Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-31
WAS IN NEW YORK CITY
Arthur Kemp Spent Four Days
in the Metropolis.
TALKED WITH PINKERTONS
Registered at Hotel as J. H. Hender.
son Of Baltimore.
PLAYED RACES AT sHEEPsHEAD
Went Broke and Announced That he
Was Leaving in Order to OBJ
tain More Money.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 31.-Surprise was
felt here when 1t was learned that the sus-
pect arrested at Logan, W. Va, last Sun
day was not James A. Kemp. the Washing
ton police department defaulter. While
Kemp did not enjoy a wide acquaintance
here, he had a number Of friends among
actresses, and a visitor and guest at
the Bridge Hotel where most of the patrons
are theatrical people. How he happened
to know about the Bridge Hotel his actress
friends do not know, but it is a fact that
he arrived there shortly after his de-
parture from Washington, the Sd Of last
month. When the persons about the hotel
learned that Kemp, o. ]. II. Henderson of
Baltimore, as he registered was a fugitive
from justice they expressed surprise at
his willingness to take such chance Of
being caught
1T was the combination of women and
races that brought him where he was at
that time one of his friends remarked.
land one would have thought he would
have become SO thoroughly disguised with
the combination that he would have headed
in an entirely different direction 1t SEEM
ed as though he could not give up the
races or the girls, however, and following
him to get caught
With Girls Of the Stage.
While Kemp did not seem to have conffded
In many of his friends In Washington, it
is said, he seems to have made confidants
Of more than one of the stage girls. What
he told some of them, it is thought, may
yet lead to his capture. There was one
actress In whom he had been particularly
interested, but she was not here at the
time Of his arrival. He knew she was not
due here at that time but things at his
home had taken such turn that he could
not put off his flight any longer She did
come here about ten days after his de-
parture for parts unknown. but made no
effort to shield him. He had written her
a letter addressed to her home in Detroit
reach Washington about the day he left
there. 1t Is said that the contents of his
letter to the young woman indicated that
he probably had or expected to have a
lump sum of money, the writer of the letter
having asked If its recipient would take
the money for safekeepng. She is said to
have replied that she would not accommo-
date him. and suggested that he write to
a relative. The identity of the man who
registered at Bridge Hotel as J. II. Hem
derson Of Baltimore was not known until
his favorite stage girl came along and
identified the handwriting of the Young
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several of the theatrical favorites.
"A friend Of yours has been here, and
he's been out with other girls" the actress
was told.
"who was he?" she inquired
Mr.. Henderson Of Baltimore she was
told.
Mr.. Henderson," she asked why, I
don't know any Mr.. Henderson"
Then she went to the register and looked
at the name
Henderson, she repeated "his name
Is Kemp; he's chief of police in Wash
ington, and they are after him.
Thought He Was Police Chief.
The soubrette In question had already
been interviewed at her home in the west,
and she knew about what her Washing
ton friend had done. She had been ed to
believe that he was chief of police and not
chief clerk, but he was only one Of her
many acquaintance, and she did not mind
giving him away. She IL now on the stage
in the west, and It win be several weeks
before she will reach Washington, where
she had met and been entertained by
Kemp.
The conduct Of the fugitive while In this
city caused his friends some surprise. It
had been believed by them that when he
left washington he had either made away
with himself or had boarded an outgoing
steamer for South America, but the inves-
tigation of his movements In this city shows
that he remained here four days. leaving
just In time to efude the detectives who
were after him. Not only did he remain
friends. the Pinkerton detectives, and had
them pass him through the gates at Sleeps
head. Three days. reports have It, he VS.
tied the track. being admitted by Capt.