The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-09
AFTER MANY YEARS.
OLD sCHooIMaTFs MEET AGAIN As
OFFICER AND PRISONER.
Dramatic Incident In thief Hcses
omeisi Duty-Esterhrook IL n Son
of Ex-Governor Lowe, of Iowa
Special Dispatch TO tshe PostIntelngencer-

sre-ssl risra4ch 70 f.he PostInteliigencer
TACOMA Oct. S-Twenty-siX years ago
CHEF OF Police HoSe witnessed the eS-
puision from the state agricultural cos-
lege 81 Anes. Iowa, OF Peter Lowe son
Of ex-Gov. Lowe. OF that state he never
saw young Lowe again until yesterday
morning. when in the features OF Henry
Este~hrook. the much wanted thief. be
recognized his old scheelmate. The recoS-
milton would not have besn made. prob
ably had Il not been that among the
effects taken of Lowe was letter adj
dressed 10 Peter Lowe. This name sound
ed familiar 10 Chief Eoge, and after
little thought he remembered his oid
schoolmate. who in his boyhood days had
been expelled from school for bad con-
duct.
Time had evidently made no change In
his disposition as he is now behind the
bars for theft committed in this city, and
is wanted for Jobs done in Seattle ana
other cities. His long association with
men OF the criminal type has given him
a slouching gait and caused him TO glance
about furtively. Hidden behind this ex-
terror. though. are signs of good breed
ing. and there are marks about the Well
formed head that would not escape the
eye Of a phrenologiSt.
Today the chief had a long talk with
his schooimate and now his prisoner, in
which Lowe told him much concerning
his past. especially his later past, which,
he says, has been clouded by troubles with
his wife. For several years he was in
Yokohama and other Oriental cities. fill
ing different clerical positions. AT one
time he was clerk TO the captain OF an
American warship in those waters. losing
his place when a transfer was made.
From Yokohama he drifted 20 Honolulu.
and from there to San Francisco. He
married in California, but the union was
unhappy which caused him 10 sink lower
and lower, until he became an almost con-
slant fugitive from justice. He is ioath
to talk Of his parents. believing 1t better
that they should not know how he has
disgraced their good name.
His father IS ex-Gov. and ex-Supreme
Judge r. p. Lowe, of Iowa, one OF the
most prominent and best beloved men In
the state. From a Presbyterian confer
enee report, printed this year. a very pref
" pen picture is given of Gov Lowe and
his wife, both OF whom are spoken OF as
being religious. charitable people and
great helpers in religious work Mrs.
Lowe is mentioned as having done many
Christian deeds during the war of the
rebellion. when her family was quite
young.
with the statement SIS Ii any wonder
then, that such parents should have a
son who is doing good work In the mission
fields of China?'
1t may be. although the prisoner does
not say so. that he has made his unsus-
pecting parents believe he is converting
heather in far off China, when in reality
he has been Carrying on the business OF
petit larceny on a large scale. In his con-
yersation with the chief today he said that
after being expelled from the agricultural
college at Ames he was sent TO oberna
college, where he remained for a short
time.
Detective Concannon. who has been
working on the case since he made the ar
rest. claims to have secured proof that
Lowe served a term in a California peni-
tertiary, besides doing time In numerous
tails.
Detective Sam Corbett, Of Seattle. was
here after Lowe Wednesday night, but
Concannon bagged him first.