St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01
ONE WAS TAKEN IN EACH CITY.
ID. w. WOODS CAPTURED IN ST
PAUL AND j. Nj. SHAW IN MIN
NEAPOLIS.
EACH HAD GOOD bank ACCOUNT.
Woods Thought to BE Holmes, Wunt-
= ed in San Francisco for Defrnud-
Ing Bank of $4,000.

with an Office in the Court block, was
arrested yesterday morning by Pink
erton detective at the ST. Paul Ma
tional bank. He is thought to be in
reality A. H. Holmes, who defrauded
the Nevada bank, of San Francisco,
out of $4,000. Woods arrived in this
city several weeks ago. He appeared
! an eminently respectable business man,
| between thirty and forty years of age.
He was dressed we'll, but with quiet
taste. After securing an Office in the
Court block he obtained stationery,
| showing that he was about to begin
business as an agent for the sale of
lumber. Within a day or two he pre-
scented a card at the st. Paul Ma
tional bank. deposited several hun
dred dollars and announced his in
tention of opening a regular account.
The bank officials We're pleased with
Mr.. Woods practical business ways,
and welcomed him as a customer. Cen
tlemen embarking in new business
ventures have not been too common
during the last few years.
From time to time Mr.. Wood de-
posted more money, against which he
drew checks. His account, however,
invariably showed a reasonable bal
ance on hand. Feb. ~ he deposited
a check for S1.4OO, signed by J. M.
Shaw, and drawn against the Union
National Bank of Minneapolis. The
bank check was credited up to Mr..
Woods account, sent to Minneapolis
for collection, promptly honored and
the proceeds RENTED TO st. Paul.
But it was this very check perhaps,
which caused Mr.. Woods arrest. For
Mr.. Shaw, of Minneapolis had no soon
er opened an account with the Union
National bank, of that city, than he fell
under the suspicion. Vice President c..
e. Maxwell, of the Minneapolis bank,
believed that he recognized in the new
customer some one whose face he had
seen before circumstances unfaVorable
to the owner of the face. Mr.. Maxwell,
| therefore, notified the Pinkertons, who
revived Mr.. MaXwelrs memory with
photographs SO that he concluded he
could identify the suspicious customer
as Joe McClusky, a bank forger. But
j. NJ. Shaw, commission broker, 615 Ma
sonic Temple, as his card described him.
was not arrested. He was allowed to
ply his game in security so long as he
secured none of the Union banks
money. Like Woods in st. Paul, Mr..
Shaw began by depositing considera-
bic amount. This he added to from
liiiiC ~ llIilS, anu OCCASIONALLY QGDIGJGQ
With checks. But when Shaw was ar
rested yesterday at his residence by
Mr.. Maxwell and Inspector Hoy, the
balance to his credit was still unex-
| hausted. Neither of the banks, there,
fore, has lost cent.
McClusky is given a clever criminal
record by the police He is an alleged
graduate from the Maryland state
penitentiary, effecting his release of a
ten-year-sentence after eight years of
servitude for working a bank of that
state for $4,000. His accomplice. at
the time of his conviction, was known
as Burke He escaped from the in
stitution by crawling through a sewer
and was not again heard from until
arrested in Paris for snatching tray
of diamonds. McClusky is also credit
ed with an intimate acquaintance with
Tom OBrien, king of confidence men,
and Eddie Gearin, a sneak thief of in
ternational reputation, who is now
serving time in an English prison. The
| alleged Minneapolis crook is fifty-two
years of age, sandy complexion and of
bald head. He is of medium stature
! and apparently possessed of great
shrewdness.
The authorities at San Francisco
were Immediately notified by Chief Of
Police Smith, of Minneapolis, yester-
day, of the arrest and wired in return
minute description Of the man want
ed. 1t Is said not to correspond with
that McCluSky, but is presumed
rather to resemble the man held in
this city.
Shaw, alias McClusky. had, however,
drawn the greater part of his balance
yesterday morning. The Union bank
then honored his check for 81 900 But
at the time of his arrest a few hours
later he had on his person only $40.
He did not explain what he had done
with the balance Of the 81 900. He ex-
pressed some surprise at his arrest.
but made no statement in his own de-
Tense. He was locked up at Minneap-
Oils central police station and held in
custody on behalf of the Pinkerton
agency
The scheme which it is believed was
to be undertaken by Holmes and Shaw
would probably have been directed
against either of the two banks, and
| might have resulted in the loss of
many thousands of dollars. The con-
federates might have tried to repeat
the trick by which the $4,000 was Sc
! cured from the Nevada bank at San
francisco. He bought draft for $12
at country bank in California. raised
the amount of the draft to s22 600 pre-
sented it at the Nevada bank secured
the cash and disappeared By begin
ming his relations with the Nevada
bank under strictly normal conditions
of nature to cultivate the condolences
or the bank officials, the California
sw1ndler was in a position to cash a
large draft without exciting suspicion
Wood was taken to the central sta
ton yesterday, held for few hours
and then given in charge of a Pinl<er
ton detective for conveyance to Min
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