The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
GOT SYLVESTER WILSON AGAIN
FEMALE BASEBALL TEAM NAN
TRIES BASKETBALL.
Indicted for Abduction. n Crime for Which
He Has Already Done Five Years
IT Convicted This Time He May Get
2O-..He Has Dcen In Many Jails

Sylvester F. Wilson, alias Frank W.
Hartright, alias W. s. Franklin, and
dozen other names, but best known as the
originator of the female baseball club,
was arrested yesterday at A West Ninety
ninth street on an Indictment for abduc-
ton and put in the Tombs. He has done
time for the same offence. As the indict-
ment this time is for a second offence he
may get twenty years if convicted.
Last January Wilson advertised as fol-
lows:
PARTNER wANTEp-s,oo and services; ca, can
equally with any honest man; money secured ana
experience not necessary. 20 Mammalian aV.
l.. l.. Bachlom bit and was accepted as
partner. Then Wilson advertised again as
follows:
GIRLS FOR THE sTAGE--Ase 10 70 20: now 70.
hearsng: no eTpenence 9u. rood LOCKS and hEuITe
h. os9 s ana sy Shusy
The advertisement was 30 like the one
Wilson had printed over the name Of Frank
Watkins several years ago. asking for
young girls to play baseball that the Chill
dren's society promptly started an invests
CATION. Detectives Pisarra and Fogarty
soon learned that the advertiser was Wilson,
who had assumed the name OF Hartright.
They also learned that the young women
were wanted to play basketDaii and tlat
those already engaged were practising at
Brady's, Dancing Academy, l3o-A3i west
l25th street and at other places.
On May u fisaira and rogarty followed
Wilson and nine young girls 10 the foot Of
West Tenth sti eet. wIIeI all boarded the
Chrystenan, OF the HUDSON River day line
At Peekskiu the Wilson party put up at
Lynchs Hotel. Lyncn is a Justice OF the
Peace and WAS interested in Electric Park,
Peekskill. The female basketball teams
were advertised to play for week in the
park and then to make championship
tour OF the State.
Pisarra and Fogarty returned to the city
and managed to locate the parents OF one
of the girls Mary Foley, at 6s West l0lst
street. Through the girl. later. they were
able to reach the homes Of all the girls,
On the night of May, 81 the first week.
| Wilson put them on until morning and at
o'clock on the morning OF the 2sth was
seen going down the railroad tracks. In
the morning Bachlom, the -angel. refused
to pay the weeks board bill and salary
and started out to find Wilson. Squire
Lynch forgave the young women their
board bill and paid their passage back to
this city. Pisarra and Fogarty found
Maggie Dean, is years old, Of ls5? Park
avenue. one of the girls deserted by Wilson.
and on b her y a wilson nce
|
Bachlom, by the way, in his III p, pursuit ,- Of
Wilson. had started on May 20 for Astoria
because one Of the, girls lived there and ne
expected to find Wilson hanging around,
! into fight in which both were arrested
In the Long Island City police court Magis-
trate Connorton entertained complaint
against Wilson Of obtaining money on false
pretences. but Bachlom afterward dropped
the complaint.
The officers Of the Children's society
we're jubilant yesterday over Wilson 8
arrest He is the worst offender, they said,
that they have on their books. According
to their books Wilson'S record is in part as
follows:
ad B9fe IN By ths Rev Hosh As KIM
got into trouble, AtkinsQn mortgased his
house to furnish bail and wilson jumped his
1872 he appeared in Cincinnati n, The rs
T Ta red INK on ysdSs esDt 'ssS @
Of George Francis Train, From CiMc,nina az
Esesd to or boCd mee TnsF and Sas
On Aus TO- ls7s, be returned to Gi a%l as:
more in the same city before, in 1875. he vent nj.
20 partner uam"Sn named an Keith Of deffagdins hlq
out Of $4,000 in publishing "cent ,,,, Gd
| Book" The year he was conveyed
| of assaulting Jesse +, Houston IN october
, he was arrested on charge OF forging passes
! on the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad and later he
| was indicted for selling forged pass,
r, In 1879 ilson organized two telnhie base
| ball clubs here, and utton evidence ttat some
| OF the young women had been enticed from
home he was arrested and indicted Inc
| case was never tried In November. lssl.
| he was arrested in Philadelphia for the I'M
| lawful sale of railroad tickets and was Sen,
fenced to one year in the city prison and
to pay $500 fine. .,, !,
I, After his release he went through the
| country with female baseball players, was
| arrested in New Orleans on three charges
| OF abduction. beat the case, was arrested
| again because two runaway girls from Tn
cinnati were found in his. company and was
sent to the workhouse for thirty days by
In In August. 1891, Wilson brought Libbie
| Agnes Sunderland, IL years old here from
| Binghalnton and lived with her Five years
| In Sing Sing and 81 900 fine for abduction
| On Aug. il, is8D he was arrested in Phila.
| delpha Oh arged with being a procurcr and
| eiiticng young girls from home. tie was
convicted and sent to Moyamensing for one
year.
Since his conviction in Philadelphia the
police heard not hing OF Wilson until he
advertised for the female basket ball
team" in january. He is large man.
weighing over $50 pounds, and, until a
week ago, wore large Dundreary whiskers.
LED THE LIFE or 4 SLAVE.