The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-27
Or. FLOWER SAYS HE
NEVER WAS IN RICHMOND
Man Under Arrest in New York Re
garded by Police as King.
OF Swindlers.
SAYS DEATH WILL CHEAT LAW
notwithstanding His Assertion, Lo-
cal Police Say They Were Close
on Ills Trail, and That His Rich
mond Attorney Advised With Him.

At the end OF Il trail which has
marked him in the minds of the police
of all the cities in the country as tho
most successful swindler of modern
times, and brought him ut last to n
cell in the famous prison house OF New
York City. DIR. Richard c. Flower. who
was once sought in vain by the Rich
mond detectives, now says that he
never was in Richmond, that ut the
time they were looking Cor him here
he was living in Detroit. But there
are some detectives still on the force
who insist that DR.. Flower did grace
Richmond with his presence, and that
they would have caught him had it
not been for the intcrloping of private
detectives working on a false clue.
There is also n Richmond attorney
who will not deny that he had the
privilege of advising with DR.. Flower
when Mrs. Hngaman, who is said to
have accompanied him here, was the
object OF especial police suspicion and
surveillance. Perhaps this attorney
would not deny that while detectives
were watching the house at Eleventh
and Marshall Streets. in which Mrs
Iiagamnn was living. DIR. Flower was
spirited away in an automobile from
another house on Marshall Street. and
that DIR. Flower knew on the minute
Somehow, according to his own adj
missions, DR.. Flower always knew be-.
forehand when it would he time to
leave the city he was batting. and the
police, until he was caught last We'd
nesday i'll Toronto. Canada, were al
ways bit late on his trail.
PREDICTS HIS DEATH
BEFORE CONVICTION
Now the end has come. at have
nj -ad hn ,trl, I
done he said. in an interview in New
York yesterday. 81 am going to die
very soon. These detectives are no
doubt patting themselves on the back
and thinking they have done something
very clever to get the old man. But
what have they got? Before they can
succeed in getting mo ] Will be dead
SO much for their work. could have
gotten away from them again, but I
knew / was going to pass out, ara 1
wanted to be near home. / have played
the game through and there is no
chance for me TO get away from my
next bondsman, Death"
But despite his siNty-siX years, the
dear doctor. so beloved of many women
looks good for many more years to
come, and the future disposition of his
career will not lightly he left to death
He has many scores which the New
York police wish him to settle, and no
says that he can explain. He says that
it is bunk to say that he got half Of
the million dollar fortune of Mrs. Della
barre (Mrs. Hagaman that wns), that
hc got only $4,000. which was invested
satisfactorily TO her In his company.
And he declares that Mrs. Storr, who
went on his bond in philadelphia for
100000, was reimbursed by his friends,
and that so was every one else who
stood by him reimbursed for their ex-
Dense and trouble.
NEVER 1000 MILES
FROM NEW YORK IN LIFE
IF ! was half as clever as tho news
TapcrS have made me appear" he said
u would not now be in jail and broke
l never SAW million dollars i'll my
life. much less possessed that amount
or swindled any one out OF IT, ] have
rover been more than 1000 miles out
side OF New York City at any time dur
ing my career, though have read wild
tales of detectives being on my track
III Europe, Mexico and other faraway
places. ] have sat in foyers of New