The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-30
WANTED IN FORT WAYNE.
ARTHUR RAND PROVES TO BE
ADOLPH RIDDELSHEIMER.


the Commission of the Crime.
chief of Police at Fort Wayne
wires superintendent ScreVen to
Hold Him Until the Arrival of an
Onicer-RfddeIsheim Consents to
Go without IL RequisitiOn-Indis-
erection of Friend Puts the Indi-
ana People on His Track.
Adoiph Rand, an account of whose ar
resi- by Detective Scully was given in the
Morning News of yesterday, turns out
now to be a man of many names and many
DISCUSSES and one who has been for some
time much wanted by the police of his
native city, Fort Wayne. Ind. His true
name is Aloph Riddelsheimer.
When Riddelsheimer was picked up by
the detective packet of letters was found
upon his person, some of them from his
friends in Fort Wayne and other places,
and others written by himself but which
had not been posted. The letters to him
had reference principally, though obscure
ly. TO some crime that he had committed
in Fort Wayne, and for which he was
wanted by the police of that city, The
writer of one of these told Riddelsheimer
that he had shown one of his letters to an
Individual rejoicing in the name of Joe
Getz, and seemed conscious of the fact
that in so doing he had been guilty of
an objectionable indlscretion. He stated
that Getz had become aware of the fact
that he had received the letter and that
he had to show it in order to put himself
square He warned Riddelsheimer that
the jig was up" and advised that the
safest thing that he could do was to for
gel that he had ever known Fort Wayne
or It's people and never TO return to the
place.
One of the unposted letters that Riddel-
sheimer had written was in reply to this
and in it he agreed entirely that his friend
had been most unwise and indiscreet- He
alluded TO some mysterious parsonage re
ferrsd To as Ike" who was thought to
be at the bottom of the prosecution that
had been instituted, and anxious that the
wrongdoer should be captured and brought
back for punishment. He claimed that
since he had been in Savannah he had sue
cessfully perpetrated several forgeries for
quite large sums of money and that he
was only waiting the conclusion of his
last and most ambitious attempt to fleece
the guileless public to shake the dust OF
Savannah from his feet and remove him
self 10 some serener cline, where he was
more favorably or less unfavorably kno~n
and his operations against the purses of
his neighbors might be carried on with
greater assurance of success. His arrest
by Detective Scully forestalled this COM
mondable purpose.
Another of the letters was to his mother
ana rehearsed the fact, from the context,
evidently already known TO her. that he
mad been guilty of the crimes of embezzle-
lnem and forgery in Fort Wayne, and that
MS return TO that place would insure his
confinement at hard and unremunerative
IaDor for from five to twenty years. He
wrote her that he had gone too far in his
career of crime TO be able to recede, even
II he would, and that it was necessary, il
ne wished to retain his liberty and escape
punishment, to bid her good-by forever
ne warned her not to write to him until
ne could send his address and the assumed
i'ame under which he would be sailing at
his next stopping place
sun another of the letters was In a
more respondent vein, RIddelshelner ev-
iNeutiy having come to realize that he was
pursued by detectives and that his arrest
was only "a matter of time. The letter
n'o"n by his friend to Joe Getz he be-
ny'eo mad apprized his enemies of his
Ti.eieapouts and his confidence in their
Ihination to follow him until he was
captured was sufficiently strong 10 render
l'Hl desperate. He stated however that
huoWins this fact he intended to make
Dest Of bad bargain and to enjoy
as thoroughly as possible before the
grasp " ''i~n
eiiohs the papers found in the mans
'SeSslon was a check purporting to be
S"" py Leopold Adler for $25, to the
bg,1i oi H. A. Bailey and a number OF
"N 'hecks on various Savannah banks
-g was evidently preparing for an ex
'Ng course of operations, but there
''r heen no reports 10 The police that
''io Iced to the belief or certainty thar
mdd already defrauded the Savanuah
i'' Iaddelsheimer himself denies that
r "@s zone so, and accounts for the state
U.s. III ms letters by saying that they
e empty and untruthful boasts For
check signed with Mr.. Adler's pame
Noes not account at all, and Is lost IN
Papers. WIKI 'hs DINER
u" HAe It is impossible to ten from tho
@7"e references in the letters the exact
We o. Riddelsheimers oReuse in Fort
,,.t"s' II would seem that he made away
,rN ile FUNDS OF. the Strauss Manufacture
Company, and chat this is he 800 "a
-l which he is wanted
'1pL Screven telegraphed to the chief
''.ce OF Fort Wayne Sunday. ana yes
b.. morning received a reply REQUEST
.Nh to hold RidGe.she mer until Tho
b. ''i OIL an officer, who it was said wouid
s enc on at once. laier telegram ask
~ me man would consent to 90
"'hout a requisition. and to this. when
S-r,,e.s5ate d, he consented 20 do. SUPP.
IeFen so notified the rsort yEra,...s -.
. 'p' les, and IL is probable that their man
ns. atr!Ve some time tomorrow or the
N' Jay at the latest. Further than 10
s,.7 MS willingness 10 go back and
TRIAL. Riideisheimer is extremely