The Lamar register., 1899-04-12
WOMEN HIS DufEs.
PunsHoN's WAY OF GETTING
MONEY.
Advertise. That He Wants Travelling
csapaaiou foy "trip 10 Europe, and
Naar women Respond = Lite In
Rrlsss-

worried about my arrest? Well,
isne.ss not, for l have already spent
more than half my life in the peniten-
siary and little thing like this doesn I
bother me. The police have no case
against me this time ad II viii not be
long before / am out again.
+. A. Punshon. alias Frank Robin
son. who admits that since 20 years
odd he has made It q business to swim
ssle women. chatted pleasantly to those
Ebo visited him at his cell az the Fit-
sieth street police station, Chicago.
To all he said he was in no way per
turbgd at having again fallen into the
hands OF the IaW. Punshon was ar
rested as he was leaving the house
al 4OI5 Indiana avenue. whore, II Is
said, his actions had been suspicious,
Al the time PunSaon attempted to es-
cape, but several shots frcm the po-
iiceman's revolver caused him TO sur
render. Punshon Is 40 years old, aad
according to his own assertion he has
served twenty-nlne years in the PEN
itentiaTy on the installneut plan,
Punshon inserted an 'ad' In news
PAPER Offering $50 a monrh and travel
ing expenses on 4 trip TO Europe for Il
suitable goyeraess. He received an
,sxsrs from 1893 women who were
willing to go, and until his arrest had
been corresponding with some Of them
and calling on others and engaging
The comsliest Of the applicants His
method was 20 have women put up
aHN- a
and then skip with the said security.
by getting many applicants TO put
up security in this manner iI was
;sometlmes paying business,
Punshon's appearance Indicates that
ne had just been released from prison.
His blonde hair IS cut short and his
complexion indicates that he has been
n confinement for some time HIS
faee is marked by deep scar on the
right side % hs..s T5FF, aHi q pFUmi-
zrnt mole under the lower lip.
They were all ladies. too said the
prisoner. pufing at cigar aad SPEAK
zHg OF his last lot Of victims. IT'S
surprising what lot Of fools there
are in the world. They were young
girls OF I6 years and old ladies OF 70.
I never go TO see them. for I wouldn't
cheat a young girl or an old woman.
not for the world. You see, they al
ways put up stakes 10 hold the trip
and borrowed some more Of them
nos and again to keep me going Did
4 ever get out OF the United States >
Well. / guess not, never since came
In from England al the age OF Il |
was a jsEeler then and Il took me just
a year to get to making shoes for the
state OF Wisconsin. served that
state OF and On for fourteen years be-
fore | struck IiIinois'
Punshon says he Is from Green Bay
Wis. The police say they have an old
charge against the prisoner. he being
charged with working the same game
in Chicago about year ago. Punshon
denies this. He says he was in the
Joliet peuitentiary at the time. The
police OF Janesyille. Wis. say that
Punshon was arrested in 1884 and
lodged in Rock county Jail in James
SilIe charged with the murder Of Au-
suzta Lucknow. domestic The evil
sS<nce was not sufficient to convict. but
she prisoner was sent August l.. 1884.
10 states prison for two years and
nine months.
Punshon appeared In Janssville in
fhs spring OF that year and secured