Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-03
WOMEN IDOLIzE HIM.
KIDNAPER WARNER THE OBJECT
OF FEMININE WORSHIP.
BURDENED WITH PRESENTS.
HELD DAILY LEVEES IN HIS CELL IN
THE ALBANY JAIL.
Went over and Threatened With En-
braces His Visitors Glarcd
JeaIOusly Mt a Photo of
Beautiful Woman In
Warmers Cell.

Albany. n. V. Jan. 2.-Albert S. War
ner. who was captured at Riley. kas.. last
month. has been taken to Dannemora
prison TO enter upon his fifteen-year SEN
tence for his share in the kidnapping of
little Johnny Conway. He will scarcely lind
his new cell as pleasant an abode as the
one which he has just vacated. AT the
jail he had 4 constant stream OF callers.
mostly women. Tall, refined appearing and
debonair the brains of the kidnapping
gang held a little court in his chamber
and took no pains to conceal his Sratifi-
cation at the interest he excited among
the women.
On the mantel of his cell before he was
removed was the portrait of beautiful
young woman. taken in evening dress. Her
features and gracefully rounded form look
ed shockingly out of place in the gloomy
apartment, but to Warner they were
source of constant satisfaction and remark.
Who she was he would not divulge, but 1t
was limited that she was the woman with
whom he corresponded during his entire
flight. The card shows that the picture
was taken in Oneonta.
Every day apparently respectable women
visited Warner. singly, in couples or in
parties They came loaded down with
couples They came loaded down with
flowers and fruit and presents of scarfs and
handkerchiefs. They enjoyed almost un-
limited liberty, staying for hours and de-
parted only when Sheriff Thayer notified
them that they must give room to others.
To all of these visitors Warner showed
the greatest courtesy and sallantry. He
related again and again the story OF his
flight, and frequently alluded to 'mashes'
he had made on his trip, in spite OF his
dilipidated condition.
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ones photograph on the mantel, and the
women who visited him glared at the card
with jealous eyes.
So numerous were the floral gifts that
Warmers cell resembled a bower. His
female callers wept over him, and one or
two. more impulsive than the others, at
tempted, when the jailer was not standing
by the wicket, to embrace him.
Amid all these attentions Warner merely
stroked his Henry ". beard. ran his
slender hands thruogh his long hair. and
smiled.
The kind offices OF his fair visitors were
something beyond the ordinary. One want
ed to bathe his poor, tired feet another
to darn his socks; another to take home
the clothes that Warner had worn in court
to press them. And Warner enjoyed all
this attention. Half a dozen or more Of
these women vowed to him that they would
never cease their attentions, and would
constantly write and send him comforts at
Dannemora.
But the one woman of all who might not
improperly have shown interest in him
never called once. 1t was his wife, from
whom he has been estranged for long
time. She never came near him nor in
Quired after him. She resides in Water
ford. moth of here. and during the hunt for
Warner she was often asked for tidinSs
of him. Although processing nothing but
contempt for him. she declared that she
would not reveal his whereabouts even If
she knew.
Warmers father and mother are the only
ones the prisoner has expressed any con-
cern about. They are said to be in New
York in INDECENT circumstances.