The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-15
DRIVEN TO CONFESS
EUGENE BERENs0N GIVES HIMSELF
UP AT DETROIT.


Eaters Police Headquarters and Asks to be
Arrested for having Absconded with
His Employer Moosy In 1s95-Tells
How He and His Wife We're Chased
About bv Fears of Arrest, and How She
Finally Induced Him to Surrender and
Have it Over-General News of Crime
and Accident
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 14-Eugene Beren-
son OF Chicago, accompanied by his wife,
entered police headquarters at noon today
anG said:
"I want to be arrested. was formerly
manager Of the Akron and Canton Stone
company in Chicago. In August. 1894,
absconded with a large sum of money"
Mrs Berenson at this point fell TO the
floor in u faint. Berenson was locked up
ard the Chicago police notified. Beren-
son said that since leaving Chicago they
had roamed the country, haunted by con-
slant fear of arrest. The matter Dreyed
upon his wife's mind. Their funds had
Gwirdied to almost nothing and she final
ly induced him To surrender. 1t was
learned that the amount of the ernbezzie-
ment was s., 900. Mrs. Berenson is
daughter of a Boston millionaire. Her
father cast her Off upon her marriage.
INDICTED FOR FORGERY.
Cleveland. O., an. 1.-THE grand jury
today returned true bill against Charles
L. Cunningham, president of the War
wick Electric Manufacturing company,
charged with forging the name of Judge
L. T. Nation TO check for $4,000.
COONEY IS ACCUSED.
San Francisco. Cal. Jan. III. j.
Cooney, ex-notary, was today arrested
on a warrant sworn out by Charles l..
Fair for alleged perjury. At the Fair
will trial Cooney testified that the late
ex-senator Fair. on September q, 1894,
acknowledged TO him MS signature to
deeds conveying property worth 100000
to Mrs. Nettie Craven, a school teacher.
vino claims to be the contract widow OF
Fair District Attorney Barnes states
that the prosecution will prove that the
paper on which the alleged acknowledge
ment WAS taken was manufactured at
later date than that on which Cooney
asserted Fair made his acknowledgment.
This is understood to be the first OF sew
eral criminal prosecutions directed
against some OF the claimants 10 the Fair
millions Cooney is held in 81 900 bonds.
BANKERS ACQUITTED
Denver, Jan. IA jury in the United
States district court has brought in
verdict of acquittal in the case against
w. Fl. Cochran, president, and r. II.
Sayres. cashier, Of the First National
bank of Del Norte, Colo, which closed its
doors in 1892, who were charged with
having made false report TO the comp
troller of the currency. The alleged
tcsl l Of l,a a &
contingent liability from the banks re-
port. The defendants were once convict
ed, but the verdict was set aside by the
supreme court.
BLOODHOUNDS IN PURSUIT.
Macon, Ca, Jan. 14.-This morning at
about O'Clock a party of masked men
went to the home of William Rowland, a
merchant at Adams Station, two miles
below Macon. and demanded his money.
He refused and attempted to defend him
self with a gun. Firing ensued, and Mrs.
Rowland was shot. 1t is understood that
Ehe has since died. Parties came to Ma
con this morning for bloodhounds, re-
turning with them at II o'clock. A posse
Is now in pursuit OF the robbers.
ARTHUR PLATT REMANDED.
London. Jan. 14.-Arthur Platt, who is
wanted by the authorities of Lexington,
tent of the Eastern lunatic asylum OF
that city in December, 1895, while he was
a keeper in that institution, and was ar
rested on December is, 1896, in Oxford
after having served siX-months term
oe Imprisonment for burglary, was ar
raigned in the eXtradition court today
and again remanded. as the papers neces-
sary for his extradition had not arrived.
HAS NOT CONFESSED.
Yokohama. Jan. At is now stated |
that Miss Mary Jacob. the governess Of
the Carew family. who was recently ar
rested in suspicion of being connected |
with the death by poison Of Walter Ray |
r;ond Hallowell Carew. has not confess i
ID. although the announcement TO that |
effect was made public. 1t is further !
stated tina. the trial of Mrs. Carew. who |
vas charged with causing the death OF |
,er husband by the administration OF |
poison is nat finished. Miss Jacob. how |
,ver, has been remanded to January %. |
WASTED HIS SUBSTANCE.
Providence, r. l., Jan. 1.-THE body |
! c. w Myers. son Of a Chicago banker,
vas found on the floor of a room in his |
boarding house here today, ne having |
committed suicide some time during the |
light by shooting himself through the |
leart Myers was "a years old and had |
,een living in this city about two years. |
lie inherited fortune from an uncle
hree years ago, but OF late has been in
financial straits.
MOTORMAN LOSES CONTROL.
Pittsburg. Pa. Jan. 14.-Five persons
we're seriously injured and abou, thirty
,thers more or less cut and bruised by
n accident this morning on the Pennsyl-
-ania avenue branch OF the Consolidated
fraction company.
Those seriously injured were:
p. c. haley, leg broken.
George Shngo. shoulder disolcated.
Edward Taylor, seriously cut on the
lead.
William Steed, motorman, badly cut
bout the head.
About o'clock this morning as the
ar was coming down a steep grade near
'1irty-fourth street the motorman lost
ontro! He applied the brakes at once,
III: without avail, and the car soon gain
q a high speed. Al thirty-fourtn street
jumped the track and dashed into a
Iegraph pole. All the passengers sus-
ainei slight injuries.
Those named were given medical atten-
ion and conveyed 20 their homes. bu:
ne others were able 70 proceed 10 the
ity.
LEFT THE GAS FLOWING.
New York, Jan. 14.-Wiiliam Ferguson.
corresponding secretary or Topographic
sl Un.on No. s. OF tbs city. and Jacob
icKenna Of Brooklyn were found dead
oday in a room OF the HotAi Timer in
me Hundred and Twenty-fiftl street.
hey had died of asphyxia ton by Hum
mating gas. which escaped from a burner
hot TAD been left open, probably acci-
ania'lr-
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