The San Francisco call., 1899-08-16

10 Wreak vengeance on the man OF
many aliases whom he had cabled upor
his arrival in Sydney that he was al
right. And right here, it is certain that
Green came nearer being the victim OF
desperate criminal plot than he was
when he sailed from this port in March
with the three hired thugs of Howard
Disposal of the Booty.
Murphy had figured his chances dowr
fine. He had entered the treasure-ro
of the Alameda after the steamer had
left. Auckland and had abstracted the
5000 sovereigns. The question then
was TO get away with the booty. Hon
olulu was selected as. the place, but
there were difficulties to be encOun-
tered, which, even with the assistance
of the two. criminals awaiting him,
Murphy feared might be impossible to
surinCunt. He laid his plans to escape
detection and at the same time do
Howard some service for the. 500, 00O
they had failed to earn on the. vessel S
down trip. 1t was his plan, .undeubt-
edly, to have the sovereigns so placed
that, if he found it impossible to get
them of to Casey and Kelly, he could
sneak them into the stateroom of
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soon as search. of the ship was made,
as it was a few days out from Homo
lulu when the loss was first discovered.
To all of HoWards intents and .pur-
poses, this would have been as good al
most as the murder of Green. 1t would
have resulted in his arrest on a. charge
of robbery, and despite the high stand
. ing of the Denver man in financial cir
cles he would have found 1t uphill
work TO proceed for long time with
his proposed prosecution of the man
who had sWindled him. y
Murphy was not put to the necessity
or the pain of parting with. the stolen
money and. Green was not placed in
any Iuch predicament. The three. AUS
tra<ians got the money off and Green
sailed on with a clear stateroom and
an untroubled =. conscience until he
reached this port, where he was taken
in tow by the police and subjected to
a long and searching crOSS-eXamna-
tiOn. At first he was strongly suspect
ed for the. reason that Howard had
taken pains to circulate rumOrS,: in
contemplation of trouble from Green,
that would not reflect Creditably on his
character He had given money to one
of his creatures with which to imper-
senate Green in the tenderloin, and TO
another, George Adams, he had in
trusted the task of spreading abroad
did not sail on the Alameda with Green
was because that individual had been
warned that Green had hired thugs to
throw him into the sea on the way to
Australia.
Howard as a Capitalist.
The remainder of the story, of How
ards attack on Green. of his threats
of murder and suicide and finally of his
promises to return the money out of
which he had swindled the Denver
man was told Monday night in Attor-
ney Pillsbury's room in the Palace Ho-
tel. Additional light was thrown yes
terday on the figure Howard has cut in
this city and in Australia before he
game here. His criminal record in
black and white is in the hands OF
Chief of Police Lees. He was a known
swindler in Australia, convicted at
that, and once sentenced to serve five
years for a crime. He put in nine
months of that imprisonment and
broke Jail to come to this country
where such good things as Green seem
to be pretty plentiful.
Right and left he swindled people
with his gas machine. The front he
put up, especially with his bogus cap
tain's uniform, caught more people and
just as wise as Capitalist Green He
talked such people as Alvinza Hay
ward, Winthrop Lester and Thomas b
Bishop, the well known attorney. into
his net, it is said, for good round sums.
Later they found out their man and he
was made to restore the money out Of
. which he had sWindled them
Howard spent money right and left.
lie bought wine for anybody ard every
body at every place He drove the fin
est rigs and he associated with the best
people. He was very cXtravagaIit. and
seemed 10 have no end OF funds. Fer IN
stance, it is known that for long time
he paid George Green, the boxer, $50 a
week for boxing lessons, and then tool;
only one lesson a week. Green said yes
terday that Howard was q very handy
man with the mitts. The "plunger''
gave Green carte blanche on half \
dozen saloons in town for all the wine
he wanted and frequently chided the
pugiliSt because he did not consume
enough champagne. He also gave Green
an order on Kelly's stable for auy rig
he wanted a. any time.
Iron Hand Of the Law.
And so it went-Grecns, of course
and the Denver man was pressing foi
a settlement. Howard promised and
threatened and promised again and
again, until Attorney Pillsbury, tirine
Of the game he saw was being played
resolved TO wait no longer and caused
the issuance of the warrants for the
arrest Of the Australian. When they
went to serve them the police found
that their man was gone.
1t is supposed that Howard left the
city last Thursday. but Chief Lees and
Detective Thomas Gibson, who has haC
the Alameda robbery investigation in
charge. are given to the belief that he
has not gone far. His wife says that
he was at the house Sunday night
since which time she has not seen him
Mrs. Howard was considerably