The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-27
POLICE OF THE WORLD
 HAD LOOKED FOR HIM
NEW FORK DETECTIVES NAB MAN WANTED FOR FOUR
 PEARS.

Desired fin Connection with the Fla.
 nOus Bank of LtverpOOI Robbery i'm
 19O1-EngIish Institution Through
 Forgery and Conspiracy Defrauded
 of More Than ss0O, O,OOO---Subseque
 sSSO.000 of the Amount ReeOvarcd,
 New York, Jan. 26.--Central office de-. teotives arrested tonight man for whom they declare the police of the world have been searching for more than four years. The prisoner, who was picked up on the street by a mere chance, Is declared to be James Names. formerly an American bookrnaker. who is wanted in connection with the fam ous Bank # Liverpool robbery of Mo- Nemher, 1901, in whieh the Ealglish in- stitutton, through forgery and conspir- acy, was defrauded of more than SS0O,- 900. Subsequently, SS8O,o0O of this amount was recovered from the con- spirators.
 While admitting his name to be James Names, the man asserts that he IS entirely ignorant of any plot by which the Bank of Liverpool was rob- bed. He will have a hearing to-nlor- row morning in police court and probably will be held to await word from the English authorities who have been appraised by cable of the arrest, The local police claim there is no uues- tion as to the identity of Names, who now is fifty-five years old and walks as though a victim of locomotor ataxia. The latter fact aided the police, they declare, in identifying the prisoneK
 The arrest was made by Detectives Cain and Collins, of the headouagters staff, at Broadway and Forty ty-second street, where they came face to face with Names in the midst of a rush hour ti1rong making its way to one of the uptown subway entrances. They had but recently been reading of tho Liverpool bank robbery and had been discussing the escape of Names. the only person unaccounted for in connec- ton with the affair. They had stud jed the photograph of the missing criminal in the rogues' gallery and whel they saw tonight, he man whom they claim answers the description of Names, their surprise fairly took them off their feet.
 The conspiracy to rob the baMisnnaaal Liverpool will always hold the ton of being One of tse most ingenious and conscienceless crimes ever planned. The entire scheme turned upon the weakness of a bank clerk, who, wfodle drawing a salary of $T50 year. be- came a victim of the betting craze and played the races. His accomplioes were sporting men, several bookmakers and prize fighter by whom he was not only robbed by various tricks of his occasional big winnings but he was in duced to believe that he had sustained enormous losses, to cover which he forged continually the name of one of the banks depositors until finally more than $SO0,000 had been taken out of inc institution and turned over to the co- terie of race track men. The poor clerk, never prof1ting penny by his crimes, finally went to the penatentiary for ten years at hard labor, sentence he is now serving.
 The bank clerk was young fellow named Thomas P. Goudie. His asso- ciates were Dick" Burge, an English pugilis F. T. Kelly, man named Stiles uric Marks and James Names. all bookl..akers. Goudie confessed the plot and pleaded guilty to charges of forgery, fraud. conspiracy and false pretenses. Burge and the bookmakers Kelly and Stiles were arrested, but Laurie Marks and James Names es- capped. Burge was convicted and with Goudte was given the maximum sen tensce of ten years. Kelly and Stiles. by pleading guilty to conspiracy to de- fraud, escaped with sentences of two years each Marks was last heard from on an English channel steamer en route from Boulogne to Folkestone He did not debark, and it has always been the belief that he committed suicide by jumping overheard. Names was never traced.
 From Burge the police recovered $780, 00O The authorities subsequently, learned that Marks had $60,00 and Names St70,O00 to their credit in an Eng fish bank. This money was seived and returned to the Liverpool Institution.
 Goudie, once he had begun to lose money at the race track, became easy prey in the hands of the gamblers with whom he had carried on his transac- tions. His position at the bank, they told him, opened up field for specula- tion on the races that would make him 8 rich man. He forged a check for a small amount and lost the money. Many times he repeated this crime, al- ways using the name of the banks heaviest individual depositor, whose name, however, did not come out in the trial. It was many months before the forgeries and the conspiracy were dis covered,
 During the trial of Goudie a clerk employed by the Boolmaker Marks tol@ the jury a story to show how easily the accused man was swindled One dag he had wagered heavily on a race, en- trusting his commission to Marks The horse won and Goudie was entitled to s195,000 on the deal. That night the boolzmaker sent telegram to Goudie saving he had been ill and was not in