The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-20

| TO Canaul. lie was arrested at st. MaryS'
Ont, where he operated under the name
| of 7. Hutton, in March. 1898. The arrest
was made while he was in the act of re
ceiptins for an express package which
contained jcwelry.
Tie Canadian authorities finally nolle
piossed their case in July, 1895 Roths-
| child was eXtradited AMI was taken to
| Moberly, Mo-, where he plead guilty to a
/ charge of forgery and was sentenced to
four years penal servitude. On account, ac-
! oording to his own statement. of his good
| conduct he was released at the expira-
| ton of three years, a case of forgery for
which he was wanted at Swains5oro, Ga,
and for which he was TO have been tried
when eXtradited having been hushed up
| in the meantime.
Soon after his release from the peniten-
tiary at Jefferson City Rothschid was APP
pretended at indianapolis on govern
ment charge of Illegal use of the mails
1t was while he was in custody at that
place that Sheriff R. NJ. Glover OF this
county went for him. brought him safely
back and lodged him In jail here on the
charges in connection with the Waelder
case. The Wells Fargo Express company
naturally interested itself in Mr.. Mitchell
and the other shippers" and their losses
and in consequence they had their special
officer, Mr.. +. j. Dodge, on the lockout
Texas so huuriedly. Rothschilds convic-
ton, as already noted, was the result.
~
Rothschild was nothing If not resource
full and he exhausted every effort to secure
his release. AS showing the lengths to
which he went 1t may be stated that on
May "a, of the present year, shortly after
having been lodged in Jail at Gonzales, he
wrote Sir Julian Pauncefote, British am
bassador at Washington, lengthy COM
munication in which he claimed that he
was a British subject and that he was IL
legally restrained of his liberty here, In
support OF this statement he claimed that
while confined in the Jail at Toronto an
agreement was entered into to the effect
that, in lieu of his waving the right of
eXtradition, he was to be eXtradited to the
United States and tried only on the
charges pending against him at Moberly,
Mo, and at Swainsboro Ga He also made
other charges, absurd on their face, in his
attempt to convince the representative of
Great Britain of the correctness of his as
sertlons, and, among other things, said
that he had been severely punished for
his misdeeds, that he realized fully that
1.-The way of the transgressor is hard" and
that, II given an opportunity, he would
show that he could lead an honest life in
another country.
The British charge d. affaires at Wash
ington referred Rothschild's letter to Hor-
ace D. Nugent, British consul at Galveston,
who. in turn, communicated with Governor
Savers in the premises. ii was
shown to the satisfaction OF the
representatives of Great Britain,
however, that Rothschild was not
a British subject and that none OF his
statements to Pauncefote were true ex-
cept those to the effect that there we're
several charges of forgery against MIN
and that he did compromise the Georgia
case while in Jail at Jefferson City.
Rothschild maintained his usual calm
and collected bearing all during the trial
EXCEPT on one occasion, when contain
features of the prosecution Ysfe brought
to his attention. He seemed TO be nettiel
somewhat at the time, but be soon arrived
at The conclusion that 1t would be wise
for him TO allow matters to take their
course. Attorney Nixon, who represented
fine prisoner. called the attention OF the
iury to the fact that Rothschild was a
stranger there, was advanced in years and
that SO far as known, he had always lived
a correct and upright life. The lurymeh
did not seem to be greatly affected thereby
however.
The report of the fourth assistant post
master general for 1896 contained tne
following excerpts concerning Rothschiid;
ABE Rothschild, alias Joseph jaeger
alias Henry Smythe, etc, was poth
shrewd swindler and hardened criminal
His record reads more life fiction tnan
plain detail of facts. The offenses lot
ff'~''@
which be was finally convicted were COM
mitted in Missouri in July. 1884. HIS ar
rest was effected at San Lorenzo. Cali Oh
september 80, 1894. by an inspector at
atched to the San Francisco division. 90
the charge OF using the mails In conduct
ing a scaeme TO defraud. Rothschiia,s
latest swindling operations were ths poia"
est ~ the kind ever brought to the at
tention of this department. having
learned the names of the men Oh nisn
commercial standing In some parliculal
town he would forge an order In ms haihe
nm some Wholesale dealer for GOODS 70 ne
shipped to the place In which the aIose-
said adm merchant resided. or TO some other
AnE a