The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-02
SW!NDLER IS NOW BELIEVED ID BE
 BANK RESPONDER
''L. H. Long" Arrested Yes terday on Charge of Selling
 Fake Insurance Policies
BALTIMORE IS KEEN
 AFTER J. R. UHLER

Bank of That City Taking With
 Him sl2,s55 of the
 Banks Money
 Detectives caught up with an alleged
 fake" insurance scheme last night and
 incidentally arrested a man giving his
 name as l.. H. Long. of 1us North Nine
 teenth street, but whom the police be- lieve is John R. Uhler, tho missing pay
 ing teller of the Park bank of Baltimore,
 Md, who absconded with $l2,S55 last Au- gust and for whom a reward of $25O is offered by the United States Fidelity com pany Long or Uhler is at present in the city jail on several charges of ob- taning money under false pretenses. According to Detectives Pittman and Crenshaw Tor the past week or more nu- merolis complaints have been filed with the department that there was a shrewd
 man selling insurance about the city and
 poclxeting the money. Yesterday morn
 ing l.. H. Long. the detectives allege sold policy of the Continental Casualty company to Thomas Langford of PIP Hix- son avenue Pratt City, at the Alabama Great Southern railroad shops, MT. Lang ford gave an order to Long for N to his wife and 1t is alleged that Long raised the order to s and collected that sum from Mrs. Langford.
 Langford Discovers Fraud On arriving home last night Mir. Lang ford discovered the fraud and called up Y. j. Huey and w. H. Hoover, managers of the Continental Casualty company, for redress Detectives Putnam and Cren shaw were then called into the case and little quick work resulted in find ing out that the man who was selling this insurance was in the habit of rid ing buggy with woman companion and that the buggy was rented from the Kentucky Livery stables.
 From the Kentucky stables the infor-
 nation was volunteered that the ''mys- terious' man always left the horse and
 buggy at Fourteenth avenue and Nine- teenth street, north, and telephoned to the stables for someone to call for it usually about : o'clock in the evening. With this information Detectives Pitt
 man and Crenshaw, accompanied by Huey and Hoover, in the police patrol hurried
 to Fourteenth avennue and Nineteenth street and arrived on the scene just as the suspect" was alighting from the buggy in front of 141y North Nineteeth street. When placed under arrest the prisoner gave his name l.. H. Long and showed visible signs of mental dis tress. He would give no information re- garding himself to the officers or to the insurance men.
 Operating Several Weeks According to Huey and Hoover, the local managers of the Continental Cas-
 ualty company of Chicago, H., and also J. P. Jones. local manager of the Stand ard Accident Insurance company of De- troit Mich. Long has been swndling
 the people of Birmingham and suburbs
 for several weeks. They state that there is a deputy state insurance commissioner from Montgomery at present in Birming- ham Investigating his operations The insurance men further state that Long had literature of all the well known in- surance companies and sold policies on any company that a prospect desired for small sums of money. The place of operations of Long for several days, the insurance men state. was the Alabama Great Southern railroad shops, where they alleged Long sold upwards of 50 policies.
 At police headquarters last night Long was positively identified by J. P Jones of the Standard Accident Insurance company | as the agent hired about six weeks ago to solicit insurance and to whom stationery and insurance supplies had been given. MT Jones stated that from that date Long had never reported to the local of- flee and had never turned in any busi-
 ness. Long was also identified by Thomas Langford as the man who had sold him a policy of the Continental Casualty com pany yesterday morning. and to whom he had given an order to his wife for s, , which was raised to $5. and Mrs. Lang ford identified Long as the man who 1 presented the note and collected the &
 Investigate Past Record Following the positive identification of Long as the insurance swinder that had been a thorn in the side of the local insurance agencies for several weeks the police started Investigating Long( as to his past record. To their questions Long
 maintained rigid silence, put started violently when Detectives Pittman and Crenshaw suddenly called him John H. Uhler, and accused him of being the
 missing paying teller of the Park bank of Baltimore. Md. In his excitement Long slipped from his chair and could hardly stand, the detectives alege from nerv- ousness. As soon as he could coherently speak he stoutly denied that he had ever been in Baltimore or had ever worked | in any bank The detectives, however, are positive that he is John H. Uhler. and have notified the Baltimore police of the arrest. An officer from that city is expected in few days.
 Description of Absconder l The circualr Issued by the United States Fidelity company of Baltimore, Md, states | that John H. Uhler, aged 70 years; height l 5 feet 8 inches; light brown mustache, | brown curly hair. blue eyes, absconded | from the Park bank of Baltimore. where he was employed as paying teller, with 1 the sum of $12.855 in August, 1913" The Fidelity company offers a reward of $2oD for the capture or information leading l to the arrest of John H. Uhler.
 | Chief of Police Martin Easan stated last night that after looking at the photograph l of John H. Uhler and at l.. H. Long he was convinced that they were one and | the same man. The description of Long tallies also with that of the Baltimore
 absconder in every detail even to a small | defect on the lips. Sergeant of Detec- tives Sydney Darnell states that in all probability Long and Uhler are the same man.
 The arrest of Long, or Uhler. marks an important capture on the first day the