The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-24


position in the city, Of some means,
and Of good breeding. He was fire.
quently invited to parties and recep-
lions, often made one of theatre
party, and sometimes was invited to
a half holiday, over Sunday house
party in the country
Monks was fond of society, es-
pecially that Of young women. He
naturally attracted them, for he was
Of athletic build, rather more than
good looking, always dressed in fash
ion and in strictly good taste, and
was we'll educated and apparently
refined. So popular was Frederick
Monks with the young women of his
acquaintance that at the time Of his
arrest he was engaged to marry four
Of them, one living at Salisbury, one
at Fulham, one at Lambeth, and an
other at Mazda Vale. In his rooms
at his own home in kilburn Park
road were found their photographs,
and with each photograph was a
package Of letters, all of a most low
ing character.
Monks love for the affection Of
young women was the strangest fea-
ture of his character. After his Arrest
he boosted that he had made ardent
love to many women, that he had
won the love of many, and that he
had promised to marry number Of
them; but he declared that no woman
ever loved him to her sorrow or to
her shame. He won the love and
trust Of many and betrayed none.
Monks easily was able to maintain
his character as a society man Of
leisure. and to dress the part, from
his winnings as a professional bicy-
Gle rider; but even if the cash prizes
he won were insufficient he had an
other and a more sinister source Of
income.
Late at night Frederick Monks
forgot that he was a clerk, Or BIZ
cycle rider, or society man, and be-
came burglar the police are
ready to testify that he was as skill
ed and as daring a man as ever wore
a mask and used jimmy.
For two years a series of daring
burglaries in Lambeth, Mazda Vale,
Fulham. and Salisbury had puzzled
and baffled the police. In almost ev-
cry instance the houses burglarized
We're entered between two and three
o'clock in the morning, and within
a few days after the family had Civ
en- party Or a dance. This coinci-
dence, however, did not strike the
London detectives for some time
Finally one detective took a list Of
the guests at a party in house that
had been burglarized on the follow
ing evening. The list gave him no
clew, for all the names seemed to be
those of men above suspicion. Going
to another house that had been rob-
bed under similar circumstances the
detective again secured list of the
guests. The only coincidence was
that the name of Frederick Monks
was on both lists. No other name
appeared on both lists, and the two
families had apparently had an en-
tirely different circle of acquaint-
ances.
Going to headquarters the detec-
tive secured list of mysterious bur-
glaries committed in London for
eighteen months previous to Sept. /,
1904. Selecting the ones reported
from Lambeth. Fulham, Salisbury,
and Mazda Vale-for they all SEEM
ed strangely similar-the detective
began a canvass. applying at each
house that had been robbed for a list
of the guests each had entertained
only a day or two previous to the
robbery.
With a dozen or more Of these lists
in his possession the detective be-
came convinced that there was a Pc
culiar significance in the fact that
the name Frederick Monks appeared
in all Of them. but that in other res
poets no two lists were alike. APP
parently Frederick Monks. whoever
he was, was on intimate social terms
in dozen different social circles.
The directory gave the detective
no clew. There were dozens of Fred
erick Monks. But the thief taker
copied the names and addresses of
all of them. BY process Of elimina-
ton he soon reduced his list of
Frederick Monks to three.
AT the importing house the detec-
t;r-o lonrnnl nofhincr hut ernnd of