The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-22
Richmond Police
Catch EnlbezzIer
by Clever Ruse

Joseph q. Gillen, IS, a graduate
N Harvard university, is held IN
she Wayne county jail awaiting
The arrivei Of an officer from BAL
timore, Nd, to return him TO tnat
city, where he is under Indictment
FOR absconding with over $4,000 OF
the funds Of the United States
Express company's Baltimore
office, where he was employed as
money transfer clerk.
Gjlien fled from Baltimore April
p8, desertine his wife and three
children and has been living in
Muncie, his particular chums
there being several police officers,
including the chief, who once took
GiIlen on a pleasure trip in his
automobile. At Muncie he is known
as George Davis.
Gillen's CAPTURE was effected in
Muncie yesterday by two Richmond
officers, Chief Goodwin and Frank
Remmert, plainclothes man, with
put the knowledge of the Muncle
police. He had about $1,000 on him
and $4O3 in small currency in grip
at his boarding house. He frankly
admitted his identity and appeared to
be relieved because he had been cap
tured.
Remmert Gets Creon.
The capture of Gillen, one Of the
most noteworthy achievements of the
local police department in recent
years, is to the credit of Officer Rem
inert. He met the man Tuesday night
when in Richmond on Joy rde
with two Muncie men and Identified
him the following day as the embez-
zler wanted in Baltimore when cir
cular was received from Baltimore de-
scribing the man and showing photo
graphs of him.
This information he gave to Chief
Goodwin and they left yesterday
morning for Muncie. Within an hour
after their arrival there, Gillen was in
custody and $176l of the money Gill
len had stolen from the express COM
pany, including a check for 1888 he
had deposited in the Union National
in favor of Chief Goodwin By 5
O'Clock yesterday afternoon Gillen was
In the Wayne county Jail.
This morning Chief Goodwin re-
ceived a telegram from J. Mayhem
= of the New York offices of the United
States Express company asking that
iillen either be sent to Baltimore in
the custody OF Rfchfnon0 offfeef OF
held here until Baltimore officer ar
rived He Will be held for the Balti-
more officer, for the local police do
not desire to have the expense of
sending an officer to Baltimore taken
out of the $40 reward offered by a
trust company and the express COM
pany for the apprehension OF the en-
beZZler.
Cannot Share Reward
This money is desired by the de-
Dartment to be used as a fund to meet
expenses of such trips as Goodwin and
Remmert took yesterday, the city hav-
ing no authority to appropriate money
for such purposes. Remmert cannot
claim the reward for himself because
of a state law, which requires all re-
ward money to be turned into the city
treasury for the use of the police de-
partment.
Tuesday night Gillen and two Nun
Gle men came to Richmond in an auto
mobile They had had trouble with
their machine enrOute and could not
return in it," said Officer Remmert to-
day in explaining how he came to cap
ture the badly wanted fugitive. while
they were here | met them and we
were with each other for some time
] tried to secure machine for them
to return to Muncie early Wednesday
morning, but all the garages had theil
cars in use. so they had to wait fol
the $40 G. & O. train. They asked
me to go to lunch with them at mid
night but refused but met them agair
just before they returned to Muncie.
when l got back to police head
quarters I went through some reward
circulars which had just been receiv
ed and / at once recognized photo
graphs in a circular from Baltimore a
one of the men | had met during the
night | told Chief Goodwin of thi:
and we decided to go to Muncie.
When we arrived in Muncie yester
day morning we hunted around 70
Gillen and finally met him on tn,
street
Admits Identity.
"He did not recognize me at first
but did so when | told him | was th
plainclothes officer he had met il
Richmond. He invited us to have
drink but we declined then the chic
asked him where police headquarter
was located. This appeared to max
him nervous and he asked to be eN
cused for few minutes on urgen
business. saying he would meet IL
later.
The chief and | knew then he wa
framing getaway so | took him b
the arm and led him down sid
street. There l showed him the Bait
more circular. He turned littl
paler but remarked very calmly, 1r
YOUR man; those are good photos Q
me. aren't they?' He asked not to b
taken to police headquarters, sayin
that he wanted to avoid all publicit
in Muncie where he was we'll known
and that he would accompany us will
out causing any trouble
Shows Hidden Money
we then went with him to hi
boarding house where we all had dill
ner After the meal we went to hi
room where he opened a grip CONTAIN
ing over s400 in five, two and on
dollar bills, and then took thousan
dollars out of his pockets and hande
the money over to US. He gave tn
chief a check for 1858 on Munci
bank.
After he packed up his belonging
we all walked to the station witho,
putting the handcuffs on Gillen an
he caused US no trouble at any tim
On the train he talked frankly to u
tho< he hoI or