Evening journal., 1910-07-19
WOMANLEDTHE
WAY TOLOWREY
bis Wife Sent Letters and
Was Followed From this
City to Hiding Place
ALLEGED HE GOT
AWAY WITH $l2O,OOO

j. Howard LOWrey, who was ar
rested i'm Philadelphia yesterday by
Daniel ]. Kelleher. a representative
of the New York Office Of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association, on the
charge of rsbbing the National Bank
of Utica, n. Y, was practically kid
mapped by that wide awake detective.
While the newspaper men and the
police. who had been apprised of the
arrest sometime after it was made.
were breaking their necks" trying
10 locate Lowrey and his captor. the
latter were on their way to Utica,
Lowrey having agreed to go back
without requisitiOn paers.
II was the neatests piece of detec-
tive work recorded for sometime. Kel-
leher picked up his man under the
nose OF the Philadelphia police and
within q short time was on his way
TO Utica with him.
Lowrey had been missing since
April. Detectives and police all over
the country were angling for him,
and for his arrest q reward was Of
fered. Kelleher had been working
on the case very quietly and spent
much of his time in Wilmington. It
was from this city that he obtained
clue as to the whereabouts of
Lowrey.
Traced BY His Wife.
Mrs. Lowrey, who was Miss Bessie
SandersOn, and TO whom il is said
he was married three weeks before
his departure from Utica. came TO
Wilmington three weeks ago and
made her home with Mrs. Robert
Skinner. wife of a well-known busi-
ness man here. Kelleher learned
that she was here and he tried to in
duce her to tell him where her hus-
band was. This she refused TO do.
The detective finally shadOwed the
woman and saw her mail several let
ters. He obtained LOwrey's address
i'm Philadelphia from one of them and
he also shadowed her when she went
to Philadelphia to see her husband
In that way he learned that LOwrey
was boarding at No. S37 North Six
teenth ~ Philadelphia. and yes.
terday ng at 7.3O o'clock the
unsuspec clsg man left his abode th'
4 detective walked up aud placed hin
under arrest Lowrey made no al
4 tempt 70 get away and returned 70 hi
quarters, packed his suit case an
started back to Utica with his cap
tor.
Lowrey applied for a room at tn
! Sixteenth street address about si'
weeks ago. and engaged the cheapes
room in the house. He assumed thl
dress and habits of wus iugman
and no suspicion was attached TO th'
man by the landlady. lie received
mail occasionally. but did not NEE
any one and was never away from
/ his room over night According O,
his landlady, Mrs Anna Albright. h,
was model tenant He was know
to his friends in Philadelphia a.
! Johnson.
Was a Trusted EmplOye.
LOwrey had been the note teller il
the Utica City National Bank fol
many years, and was one of thl
banks most trusted employees. An
examination of the books of the bani
| by the Federal bank examiner dis
closed discrepancies, and while the
examination was yet in prOgres.
Lowrey went into an adjoining room
took about $4,000 from a drawer ana
departed. His absence was not no
ticed for an hour, aud then he coulC
not be traced. His shortages ar,
said to amount to approximately $120
600, and his stealings have been go
! ing on for six years. Ii is thought
that most of the money was lost IL
stock speculations.
A reward Of $500 was offered b,
the bank officials for information
(which would lead to his capture.