The Washington herald., 1906-10-19

Baltimore, Nd. Oct 1S-MayOr +. Clay
TimanUs, Of Baltimore, and John w
Mealy. a prominent jeweler. with a home
in fashionable Mount Washington. dis
covered to-day that they have been enter
taining in their homes a man whom the
police say is known as a swindler in New
York, Paris. Cairo, and Yokohama.
Last summer the son Of the mayor and
the son OF the jeweler took a trip abroad
and fell in with James HartrJy Langdan,
said 10 be the sen Of Il prominent Phila-
delphian
Later Langdon. who WAS d brilliant
young convcrsationaIlst, had Travelled all
around the world, and was supposed to be
vice president Of a rubber company and
the son oC "A railroad president. came TO
Baltimore. He was welcomed in the
homes ot the young men.
soon. Langdon, it is charged. got gold
watch and chsin from the jeweIry store
OF AIealy. who was one of his hosts. and
presented in payment check for seI5.
Then be left
His Record Investigated.
The Corn Exchange Bank of New
York said the check was no good. The
police got busy. and this it the record
q I.anrdon, as told by Captain Of Detec-
tives Humphrey and the records Of the
PnkeTtOns-
Langdon was convicted Of forgery in
1899 and cast of by his relatives He
served Il term and began making history
for himself. The police say he is known
in Yokohama. in each of which cities lie
Is said to have operated successfully with
out being arrested. He finally came back
To this cv,.i.-~v and located IN Cleveland.
where ne opened an insurance Office and
employed a large force of clerks. Capt.
Pumphrey says Langdon there passed
several large checks and worked other
games until the town got too hot for him
and he fed to New York
It was during the big naval review
there several years ago that he hired
yacht and stocked It with wines. liquors.
and cigars. and entertained hosts Of peo-
pie. When the review had ended the
owner wanted his money for the yacht.
so did those who had furnished the wines.
Gable Inquiry Comes.
One day the Pennsylvania Railroad off,
cials in Philadelphia got cable inquiry
in regard to q man named Langdon. The
inquiry was to the effect that Langdon
was in London representing himself as a
relative Of President Cassatt, and had
worked off a number Of checks for large
sums of money. In addition To getting
much free transportation which he sold
through brokers.
He was next heard of in Philadelphia,
his native city. a few years ago. where,
il is claimed. he represented himself rs
an army officer and disappeared. leaving
a string of worthless checks behind him.
While in Paris with young Timanus and
Mesly, Langdon is said to have walked
into the hotel at which the party was
stopping with a handsome diamond stud
in his shirt bosom. He said he had just
bought it for $lj00. The next day the
stud was missing, but LangdOn had a
new. large roll of money.
Langdon while here is said to have told
n number of persons that he was a rela-
tive of Andrew Carnegie Langdon stated
that he was the vice president of the
American Rubber Company. of Il William
street, New York, and that his father was
president of the New York Central Rail-
road and a director Of the Huntingdon
and Broadtop Railroad, which latter road,
he said, had been built by his grand
father
To-day Detective Tod Hall left for Chi
cagO Uith requisition papers for Langdon,
he having been arrested in the West last
night.