Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-07-06
EDWARD HOWE.

had been robbed of $500 at his hotel and
had not enough to proceed upon his Jour
ney. He asked for funds to carry him to
his destination and always obtained the
sums he wanted. These amounts he would
repay in day or two, but here ends the
chapter. The money was never returned
The list of victims was increased.
In Chicago, however, Howe met his
Waterloo He negotiated loans'' until
his creditors became as thick as the leaves
of Vallambrosa He piled up his IAN
gels" three rows high, and finally they
came together and concocted plot to put
an end to his game. J. G. Bartlett of 40
Sidney court had him arrested, and Dec Z
Howe was thrust into the county Jail.
When Howe was placed behind the bars
in Chicago, his wife went to- New York
and commenced to gather in harvest in
order to secure money for her husbands
defense. Her work met with decided
hindrance by her arrest, but she had won
away large sums from Gothamites before
being detected. Martha Stiles was born
in Amherst, N. H., in 1S48, and is of an
excellent New England family. Her sis
ter is married to one of Chicago's most
prominent business men, who bailed
Howe out in December.
Martha began her career of crookedness
soon after the close of the war, fastening
her clutches upon the G.. A. R. posts as the
first experience teachers. She told a TO-
mantle tale to the old soldiers. She said
she had enrolled in the Twenty-seventh
Massachusetts, volunteers as a drummer
boy and served until the battle of Lookout
Mountain. There at her post of duty she
was wounded and her sex discovered. This
fable was very productive until punctured
by suspicious Ohio veteran. Then Mar
tina, who called herself Kate Clayton, van
ished. She married Howe and they went
''a-starring" and found the west a good
market. In 1886 they went on the stage
and at Boston appeared in Nine Nodes
ka's company. They were all the while
continuing the Harvard scheme to the det-
riment of about 800 graduates purses
throughout the entire country
In the Harvard 1864 classbook is long
sketch of Howe's life up to 1889, which he
wrote himself. Howe was born in 1S43
and belongs to a respected Cambridge
(Mass.) family. He fitted for college at
Phillips Exeter academy. After gradra-
ton he entered the Lawrence Scientific
school as a student of engineering. In
1867 he left for Freiberg, Saxony, where
he remained as member of the Royal
School Of Mines for two years. After con-
siderable European travel he returned to
the United States early in the seventies.
He was superintendent of tho Pomeroy
co., rolling mill for 10 months and then
went to San Francisco and was assistant
auditor in the Western Union Telegraph
Office for a short time. He then engaged
in the refining of lead and silver and the
examining of mines in western Nevada
He next occupied prominent position
with q San Francisco hardware firm. He
came east and worked with several rail-
roads in Massachusetts,, but went back to
California and was appointed state COM
missioner to the New Orleans exposition
by the governor.
His history has been one of remarkable
ups and downs, and his ability, il directed
In 9 proper channel, would have won. him
Be- good position IN the world Of science.
His family have made repeated Efforts to
reclaim him, but have utterly failed.
As to the ultimate punishment Of Howe
and. his wife, there are enough indictments
against them to give them prison homes
for q century to come should they escape
the clutches Of the law now.