Evening journal., 1898-02-03
CLEVER WOMAN SWINDLER
SAYS SHE BUNcoEo A WILMINGTON
MAN OUT OF $4,000.

SAYS SHE BUNCOED A WILMINGTON
MAN OUT OF $4,000.
THE NAME is GIVEN AS HENRY
PYLE, BUT NO SUCH NAME APP
PEARS IN THE CITY DIREc-
TORY.
The New York Journal Of to-day
says:
If the sworn confession OF Mrs. Edna
Gordon, Queen of confidence women,
be not disproved-and the police con-
firm it-three men who have lived in
luxurious homes in this city are the
princes of all confidence men, chiefs
OF the boldest band OF scoundrels that
ever operated here. Her story marks
them as men who, operating in a sup
posedly petty branch OF crime, have
gained half a million dollars since the
beginning of 1892.
Frank Aldridge, Of No. 525 West One
Hundred and Forty-eighth street.
William Raymond, of No. 100 West
One Hundred and Thirtieth street
James Leak, of East Eightieth street,
between First and Pleasant avenues.
uNot IAtlA dlE bIlldlNu ny AutlI lOI-
mer companion, Edna Gordon.
The Journal has put the police in
possession of the means OF catching
the three. Captain McCluskey's men
are in hot pursuit of them. They have
hurriedly left their palatial homes.
These are the swindles, with the
profits thereof, which Mrs Edna Cor
don declares the band of men whom
she betrays perpetrated in the years
1892 and 1898. In these alleged crimes
she admits she took part. She kept a
careful account Of their various
/ schemes:
1S92-W. A. Werner, Hamburg. Pa.
gold bricks, $1,S0O; Fred Elgin, Ham
burg, Pa. 81 900; Aug Crawford, Eas
| Liberty, Pa, 81, 900; John Afford, Brad
ford. Pa, $4,000; Peter Atkinson, ,Olean
Pa, $1,000; j.. B. Lawson, Holly Pa.
S21 900; r. c. Conners, East Saginaw
Mich, 500 1000; Robert Jelson, Bay City
Mich, 81 800; James Phillips Muskegon
| Mich, $4,000; Peter Carr, Holland
| Mich, $4,000; James Rogers, Lancas
ter, Pa, $4,000; VIM. Ford. Harrisburg
Pa, S1,SOO; Walter Jones, Williams
port, Pa. $500; Fred Bush, Lock
haven, Pa, $1,000; Gus Burger, al
toona, Pa, 81 600, Robert Litter Johns
town, Pa. $4,000: Barney Seaman
Hillsdale, Pa, $1,000; w. B. Chambers
Coldwater, Pa, 81 700; p. w. Nasi
Elkport, Pa, $500; S. II. Moorse, i
Porte, Ind, $4,000; John Lee, SOut
| Bend Ind, $4,000; Robert F'ultOI
Kendallsville, Ind, SO 1000: Robert Mo
| Cormick. Norwalk, Ind. $4,000; Georg
Sackett, Cleveland. Ohio. $4,000; Georg
| Burns. Canton, Ohio, S14 900; Bill
| Crawford Wooster, Ohio. $1,000; Pete
Fitch. LeOna, Ohio, $1,000.
1S93-Richard Quiggs, Ft. Wayne
Ind, $500: J. G. West, Council Bluffs
Iowa, $13 900: Henry Pyle, Wilmington
Del, 50 600; J.. w. Baker, Philadelphia
Pa. S17 900; A. w. Logan, SOmborl
Ohio S14 900; c. Mills, Binghamtor
On. Y. or Ala), S13 1000; II. Davis, Por
Huron, n. Y, $1,000; Martin Hale,
Springfield, Ohio, 5000; Samuel Dear
| pard. Lancaster Pa, $4,000; Nj
Thompson, Potsdam. N. Y, $4,000; al
bert Farmer, Canton, N. Y, $1,000
Abel Jones, Mifflinburg. Pa, $4,000
Martin Bergen, Louisville, n. j., 81
500; John Heams, Victoria, B. c., $40
600: Mr.. Hollock, New York, Neb., 81
500; /. L. Connard, Providence, r.
S3 600; Farmer Woods, Bridgewate
Mass. $4,000; Louis Pennington, Sa
BernardinO. Cal, $4,000; Mr.. Noye
Tilton, N. H.. 81 600; John Smith, Mead
Vile. Pa. $4,000; Alfred Bradle.
jamestown, Pa, S1,5O0; VIM. Gun
mings, Olean, Pa, $4,000; Robel
| Briggs, Covnicia, Pa, $500; G. "
Bushberg, bonneville. Pa, $1.S00;
w. Severn, Buffalo, n. Y, $1,000; A
bert Swinger, Detroit. Mich, S4,50C
Robert FLINT, la Porte. Ind, $4,000
Bert Williamson, Greenville, Ind. $40
600: Gustave Bond, Three Rivers, Ind
$4,000; Louis Freeman, Kalamazoo
Mich. $500; Billy Jackson, Lift
Creek. Ind, $1,000: Davy Crockei
! California. $25 ZOO; Butcher Golinge
Frisco. $40. 900; Gilbert Rickson. POr
land. Ore. S19 1000 Total, S452. 100.
Her confession is one of the most r.
. markable ever sworn to by a woma
These facts the Journal have given
. the police. They make an astoundlr
: | chapter in the great history of crime
An Evening Journal reporter mac
inquiry at the works of c. q J. Pyle r.
garding the Henry Pyle of this cit
| VINO Wdo Dulitoth out vi PAofuuV. hAN'
9 eric Pyle. treasurer of the compan
! said that he knew of no such person
I Henry Pyle. Neither had he ev'
= known Of a Pyle OF Wilmington beir
/. swindled out Of any amount Of none
A search Of the directory shoy
there TO be no Henry Pyle living
this city. The only person bearing Il
name is Henry V. Pyle. of No. 9
Jackson street, clerk at the Edge Mo
3 Iron Works.
MAcKEy AND THE CUSHION.