The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-03
TO BRING ALLEN BACK
An Attempt Will Be Made to Get
Hold of the Swindler.
MURPHY LEAVES TODAY
The Expenses Have Been Put Up by
Men Who Are anxious to Get Hold
or h Man-In Custody In
New YORK City.

An effort is to be made TO bring
Swindler Allen back TO Montana from
New York city. where he is now in
custody. to stand trial for swindling
Jerry Hore and Sam Altman during
the brief period that he operated here.
The case is being pushed by Hore and
Meyer Gansberger, who represents Alt
man. They will put up the expense OF
the attempt to extradite Allen n
Detective Murphy expects to leave for
New York to-day with a requisition.
When Chief Of Police Mulholland re-
ceived the photographs of the nan
under arrest day before yesterday,
they were shown to persons who knew
Allen while he was here. Judge Ke-
hoe. John Murray. J.. w. Lynch. NJ.
II. Nichols and A. w. Barnes all iden-
titled the portraits as Aliens,
and the people who fell victims to his
smoothness We're at once notified. They
expressed a desire to nave him brought
back, and arrangements were made to
send Detective Murphy to New York.
Governor Smith will be asked for a
requisition on the warrant that was is
sued for Allen at the time he skipped.
and the officers hope To be able 10
secure his extradition.
Allen, as the man is known here. is
undoubtedly a very smooth
but he tripped himself. He came %
Butte in the latter part of August, ac-
wife. They tool a house i'm West Park
street and put on the air of money ID
people. The mar made the acquoin-
lance of brokers. giving the name to
some Of Mason O.. Allen and to others
of j. @. Allen. He represented himself
a man of means looking for invest
ments and soon had half the brokers In
town running after him. Jeremiah
Hore wanted to get rid of his property.
and was steered against Allen. A deal
was soon made Hore sold his $1,000
property for 1900. Allen was to pay
the cash on the LIST of October, and
as collateral security that he would do
so. placed in escrow certain mortgages
purporting to be for $4,000. Then he
found an excuse for sending Hore out
of town and at once re-sold the prop
erty to John Murray for $1,000 cash.
In the meantime, through he oma
who represented herself as a milliner,
the Sam Altman store was worked in
the same way for about 5000. The
millinery was packed and shipped to
Ogden and the couple decamped. They
were hardly gone when the frauds
were discovered and a warrant of ar
rest was issued. but the pair had van
ished n for a long time no trace
OF them could be found.
Finally, about threerweeks ago, Chief
Nulholland got a letter Isigned {. j.
Howard. stating the writer knew AL
len. that he would be in New York on
a certain date and IL wanted here. the
writer would turn him ove to the au-
fhnRiffAG IL Al fFa rCnfTaG tho writer
was Allen. and why he wrote the let
ter is a mystery. but he evidently had
some object which may yet be ex-
planned. chief Mulholland wired back
TO have the nan arrested. but got no
response. He became suspicious and
wrote the chief of police of New York,
asking him to investigate the matter.
In a few days came a telegram stating
Howard himself. or Allen or VIII itever
his name is. had been arrested. Then
came the letter day before yesterday
with the pictures and IL became GER
tain the man was Allen. The letter
stated the man gave the name os
George Martin. and that he was arrest
ed while asking for the mail of G.. ].
Howard at the New York p~ostofficc.
Chief Mulholland wired to know If Re
was still being held n got "a reply
yesterday that he was, and the steps
to bring him back were taken.
Some doubt is expressed. in fact. the
county attorney Is satisfied Alien can
not be convicted of swindllng Hore. bur
IL Is possible a successful prosecution
can be had in the other case. The man
Is known as Allen. Henderson, How
ard. Martin. Kemble and no one knows
how many aliases. and whether n of
them is his right name is not known.
Both he and his wife, or the woman
who travels with him. are known to
the Chicago and New York police as
a clever pair of swindlers. 1t is sup
posed the mans object in writing to
Chief Mulholland was TO ascertain IL
any steps were being taken against
him here.