that tho man had
been there and sent the trunk to Bal
timore. The officers, after working
up the case, returned and lodged their
information with Chief Francis. and
he with Detective Hatton, arrested the
man in Baltimore.
The prisoner says his family Is well
connected in Cincinnati. His grand
father Is leading lawyer OF the town.
lie says he was in the insurance busi-
ness at New Castle, Pa, and has done
other business in Mexico, Nova Scotia
and Canada. In the prisoners pockets
were found a number of letters from
Hon. Calvin ). Brice OF Ohio, and "a
cents in money.
This morning the prisoner was ar
raigned on the charge of larceny, but
was continued until Wednesday. W..
L. Lyman represents him.