New-York tribune., 1905-11-18
FTGITIVE LAWYER FOUND.
Wanted for Larceny, He Had
Feigned Suicide Before Flight.

through the persistent efforts of District Attor-
,ev Clarke OF Kings County, Benjamin F. Chad
.ey a Brooklyn lawyer. who is under indictment
y- larceny IN the first degree for failing properly
- account for some money belonging TO a client
,as arrested at Niles. Mich, yesterday. He had
hssn missing since March 16, 1908. when he disap-
.sred the day before his trial under circumstances
calculated to make people believe that he had been
drowned. had. perhaps, committed suicide.
Not accepting the conclusion that the lawyer,
rbo had previously led a detective long chase
.cross the Isthmus of Panama and to San Fran
c,.oo had been drowned, the District Attorney at
onos formulated the plans that led TO the fugt-
tives arrest yesterday.
B.'ng informed in a dispatch from j. Edward
orr Of q private detective agency. who Chad
sev down that the lawyer persists in denying
,ba4 he is the man wanted and that powerful in
fnences are working his release, District
attorney Clarke has decided to go personally to
Niles 20 take charge Of the fight TO have him
,-sdited TO Brooklyn. With him viii go Assistant
1is+rict Attorney McCafery and Detective Carroll.
NJ the District Attorneys Off1ce. All three men,
,bo Will leave for the West tomorrow, know
Chadsey well
Cyhedsey's wife had stuck him through all his
troubles and District Attorney Clarke sure
.hst she would join the fugitive soon as she
thought It was safe. He had her watched, but she
.ot out Of town without her destination becoming
known
Then the District Attorney got permission from
n. Postofice authorities to scrutinize the mail of
some intimate friends of Mrs. Chadsey in Brooklyn.
With whom he believed she would keep in touch. A
representative of his office was permitted to take
traciugs of the addresses on the envelopes and
make notes of the postnarks on them What was
known TO be a genuine sample of Mrs. Chadsey's
writing was obtained; 1t was then found that let
ters from her being received from places IN
Illinois Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana De
tectIve Orr learned than man answering 10 the
description of the fugitive travelling for Il
Chicago publishing house, under the name Of Paul
Hamilton. Orr traced him TO Niles, Mich, where
he was arrested. His wife has been travelling with
him
time considered TO be young lawyer OF much
promise In November, 1902, he was charged with
Withholding some money he obtained in a damage
s,Iit OF a client. When the Supreme Court ordered
him 10 pay the money he fed. He arrested IN
san Francisco and brought back to Brooklyn. Soon
after midnight on the day he to be tried he ap
peared at the Battery and hired a boatman to take
him 10 Liberty Island where he said he had some
papers TO in connection with his trial Before
starting he suggested that they have something to
drink While the boatman was drinking Ghadsey
slipped out An hour later Chadseys silk hat and
his bundle Of papers were found in the bottom of
the craft The suppostion was that the lawyer
had either fallen jumped overheard.
Some days later q body found off Bayonne was
identified by several Of the lawyers friends as
being that of Chadsey. The fact that this body
was later shown TO be that of another man did not
shake the declaration of the lawyers friends that
ha was