The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19
Prisoner Identified in Two In
stances, and Warrants Charg-
ing False Pretenses Issued.
ALSO KNOWN AS WENTWORTH.
Invariably Had Checks To Cash,
and When Turned Down Or
drr.d Goods Sent &. q. ID.
To Random Addresses.

Doctor Louis Frank Phillips. whn was ar
rested Tuesday night at No. 27tp Locust
street ou suspicion of being the man who.
under various names. ordered large lots Of
furniture and other goods from retail
houses. rendering checks in payment. sev-
eral OF which have since been declared
worthless, has given the police litti~ salts
faction in their efforts to discover his iden-
tity and where he comes from. One of the
names given by the man who had checks
TO cash was \. Y. ogden. Invariably, when
merchants declined 10 give him money On
tho checks. no ordered the purchase he had
mId" sent c. q. u. to some address where
he was not known usually 10 No. E.3' olive
street. vacant store.
Nearly TWO score persons called At the
-Four Courts yesterday TO identify Phillips
in connection with different check swindlcs
which havo taken place In the last few
weeks Several identified him as having
ordered goods al their stores TO be sent out
q. -. D., hut when the goods arrived AT the
address given he was not known. Some
times he would he Ogden. again Doctor
Phillips and again, Wentworth In only
three instances did ne succeed in passing
his checks ana they Were for only sI5 each
chief Desmond has a list of nearly forty
merchants who have been worked to the ex-
tent Of sending goods out TO tie collected
for on delivery. but SO far only about a
dozen have identified Phillips as the man..
1t may be on account OF his ability as a
lightning change artist, for among his be-
lonsings were found false mustaches.
boards. blue goggles and hair dye II Is
said that he uses these TO coed effect When
he came to St. I-ouis--or rather TO the
boarding house at No. 200 Locust street,
where he was staying when taken into Gus
tody. he was a blond. with decidedly light
hair Now his hair Is quite dark. He says
he dyed Il because II was turning gray.
Ii has been pretty well settled that Ogden
and Phillips and Wentworth are one and
the same, but who he is. IL as much Il
puzzle ever. On his l.nen j. the name
Of ". r. Stacy. The police think that he
may he the Stacy wanted In Boston for a
similar offense. The police phot"grapher
took "A picture of him yesterday and last
night his photographs were sent fo all the
large tiles Of the East, In an effort TO idcn-
tify him. He Is rather tall and thin. He
says he Is a physician and a graduate OF
Ann Arhor. but refuses 10 tell where he
but a criminal. When asked why he at
tempted to pass the checks. he replied that
he did not care to discuss the matter as 1t
would Involve someone else he did not care
10 implicste.
representative from the Niedringhaus
Furniture Company yesterday identified
him "a the man who passed a check for SIS
In payment for desk. The check was de-
clsred worthless. a warrant was sworn out
charging him with obtaining money by false
preterses. s. II. Friediob. a clother AT No.
d6 Olive street also identified him as the
man who obtained suit OF clothes on a
Sli chack Frirdlcb identified the trousers
ogden had OF and chief Desmond COM
PEELED him to take them of and give them
10 the clothier. Ogden was led back To
the holiover minus such wearing apparel
and there was laughter as he passed
through the corridors.