Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-25


now lies on Froest's mantelpiece.
Known In United States.
Froest has made three visits to the
United States and means to pay an
other after his retirement, in the next
month. He first went across In 1884,
having been borrowed" by the United
States government in connection with
the prosecution of William Lord
Moore. BY this time his name was
we'll known, chiefly as result Of his
smart solution Of big mystery which
he unraveled with the aid of a photo
graph he had stOlen-yes, stolen de-
liberately from matrimonial agent
whom he visited and sent out Of the
room on some pretext, the while he
purloined the picture from his desk. He
got lot of praise for his work in this
case, and followed it up by exposing
a lawyer from the Midlands named
Marshall, who declared that $4,000
had been stolen from his room in a
London hotel Froest demonstrated
that the money had not been stolen at
all, but had been appropriated by the
lawyer, and the latter went to do
time"
William Lord Moore was the author
of the biggest series of next-of-kin
frauds ever perpetrated in the United
States. His invariable bait was an al
turing sum of millions awaiting Amer
lean heirs" In England. The millions
in-chancery myth is one that dies hard
at home, and Moore found dupes by
the thousands. These he bled white
and then vanished. He was the lead
ing lawyer in the state of Tennessee
when this bright idea struck him and
a pillar of the church But he was
an Englishman by BIRTH" said F'roest,
adding, Have you read Ouidas nov
els?"
only Under Two Flags" was the
reply.
spIendidIy Equipped for Crime.
That's all you need to have read to
see Moore" said the detective, "fOr ne
was for all the world like the hero of
that NOVELETTE, beautiful Life Guards
man. you know. He stood over six
feet and must have weighed seventeen
stone, though he hadn't a bit Of q
paunch He had magnificent tawny
beard, q thing you rarely see in the
states, and his manners were those OF
a nobleman. He came over here, and
went to see him, more on principle
than with any definite object. and
then l looked him up bit. Finally,
when your government decided to stop
his game for good and all they sent for
me. 1t took three trials to convict
him-the first two juries were fixed,
sure-the last being held at Jackson.
Tenn And do you know" said Froest,
even after | got home | got letters
from hundreds of people in America
asking me to fird out If there really
weren't a few millions belonging to
them over here"
1t was in the United States, too,
and in the service of the American
government, that Froest first went up
against Tom O'Brien, who eventually
came over from Paris to London with
Scotland yarder. William Pinkerton
described the big American crook 8
career from his beginning as a news
boy on the trains between Albany and
New York to his end in the French
convict settlement at New Caledonia
as we sat in Froest's den in the yard.
He told how he began to go wrong by
selling ten-cent shinplasters to rubes
for ten-dollar bills. and how he climbed
up to the big hunco steerer-"the king
of them ALL" said the head of the Pin
kerton agency.
End of Tom O'Brien.
tom O'Brien never asked for any.
thing easy" ssid Pinkerton. He was
a game man and he wanted the hard
est there was, and got away with il
until Frankie here landed him, and
how you kept him from putting a
bullet In that fat stomach of yours
| I don't know" finished the American