The herald., 1897-09-03
And Would Like to Travel
Farther
MANY OBJECTIONS OFFERED
BY THE POLICE OF SEVERAL
PLACES
Sir Harry Cooper Accused Of Crimes
Committed in Cities All Over
the World
Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
TORONTO, Ont, Sept 2.-The Tor
onto 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 Feb
ruary as the escort of Miss Nellie At
kinson, who was returning to recuper-
ate after a long illness in Toronto. 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 ar
rival from Australia last December.
Cooper said he had practiced medicine
in Australia for about year and
half and held papers which purporteo
to be diplomas from one of the London,
England medical colleges. His wife
went to the village of Stanton 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 spe-
cial 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 throat disease and Of
fered to take her to Toronto for treat
ment. This was assented to. On the
18th of May last, in company with
member of the Campaign family, Coop
er went to Sherbourne and procured a
marriage license and borrowed sum of
money from a friend of the family. Then
he took the girl to Toronto, satisfying
her with the marriage license and her
parents with his reputation as throat
specialist. They remained together in
Toronto for a time and then disap-
peared and have not been heard of here
since.
CHICAGO KNOWS HIM.
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 swindling,
lived in Chicago for time under the
name Of Milward and represented him
self as an English physician. To num-
member of the English nobility and
claimed that he was in receipt of a reg
ular income from some of the estates
Of his family. He lived expensively,
spent money freely and for 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 Asso-
citation is said to want him for alleged
| fraudulent work in the East and his ar
rest in San Francisco is the outcome OF
a long period of watching and shadow
| ing on the part of the Pinkertons
throughout the country In addition to
| his swindling operations Cooper Is also
suspected of being a bigamist, young
woman in Detroit claiming to have mar
ried him shortly before his departure
for San Francisco. If Cooper is convict
ed on the charge on which he has beer
arrested in San Francisco it is quite pos
sible he will be brought to Chicago at the
expiration of his sentence.
IN HARD LUCK
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2.-Harr!
Cooper, whoAhas been held by the polio,
on suspicion of being connected wit.
eastern frauds, was discharged and re
arrested today for obtaining none,
under false pretenses. He secured
loan Of $50 from John T. Gallagher, pro
prietor of the Langham hotel, and CAV,
as security draft on the Chicago Mer
chants Loan and Trust association TO-
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