New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-12
ALLEGED WIRE TAPP[SS"
CAUGHT AFTER CHASE
Thompson. Tarbeaux and Dow
sing Wanted Here for SWIM
ding Pittsburgh Man.
ARRESTED IN CHARLESTON
Trail of Men Sought for Getting
100000 in Fake Pool
room Game" Led Across
Twelve States.


After a chase Of months. which led
across a dozen states, the trail alter
nately shifting from as far north as
Atlantic City 10 its sOuthernmost eX-
irene at Havana. Cuba. Detective
Richard Mckenna. of the Central Of
fec squad. brought about the ROUNDUP
and capture in Charleston, s. c.. last
night, of j. \. Thompson. an alleged
wire Taper. and Colonel" Frank
Tarboaux and j. A. Dowsins, said to
be Thompsons "steerers," who are
wanted in this city for the alleged
swindling of S. Il. Jones, a rich coal
operator of. Pittsburgh; Major Pendle-
ton of Atlantic City. and others out
of sums aggregating nearly 100000.
Deputy Commissioner George s.
Dougherty and Inspector Faurot. in
charge Of the detective bureau. re
ceived word Of the capture early last
evening.
Commissioner Dougherty got word
q little before midnight of the third
arrest, that of j. A. Dowsing. said to
he a hotelkeeper and 'steerer' for the
fake New York poolroom. Detective
, McKenna made the arrest at 10 o'clock
last night. Dowsing is alleged to have
been concerned in the case of DR..
Powell and c. V. Sudbury, a lawyer, of
Wilmington. y. c.. who lost about
S15IDO to the wire tanners
The alleged swindle of the Pitts
burgh man took place here last Sep
TENDER Jones was stopping at the
Hotel Ansonia and was introduced 10
Thompson by a man who said he was
Judge Morgan of Buffalo. AS soon
as the stage was set a betting COM
missioner appeared on the scene with
inside information on how TO beat"
poolroom.
$4,000 on Mythical Ponies"
The party finally went to the sup
posed poolroom. in West S7th street,
near Central Park West. and at The
end Of the session with the mythical
ponies" Jones says he found himself
minus $4,000.
Thompson's part in the alleged sw in
ding of Major Pendeton out of 500
600 a coup that was engineered about
a month before the Jones affair :o)k
placed, stirred the police of a half
dozen cities to action.
Through evidence which came out ~
hr srx- se-at far &c ho 4cl.t rerla
mans experience Thompson was con-
pected with both affairs, but the iden-
tity Of Judge Morgan" puzzled the
sleuths for weeks. AS soon as Ne
Kenna however. struck Thompsons
trail in the South he also began picking
up information which led him TO be-
lieye that the distinguished looking old
gentleman who had figured in the New
York killings" would be found WITH
Thompson.
Thompson was captured in ST. Au-
CUISINE. Fla. on December u last
Jones wGs summoned from Pittsburgh.
and is said to have identified the pris-
oner but Thompson's counsel got him
admitted to bail which, the police say,
he Immediately jumped. When Nc
Kenna arrived to take charge OF the
prisoner Thompson had escaped.
The trail OF the distinguished looking
Old gentleman had meanwhile become
so hot however. that McKenna decided
90 transfer his attentions to him He
followed TarbeauX from Tampa to
Daytona. Fla. ard from there to Ha-
vana. but by the time he arrived in
the Cuban city Tarbeaux had made his
escape. \ good clew turned up, never
theless. in the waybills Of two trunks
which Tarbeaux had Shipped to At
lantic City
Make Capture in Charleston.
McKenna and his assistants were
just preparing 10 start north To the
Jersey resort when they received in
formation that their man had been seen
H. Charleston. Detectives were or
6ered b. wire To the scene Of action,