The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
Arrest of Another One
of the AbductOrS of
Johnnie Conway.
Officers Are Running the Men,
berS of a Daring Band
to Earth.
They Had Completed Plans to XIII
the Boy If the Ransom Was
Not Paid.

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug 20.-John Far
rell, one of the rescuers of little Johnnie
Conway, who was stolen by kidnapers,
captured the chief conspirator, Henry
Blake, this afternoon at Schenectady.
Farrell had bee on the trail all the morn
ing and met Blake on the street. He put
revolver under Blakes nose and COM
PEELED him to throw up his hands. He
was taken to Albany manacled. The news
of the capture had gone ahead and a crowd
assem- bled at the depot. Cries Of Lynch
him" and Kill the scoundrel," went up
and the mob closed In on the prisoner. A
large force of police, anticipating an attack,
was on hand, and forming hollow square,
drew their clubs, beat the crowd back and
got the prisoner in patrol wagon. He is
under heavy guard tonight in the
station.
As the details of the plot for the abcuc-
ton are unraveled the conviction becomes
more and more settled that the kidnapping
was the work of mem bers OF a notorious
gang of crooks which has its base of
operations in New York City, that they
planned to operate on a large scale, abb
ducting othe r children in the same manner
as they kidnapped Conway and demanding
a ransom in every case, which, if not
forthcom ing, would result in the child
being quietly put out of the way.
The Conway boy celebrated his birthday
to-day. The mother did not allow him
out OF her sight. They were overwhelmed
with presents and letters of congratula.
ton. One man said he would present the
boy with pony, which the kidnapers
told the boy he could have If he would
keep quiet.
Blake is a gambler and all-round sport
He is the man who wrote the note 10 Con-
way demanding $4,000 as ransom money
and signed himself Captain of the
Gang" The two have un bosomed them
selves to the police. Handy does not
know that Blake has been captured. the
third and principal mem ber OF the con-
spiracy is claimed by the police to be
Albert S. Warner. lawyer, who has an
Office in New York City. Blake and
Warner were seen together this morning
en- the Schenectady turnpike, near the
rendezvous of the kidnapers, but separ-
ated as Blake was alone when taken.
The police are on Warmers track and
may arrest him soon. District Attorney
DuTllHRduc odlu tO-HlSh hO h1o SuO-
stantial evidence that they would have
eventually killed the Conway boy with
chloroform had they remained undetected
few days longer and the money de-
manded not been paid. The District At
torney say. the plot to kidnap the Con-
way boy was Matched in Warmers Office
in New York.
Hardy, Blake and Warner reached AL
bany week ago last Saturday, morning
on the steamer Adirondack, one of the
night boats plying between New York
City and Albany. They intended TO have
done the job week earlier, but discov-
cred their arrangements were not per-
fected. Hardy, Blake and Warner were
in deal, on the agreement that if they
were successful each would receive $1,000
of the ransom money. Warner, being a
stranger, was selected to steal the boy. He
did so.
NEW YORK. n. Y, Aug. 20.-Warner
is police court lawyer OF very shady
reputation and out on bail on charges of
attem pting TO blackInail a prominent cti-
zen VINO became involved in an affair with
a woman.