The evening world., 1894-09-27
BETRAYED
BY HIS FAD.
Capt HoWSate, a Fugitive
Over Thirteen Years, Ar.
rested To-Day.
WAS SCH|EF OF WEATHER BUREAU
Escaped Through a Window and
Fleeing with a Woman
When Caught.
SAID TO HAVE STOLEN $3.50. 600.
Under the Name Of Williams He
Has Been for Six Years a
Bookseller Here.

After evadlng rearrest for nearly thir-
teen and ah alf years Capt. Henry w.
Howgate, ex-Crlief of the United States
| Weather Bureau in Washington. d. c.,
indicted on seven different preferments.
witch innumerable counts, for forgery,
embezzlement ad larceny, aggregating
over S3s0O00, was arrested at IL o'clock
this morning on Ninth street, near
Fourth avenue, by A. L. Drummond, ex-
Chief of the United Staes Secret Service,
and now OF Drummond's Detective
| Agency.
Howgate was arraigned before Com
missioner Alexander at noon to-day on
an Indictment and bench warrtn issued
| in Washington. charging him with the
| Forgery of a $500 receipt on the United
States Government.
Application was made for the issuance
| of warrant by a United States Dis
triet Judge for Howggat,eess rsmoyai sinfS to
torney Macfarlane stated that he held
| still another Indictment against How
gate on a charge of embezzling 1000.
| Howgate waived examination. Commits
sioner Alexander then held him In slO,;;
| 900 bail until the warrant was drawn and
committed him to the custody of the
| United States Marshal.
Howgate's defalcations caused great
sensation at the time. and his case was
extensively published in the newspapers.
His fall was a great shock to his many
friends and the Department. where he
i Howgate's history since the Winter
Of 1Sso-Sl reads like noyel.
At that time, while still In charge OF
arrested He asked and received permis-
sion from the officer who had him in
charge to go to hts room nan and change his his
door and waited quite while; When he
finally enterded Howgate had disap-
peared. He had escaped through the
From then up to Tuesday last How.
gate was not seen orlocated by the sum
mons officers. who We're searching fol
him. 1t was ascertained that when How
gate had left Washington in company
with a handsome young woman, or
whom he lavished large sums of money
1t has been also learned that this wo
man left him soon after he escaped. She
has never been located.
Chief Drummond, then, Of theh Secret
SERVICE, and his men,, raked the country
sionally. In 1887, they received informa
tlon that he might visit his daughter a
!, Newburryport, Mass; The house was
Howgate was known to have had q
passion for collecting old books. A
, steady watch had been kept ever since
his escape on old book stores and boor
auction sales in New York aicl Brooklyn
Last Monday man, acting for Drum
mona, q clerk IN a department at " ASH
ington, who knew Howgate, wen, was II
book store in upper Broac.vay. when
man entered who resembied the fugitive
When Howgate left Washington, he wa
/. a large handsome man, weighing ls
pounds, forty-seven years old. The ma
] who came out of the store was evidently
sixty years old. bent. thin, gray-haire
and grizzly bearded. Still, there was
> reminiscence of Howgate about him
!. The agent talked to him and men
toned rare old books. The them
and handing the agent a card inscribed
r "Henry Williams, dealer in old ant
Y rare books, 1876 West Tenth street. in
1 yited him to his room to look at som
/ rare prints. The agent went and be
" came satisfied that Williams was n
l. other than the much-wanted Howgats
). Then a curious fact was discovered
n During the six years Howgate. as VIII
/ Jams, has kept secondhand book stor
in the basement of so Forth avenue.
n This morning Detective Drummond an
I | some of his men watched Howgate com
s out of his store and arrested him.
: Drummond asked him II he was nc
o CAPT: Howgate; Satt.rod tho nr,sonar "1 ar
d Howgate, I'll go with you all rlBh'
: I'm beat"
i He was taken to the Federal Buildin
O and etained until the papers in the cas-
q were drawn up.
n At the time Howgate's defalcation wa
discovered, it was repeatedly and openl
n stated that numerous other officials
" some much higher In position than How
, gate, were implicated in the frauds.
n Howgate besides being Chief OF IN
Weather Bureau was also the disbur'
iAg officer of the Bureau. and was thu
afforded vast opportunities for stealing.