The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-09
WILEY Gets MAN
AFTER LONG TRIP
DETECTIVE TRAVELS 1890 MILES
AND IN THREE STATES BE-
FORE RETURNING.
WENT ON FALSE TRAIL
FINDS WALTER JOHNSON, Row.
EVER. RRISGs HIN RACK AND
CLEARS UP ANOTHER
POLICE CASE.

At police headquarters there is an
opinion that Detective Sergeant John
Wiley Il some detective This opin-
ion Is shared by one Walter Johnson.
otherwise known as Skin" Johnson.
who has been missing from his usual
haunts In Richmnnu ever since the
shop OF WilliAm voslcker was robbed
last Septembsr.
wiley arrested johnson after . L.
200 mile trip, In which he traversed
three foreign States and incidentally
did = little OF detective work on an
other case. which cleared up . matter
which has been bothering the bureau.
And Wiley went on on false trail at
that. led by misinformation. He came
back doubly successful. which il why
he IL treated with due Difference at
headquarters.
johnson was In police court Thurs
day charged with the larceny Of the
clothing from the voelcker pressing
stabIishment. and was turned over
to the custody of the Hastings Court.
He seemed resigned TO his fate save
in one particular.
II certainly would like to know
who that officer was who shot at me
that night. he declared. Nobody
told him. but the policeman was @.
A. Jennings. OF, the Second Police sta
ton.
III Rxllet Pssrssses johnson. !. e.ssr.s
Jennings saw johnson at the cor
ner of Grace and Sixth street the
night of September rs with q roll of
clothing under his arm. johnson said
ne was taking It to IIs South Fifth
street, and Jennings went along to
make sure. Arriving at 11s johnson
darted into q side entrance and down
an alleyway. whereupon Jennings
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son only fed the faster. He decided
10 leave the city. however. and II was
mot until q few days ago that he was
heard from.
Word came from Thurman. w. Va.
that man named Walter Johnson
had been arrested there. He answer
ed to the description OF the Walter
johnson wanted here, 90 Detective
John Wiley was sent after him. When
Wiley got to Thurman he found that
while the Waiter johnson under ar
rest there looked very much like the
Richmond man. he was not the same
person.
A conversation with a railroad de-
tective decided Wiley to take trip
to Concord. KY. The detective Black
went along with him. At Concord
Wiley found the real Walter john
SON and placed him under arrest
Clears Clothing Case
Then Wiley decided to 60 to IRON
ton. o.. while he was around that
section and look into a matter of
stolen clothing. for which two men
were being held in Richmond. These
men. L. ]. Clarke and Allen John
son. both white. had been arrested by
Wiley while trying to dispose OF
goods in q Richmond pawnshop. He
searched their room after he had
taken them to police headquarters
and found quantity OF clothing that
led him to believe an Ironton, O.,
concern had been robbed.
In Ircnton Wiley found that his
surmise was correct. The firm OF A.
:. Brumberg had been burgiarixed
six times within short period and
Wiley succeeded In establishing that
part OF the goods found in the pos
session Of Clarke and johnson had
come from the Brumberg store. This
news he wired to Chief Werner. who
was correspondingly delighted.
Then Wiley brought his prisonsr to
Richmond. He was congratulated all
around when he showed up ut police
headquarters Thursday.