The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-20

this country has ever seen, and a mar
whose swindling operations has
brought him more than half millior
dollars, which he spent like prince
Now he has no home but the prison
and should he die not dollar to pay
the undertakers. 1t Is his boast, how
ever, that he has never robbed poor
man, or taken a cent from one who
could i'll afford to lose it. The day he
was put in prison to serve a sentence oil
from one to seven years for passing a
bogus check of one hundred dollars on
Charles Bauer, at Terre Haute, he re-
turned eight hundred dollars worth of
diamonds to a struggling young jewel
J er, of Chicago, because he was told that
| the loss of the jewels would financially
ruin tho young man.
| OF the early history of convict 1853,
not much is known. When a young
man he served in the Union army for
a short time, and was on furlough at
/ Washington, D. c., when he had a
quarrel with Orderly Sergeant Mat
thews, of the Thirty-fifth New York
! Volunteers. He took Matthews pistol
| from him and blew out the orderly ser
| geants brains. Leaving on horse he
went to Baltimore and arranged with
| some friend for his defense. He re-
| turned to Washington and surrendered
to the authorities. The trial was ia
nous one, Doe being defended by Sena-
tor Voorhees,, Albert G. Porter and Hen
ry S. Lane. The first trial resulted in
the death penalty. Another trial was
accorded him and he was sentenced to
eight years at hard labor, but was par
doned out by President Lincoln.
The killing of Matthews was his first
step in crime, and after he had left
prison he found many of his old friends
had deserted him. In a moment of an
ger he went south and was given cap
tain's commission in the Twelfth Mis-
sissippi, serving on the staff of General
Breckenridge He was detached from
staff duty and sent to Canada to bring
home lot Of Confederate prisoners
who had escaped to that country.
Having gathered thirty-six Of the men,
he decided to go into the bounty-jump-
ing business.
The thirty-six men he took to Angus
ia, Me-, and enlisted them In the Uni
ted States service, receiving two hum
dred dollars bounty for each man. AT
ter placing his men John Doe, as l will
call him, took the boat for Boston, and
when he arrived there his thirty-six
men were waiting for him. He took
them to New London, and again they
were sworn into Uncle Sans service,
but In a short time he had them again
al FROM, thorp a
sent them south to the Confederate
army, each man having two thousand
dollars for his services. John Doe con-
Guided to remain in New York and have
a time with the $24,S5O that he carried
in a belt, the earnings Of his bounty
jumping abilities
About that time a number of agents
of the Confederate government had
gone to New York for the purpose of
laying the city in ashes. John Doe in
sistS that he was not in the plot, and
had nothing to do with it, though he
knew what was contemplated In Fort !
Lafayette he found Captain Allison, of
Henderson, KY, and together they put
up the claim that Allison, who had been
captured on blockade runner, was a
British subject, and secured his release. |,
Allison was anxious to find a Confede
rate captain, named Kennedy, who had |
gone to New York to assist in Destroy
ing the city, and John Doe went with |
Allison to the Metropolitan Hotel, /
where Kenneday was stopping Ken
nedy was out, and Allison wrote Does
name on a card and left It for Kenne-
dy, with instruction to call at the St. |
Nicholas Hotel Allison left and went |
south.
Doe was playing billiards at the st.
Nicholas Hotel with Sherman Shook,
Herren, the safe manufacturer, and
Newton, the gold pen maker, when
Kenneday arrived Kenneday demand
ed money from John Doe, who he in
sisted he knew to be an agent of the
states. Doe gave Kennedy
one bundled dollars in a single bill,
md Shook changed it for him. A short
lime after, Doe left the hotel and went
to resort, where he gave a wine sup
Der, and while the orgies were in pro-
yress the fire alarms came in, and the
engines dashed through the streets.
Nearly every hotel in town was on fire
ina baTIlulll y MuS6uIll Was Il mass OF
lanes. Suddenly the door Of the room
n which Joe Doe was seated with some
was broken open. In
dashed Chief of Detectives John Young,
United States Marshal Murray, Detec-
i've Dusenberry Detective Kelso, after
ward chief of the New York police, and
thief Fire Marshal Decker.
Doe was taken to police headquarters,
md a quantity Of matches was found
n his pockets. 1t was then learned by
lin that Captain Kenneday had en- t
aged rooms at the Metropolitan, at the ,
4afarge, at the Astor and at French's, I
nd in each room he placed a stick of r
hosphorus in the bedding. He also Sc 6
reted a stick Of the inflammable stuff I
4 lot Of rubbish under a stairway at +
'arnums Museum, and had started all y
he fires. In one of the rooms engaged Y
Y Kennedy was found a card on which r
aptain Allison had written John Does c
anne, and this led to his arrest. Ken O
eday escaped to Vermont, but was i,
aptured and brought back. Colonel C
zeal and a sixteen-years-o boy il
AIMED Anderson were arrested at Sus- t
ension Bridge by a decrepit, old con- a
able named Davy Thomas, who was il
aid a large reward for his prisoners.