The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-05-21
CAUGHT IN CANADA.
Green and Gaynor, Fugitives from
Savannah Kidnapped
AND THEN ARRESTED IN QUEBEC.
The Defendants Were Struggled
Out OF City BY Officers and
Were Caught Before
They Knew 1t.

They Knew 1t.
Colonel John +. Gaynor, who for
feited his bail of $4,000 because o1
his disappearance from Savannah, Ga,
where he was indicted on a charge OF
conspiracy to defraud the United States
government and his partner, Captain
w. D. Greene we're Smuggled out Of
Quebec Thursday by an American de-
tective named Bennett and five as
siStantS.
Bennett had been in Quebec since
the arrival of Gavnor and Greene and
has kept a keen watch on their move
ments. Thursday morning he was
Joined by five others who carried out a
seemly well laid plan to capture the
accused. About II O'Clock Greene was
coming out Of the p0Stoltice when
three Of the men approached him and
one of them producing document
showed it to Greene. The latter stood
dumbfounded and asked permission to
speak to some one, but was hurried in-
/ to cab and rushed to lower town,
where he was placed on the Montreal
tug Spray.
! In the meantime, Bennett and the
two other detectives went to the Chat
eau Frontenac, where GaynOr and
Greene were staying. Bennett re-
lnained outside while his comrades
went into the lobby. At the time Colone
Gayror was talking to the clerk. Both
men went up Immediately and invited
him outside, where Bennett was await
ing then in cab.
The detectives and Gaynor started
| for Lower town and in a short time
Gaynor was in company with Greene
OF the tug and with the detectives on
the way to Montreal, or some place
further up the river, where they can
and.
MRS. GAYNOR IN PURSUIT.
These proceedings occupied about
% minutes. The hotel people notified
Colonel Gaynor'S counsel Of what had
occurred. The attorney generals de-
partment and Judge Chauveau were
notified and they in turn asked the
police to investigate the matter.
Half an hour after the departure OF
the Spray, another tug was engaged
by Mrs. Gaynor. She went on board
with Detective Walsh. The pursuit
of the Spray was given up at Cape
Rouge. eight miles from the city. The
Spray was then almost out Of sight
down the river.
Upon the return of Ms. Gaynor to
the city the lawyers III the case had
short consultation with her, and i'm
mediately two petitions for habeas
corpus, ordering the return of Gaynor
and Greene to this city, were prepar-
ed, and two orders were signed to that
effect by Judge Andrews iu the SD
perior court. In the meantime four
members Of the provincial police left
by the lis Canadian Pacific railroad
train for three Rivers with others to
secure tug there and try to inter-
sept the Spray. The latter town is
80 miles from Quebec and just half
way between here and Montreal.
The petitions were sworn to by Mrs.
Gaynor, who alleges that her husband
and Greene were taken away against
their consent and without giving them
time to see counsel or take legal meas
ures to prevent their arrest. While
the petitions were being prepared Il
special train was over the Canadian
Pacific railroad and at $50 the chase
began. On train are MeSSrs. Cannon
and Chauveau, attorneys in tie case,
who are bearers Of the petition: high
Constable Gale and eight detectives.
WHEN THEY ESCAPED.
B. D. Greene and John F. Gaynor
escaped from the Savannah federal
court several weeks ago while their
case was pending before Judge Emory
Speer, Of the United States court.
Both defendants had been realised on
bond and were guests of the DeSoto
hotel, awaiting, supposedly, the hear
ing of the court.
Saturday preceding Monday, the
day set for their hearing. they left
the city, either in disguise or by a
circuitous route. Their attorney eX-
pressed even as great surprise as did
the government when neither one of
the defendants was present in court
on Monday.
Itwas declared by counsel represent
ing Greene and Gaynor that they had
either been in error as to the day set
for trial or were unaroidably detained
in New York.
The court ordered their arrest at
any cost. but the officers had not the
slightest clew to work upon until the
court was informed by press reports
that the two fugitires were in New
York. Almost instantly came the re-
port that Greene and Gaynor had He'd
to Canada, where they smilingly ad-
mitted their identity, declaring they
would remain across the border Just Us
long as they wished.
Every effort has been made since
to accomplish their arrest by decoying
them across the Canadian line and
seizing them when upon American
soil. Their every movement has been
watched by some Of the best federal
and Pinkerton detectives in the
country.
Since their escape the officers of the
Savannah court have been very active
in the preparation OF the case the
government has brought.
Will Defect Railroad.
1t is reported that the Mexican
Central railway will detlect its line un-
der construction from point on its