Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-15
ASKS CLERK FOR
BEST IN HOUSE
PROMISES TO RETURN BUT
FORGETS
Clumsy Check Worker Seemed to Have
Plenty of Money but He Was
Nervous in His New
Auto
tContInucd from Pare oncI

! $2650 The party started out a second
time and it was augmented by two
women, one of whom was the wife of
Solomon and the other Mrs. c. j. Mel
rose of Independence, Kas.
Cowan was suspicious of the party
and told his brother not to turn over
the machine until he received further
orders. At Second and Spring streets
the party got out and told the chauffeur
to call for them there later.
While they were out Mr.. Cowan tele-
phoned the State Bank and Trust COM
pany asking them to telegraph the
Union Bank and Trust company of
Dallas, Tex, upon which the check
was drawn, asking as to it's validity.
The wire came back, THE party has
no account here
Engages Parlor Suite
Later Solomon returned to the shop
to know why the automobile had not
returned to the appointed place, and
when told of the check incident he de-
clared that he had been tricked that
he was innocent of any knowledge of
Loeb's crooked intentions. That he
had met him since he came to town
| through some friends he made while
on the train
Cowan called at the Angelus hotel
in the evening and found that Mr..
there since.
The last seen of him at the hotel was
at o'clock Tuesday evening when he
went out, leaving orders that his suit
case be moved into the best parlor
suite in the house and saying that he
would be back later in the evening.
The suit case is still at the Angelus
hotel and Mr.. Loeb has made no ef-
fort to get it away. 1t contains a
quantity of cheap underwear and
nothing of value.
Early Wednesday morning Cowan
reported the case to the detectives and
Detectives George Home and j. c.
Chapman were detailed on the case
Cowan Was Suspicious
The description given them to work
upon was that of a man about feet
| 10, with broad shoulders dark curly
hair, thick on the temples, extreme
Jewish cast of features; gray suit and
cane.
1t was said that he is the exact
counterpart of Jack Brown, the chauf-
feur who was in the accident the other
morning in which Mrs. Eunice Ball
and several others were severely in
jured.
Jack Brown was arrested at o'clock
yesterday morning by Patrolman o.
H. May, Supposing him to be the miss
ing Jacob Loeb.
Later in the day Brown was able to
prove an alibi and he was released by
Patrolmen Ritch and Roberts.
II was suspicious of the man when
l first saw him and / sized him up as
a four-flusher and crook" said Mr.
| CoWan.
II did not know hat his little game
was but | thought 7 would take every
precaution.
Loeb Seemed Nervous
Loeb seemed to have plenty of
money and there were lot of stubs
on his check book indicating that it
had seen much use He seemed nerV-
Gus and when he 6ot into the automo-
bile he sat in the back seat between
two large women and l wondered then
if he was not trying to hide. 1 told
my brother to watch out for himself
and to keep his wits about him. There
was also little boy in the party.
Loeb was typical Jew and said he was
| sojOurning in Los angeles for a while
and represented the firm of Kuhn, Loeb
& Co. of New York"
! Charles G. Loomis, proprietor of the
Angelus, said that previous to receiv-
ing word of the automobile transaction
| from Cowan he had no other reason
! for suspecting the man except the in
tutive feeling of the clerk against him.
HE left only a suit case here, and 1t
contains nothing of value"
Was Clumsy Faker
The card Loeb" gave to one of the
women on the train was not the con-
ventional engraved card usually car
ried by a bankers son but card bear
ing on one side the name of Alice Mark,
a member of the '>e Wolf Hopper
company, and on the other scribbled
in pencil Jacob Loeb, jr, West
Fifty-third street, New York"
Anyone familiar with New York
banking circles would have detected
fraud In the young mans story, for
there is no longer any LOEB in the
firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Jacob
Schiff is now the chief member of the
| firm.
The supposed Jacob Loeb could not
even be called a clever crook, for his
handwriting, cards, dress and general
appearance and language were not
such as would usually inspire conf
dence even in the credulous.
Fourflushers Meet
From f. L. Sawyer, a banker Of In
dependence. who YVES on the train with
| "a Marty of DrOminant Isansaa neODla