The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-21
WARNER LOOKS LIKE KNAPP.
Detective Worden. who Arrested Him Re-
Gently, Thinkn lie Is the Man Wanted.

Detective worden. Who Arrested Him Re-
Gently, Thinks He Is the Man Wanted.
The interest of Detective worden OF tho Mer-
Ger street station was attracted to the Albany
kidnapping case yesterday by tho mention of
the name of A. 9. Warner. a lawyer of 1893
Broadway, as one of the men for whom the AL
bany police arc looking. Worden arrested
Warner on July 16 on a charge of blackmail.
1he coincidence that particularly attracted
Worden's attention was that the description
of Knass, or Knapp. printed in THE SUN yester-
day morning. fitted Warner with remarkable
accuracy. Worden was SO impressed with the
coincidence that when he went uptown last
night he said that If he met Warner, as he
hoped to. he would bring the lawyer back to the
station with him.
Warner has been in his Office very little lately,
90 far as the police know. The letter box at his
office. it was learned yesterday, has been filled
recently with dunnlng letters. Collectors have
also been frequent callers there lately. Folks
who wanted to find him have had to go
to the people who furnished the bail on
which he was released pending the trial
OF the Matchmaking charge. The bonds
are in the name of a Sixth avenue dress
maker. The property mentioned in them is
for the purpose by a civil engineer,
also a friend of Warner. Both these people are
man with a mustacho and shoes much on the
order OF those of a Central Office detective sat
on the stairs that lead to thedressmaker's rooms
tast night. lie was quite sure that he never
heard of Warner or the kidnapping c,se,. 1t was
with some difficulty that he could be induced
to admit that he knew where Albany was.
vas arrested last July was brought against him
street. According 10 the testimony Warner.
with q bill collector named Day. went to Meyers
which Meyers had written to n Mrs. Warner
after becoming acquainted with her, some
Meyers gave Warner a worthless '' cbe esE.
and then called in the police. They found War.
aSc : aitsf 4 sT SlS Ssy ysee ssaff s6m Ms Hs said a o that he 7e
make the tailor feel badly and TO revenge him
self for the insult to his wifo. He was put under
$1,000 bonds for trial. and the case has not been
heard from since.
Warner lived with Mrs. Warner of the case at
Q boarding house in Thirty-fourth street. After
Warmers arrest the woman refused to have any
thing more to do with him and went to Albany.
seemed to take her detection "a the most serious
sssg1Is 81 Of his az arrest rel 10; OWNS N to II The complicated 4
believe that he has been out of town most Of
the time for three weeks. They are quite
and ia still there. He changed his boarding
place often. He never, went back to the Thirty.
fourth street boarding house where he had been
Il would believe that Warner was the chief
Conway Worden Said yesterday EXCEPT fF
one thing. nevor saw "A more chicken.hearted
crook Than warner IN my life. l cannot under
stand where, he found courage TO go into such a
desperate scheme"
Warner at one time had a regular and respect.
able police court practice. He was once a part.
ner OF Lawyer Louis Grant. Warmers methods
In business were such that Grant broke the part
nership.
Warner comes of respectable parents. When he
was arrested for blackmailinG Myers. his aged
mother went to the Mercer street detectives and
besought them to 60 over the evidence a second
and a third time before they dared to say that
her son could be guilty of such AN atrocious
crime.