The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-18
ISI NO LONGER
A FUGITIVE.
Confession Clears Arnold Of
ths Charge Of Murder.
BECAME WEALTHY IN ALASKA.
Nov He Is Searching for Wife and Daugh-
Ter, Who Hap Been Lining With The
Chuctaw Indians.
BECAME WEALTHY IN ALASKA.

Tuscogce, l. r.. Dec. 1S-Laden with
wea..a OF Alaska. freed from a charge OF
murder that had kept him in hiding many
years. Edward Arnold has returned TO find
his wife and daughter
His quest has led him To the Cherokee
nation. for two women whom he believes
10 be the ones he seeks have long been
harbored by the Indians.
Mr. Arnold came to Tuscogee last week
and went 10 point on the Verdigris
river, seven miles from Claremore. There
a hunter said the elder woman he sought
had gone 10 Ninita TO appear IN a divorce
suit against her Choctaw husband.
The daughter had gone TO some point on
the Grand river, near Fort Gibson
Arnold came back 10 Tuscogee TO await
the girls return. According 10 the story
he has told here, he was a member OF a
prominent and wealthy family of Gin
cinnati. He was married in St Luke's
church, on Thanksgiving Day. 1850. TO
Evelyn Paget, the daughter of a banker.
One of the groomsmen at the wedding
was Charles Meade.
The couple established themselves in
handsome home, where a little daughter
was born In November. lSsl Arnold. who
was cashier in a bank, on the night that
the child was born was summoned across
the river 10 Covington, KY. TO the bed
side OF the dying president of the institu-
ton.
On his way he ret Meade. The latter
invited him 20 take drink. From the
moment the liquor passed his lips he re-
membered nothing until he awoke, stiff
md sore I'm a cell of the Coyington prison.
lie had been found over the body OF po-
liceman holding pistol that had been
discharged.
Meade. with apparent reluctance, tes-
tilted at the preliminary examination that
Arnold. after drinking. seemed TO lose all
sense OF time, place or identity, and with
out cause drew a pistol f2sm his pocket
and shot the policeman.
Arnold was indicted upon a charge OF
murder. A week before the trial he made
his ESCAPE and the reward of 5000 offered
by the covingtun poiiee,-4H- addition to
the $1,000 offered by the county, stood un-
I'll last week
Finally 4 reached San Francisco" said
Mr.. Arnold Sunday land shipped aboard
a whaling vessel. We -vsre In Arctic wa
tiers two years. and when we returned
sent my earnings to my wife. with only a
line, Put your trust in God After the
first cruise was most unlucky until ten
years later. when, In 1895. I again sent
sum OF money, with the words. Put
your trust in Cod
THE captain and crew OF the steam
whaler OF which was first mate I'm the
spring OF 1895 decided to go TO Alaska
from the interior OF which stories OF fab
ulous wealth reached the coast | went
with them, and am now rated a million
aire.
In the rush in the spring of 1898 came
Charles Meade. / recognized him the mo-
ment our party, which was coming out
rescued the members of his party from
snow avalanche. Two of Meade's COM
panions were dead when we took them
out Of the drift and Meade was fg tally
crushed.
In the presence OF my friends he con-
fessed that he had had grudge OF long
standing against the policeman, and con-
ceived the plan OF drugging my liquor.
killing the policeman, putting the pistol
in my hand and shifting the blame on me
II continued my journey, and at Seattle
learned that I'm a bank failure I'm 1898 my
father ands father-in-law had both be-
come bankrupt. and had since died. NV
wife. dependent upon her brother had
gone with him TO some place I'm the west
with Former Representative Lewis I
went east and presented the evidence of
Meade's death and confession to the au-
thorities, and the indictment against me
was dismissed on November G. Then be-
gan the search for my family"