The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-24
ALLEGED ALIASES OF }. j. cARL1sLE. .

In securing j. j. Carlisle in Wash
ington. D. c., and bringing him to.
Minneapolis, Sheriff j. w. DregerI
seems to have effected the capture of
one of the most versatile and widely
known swindlers and high-class con-
fdence men in the country.
From information secured by the
sheriff, it now appears reasonably
certain that at various times in the
past few years, the man now in the
Hennepin county Jail and known as
J. J.3Carlisle, has assumed many diff
ferent names in the United States and
foreign countries while furthering
ends which are not reckoned' as legiti-
mate. Here are the exploits Of the
man supposed to be Carlisle:
Long List OF Daring Crimes.
Under the name of II. Silberberg he
went to Chihuahua. Mexico. where he
buyer and asked McManus Bros. bank
ers, for loan of $4,000, giving the
Boatmans National bank of ST. Louis
as his reference. The bankers tele-
gram of inquiry was held up by the
operator, who was either in the
scheme, or was misled, and Silberberg
faxed" a favorable reply with the
assistance Of the ST. Louis banks
cipher, which he had secured in some
way. He drew 100000 from the
Chihuahua bank and left the place but
was captured before he reached the
border and only secured his liberty
after his mother, Mrs. Fannie Silber-
berg Of Fort Smith, Ark. had spent
$4,000.
AS Jackson Cummings Davis alias
Henry Sederberg, it is charged that
he was arrested on June 25, 1895, in
San Francisco, Cal, for passing on
J. Macowsky a fictitious draft for $500
drawn on the United States National
bank of New York.
Under the name of Henry Goldstein
alias Whitney H. Forsythe alias Sill
verstein, the man supposed to be Car
Isle was arrested in kansas City, Mo-,
Oct. 9, 1895, charged with forgery,
altho conviction was not secured.
Did Time in Germany.
AS j. Cunningham DTayton he is
said to have been convicted of swim
ding jewe1er in Baden-Badel,
! Germany, and served two years in a
! German prison. His conviction was
| assisted in by J. Coleman Drayton, the
| whose nephew or cousin Carlisle had
posed. This was in 1895.
On July 6, 1902, he appeared as J.
! G.. Drayton at the Auditorium Annex
| in Chicago and was promptly put out
! of the hotel when met and exposed by
the real j. Coleman Drayton.
AS J. Craig, palmist, he was arrest
ed in Ell Faso, Texas, on suspicion OF
swindling Mrs. M. A. McHatton, ar
aged and wealthy widow out of jew.
els valued at $4,000, and after being
sentenced, surrendered pawn tickets
showing that he had pawned them 70,
$4,000. This was in December 1902
Two years ago, as Henry Silberg
which is believed to be the mans rea
! name, he won from New York mil
lionaire a woman named Tuck, from
whom he secured jewels valued a
$22, 900. On the money raised from
paving these, the couple made a tou
of the world, including England, Eu
rope, India, Japan, and finishing a
Seattle and Portland, Ore, where h
was arrested and driven out Of town
Had Influence With Women.
The woman went to San Francisco
but Silberberg continued to Salt LAX
City, Denver and Alberquerque, wher'
he lost heavily at gambling. He thel
went to Ell Paso and used his inf1u
ence over women in an attempt to in
terest Mrs. Barber of Three Rivers
n. M, in his affairs, With a view t
getting out of pawn the diamonds h