Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-11-30
WAS CALDWELL KILLED
BY A CRIMINAL?
Whom He Had Arrested as a
Secret Service
Officer.
TRAILING NOTED CRIMINAL.
Such a Story Now Comes From
Los Angeles People. Who
Claim to Know.
TRAILING NOTED CRIMINAL.

If the mystery which now sur
rounds the Identification of the dead
man at Borders undertaking rooms
and who was supposed to be Charles
A. Caldwell continues to deepen, the
corpse will become noted, because
the undertaken and local peace Off.
GERS, with the aid of Santa Fe Secret
Service Officer Williams, have
worked all known clews in the hope
of finding out something that would
lead to a positive identification of the
dead body, but all efforts so far have
failed.
1t remained, however. for Los An
geles people To come to the front
with a murder clew. as the following
article from the Los Angeles Exam
iner of November 2S indicates:
IL is possible that Charles A. Cald-
well. formerly of Los Angeles. whose
body was found about twenty-five
miles north of Albuqu rque, n. NJ,
beside the Santa Fe tracks, nearly
three weeks ago, came to his death
at the hands of desperate criminal
whom he had captured and whom h.
was taking back east.
For three weeks the body has been
lying in the morgue at Albuquerque
while the authorities have bsen tele
graphing all over the country trying
to definitely establish the identity OF
the man and find his relatives.
The first clue was discovered yes,
terday when a telegram was received
by the Examiner that among the dead
mans effeWf was a lettsr which stat
ed that CSdwell once worked as a
quarantine guard in Los Angeles
under Quarantine Inspector George
Miles. of the city health office.
II also was stated that badge was
found upon the body Indicating that
Caldwell had been employed ia the
United States secret service, and that
h probably was engaged upon detec-
tive work when he came to his death.
Mr.. Miles said last night he re-
membered Caldwell, who worked for
him as a quarantine guard and whom
he always regarded as a most relia-
bic man. He knew that he had been
engaged in detective work and from
what he had told him he knew that
he frequently went after desperate
men.
I. n. Strickler, of 1891 North
Spring street, also had known Cald-
well in Los Angeles, and so soon as
he learned that his body had been
found in New Mexico, and was told
the circumstances, he said he had lit
tie doubt that the man had been muir
deTed.
Was Trailing Murderer.
AS Caldwell was on the trail of a
man wanted for murder when | last
saw him. said Mr.. Strickler, II think
he probably captured the man, and
everything points to the fact that he
was killed by the criminal. Caldwell
always carried handouts and had
two good revolyers. The telegram
says no weapon was found upon the
body and there is no mention Of hand
cuffs. The man probably got the bet
ter Of him in some manner, and after
taking his guns, placed the body on
the railroad track, where il would be
struck by a passing train and give
the impression that he had been run
over
Mr.. Strickler said that Caldwell HAD
been in the employ of the Thiel de-
tectiye agency at Denver and had
been engaged in several important
eases on this coast. He was not GER
tain. but h thought his relatives
lived I'm Denver.
Secret Service Agent J. +. Cronin
said last night that he was certain
that Caldwell never had worked for
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