The record-union., 1897-09-03
Obtained Thirty Dollars From a San
Francisco HOtelkeepeT.
On the Strength of a New South Wales
Draft Which He Exhibited.
The Alleged Scion of English No
biIity Wanted at Toronto for
DESERVING His Wife and Eloping
With a Young Gir1-A1so Want
ed at Chicago.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2-This
morning John P. Gallagher, proprietor
of the Hotel Langham, procured a war
rant for the arrest of Cooper, the al
legged scion Of the English nobility, who
is in durance vile. Gallagher charges
him with obtaining money under false
pretenses. He specifies his charge by
stating that he loaned Cooper $50 on
the strength of a New South Wales
draft which he exhibited to him.
Soon after the issuance of the war
rant Cooper was booked at the City
Prison. This charge will lengthen his
stay behind the bars unless he has
friends who will furnish bail. At noon
Chief Lees had received no additional
facts anent Cooper's Eastern record
The waitress at the Langham with
whom he was infatuated called at the
City Prison to-day and chatted with
the prisoner. She stayed with him only
a short while.
WANTED AT TORONTO.
TORONTO (Ont), Sept. 2.-The To-
ronto police would like to lay their
hands on Sir Harry Cooper, now under
arrest in San Francisco. The alleged
swindler appeared in Mulaur Township
last February as the escort of Miss
Nellie Atkinson, who was returning to
recuperate after a long illness in To-
rOnto. He was known to her and at
William Halls boarding house as DR..
Henry Westwood Cooper, where he had
lived with his wife and her younger
brother since their arrival from Aus
tralia in last December.
Cooper said he had practiced medi-
cine in Australia for about a year and
a half, and held papers which pur-
ported to be diplomas from one of
London's England medical colleges.
His wife went to the village of Stan
ton in April and is there at present
She says she was Miss Bertha Young
of Brisbane, Australia, where Cooper
married her a couple of years ago.
Cooper followed his wife to Stanton
and boarded at the home of Thomas
Campaign, where he became a great
favorite He paid especial court to
Miss Campaign, Is years old, whom he
persuaded to marry him. saying that
the woman who passed as Mrs. Cooper
was not married to him He told the
girls parents that she was suffering
from a throat disease and offered to
This was assented to.
On the 18th of May last, in company
with member of the Campaign family
Cooper went to Shelbourne and pro-
cured a marriage license and borrowed
a sum of money from a friend of the
family He then took the girl to To-
ronto, satisfying her with the marriage
license. and her parents with his rep
utation as a throat specialist. They
remained together in Toronto for a
time and then disappeared and have
not been heard of here since.
HIS CAREER AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2-Henry w. Coop
er, who travels under the name of Sir
Harry Westwood Cooper, and who was
arrested in San Francisco for swind-
ling, lived in Chicago for a time under
the name of Milward, and represented
himself as an English physician. To a
number of persons he explained that he
was a member of the English nobility
and claimed taht he was in receipt of a
regular income from some of the es-
fates of his family.
He lived extensively, spent money
freely and for a time was entertained
by some of the best families in the city.
The full extent of his swindling is not
definitely known by the Pinkerton de-
tectives, but he is said to have been one
of the most clever in his unlawful pro-
fession.
The Bankers Protective Association
IS said to want him for alleged fraudu-
lent work in the East, and his arrest
in San Francisco is the outcome of a
long period of watching and shadowing
on the part of the Pinkertons through
out the country. In addition to his
swindling operations. Cooper is also
suspected Of being a bigamist, a young
woman in Detroit claiming to have
been married to him shortly before his
departure for San Francisco.
If Cooper is continued or convicted
on the charge on which he has been
arrested in San Francisco it is quite
possible he will be brought to Chicago
at the expiration of his sentence.