Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-03
ADMITS GUILT
AS SWINDLER
Bogus Lodge Man Trailed by
Charles and [. B. Moore
and Locked Up.
HAD TO BE 0vERPOWERED
Recorder Gives Stranger
Choice of s Months or 500
Fine kilograms Expose.

Persistent work on the part OF
Charles r. Moore, his brother, l..
Burt Moore, and two assistants
| caused an alleged impostor, working
here to swind1e members of fraternal
orders, to be landed In police cell
last night. He had attempted to
collect funds from Charles Moere,
who Is secretary for Lawrence
Lodge, No. So, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. by representing
himself to be member of the order
Cards In his. pocket gave evidence
that he might have tried to swindle
members of the local Masonic order
and others. He pleaded guilty when
arrafgned this morning and In order
to impose speedy justice, Recorder
Henry W. Kehoe sentenced him to
serve six months in the county Jail
or pay q fine of 800. He was
taken back to a cell.
Caught After Long Chase.
The capture was made about
$3.50 o'clock last night after long
chase that lead northward on High
street, through Buckingham avenue
and southward on State street 1t
began after Charles Moore had as
certained through kilograms that
the man was an impostor and was
trying to obtain money under false
pretenses.
The man came to this city yester-
day afternoon a total stranger He
gave his name as Wallace Duncan
and represented himself to be the
son of DR.. James Duncan, whom he
claimed to have been a past grand
master OF Victoria Lodge, No. 1S.
/. 0. O. F., OF Michel, British CO.
Iumbia. When arrested he gave his
name as Robert Stephenson, fifty
seven years old, of Canada. He
knew travelling Odd Fellow signs
| for the past twenty-nins years, ex-
cepting for 1902 and he carried an
cid card from a Masonic lodge,
i bearing the nazae OF W. D. Msfcter,
or Newark. Officials of local frater-
nal orders and the local police are
! satisfied that the man Is swindler
and impostOr travelling from one
state to another. 1t appears that he
har been working Odd Fellow mem
bers for the past twenty nine years.
excepting perhaps during 1902,
when 1t Is believed by some that he
served term In jail
Ousted From Elks' Rooms.
The alleged impostor attempted to
work members of the local lodge
of Elks and invaded their headquar-
ters yesterday, with the result that
The was handled roughly and ousted
with little ceremony. After that,
lit is declared, he set to work inves
tigating Odd Fellow matters in this
city. He learned the whereabouts
of Charles Moore, and finding him
secretary of the local lodge he asked
him for So and aid The money was
handed over, but before further aid
was given the mans record was in
vestigated by telegraph. Replies
came that no man by the name OF
Duncan, member of Victoria Lodge
No 18, could be found.
Feared He Had Weapon.
When Mr.. Moore confronted the
stranger with the kilograms he at
tempted to fee. Mr.. Moore went
after him and demgSded his money
back, whereupon the stranger made
a move for his back pocket as
though to produce a weapon. Mr..
Moore then desisted and let the man
walk ahead of him. He was deter
mined ito follow the man and with
the aid OF two strangers and later
by his brother he traced him up
High street to saloon. The men
kept far behind the fugitive SO as
to throw off any suspicion indicating
he was being followed.
Patrolman William Calvin was
later summoned to assist in the case,
but by that time the man had been
lost track of. The officer soon
withdrew The Moore brothers and
their assistants kept up the chase
and the fugitive was finally found in
saloon in State street.
Is Soon Overpowered.
Charles Moore went to tele-
phone to the police and by that time
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