Willmar tribune., 1909-06-02
LURE OF WOMAN
LEADS TO ARREST

lthU1 IU AkRE5I
YOUTH WHO EMBEZZLED LIN.
COLIN PROPERTY CAUGHT.
Makes Long Jump to See Girl and
Runs Into Oetective-Formerly
Student at the Min
nesota ~"
Lincoln, Neb., May 27.-After hav.
ing been chased over the country by
nalf score of detectives for more
than two months, Joseph H. Storrs,
allas 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.
VI handsome appearance and suave
nature, Storrs readily won a 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
protessed to be was never questioned.
About the time that he was appoint
ed administrator he began to spend
money freely, to give midnight lunches
1or chorus girls and to mingle with
the better class of society where his
pleasant address and seemingly linn
1tless amount of money seemed to win
him place.
Soon it was rumored about that he
was going in debt for all that he
spent. But it was only whisper. un-
til one day an evening paper came out
with the announcement that dashing
young Mccarthy, as he had been
known here, had gone and with him
all the money of the estate that had
been deposited in a local bank. An
investigation was all that was neces-
sary, and it was found that the young
society queener had gone, and that
a young stenographer had confided to
her friends that she was going with
him and that they were tp be mar
ried in Chicago.
The bonding company that had Sc
cured Mccarthy through the recon-
mendation Of Congressman Mcclure
got busy and offered reward for his
return. The Lincoln detective de-
partment began quietly to work, and
in week Mccarthy had been located
at Grand Forks, N. D., where he had
sister living.
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 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-
come wise to his maneuvers and had
consented to help the detectives cap
ture him. She wrote a 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 Dor.
der to Winnipeg and on to Seattle,
where he had brother. All this time
detectives followed him, keeping in
touch with his rapid travels through
Effie Malone, the young stenographer,
but always being a 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 c. E. Morse
and Miss Malone left Grand Forks
and hurried to Seattle. With nearly
a full-grown 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 extradition papers.
When asked about his past Nc.
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 a
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 a diploma from the law school of
that college shows that degree of
law had been granted to Joseph H.
StoTrs in 1898. This document was
found at Grand Forks, N. D., when his
trunk was searched. Other papers
showed that he had been at school in
all of the colleges he professed to
have attended.
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