The herald., 1896-05-13

pretended to leave her and consult a
lawyer, and upon returning said that her
husband had secured warrant" and
process prohibiting any convent in Min
nesota. Dakota or Iowa from taking
the child. He advised her to return to
st. Paul. and accompanied by Gray"
and the child she started for st. Paul,
but was taken i'll at st. Peter and COM
PEELED to leave the train. Gray" pro-
cceding on his journey. He telegraphed
her next day that he would meet her
that afternoon at the Union depot in st.
Paul. and did so, taking her to a private
boarding house, and himself then pro-
ceeding to Minneapolis.
DAILY was here seen again by her in
front Of the house. Gray returned
on the following Saturday and told her
that the only way to avoid arrest and
prevent her child from being kidnapped
was to go to California. He furnished
her q ticket to San Jose and placed her
aboard the. cars for that place. She
reached there, but had been at the Hotel
Vendome but 81 xdays when she received
a telegram from her brother-in-law ex-
posing Gray as Won Arnold and de-
nouncing him as a villain. When she
left for California Gray gave her bot
tie of whisky, which she did not touch
When the telegram disclosed his du-
plicity she kept the whisky, which. when
later analysed by the state chemist OF
Minnesota, was pronounced poisoned.
The next train back to Minneapolis
was taken, her baby was placed with
its grandparents and the woman got
her divorce not on her husbands suit,
as that was held back, but on her own
She had fully ascertained Won Arnoids
character and his course toward her
and had threatened him with instant
death if he ever meddled with her again
Time will not suffice nor space allow or
full story as related by this lady. but
the following clipping will tend to show
how the baron Is regarded in Chicago
and Florida, where he is known. the
lady claims that Won Arnold bled her
husband of some $4,000 for his services
in the divorce matter and wanted more,
and would have received it had he been
successful in kidnapping the child.
The record of this private detective,
Won Arnold would fill a good-sized vol
ume. He is well known to Minneapoli-
tans and fair criterion of his work is
the following. furnished by the Pinker-
ton Detective agency, and taken from
the Chicago Mail of August Fl. 1883. 1t
Is headed Won Arnold in the South. A
friend of his almost lynched on owning
his acquaintance with the detective"
1t says:
m. w. Mahoney was so thin and
wasted when he stepped into the wit
ness box at the Armory court today that
he was almost transparent. A gust of
wind almost knocked him over, and De-
tective Storm had to support him. He
was witness for the plaintiff in the
Won Arnold case. Mr.. Mahoney was
water inspector under Harrison, and
also during Mayor Roche's administra-
ton. Last October he became so ill that
it was necessary that he should have
change of climate. He was acquainted
with Won Arnold, and that gentleman
suggested that he should go south. He
gave me a letter of recommendation to
a gentleman in Florida said the wit
ness. and when got down there pre-
sented 1t. This act almost cost me my
life. AS soon as he saw Won Arnold's
signature he threatened to kill me. The
people in the neighborhood soon learned
that 1 was in that part of the country
and 1 came very near being lynched.'
What did they want to lynch you for?'
inquired the court. why. simply be-
cause l was a friend of Won Arnold's.
He owed everybody down there
THE charge against Won Arnold this
time was made by John Mayer. The lat
ter claimed that he gave Won Arnold
checks amounting to over 500 and that
he collected the money and appropriate
I'd it. Won Arnold said that the amount
was due him for board and the case was
dismissed. Judge Bardwell remarked
when he was writing down his decision
that there was nothing to convict Won
Arnold in this case, but was satisfied
that he merited five years in the pcni-
tertiary. The alleged detective was not
at liberty two minutes before officer
Storen rearrested him on another war
rant sworn out by NJ. Koch. The latter
claims that Won Arnold secured 800
from him and gave him a check on Mr..
Berg as security The check, Mr.. Koch
was worthless"
Won Arnold's record in Chicago dur
IT.
reads like fiction and he was in all sorts
If scrapes, posing mostly as a private
detective and being indicted on charges
Of "conspiring to defeat the ends of JUS
tice;" his detective bureau broken up
BY the police. etc.