The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-13
THE BARON Won TURKHEIM.
Detective Yen ArnOld-HiS Past and
Present Exploits.
About His Career in the
East-His Late Deal With
DeImaS.

yesterday contained the following ac-
count of the doings of Detective c. j.
Won Arnold, who recently figured in
this city:
The honeymoon of the Baroness"
Won Turkheim, the woman who claimed
she had a right to bear the name of
Mrs. d. NJ. Delmas, may be interrupted
at Ogden. If so, it will be by tele
graph order for the arrest of her hus-
band over the signature of Chief Drew
of Sacramento for the Chief of Police
of Sacramento has been requested by
authorities in Kentucky to arrest the
man who posed as a German Baron at
his wedding in Oakland Saturday to
the mother of the child of D. M. Del
mas.
Ignorant of this fact, believing, it
may be, that she has won the affection
of the man she married and that she
will thus become a recognized member
of the German ariStocracy, the woman
whom D. M. Delmas came to fear
as his nemesis, is building air castles
not in Spain, but on the Rhina. as she
speeds merrily eastward in the Pull
man.
And D. NJ. Delmas at San Jose
| breathes easier that the woman who
threatened him, whom he had come to
fear. whose child he had acknowledged
with his own surname and his own
initials, had departed, as the wife of
! another man, it might be never to re-
turn, or if she did with no claim upon
him.
A detective agent in this city proba-
| bly, chuckles over the whole affair. 1t
must have been one of financial profit
to him, and however it may turn out in
the end, 1t is not every detective who
can say that his subordinate posing as
| a German Baron has settled a grave
domestic trouble in marrying the
woman and journeying toward Europe
on honeymoon, with a purse well
filed, it may be from the earnings of
many hard-fought lawsuit
For the Baron" Won Turkheim was,
and may be yet, in the employ of
Charles ]. Stilwell, detective, and was
known here as Carl J. Won Arnold, and
even better known in Sacramento I'M
Ger that name.
Whether Won Arnold is building air
castles of his own must be mere con-
lecture, but if so his great hope must
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United States before the authorities of
Kentucky, Illinois. Minnesota and it
may be other States, can secure his
arrest.
Carl J. Won Arnold is the detective
| through whom the Sacramento Bee"
secured the evidence upon which it
based it's sensational charge against
Mayor Hubbard, John Sheehan, editor
Of the Sunday News" and several
members of the Board of Trustees.
Won Arnold went to Sacramento ear
| ly in the year and represented himself
| as a brother OF Valentine Won Arnold
Of Chicago, the proprietor there of
Over the Rhine, a large beer and con-
cert hall on the North Side. He spent
money freely, and announced that he
! intended to start a similar saloon in
Sacramento with a restaurant attach
ment, with girls for walters and bar
maids, and on the upper floor of the
building he proposed to run a gamb-
ling house. regular Monte Carlo.
This announcement, according to the
| Bee" backed up by every appearance
in Won Arnold of being what he claim
ed brought the officials, whom it
claims are corrupt, to him with propo-
sitions to afford him protection for
his gambling house He pretended to
be ready to negotiate for protection, !"
but Of course wanted it at the cheapest
rate possible. In this way, it is alleg-
ed, he obtained complete proof that
these same men were receiving money
corruptly for protection to the other
gambling houses of Sacramento.
Won Arnold in the course of these
dealings with the officials charged with
being in the corrupt scheme, secured
from many of them, it is said, incrimi-
mating letters. In order more fully to
entangle the officials the Bee early
in March announced that pocket
book had been found and brought to
it's Office, as a part Of the effort to find
the real owners to return it, and in this
pocket-book We're documents in the
handwriting or signed by these officials.
On the basis of these documents inter
views We're secured with the officials
charged with corruption. These inter
views dealt with their negotiations
with Won Arnold, what they knew of
him and his gambling house project,
their interest in 1t. and what they knew
about the protection afforded to gam
bling.
Having secured these interviews,
which, it is claimed. corroborated in a
remarkable way some of the evidence
previously collected, the evidence was
presented to the Grand Jury, and the
Bee" published it as information, to-
gether with an account of how il was
secured This naturally exposed the
real character of Won Arnold as a de-
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stroyed any further chance that he
could be OF service in securing more
evidence in that case.
This left him free to WOO Miss Jennie
Young, which he seems Immediately to
have proceeded to do.
Chief Of Police Lees obtained an al
most complete record of Won Arnold
and his many petty crimes, and pro-
nounced the Baron" to be one of the
most audacious confidence men that
has ever visited this city.
THE record of the bogus Baron. -
said he, sis made UP of exploits of
| troubles that extend from ocean to
ocean. In the Middle States he is
tracked by innumerable arrests and in
dctments for almost all the crimes in
the decalogue. Although falling into
the clutches of the law in almost every
city that he visited. the Baron by his
skill and trickery. always managed to
escape the penalties of his crimes.
During the late Ashley Baldwin
trouble Won Arnold was employed by
A. ]. Lucas of local detective agency
to work in the interests of the defend
ant. His usual crooked proclivities
soon lost him his position and Lucas