Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-24
CRIMINAL MUST
HAVE EXACT
DOUBLE
JOSEPH ELLIS, WHO IS ALLEGED TO
HAVE MURDERED A man IN IN
DIANAPOlIS, MONDAY, IS ARRES,
TED, MONDAY EVENING IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
He IS WANTED IN
SEVERAL OTHERS CITIES

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Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 24.-Eithel
Joseph Ellis, alias Fred Brokaw, alias
w. R. Anderson, alias Fred Boley
wanted here for the alleged murder
Iof Joseph Schlansky, a secondhand
dealer ina room in the Oneida hote
Monday night, has an exact double
CT he is not under arerst in San Frar-
cisco, as reported last night, accord
ing to the local police.
The photograph of Ellis, or Bro
kaw, sent broadcast by the Pittsbure
police department, was identified posi-
lively by four persons here as the
man who killed Schlansky.
The operations Of Ellis were simi
lar in all the cities he visited. Here
he called at the Schlansky store, told
him he had some clothing at his room
in the hotel, which he wanted to sell,
Schlansky accompanied him to the
room in the hotel and it is supposed
resisted the attempt to rob him and
he was killed. Ellis calmly left the
hotel and departed from the city be-
fore the alarm was given. In other
cities Ellis succeeded in robbing the
victims and escaped while they were
locked in his room.
I Audra Baker Anderson, who says
4 rl iod
ilieved to be Joseph Ellis. the slayer
Of Schlansky, at Danville, H., attempt
led to commit suicide here today. The
girl, who is 16 years old. told the po-
lice after she had shot herself, that
she had married Anderson, July J.,
and that he had deserted her week
later
! The girl said that she had recog-
nized her husband from the descrip-
ton of the Schlansky slayer and that
the photographs sent out by the Pitts
burg police department, were those
lof the man she married
, The murderer registered at a hotel
as Anderson.
| In her room were found letters to
her mother, in which the girl said she
was going to kill herself because her
husband had murdered a man. En-
closed were newspaper accounts of
Schlansky's death.
At the hospital physicians said that
Audra would probably not recover.
Requisition Issued
Pittsburg, Pa. Sept. 24.-Requisi-
ton papers for Fred Brokaw, alias
Fred BoIey. alias R. White, under ar
rest in San Francisco. and supposed
Ito be the man wanted here for rob-
berry and assault We're sent to Gov
ernor Tener at Harrisburg today by
the police department. A city detec-
tive will start for California tomorrow
morning and the papers, when sign
el by Governor Hener will be forward
ed to the governor of the coast state
Suspect Arrested.
San Francisco, Sept PA young
man, said to be Frank Brokaw, alias
Fred Boley, of Tacoma, Wash, was
arrested in this city last night, charg-
ed with the robbery of a second hand
dealer in Pittsburg.
The man arrested here Monday in
answer to circular sent out by the
pittsburgh police not only corresponds
perfectly to the photograph reproduc'
e(, in the circular and to the verbal
description, but he admits that he is
Fred Brokaw. alias Fred Boley. alias
F White and says he was arrested ir
Pittsburgh in 1910. The picture in the
circular is the photograph taken then,
he says. Further than that he will I,
not talk.
In running down the mans move.
ments here, the police have uncovered
a remarkable identity between the
working methods of the Brokaw here |
and the Ellis, of Indianapolis. When |
arrested Brokaw had in his pocket |
book list of names of prominent .
men. He already had looked UP
whom he had asked to /
ccme to his room in hotel to look at
scme jewelry and clothing he wanted
to sell. Before the visit was made
Brolaw was arrested
From the extraordinary correspond
cree in the habits and appearance of
the prisoners the detective bureau
here is led to believe that Ellis and
Prokaw are different men who profit
Ell by their puzzling likeness to estab-
lish alibis for each other while work
ing the same game in different cities.
May Prove AIlbi.
Washington. D. c.. Sept. 24-H. A. Il
Erokaw, father of Fred Brokaw, told
the police today that an absolute alibi i
could be offered in defense of the
young Tacoman whose name is
strangely entangled with a murder in
Indianapolis and robbery in Pitts
burgh. Mr.. Brokaw said Fred was
in Tacoma, September /. and left
shortly after for San Francisco, writ
ing from Portland and San Francisco,
in a manner that showed conclusive
y his movements. Mr.. Brokaw ad-
rlitted, however, that the photograph
C the police circular is that of his
son.