Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-10-05
He ATTENDED CHURCH FIRST,
THEN PLAYED CARDS WITH 4
STRANGER TO HIS SORROW.
Otto Ewing Thought He Was . Poker
Player, bat John North Showed
Him a Few POints-North
Arrested After n Chase.

A hundred people. led by Officer High
note, chased John North through the alleys
and byways in the neighborhood of the
Ninth Street theater yesterday afternoon,
and finally captured him at Ninth and May
streets. North Is supposed tinhorn gam
bier. who came to Kansas City to reap his
share of tho emoluments of carnival week.
He. with his partner, named Bennett. is
said to have fleeced Otto Ewing out of 800
In room of the Savoy hotel. Ewing gave
the alarm. and the crowd and Officer High
note did the rest. North was taken to po-
lice headquarters and locked up, but he did
not have the 800 with him.
In the confusion attending the early
STAGES OF the chase he is said to have
passed the money to Bennett, who had
escaped on an east bound Ninth street car.
The police are now looking for Bennett.
-at 1:3O o'clock Otto Ewing sat in All
Souls church, Ais West Tenth street. listen
and Politics" DR.. Roberts had just read
the passage from Jeremiah: But If thou
wilt not 20 forth to the king of Babylons
the hands of the Chaldeans. and they shall
burn 1t with fire, and thou shalt not escape
out out Of their the hands" short blonde man;
the vestrv and tiptoed down the aisle to
where Ewing sat. He whispered some
thing to him, and the two passed out to-
away suit. He was introduced to Ewing
as Pr. Cline. Of Atchison. The three went
to the Hotel Savoy. where they engaged a
- The he's, short, e blonde man is yariously known
as a.3,oh John North No and Jack" Brown and John
morning. and had scraped up an acquaint-
ance with. Ewing on the train. Ewing.
xao ~ he Sorit t. plays cards
marx" and North entertained the same
opinion of Ewing. The latter said he went
into the hotel with crisp silver certificates
came out four hours later without a cent.
Ewin- says that the pair "piped off his
hands hands, oe either 1.-THE with q looklng.glass or
At 3:45 Ewing, Bennett and North rushed
from the side entrance to the Hotel Savoy.
A Ninth street cable car was passing and
Bennett and North made dash for it.
Ewing threw his arms about North and
shouted police" at the top OF his lungs,
but North drew a knife. In lodging the
sprang upon the footboard of the car and
passed something to Bennett, who was oc-
cupying seat and manifesting a disin-
tecested curiosity in the scuffie.
In the meantime a crowd had collected
and North was jerked from the car just
as as the signal sounded and the train start
cape in flight. He dashed up the alley be-
tween May and Central. throwing a deck
of cards and three dice into a mud puddle
by this tme He dreh @ rysver wss on
and led in the pursuit. calling to the
dIs fugitive live, to ooa stop bgt Norths short legs
the alley at Eighth street several hundred
feet in advance Of the rabble and made
a dash for a weed patch near Eighth and
May streets. He was able to hold this
concealment but moment, however as
the crowd which was beating the rubbish
was rapidly growing. He made another
break for liberty and ran plump into the
arms OF Lewis Hines, a stalwart litho.
grapher. This ended the exciting chase,
Hires held his man until Officer Highnote
arrived and ten minutes later he was
being hurried to police headquarters in the
patrol wagon.
= The arrested man came to the Hotel
Savoy yesterday morning about 10 O'clock
and engaged a room for the day, paying
Tor 1t in advance and saying he was going
out Of the city on an evening train,
Charles Martin. the clerk, was suspicious
OF tie man and shortly after sending him
to his room told Manager Ewins that he
did not act right and ought to be watched.
Shortly afterward he came down and soon
returned with his pal and after taking
several drinks they left the hotel and then
returned with their supposed victim They
had several drinks sent to the room and
after time the management had their
do!ngs inspected. but was unabls to And
anything wrong; Shortly after that they
when they called for their key they found
the management had control of the room.