Evening journal., 1901-07-19
ARTIST-lBURGLAR
WILL REFORN
Edward Dunlap, "SpIit " the
Wind" Is at Liberty
HAD WORKED IN DELAWARE
While in New Castle Jail Invented a
Window Catch Which Paid Him
Well

81 am done with crime forever.
don't want any more of prison life.
My friendship for those who were COM
panions OF mine in crime ended when
stepped out of the prison gate. Now.
what | want from you Is your promise
that none OF your detectives will mo-
lest me while ] cndeavor to live hon
ostly."
Edward W. Dunlap. alias Split the
Wind a criminal with a most re-
markablc career. said this when he
called upon Captain or Detectives
Miller In Philadelphia yesterday. after
having been released from the Penn
sylvania Eastern Penitentiary. where
he had served a ten-years sentence.
Dunlap's resolve to reform was made in
all earnestness. and was accepted as
being so by Captain Miller. who be-
lieves that the noted criminal has conf
mitted his last robbery.
There are reasons for thinking that
Dunlap intends doing just as he said.
He Is very unlike the ordinary crimi
nal. He is accredited with being
graduate OF Princeton, poet an in
ventCr, and a skilled painter and
draughtsman. 10 is said that he is a
scion of an old Washington family, and
that during the civil war he served four
years as second lieutenant of the Sixth
Volunteer Cavalry.
To ether criminals Dunlap was
known as the gentleman crook" lie
has, according TO the police records
served fifteen years In the Eastern
Penitentiary, three years in the New
Jersey State prison, five years in Now
Castle jail and three terms in Sing
Sing prison. He was sentenced to i'm
/ prisonment In the New Castle jail for
robbing house in Delaware City.
IL was during his recent term OF i'm
II lprisonment that he developed his tai
ent for drawing and painting. devoting
most of his time TO drawing medical
charts for use I'm the class rooms of the
!, University Of Pennsylvania and Jeffer-
, son Hospital. for which he was we'll
1 paid These charts are considered
among the most perfect possessed by
either hospital. and his paintings were
also cleverly executed. His ability as
a draughtsman was appreciated by the
directors OF one of the hospitals. and he
has been employed by the institution.
Fifteen years agO. while imprisoned
In New Castle Jail, he perfected an in
ventiOn which was made a burglar
catching device for use on doors and
windows Upon being released he sold
the patent TO a stock company for S.
600 With the money he lived as a gen.
tleman of leisure. taking a trip to Eu-
lrope. II did not last him long, however,
; and upon returning to Philadelphia, IN
1891, he secured q position as writ
server under ex-City Treasurer Wright,
was arrested for altering his accounts
and sentenced TO two years in the peni-
tentiary Ex-City Treasurer Wright,
who had served in the army with Dun
lap. knew nothing about the mans
criminal record until after the prisoner
had been exposed by the detectives.
Dunlap was considered one of the
most dangeous criminals In the coun-
try. lie acquired the sobriquet of
split the Wind" Through always part
: ing his whiskers in the middle, and
hocause OF his agility in running.
There are two photographs OF him at
police headquarters. both Of which rep
Present a man Of middle age with long
face and full beard parted in the cen
tire.
The released prisoner started last
night for a Summer resort, where he
will remain until September, and then
return to take up his work as an
lartist