Arizona republican., 1899-06-23

suit was the returning of twenty-five separate indictments against Howard fer pension frauds, and his arrest
 Mound City was shaken to it's depths As fast as Howard was arrested on an indictment his mother-in-law gave bail for him, only to see him rearrest- ed on another charge He was tried; it was proved that he had committed forgery and he was sentenced to three years in the Chester prison On an- other count he secured two years more I To nine more counts he pleaded guilty. and a total of fourteen years service was charged uD against him, while the rest of the twenty-five indictments were nolle pressed. Howard went be- 1 hiE5 prison bars On October r, 1891, and Mound City wrote ''Finis' after the story of his career.
 But Mrs. Earle had influence. How ard either was insane or he feigned it. AnyhCIE, he was removed the next ] July to the government hoscital in Washington. The secret service has a-ways whispered that a pulp did this It was proved that he received much money while in the hospital, and that with it he bribed a guard. Any way, in October, 1892, Howard WIS again outside of prison a fugitive, but free till caught.
 It was al the time Of the Cherokee Strip opening that J. W. Clawson went 1 to Arkansas City, Kas., the headquar- ters for everybody interested in that grand rush. Nobody asked anybody else's business down there then and
 
 cern. Clawson formed a townsite company and sc3d seventeen lots, that only cost him filing fees, for $100 a piece True, the titles turned out af- terwards to be fraudulent, but so did hundreds of others, 50 what did that matter? Ciawscn took up the study of medicine iby mail. in connection with his real estate business; then he went to Kansas City and stood his ex- animation, and returned as pr" J. w. ClawsOn- He paid special attention to eye and ear diseases and soon he had good practice. h the meantime he had built a home, his wife and their baby girl came from Iowa and joined him, and they seemed as happy a family as one could imagine.
 pr. ClaWson was well liked in Ar kansas City. He was not Q public man; he seemed whci.ly wrapped up in his profession and his family, and he never travelled. But everyone respect cd him and his very reticence made him the more conspicuous in that town Of schemers and boomers. Ar kansas City, to show it's respect for Dr. Clawson, asked him last fall to be it's mayer. He refused. The town in sisted, and it took all his influence to keep the voters from electing him any how, despite his refusal
 Into Dr. Clawson's office recently there stroIed two men. who asked about some land he owned. They were not ready to buy, but would return They did, lasl- Tuesday, but they didn't buy any land. Instead, they put a pair of handcuffs on DF. Claws0n's wrists, l took nim to the city jail, from thence to the railway station. And the whole town, shocked but sorrowful turned oJ. tC, see George B. Howard go to serve the rest of his term in the Ches- i ter (Ill.) prison.
 The discovery and even the capture | Of Howard were as dramatic as was all the rest of his career. Never. from | the moment of his escape. did the 1 goye-nHeEt lose it's interest in his i ease. Detectives traced him back to Mound City, but he had gene when i they arrived. Next they heard of him | in Iowa, but while they were shadow | ing him he was warned. They knew | he fled to the Cherokee Strip opening, | but in that human whirlpool, with it's | drift gathered from all the world, he | lad chosen a refuge which for seven l years the detectives failed to penetrate l
 Mrs. Earle's efforts to secure a par Gcn for Howard led to his recapture | She wrCte to the attorney general, but sent the letter to Arkansas City for approval He sent it to -erk in a Washington hotel to be re- posted. The detectives knew Towards traced back the posting to the clerk and found the original envelope in which it had been sent by Howard P2stmnrkod on a train, they traced it to Arkansas City,
 IF. s. TTigg. United States marshal at Wichita, Kas., and Harry Sutton were the men intrusted with Towards capture. They suspected Dr Clsrxson I and when they called On the doctor they had Towards picture. They showed it 10 him. Clawson trembled. lrcpPed on the floor, broke down and :onf9sseI.-'St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 
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