Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-11
MALLORY FAKER
SENTENCED To
STATE PRISON
Rixon, Who Impersonated Miss
ing BaItimorean, Gets Three
Years-Other Sentences.

For trying to obtain money from
friends of the late Dwight f. Mallory,
a Baltimore business man. by repre-
senting himself as Mallory and in
need of funds, William ]. Rixon, a
photographer, of 277 Broad street, was
sent to State prison at Trenton for
not less than two nor more than three
years by Judge Harry V. Osborne
yesterday.
RiXon, in his confession to the po-
lice, declared he was the tool of an
other man, who got up the scheme to
bleed Mallory's friends. Mallory dis
appeared while oh n hunting trip on
Chesapeake bay. He is believed to
have been drowned. His body was
never found. BY means of telephone
messages. in which Rixon imperson-
ated Mallory, the latter's relatives
and friends were lured to Newark.
Rixon hoped to get money out of
them by engaging himself as a de-
tectiVe.
Judge Osborne also sent Lucille
Royster a negress, thirty-two years
old. of 133 Academy street, to State
prison for not less than two years and
not more than seven for robhing n
man i'm the section known as the
Academy street coast"
81 want this To serve as a warning
TO others in that section of the city,
said the court Il hope that the
people who have been committing
these crimes will learn that they must
stop
AID given the State in convicting
the man who received the goods he
stole was responsible, the court said,
for leniency in the case of Samuel
Firsichbaum, of 119 Monmouth street,
who was sentenced to the penitentiary
for six months. Firsichbaum testified
that he stole bristles from the Cellu-
loid company and sold them to Harry
Ellensweig, a New York brlstle
dealer. Ellensweig was sentenced last
week by Judge DAILY to the peniten-
tiary for a year and fined Sooo.
Good Detective Work.
The arrest of Rixon and the foiling
of the plot to eXtort money from
Nallory's friends was brought about
bv unusually good detective work by
Sergeant Frank e. Brex and Lieuten-
ant Thomas r. DAILY, of the head
quarters utLcCllNt Nob'
ately after they were notified by Nal
Iory's friends of the telephone calls
their suspicious were aroused and
thev made a persistent search to find
the man who sent the calls, one to
baltimore and the other to Short
Hills.
Mallory's friends believed that il
was Mallory himself who called them
tn Cnn6 the
because they wanted to take charge
of him personally and see that he
was returned safe to his home. After
two davs' search the detectives found
n vo,lng woman who had seen Rixon
using n phone in the Holland House
on Market street They arrested
Rixon, but the latter maintained that
he had been in the Holland House
and seen q man tallying exactly with
Mallory using the phone.
The detectives were commended by
a number of prominent Baltimore cit
zens and by the police board.
Rixon has served several terms in
New York city, once for grand lar
ceny, another time for stealing
moving picture machine, and in Eliz-
abeth for stealing a camera. He was
also accused of stealing $1S5 from an
aunt in Quebec, but she refused to
make n complaint. Rixon is an intel
ligent appearing man of thirty. He
claims to have a mania for stealing
cameras.
Mrs. Rixon is now being cared for
by a woman in Elizabeth, who gave
her homo over the holidays. She
has no home, she says, and will prob
ably have to appeal to local charities
for help to support herself and her
children.