The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-10-06
MAKER IN TOlLS AGAIN.

Russell Walker, alias Marshall, alias
Whtmore, alias F. J. Tyson, whom the
Baltimore detectives style Gentleman
Russ" and whose family, an eminently
respectable one. lives in this city, is again
in prison. Pardoned by two OF Mary
lands State executives, Governor John
Walter Smith and Governor Edwin War
field, Walker gets out of prison only to
get in again through his dexteritv in
acquiring other mems goods without
giving value received.
Yesterday at Cape May, n. J., Walker
was sentenced by Law Judge Voorhees, to
nine years in the penitentiary, after plead
ing guilty to obtaining money under
false pretenses upon checks drawn upon
banks lie was also charged with torg
ing the names of prominent citizens, but
having pleaded guilty to the other charge
he was not prosecuted by those whose
names he had forged
Russell Walker is 30 years old, and his
family, who have i'll every way tried to
reclaim him from the professional Grim
malls life which he has adopted, are we'll
known in one of the northern counties of
MARYLAND Between six and sevenyears
ago they came to Baltimore, and their
son Immediately began to fraternize with
| men ana WOIllell Vi lIlC H dllSl Niiili-
| inal class About FIVE wears ago he was
arrested BY Detective (now Captain OF
Detectives) Humphrey and Detective
Coughlin on the charge of stealing $3.50
from Mr. Harry l.. Clifford. He plead
guilty, and was sentenced to 10 months
| in the MARYLAND Penitentiary by Judge
| Dennis This sentence was rccousidered,
and later Walker was sentenced to IS
months in the Baltimore City Jail On
Nav 10, 1901, he was pardoned by
Governor John Walter Smith.
| On July 6, not quite two months after
| being pardoned, Walker was again
arrested charged with burglariously en-
tering he hotel of Mr.. James w. Stod-
dard, Baltimore county, and stealing
iewelry to the value of $3lS. Again ne
pleaded guilty and was sentenced by
Judge Burke of Baltimore county to
serve months in Towson Jail. After
serving this sentence Walker disappeared
from Baltimore for a while, but the de-
tectives tripped him up again on August
IN, 1903, when ne was arrested charged
with stealing q diamond ring valued at
$3.50, the property of Mrs. Laura Evans.
1912 McCulloh street, whose room he
entered during her absence He was tried
by jury, found guilty. and Judge Henry
Stockbridge sentenced him to three years
in the MARYLAND Penitentiary.
For the second time Walker succeeded
in enlisting Guhernatorial sympathy
and on October 81, 1904, he was par
doned bt Governor Warield The police
and detectives watched him with suspi,
cious eyes. and, while he was suspected
of committing number of robberies, he
succeeded in eluding their vigilance unit
February ID last. when he was arrested
by Detective Pohler of the headquarter:
force on the charge of stealing a pair o
shoes valued at $1G2, the property o
A. H. Culinary Company, 3O7 West Mul
berry street. He plead guilty to thi:
charge and was sentenced by Judg,
2 Wicks to serve three months in Balti
| more City Jail. Walker served out thu
sentence and then disappeared from Balti
more.
The first ntimation that he had beer
: tripped up by the police of another local.
, ty was received one day this week b.
Captain of Detectives Humphrey, wheI
the authorities Of Cape May, n. J., wrot
on here for his Bertillon photograph
I which is No. 200 in the Baltimor
4 Rogues' Gallery. Walker is refined ant
!, intelligent looking and always dresse
- we'll His manner is quiet and very
: plausible His quiet department gainet
5 him the title of Gentleman Russ" but a
cultured as he appears to be, the Bait
more detectives consider him a remark
ably clever criminal, and they feel re
lieved that he is back of the bars of tn
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