Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03
HAS MANY ALIASES
MAN ARRESTED IN DENVER ON
SEVERAL CHARGES.
F. n. Crosby Alleged to Have Swindled
Banks and Others on Gigan-
tic Scale.

A dispatch from Denver. Col. last night
says:
E. A. Bell who is said to have number
of aliases was arrested here today charged
with stealing a mail bag and forging the
Endorsements on a number of drafts taken
from it. He is alleged to have opened an
account with n bank at Lincoln. Nep.'
where he cashed the drafts. securing about
s2.5o0
Bell was i'll at the county hospital here
whom the authorities first located him, but
was not arrested until he was discharged
from the institution.
Y New York dispatch says:
Word was received in this city tonight
that f. H. Crosby, alias \. e. Bell. alias
Hammond. alias Crawford had been ar
rested in Denver accused of stealing mail
pouch containing sJo0.oO worth or nego-
liable bank paper at Philadelphia, on inc
night of September \, ana with seNerai
other crimes, including swindling and for
gerry.
1t is ALLEGED that Crosby arrived in this
country from Grove. England, last sum-
mer, and went to Asbury iark' where ne
posed as a fruit Spectator. His VIE
mingled in good society there. and intro
duced her husband to prominent business
men and at the banks there. where he made
deposits declaring to the officials that ne
intended continuing his account for the
summer months.
In September it is said. Ire deposited
number of checks, payable to his order,
drawn on different Philadelphia firms. Two
days later he closed the accounts. with
drawing the amounts due him. He and his
wife then left Asbury Park.
About this time, 1t is said w. w. Dickson,
chief post office inspector of Philadelphia,
discovered the theft of mail pouch con-
tanning bank remittances from Philadelphia
to Pittsburg. the entire amount being esti-
mated at S500,O00.
iS alleged that during the last ten DAYS
complaints We're received at Asbury Park
banks that checks accepted by them had
been tempered with; that the names of the
payees had been erased and CroSbys name
inserted. and that small amounts had been
raised to larger ones.
1t was recalled that mail pouch had
been stolen at Springfield Junction. ILL.,. last
April. and that a. E. Hammond had
opened cash account at the Lincoln Trust
Company. st. Louis. depositng number
of altered checks from the stolen mail
pouch. 1t was suspected that the mail
pouch robbery was committed by A. +.
Bell, alias Crawford. whose photograph was
identified by the officials of the st. Louis
bank.
Investigation at Asbury Park developed
that Crosby was none other than A. Z.
Hammond alias Bell. alias Crawford. &c.
Post Office Inspector Jacobs traced him to
Denver. where he was taken into custody
tonight.
Crosby is suspected of committing nu-
merous post office robberies in New York.
Buffalo ana other cites. He is said to have
made big haul in Buffalo some time ago,
when he disguised himself a railway
porter and got off with pouch.
In 1894 Crosby is said to have been ar
rested here while trying to cash a 81 200
check with a Maiden Lane jeweler, and to
have been sent to Elmira Reformatory.
from which he was released in 1897.
Through an agreement with the post office
Crosby will be surrendered to the st. Louis
authorities to stand trial on charge of
Swindling.
Crosby is said to have been arrested in
this city in the company of Kid Foster, a
Peoria pickpocket, while they were attempt
ing to cash draft for $425 with Marcus 4,
Co. the Broadway jewellers. 1t was after
ward learned that the draft offered by
Crosby had been stolen from mail pouch
in the New York Central depot at Buffalo
For this crime he sentenced to five
years in Auburn prison. Foster getting off
with three years. Crosby also served a
three-year term in the Jefferson, Mo-. pen
for the same offenSe.
The woman who poses Mrs. Crosby is
said to be western woman, and has shown
considerable skill in getting introductions
in banks. Crosby halls from Kansas CITY,