The herald., 1897-03-12
William Woodward Has Long
Escaped Conviction
WELL KNOWN AS A CRIMINAL
|, All the Big Cities Of the I've
fiemispheres
The Famous Burglar, Red O'Brien, Gets Pour
teen Years for Bank Robbery Com.
mitted at Savannah, Mo.
Associated Press Special wire

NEW YORK, March ll.-Ine pollco
today arrested William Carroll Wood
ward. alias Musgrove, alias Hawley,
and a woman who gave her name as
Jennie Sankey. They were wanted in
Philadelphia on a charge Of robbing
jewelry store of $4,000 worth Of jewelry.
The police say that Woodward Is pro.
fessional swindler, a gold brick schem-
err a bunco man, and a worker of con-
fidence games of every known variety
a man who goes in for big money. and
who Is so clever that he has never been
convicted.
They assert that he has been engaged
in robbery in Ceylon. India; swindiing
in South Africa; assault and swindlinG
in England, and that he is known ass
criminal in all the big eastern cities OF
the eastern and western hemisphere.
After a series of crimes in this coun-
try, with the assistance of the notorious
burglar, Frank Tarbox, Woodward. ac-
cording to the police, went to Europa
Tarbox accompanied him, and the pair
went to the fashionable West End OF
London, where they lived In style At
Stanhope Gardens, South Kensingtons
Woodward passing as the Hon. William
Musgrove. rich American senator.
He gained admittance to fashionable
society and good clubs, robbing every
one he met. In the clubs he made large
sums of money by swindling at cards.
woodward was once denounced in tas
West End clubs after his reputation hsuA
become unsavory. Then he and Tar
box inveigled Arthur Cockburn and
Alfred Seville, the men who had de-
nounced them in their clubs, to their
rooms and made an assault upon then
with broadswords. The two criminsl
succeeded in escaping from Bingham.
leaving their victims for dead.
Woodward went to Ceylon. where
swindled native ruby merchant OF
Of 100000 worth of gems. He returneJ
| to this country when India became to
hot for him. Not long ago he was II
ing in New Rochelle. He got mixedfis
while there with lawsuit institut
against the Garfield National bank ~
this city The trouble was over mon
paid to him by well known man &
this city. He deposited $4,000 Of ta
amount secured in the Garfleid bar :
The man learned that the money was n
the bank, and his lawyers made in
effort to attach 1t. woodward turned
his claim over to Frank Jarvis. Pa.
ment of the money was stoppsd. jar
Wis took the case to the courts and w.
by default. s
BURGLARS BAGGED.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo-. March 11.-on THE
night of February 7, 1896. the state baHs
Of Savannah, Mo-, was entered hy
masked robbers, who bound and gegscS
the watchman. after which they looted
the bank. securing from $4,000 to $4,000
In money and bonds
Red O'Brien and William Louth-
bridge, two of the most famous crocisa
and burglars in the country, were cep..
tured in California some time later Ind
charged with the crime. The trial =
O'Brien terminated at Savannah to-
night when at $3.50 the jury returned
verdict Of guilty and assessed his pr
isffment at fourteen years In the penitt i
tiary. His wife, who was present, Gre
ated a scene when the verdict was ~
nounced.
A MYSTERY UNSOLvED.
CHICAGO, March 1.-THE mystes
the wealthy sister-in-law Of Gen. Brees
of Wisconsin. has not been fathomed hr
the police. In fact, 50 far as conclusl
evidence goes, the case seems furtS er
from solution than ever. Detectives r.
terviewed Mrs. Bragg at the hospital To-
day. They informed her Of the revol ~
being found in a closet. She was m RI
uncommunicative than usual, but II
she never owned a pistol and did rot
know how to use one. She declared thsk
1t was not burglar who did the shcnta
ing, saying that no one was in the hoass
but herself and her adopted daughser
Josephine, but at the same time deny.ns
that Josephine was guilty.
Mrs. Bragg this afternoon sent for 5es
attorney and ordered him to draw Z new
will. leaving her estate. valued At $4,000
to ]. and W. Gallagher Of Ohio. In sha
new document Mrs. Bragg's explicit Or.
ders are that Josephine's name shall nos
be mentioned. The attorney nays Nss.
Bragg refused to tell him anything q e
would tend to solve the mystery.
THE WRONG MAN.
PHILADELPHIA. March II. The 20
lice Of this city disclaim all knowledgp -
William c. woodward and Jennie eon-
key, arrested in New York today o. q
charge of robbing . Philadelphia jeWs
eler Of $4,000 worth Of jewe1ry. Captain
Linden declares that no police notice ~
questing their arrest has been sent ffoD
this city. and they are not wanted to on~'
swer for any offense.
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