The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

home to supper The office was then opened
and Wills's desk was forced. Inside il
Were found three kilograms from w. Allen
was received at the Western Union Office
at 1886 O'Clock yesterday morning and in
jail at Louisville charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses. The second
Wills. for it Simply Stated that Kinney was
Daniels's attorney. The third was received
here at LA p. m. and asked that wills send
S25 Immediately for Daniels. This telegram
had been received by Wills and shows that
he was in the city at z o'clock
sone light on the St. Paul arrests. 1t was
from a firm of lawyers there and stated
Thomas Wills and Frank Rose on habeas
corpus proceedings. but that the State bad
Immediately ,rearrested them on another
charge; 1t also stated that the attorneys
there thought the two men were, father. and
son. This is all that is known here of the
St. Paul end of the story.
Hamilton Wills and Frank Rose are we'll
known IN this city in certain circles. One
popularity. of their makeup. is that they
by the press. and the fact that they have
clipped articles from all over the country
simply connects them closer with schemes
IN which there is no direct evidence against
them. A large envelope contained a num-
Der OF smaller ones, each marked with the
name of a city and one marked mis-
cellaneous" and one married y. 5; wilson.
envelope. all refer to advertising directory
fakes. The cities included are Chicago,
Buffalo. Butte, Mont. Detroit. Cleveland.
Cincinnati and st. Louis. Some of the clip
pings show that they were clipped by the
Register press clipping bureau or Chlcago,
while others are evidently sent in by agents
from towns where they are at work. Those
from the bureau seem to have no connec-
ton whatever with the Indianapolis con-
cern, but the fact that the words FICTITIOUS
directory scheme are underlined with a
blue mark furnishes the connection They
relate to IN effort of a directory Swlndler
to recover certain papers from the New
York police. TIL papers were taken from
him when arrested for swindling.
The clippings in the envelope marked
Wilson show that Wilson was a directory
solicitor and that in a hotel in st: Joseph,
Mo-, he assaulted a ffteen-year-old cham
bermaid and was indicted for the offense,
but there is no clipping to show that h was
ever arrested. although his partner in 50,
Letting, a man named Cole, was arrested
in Kansas City for attempting TO swindie
a hotel.
The miscellaneous envelope contains the
matter of interest locally. for 1t is an ac-
count of all that the men have done here
print. It is well known that Wills and Rose
lived with two disreputable women on Clln-
ton street. and this is seemingly admitted
by a clipping in regard to, the women. VINO
were connected with the Winnie Smlth
murder case. This clipping shows that the
avoid appearing before the coroner. The
fact that it is clipped is significant. An
other is the account of the Frank Rose
divorce case. This created a sensation at
the time on account of the fact that the
parties lived in the Blacherne at the time.
A man named POWELL came mere liOii Sih-
cago. and Mrs. Rose left town with him
and went back to Chicago. where she had
formerly lived as Powelfs hous9keeper
Rose applied for a divorce and it was
granted.
LOCAL DIRECTORY VICTIMS.
Below is a partial list of the victims OF
directory swindlers in this city. 1t is not
known that these men were swindled by the
Rose Publishing Company, but they were
victims of the Index Publishing Company,
of Chicago, which is mentioned in a num-
Der of the clippings referred to. The list
is: r. S. Mckee & Son, the HIDE, Leather
and Betting Company, Annheuser-Busch
Company, Terre Haute Brewing Company,
National Malleable Casting Company, Kin
gan & CO., Indianapolis Drug Company. In
dianapo is Furniture Company, Indianapolis
manufacturer and Carpenters Union,
Cerealine Manufacturing Company, Nor
dyke q MaIrnon, Daniel Stewart and Bur
1is-Herzel Company.
These arrests are largely due to the ef-
forts of MeSSrs. Murphy Baker, who
are the local representatives OF *. L.. Folk
d Co., publishers of the Indianapolis di-
rectory and many other city and State di-
such swindling schemes injure their busi-
ness and they have been at work for more
than three years endeavor1ng TO recure evil
dence that would convict the managers OF
the Rose Publishing Company.
The detectives and the police department
were on the lookout all of last night for
Hamilton b. Wills, but could not find him.
His wife said last night that he had left
home Monday at noon. telling her he was
going away on a business trip, but the
telegrams that were found in his desk show
that he was in his office yesterday after
I IN O'Clock.