Evening journal., 1916-12-02

put several hundred miles between
himself and his wife in Chicago.
He turned I'D in Utah a few months
later and was Converted" TO Nor
monism. He spoke in the Mormon
and fed from the State with the
money. He landed at Kansas City.
Mo-, and got busy with bis forging
and borrowing hand, posing as Gu
gene Bonner. When he departed for
other parts with the uncanny intu-
itioD that throughout his career
prompted him 10 fee when danger
threatened. the Kansas City police
we're about TO arrest him. They sent
out circulars Offering a $50 reward
for his arrest.
CHAPTER 4.
Detroit, Mich. was the scene Of his
next important activities. He demon
strated his remarkable versatility by
joining the Ethel Blythe Theatrical
Company as an actor there in 1878,
using the name OF Bennateau. He
soon was playing import mt charac-
ter parts In the plays given By the
4 company.
Quite naturally, he became interested
I In girl IN the company, and when they
were playing in Toronto, Can, he mar
, ricd this girl on December 20, 1878.
1 They decided 20 give mp acting and IN
( tho spring Of 1879 bought" fine
house al New Lisbon, Wis.
( MIR Bcnnateau,' as he was then
/ known, persuaded a. local lawyer Of
standing TO make him a law partner,
and for three years he pWctieed law IN
! New Lisbon. lie lived on the most OK
iravsgant scale he had 50 far adopted
/ and began 20 forge bonds and checks
and borrow large sums. Before the
4 crash came he fed leaving behind the
actress and the three children born TO
| them.
"Mrs Bennateau' went back on thu
I stage. saved every penny she could, and
thcn returned to New Lisbon and paid
the creditors he had left behind him. She
died a few years later.
CHAPTER 5.
st this time he was entering on the
most criminal stage of his career. Hc
met another internationu known
crook who posed as Lord Ashton, an
| English peer touring the United States
1 and who invariably ON the strength OF
] his title and grand Manners gained ad.
/ mission In short time TO the friendship
/ of the socially elite in the cities hC
worked. later 10 fleece them out Of large
sums by forgeries and other swindles.
They went into partnership and "a.
English tourists' worked along the
Northern Pacific railroad nimaamming
as they wapdered ana then catching tho
next train out Of town.
However. in April 1883, with a wife
| he had met somewhere in his travels he
arrived in Boston again, aud parted
there with Lord Ashton.
lie and his wife took up spiritual
! ism and she introduced him 70 a
wealthy married woman at one OF the
seances conducted by Eben Cobb in
the old Odd Fellows Hail. at Wash
ington and Beach streets, Boston.
This woman was Mrs. John p.
Sergeant. whose husband was a book
keeper IN Dorchester, Mass.
Under the name Of John u. Craw.
ford. the crime wizard opened a law
ONCE in the Equitable Building, Milk
and Devonshire streets, Boston, and
started TO collect sundry large sums
by loans from spiritualists and at tn,
same time make devoted love TO The
married woman IN the way he knew
so well.
She was dazzled by his courtship
and with her sister, Miss Louise
Jenkins. then living in Forest Hills
Boston they fed TO Charestown w
Va. leaving behind in Boston the wife
the minister brought here and also
many spirltuallsts who about that
time realized they had been duped.
The married woman took all her
cash with her. and also several
thousand dollars OF her husbands