The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-10
Won ARNOLD IS P|N(jHD
THIS TIME IN CUSTODY OF THE
POLICE OFFICIALS AT AAI-
STERDAM
WE'LL KNOWN III TWIN CITIES
Posed as Count Won Arnold, Played
Detective Roles and Had Many
Matrimonial Experiences
and Escapades.

Former Chief of Detectives John J..
OConnor, now superintendent of a pri-
Vate detective agency in this city, receiv-
ed yesterday a police circular issued in
Antwerp announcing the arrest al Am
sterdam of Charles A. Won Arnold. He
created q sensation IN this country in 1897
when he represented himself to be Baron
Robert Won Turkheim, a German roble-
man and married Mrs. Jean Young-Del-
mas. one Of the bellies of Lon Angeles,
ca. He subsequently, deserted her in Lon
don.
In fleeing to the old world Won Arnold
left behind him a criminal record as
confidence worker in nearly all of the
larger cities of the United States, includ-
ing Chicago He operated under the
aliases Of Baron A Won Steinmetz, Won
Turkheim and Karl A ven Arnold. He
is now held by the authorities of Amster-
dam for his usual practice of misrepre-
sentation and obtaining money fraudu-
lently. To have laid claim to title in the
midst Of nobility would have been the
height Of folly, so Won Arnold selected the
role of a journalist for prestige. When
arrested he maintained that he represent
ed "a syndicate of all the leading dailies
of North America He had also passed
himself off as confidential man Of the
distinguished Boer diplomat, Dr. Leyds,
who, he said, had charged him with the
purchase Of arms and supplies for the
Transvaal government
The Amsterdam authorities are holding
Won Arnold, expecting to hear of opera
tions in Antwerp, Rotterdam, Deusseldorf
and other cities visited by him since De-
cember. About the only claim Won Ar
mold will be able to substantiate is that
he served in the Royal Saxon infantry
1t was the desire to have title, coupled
with visions of fortune in a foreign land,
that made Mrs. Delmas run away. Won
Arnold, who was already married, had
no intention Of remaining with the wom-
an. Mrs. Delmas had to telegraph to
friends for the money to take her back to
America. Won Arnold was afterward ar
rested in London, charged with obtaining
500 by representing that he was heir to
large estate in Germany.
HEIR TO LARGE ESTATE.
Directly following the fight from San
Francisco of the bogus nobleman and his
duped bride Won Arnold's first wife ap-
peared in Los Angeles with a warrant for
his arrest, charging bigamy This was
in Europe Won Arnold first wife was a
Miss Emma Paul When she married him
IN Aurora, in 1890 He turned her adrift
in San Francisco in the same heartIess
manner that marked his desertion of the
other.
Won Arnold was In Chicago in 1888 and
was associated with the late Bob Bruce
In a detective agency, doing a divorce
and biackmailing business. He was lock-
ad ff, oI,+o
under false pretenses, notably $3.50 from a
Mrs. Riley, OF 1923 Wabash avenue He
next started a detective agency with
Col. Tryon, and was shortly afterward
arrested for attempting to bfacknai and
sWindle. He managed to wriggle out of
this. He was next heard from in Louis
vile, where he arrested a man on a
'trumped up charge" to extort money
from him. He was indicted for this, but
managed to escape prosecution. At va
rious times Won Arnold was written up in
Chicago newspapers for such offenses as
conspiracy, defamation of character in
divorce cases, swindling young men who
aspired to become detectives by selling
them detective commissions, defrauding
his landlady, etc.
FOOLED FRANK NYE
In Minneapolis Won Arnold got into the
good graces of States Attorney Frank
N%e (Bhl NyeS brother), for whom he
did considerable detective work in con-
nection with the prosecution of criminal
cases. Mr. Nye had been duly warned
of Won Arnold, but he took no steps to
arm himself, and as result the affable
detective swindled everybody he came in
contact with in the Twin Cities Finally
he had to leave there.
While endeavoring to secure a divorce
for wealthy woman, Mrs. Herman Rein
hold, he played lover to her, and stole
$1,000 and valuable silver service She
had Won Arnold's house searched. The
silver service was recovered, but Won Ar
mold got away with the 81, 00O This was
in December of 1894, in Los Angeles
shortly after Won Arnold served thirty
days on a chain gang for swindling the
daughter OF a hotelkeeper out of S1IO
Won Arnold had been making love to her.
He pretended that he was a German no
bieman, Baron Won Steihnetz One day
he claimed to have lost his pocketbook
and exhibited bogus telegram, purport-
ing to have come from Count Won
Moltke," requesting him to go to San
Francisco at once The infatuated young
woman let Won Arnold have the money.
Won Arnold is an educated man and
clever talker. He is now forty-three years
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