The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08
SIMON CAPPS ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH DEfRA UDING WITH
Frs, TIE G0LD.BRICK NAN.
The Arrest Made In Norfolk and the
Man Brought Here-It 10 Said That
other Arrests Will Follow.

| Gold. Geld, Gold! Gold!
| Bright ard yellow, hard and cold;
| Molten. craven, hammered and rolled
| Heavy TO get and light TO hold;
| Hoartled. borrowed. squandered, doled:
spurned by the young. but Rugged by the
| old
To the very verge of the churchyard's
mould.
Price of many crime untold
| Gold, Cold! Gold! Gold"'
! Chapter the third of the Gold-brick
| sensation opens with d dark and murky
! background while the actors in the drama
are shrouded In veil of mystery. There
has been an exit of one figure from this
play. which Is combination of a TRACE
DIV. melodrama and farce. The Indian
| and Parker were enc and the same per-
SON This has been established beyond a
doubt by the detectives. But now, while
the alleged assayist. who also answers
10 the name of Garden, languishes in
Jail. there are other figures looming up
in the ba aground who may play an I'M
pJrtant part in this affair.
LOOKING AT The BRICKS.
Sunday large crowds OF morbidiy curl
dlon 10 have a look at Parker and see the
two colo bricks for which Mr.. Withers
! paid such fabulous sum. on Sunday
morning Sergeant TOmlinson, accom-
| panied ty Detectives Schlief and John
son and Mr. Wiihers, drove out into the
country TO the woods where Mr.. Nithers
went with Williams the day that he got
those gold bricks.
Two more gold bricks were found, eX-
act duplicates of those purchased by Mr..
| W,thers, and also a derby hat, believed 10
| be the property Of either Williams or
Parker.
An immense crowd lesieGed the Police
Court yesterday morning to hear the evi-
dence in the gold-brck case or TO secure
a glimpse at the prisoner and the now
famous metal bars. When the case was
called Mr.. l.. Wendenburg, who has been
p gagged as counsel for J. II. Parker
asked that the case be continued until
some day after January 18th. He gave
as u reason that one of the counsel in
a chancery suit died recently, and Mr.
Wendenburg was engaged to take his
| place. Judge Lamb then gave him until
January 18th 10 prepare his argument
Mr.. Wendenburg also stated that MS
client was without means. and he desired
to communicate with friends 10 secure
funds to pay his counsel ana defend him
self
The Justice continued the case until
| the nth instant.
Mr.. Andrew Welsh OF the Southern Ex-
press Company. has identified Parker
| alias G. W. Garden as the man who re-
| ceived the three boxes in which the bricks
were shipped. and will be an important
| witness against the accused
TALK WITH PARKER.
when Parker was conveyed from the
courtroom there was a large crowd
| gathered on the outside to catch a
| glimpse Of him. 4 closed patrol wagon
was used to take him to the jail in, and 1t
was drawn up on Tenth street. The crowd
! formed an aisle ten or twelve persons
deep from the curbing where the patrol
wagon stood 10 the door in the City Hall
where the prisoner was brought out.
| had talk with Parker in jail, but he re-
fused to say anything about the case.
Il am i'm the hands of my counsel he
said land / must, therefore, beg you
not To consider me discourteous in refus-
ing to talk about the matter.
Parker, when / saw him, wore a blue
coat and blue corduroy cap. Under his
coat he had on a mixed gray suit lie
wore blue-striped negligee shirt, win
a Windsor tie. He Chatted and laughed
and conVersed most pleasantly with me
! on other subjects, but about those bright
gold bricks. that poor Indian. and still
poorer Mr.. Withers, he was as silent as
stewed Mobjack oyster.
Mr.. Withers spent the majority OF the
day yesterday in close communication
with police headquarters. | saw HIM at
Ford's Hotel, and had quite long TAX
with him. He seemed TO be in the best OF
spirits and not at all worried over his
loss. beyond the fact that he was ashamed
of having been so numerically duped'
WHY SELECTED.
When asked why Williams singled
him ont of all the people OF Gloucester
county to work the scheme on, Mr..
Withers answered that he did not know
1t is certainly a plausible theory 10
suppose that Williams knew Mr.. Nlthcis
to be possessed of means. else he would
not have gone TO him. TO nave known
this he must have been acquainted win
MIR Withers' history. The question 49,
how did Williams become acquainted with
Mr.. Withers' history. / pointed these
facts out TO Mr. Withers, and asked him
if he did not think ii possible that VIII
liams and Parker were instruments IN
some one elr7s hands. He replied that
he thought such a theory a very plausible
one When ] asked him II there was any
one who, outside of the financial gam
would be interested in working the fake
upon HIM simply for revenge, Mr.. With
ers shook his head and looked very
serious.
cAPPs ARRESTED.
Another phase Of the case has come
10 light in the arrest yesterday, In Nor
folk, of Simon Caps. charged with at
tempting to defraud by false and iraudu-
dent instrumentation one y. W. N.thers
Of the sum of 500
Cams was brought 10 this city on the
o'clock train by Chief-of-Pollce Rebmon
and turned over TO Officers Shinberger and
Griffin, who took him TO the Second sta
ton. where he was locked up. When seen
| last night Capps was confined in one OF
| the cells at the station. He was stylishly
dressed had a clean-shayen face, is about
| twenty six years of age, appears 10 be
| about six feet tall, and Is we'll proper
| toned.
| When questioned regarding the charge
! Caps said, in the most nonchalant man
| ner: "Oh | know nothing about II, eX-
| cept that | lent Mr. Withers $500 He
! said that he loaned il TO him on Thurs
| day. and admitted that it was Il gambling
| debt.
He seemed TO be very much surprised
| at his arrest, but took it in an easy man
| nor. Capps further stated that he had
| known Mr. Withers for some time. and
| that on another occasion he had loaned
| him 500.
Capps is I'm the real estate business in
| Norfolk. but spends a great deal of his
| time i'm this city. He also admitted that
on Thursday night, when he loaned With
| ers the money. that they were then en-
| gagged in 'bucking the tiger" The above