The Irish standard., 1909-05-29
LURE OF. WOMAN
LEADS TO ARREST
YOUTH WHO EMBEZZtED LIN.
COLIN PROPERTY CAUGHT.
Makes Long Jump to See Girl and
Runs Into etective-Formerly
q Student at the Min.
nesota "U."

Lincoln, Neb.. May 27.-After ,hav.
Ing been chased over. the country by
half score of detectives. for more
than two months, Joseph H. Storrs,
alias j. H. Mccarthy, has been cap
tured in Seattle. He is wanted here
for embezzling $1,000 of the Horn
estate, Of which he was appointed the
administrator. -
OF handsome appearance and suave
nature. Storrs readily won place in
the society circles of this city,. He
claimed to be of Southern parentage
and to come from Savannah. Ga. He
showed numerous references from
prominent Southern statesmen and at
torneys and that he was not what he
professed to be was never questioned.
About the time that he was appoint
ed administrator he began to spend
money freely. to give midnight lunches
for chorus girls and to mingle with
the better class of society where his
pleasant address and seemingly lin.
iuess amount of money seemed to win
him a place.
Soon it was rumored about that he
was going In debt for. all that he
spent. But 1t was only whisper, I'M
til one day an evening paper came out
with the announcement that dashing
young Mccarthy, rs he had been
known here. had gone and with him
all the money Of the estate that had
been deposited in local hank. An
Investigation was all that was neces-
sary. and IT. was found that the young
society queener had gone. and that
young stenographer had confided to
her friends that she was going with
him and that they were to be mar.
ried in Chicago.
The bonding company that had Sc.
cured Mccarthy through the recon-
mendation Of Congressman Mcguire
got busy and offered a reward for his
return. The Lincoln detective de-
partment began quietly to work. and
in a week Mccarthy had been located
at Grand Forks, N! D., where he had
n sister living. y
Through Lincoln confederates he
learned that detectives were look
ing for him. and he escaped to Duluth.
MINI. There he remained In a subur-
ban house for a week, until he be-
came anxious to hear from the girl
whom he had left in the Dakota city.
Then he telephoned to the hotel where
he had told her to write him under
another name than his own. and he
was told that there was letter there.
But by that time the girl had be-
consented to help the detectives cap
tlre him. She wrote letter under
the direction of Detective Morse. who
was In charge Of the case. and this
was mailed to Duluth. But MCCARTHY
never called for the letter. Some
thing seemed to tell him that plain
clothes men waited in the hotel to
nab him and he did not appear.
A week later Mccarthy wrote the
girl from Washington, D. c., that he
was there. The next week he was in
New York. and the next in Minneap-
oils. Then he hurried across the bor-
der to Winnipeg and on to Seattle.
where he had brother. All this time
detectives followed him, keeping In
1f1e Malone, the young stenographer.
but always being little too late to
get him.
Finally he wrote Miss Malone that
he was to go to Seattle and that he
would meet her there at the home Of
his brother That was the clue which
detectives followed. and G. e. Morse
and Miss Malone left Grand Forks
and hurried to Seattle. With nearly
a fullgrown beard. and hardly recog-
nizable to the detective who had
known him for two years, Mccarthy
boldly walked up the street toward
the house.
When Detective Morse had taken
him to the station at Seattle he con.
fessed all and promised to return to
Lincoln without extraditfon papers.
When asked about his past Mo
Carthy confessed all. He. had been
reared at Fargo, N. D.. he said, and
had been sent to the Michigan uni
versity. then to Minnesota university,
later to Cornell. and then to Harvard,
where he graduated from the law
school. He was always crook in q
greater or less degree. and had in
his college days been expelled. from
school after school for "cribbing." he
said. He told the detectives that he
had graduated from Harvard In 1900.
but diploma from the law school Of
that collage shows that degree of
law had been granted" to Joseph H.
Storrs in 1898. This document was
found at Grand Forks. N, D.; when his