The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-05
FLEECED BY HOWE
Harvard Men Were Badly
SWindIed.
. "NED" HELPED BY HIS WIFE.
They Started on a Career Of
Crime Many Years Ago.
NUMEROUS WERE TIE VICTIMS.
In This City the Daring Rascal Had
a Circle of Very Fashionable
Friends.
WERE TIE VICTIMS.

NEW YORK, June At is learned that
the money obtained here by an adyentur-
ess from generous Harvard men has been
applied toward the defense of her husband
on charges Of winding other Harvard vic
TINS in Chicago Investigation develops
the fact that this woman and her husband
are an old PAIR Of TogueS and have been
working" Harvard men and Grand Army
posts for the last ten years.
The name of the man is Edward Robin
Howe, Harvard '64s and by his classmates,
nearly every one of whom has suffered by
him, he was Familiarity known as Ned"
Howe. There were two men by the name
of Howe in the class, but Ned is the one
who has gained notoriety and who is Ian
gushing in the Cook County all in Chi
caEo.
Ned. according to the account in the '64
class-book, was born in 1S43 After being
graduated from Harvard he studied IN
Germany and France and then returned to
this country in 1868, held places Of trust in
western mines and in San Francisco bust
ness Office. He was one Of the founders Of
the Harvard Club al San Francisco. Later
he was mining engineer in Colorado and
Arizona and in 1884 was appointed by the
Governor one Of the Commissioners from
Southern California to the exposition at
New Orleans.
1t was in Los Angeles in 1884 that Howe
net the woman whom the police of this
city are now after and married her. His
''misfortunes' have dated since that time.
TIE woman's real name was Martha E.
Stiles, and she was born in New England
in 1913 After the war was over she be-
Al ho- Mi
=. Grand Army posts. She told a roman tic
and. thrilling story. She said that she en-
rolled in The Twenty-seyenth Massachu-
seets Volunteers as a drummeT-bOy aud
served until the battle Of Lookout Noun
tain. There at her post of duty she was
wounded and her sex discovered. This
was a pretty story and Martha made hun
dreds of dollars on il. Finally some one
tOok the trouble to find out that her story
was fairy tale. Then Martha vanished
She married Ned Howe, and together
they went on a starring tour and worked
Grand Army posts throughout the West
to a finish with brilliant success. In 1885
they went on the stage, and at Boston ap
peared in Nine. Modjeska's company; but
they soon got tired Of this and then started
in 10 swindle Harvard men.
Ned Howe, who was already indebted TO
almost every one of his classmates. in"
eluding ex-Secretary and ex-Minister
Robfrt Lincoln, proved brilliant success
with his wife; tut on December last.
he was arrested by the president Of the
Harvard Club in Chicago and locked in
tie cell where be still is. His trial has
been postponed from time to time, be
cause, as Ned says, be has not been able
to get counsel The real reason was that
he had no money. But only few days
ago a retaining fee was received at Chi
cago from this city, and the only POSSIBLE
explanation is that il came from the Har
- ward men in this city, passing through thc
hands of the willy ana engaging wife.