The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-12


while the Name OF an Unknown "Oliver''
10 Spoken In the Dslirium of the Young
Woman Most Notorious SvindIer in
the World Again Arrested-Crime and
Catastrophe.
Indianapolis, Ind, March 1-"Bury
me IN my wedding clothes, just as am
now
1t was a part of pitiful scrawl found
living on the floor of room 80 at the
Grand hotel this afternoon Lying across
the bed, dressed in all her fnery, lay
the body of Jennie Doty, OF Mlddletown,
Ohio, beautiful girl.
A .iny bullet hole in the left temple
md small twenty-five calibre revolver
or the floor told the story. Life was MOI
extinct. and the girl was sent to hos
pital
The young woman came 10 the Grand
hotel at 2 o'clock this morning, and
registered as Jenny Doty, Middletown,
Ohio. She was not seen again untll
found wounded an dying.
By the side CT her bed the following
note YVES found:
''To whom 1t may concern: Hold no
autopsy, but bury me in my wedding
uIot1es, as I am now. Notify X. Alice
Dotv. 10 Clinton street, Midd!etoWn,
Ohio
The authorities notified Alice Doty Of
Nf;ddletown, and tonight received a re-
ply signed Oliver Cousins, asking for
particulars In her delirium, the young
woman has called the name oliver,
and il is thought she referred to Oliver
Cousins. She seemed to be in fear.
Much mystery surrounds the affair and
the authorities are making searching
Investigation.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.
Cincinnati, O., March IA special to
the Commercial Gazette from Middle
,oWn. Ohio says: The city das startled
TINS afternoon when it was announced
that Miss Alice Ooty had received tele-
gram that her niece Miss Jennie Doty,
had committed suicide al indianapolis.
Mss Jennie Doty was well and favor
s0ly known in this city and her aunt is
Frustrated over the news. II is report
ed that Miss Jennie had been disappoint-
ed in love affair with a gentleman OF
Clis city.
SUICIDES FROM GRIEF.
Little Rock, Ark, March n.-Jackson
q. Fogy. treasurer OF Howard county,
committed suicide ar his home at Cen
ire Point today, cutting his throat with
a penknife. He was serving his fourth
term as treasurer. Grief over the death
pf wife, daughter, and son, all of recent
occurrence, is said to have unbalanced
bis mind.
NOTORIOUS SWINDLERS.
New York, March 1.-THE police to-
cay arrested William Carroll Wood
ward. alias Musgrove, alias Hawley,
and a woman who gave her name as
yennie Sankey. They were wanted in
Philadelphia on a charge of robbing a
teweler there of $4,000 worth of jew
eiry. The police say that Woodward is
professional swindler, gold brick
schener, bunco man and worker OF
confidence games Of every known varl-
ETY.; man who always goes in for big
money and is so clever that he has
sever been convicted. They assert that
he has been engaged in robbins in Cey-
ion and India, swindling in South Africa
and assault and swindling in England
and that he is known as a criminal in
ali the big cities OF the eastern and
western hemispheres.
After a series OF crimes in this c0un-
try, with the assistance of the notorious
burglar, Frank Tarbox, Woodward, ac-
cording TO the police, went to Europe.
Tarbox accompanied him ard the pair
went to the fashionable West End OF
London, where they lived in style in
Stanhope Gardens. Woodward passing
as the Honorable William Musgrove, a
gioh American senator. He gained ad-
mittance to fashionable society and
good clubs. robbing every one whom he
met In the clubs he made large sums
of money by swindling at cards.
Woodward was once denounced in the
West End clubs after his reputation
had become unsavory. He and Tarbox
then inveigled Arthur Cockburn and Al
fred Saville the men who had 6enounc-
ed him in the club, to their rooms, lock-
ed the doors and then set upon them
with hroadswords. The two criminals
succeeded in escaping from England,
leaving their victims for dead.
Woodward went 10 Ceylon, where he
ewindled a native ruby merchant out of
Sl60. 900 worth of gems. He returned 10
this country when India became too hot
FOR him. Not long ago he was living in
New Rochelle. He got mixed up while
there in a lawsuit instigated against the
Garfield National bank OF this city. The
trouble was over money paid to him by
a well known man OF this city. He de-
posted $4,000 eff the amount secured in
the Garfield National bank. The man
learned that the money was in the bank
and his lawyers made an effort to at
tach il. Woodward turned his claim,
over 10 Frank Jarvis. Payment of the
money was stopped. Jarvis took the
case 10 the courts and won by default.
VERY MUCH INDICTED.
Louisville. Ky. March 1.-THE mos
voluminous indictment ever returned ir
United States district court in Ken
lucky, was entered al noon today by the
federal grand jury against J. NJ Nc
knight, the late president Of the de.
funct German National bank. II en-.
braces 240 pages OF closely typewriter
matter and contains ninety-one separate
and distinct counts, in which there are
specified violations Of the national bank
ing laws, including embezzlement. false