Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
THOMAS BOUND OVER
Notorious swindler Brought
Back to Davenport and
Landed In Jail.
Passed As Man Of Wealth and
Social Standing In
the East.
Secured $1,000 On Forged Deed
From Well Known Daven.
port Citizen.
Special to Times Republican.


d. Thomas, Of Philadelphia, brought
here from that city by Detective Gate
land, was bound over today to the
grand jury. It is claimed he swindled
w. C. Putnam, of this city, out of $4,000,
by securing a loan on a forged deed. He
passed in the east as a man of wealth
and social standing. owning a fine home
In Philadelphia IND q hotel in Atlantic
City.
Davenport, Dec. 31.-"J. j. Dudley"
the deed forger, returned to his city,
the scene Of his exploit in securing q
cash loan on a farm that belonged to
another man. He was linked to Detec-
tive Charles Garland with the bracelet
usually employed in such cases. and w.
G. Putnam, the man who advanced the
cash on the security of the farm, was
with them.
Mr.. Garland left here, as stated on
that day, OF Friday Moons train. He
sot to Harrisburg, The capital OF Penn
sylvania, at 3 p. m. Saturday. He found
the governor of the keystone state re-
luctant to honor the requisition of Gov
ernor Shaw. of Iowa, but he finally got
what he wanted, and left the city in
time to reach Philadelphia at 6 that
evening.
Dudley, as stated. was ready for fight.
He a two lawyers, and there We're To-
cal complications that seemed likely to
stand in the way of getting the man
away from there very soon. The police
court was hemmed in with lawyers of
the harry class, who are after fees re-
eardless of the facts or merits In the
case, but after some persuasion. and the
giving Of some personal guarantees to
the chief of the Philadelphia police, the
man was secured. He waived his objec-
lions to coming, and behaved like a
white man the whole trip thru. The
start was made on the return trip at
Sis p. m. Saturday-only two hours and
a quarter after Philadelphia was
reached-and Davenport was reached, as
stated, at 8 yesterday morning. Cap
tain Hitchcock and several officers OF
the Davenport police force met the par
ty at the station, and Dudley vas taken
directly to the Jail, where he will be
safely kept till he is wanted.
AS told in the kilograms from Phila-
delphia at the time Of the mans arrest
there, Dudley goes there by the name OF
DR.. Thomas. He has a wife and child in
that city-the same shown in the photo
graph that led to his arrest. They had
been living at Oxford, Pa, not far from
the city. but now are in town.
"Dr. Thomas does not MAINTAIN an
office, as a physician, in Philadelphia.
He says he was educated for the prac-l
tice Of medicine, but he has not followed
1t. He has beer able to max more and
easier money doing u~nsuspectng people
than in doing any part OF the world's
actual work, and he has been successfully
as a heller where would have had to
fight for years for more than q living
IL he had been a physician.
There is no doubt that Thomas" or
Dudley" or whoever he is, told the de-
tective a good many things on the way
gether, ate together, and were generally
siamesed all HI way from Philadelphia
here. In the course OF the journey they
beguiled the tedium Of the ray with
conversation. The prisoner is model of
department. He Is suave, smooth. and
courteous. He does not smoke, chew,
drink or swear. He uses the language
OF q gentleman and a scholar, and the
detective says that no good friend could
have been better behaved, in every way.
And there is no doubt that he told the
man to whom he a chained a good
many things that would make interest
ing reading. but II he did nobody will
get them. The detective will not have
to tell them in court, for they Will be at
best but hearsay, and therefore incom-
petent, irrelevant and immaterial, and
there is no place or way outside Of
court, to make him diyulge these dis
closures, and he is not the style Of man
betray the confidence Of even a crim-
inal. But it is intimated that Dudley
is an old one and a most successful OPP
orator; that he has been at the business
for twelve or fifteen years; that he has
skinned the farmers and money lenders
thru Indiana, Ohio and other states, and
that this is his first arrest. Mr.. Garland
says that Dudley" told him that he had
never been placed in irons before in all
his life, and is under the impression that
this is the first time the man was ever
arrested in any way.
Dudley" is a good catch. Yesterday
j. A.. Hanley got a postal card, signed
by C. E. lift, sheriff at Independence,
Ia, offering $40 reward for arrest, or
information OF n Edward
Evans of West Liberty" Evans" fits
the description Of Dudley" to a dot,
and the accompanying picture Of him,
while denied by Dudley is equally
true to life. Edward Evans' sold to an
independence man, June II, a forged
note and mortgage for {, 1000. How many
more such cases there are in this state
we do not know at this time. but there
Is no doubt that. IL all the people who
have been swindled by him will come to
the front there will be enough peniten-
tiary sentences hanging over him to
keep him in limbo till his life ends.
sHARkEY AND JEFFRIEs SIGN.
The Big Fighters Agree to Meet in Ring
at Frisco.
New York, Dec. 31.-Unless there is an
unforeseen hitch Champion James III
Jefrries and Tom" Sharkey will meet in
the ring in San Francisco and fight
twenty rounds for the heavyweight
championship Of the world.
Articles Of agreement were signed last
evening calling for a $500 forfeit to
bind the match, and the bid of James
Kennedy, representing James w. Cof-
roth. secretary of the Yosemite Athleticl