The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-11-16
DWIGGINS TAKEN
IN ALABAMA ON
TIP WIFE GAVE
She Put Patriotism Above
Love to Save Investors
in Liberty Bonds.
HAD $8.7O7 WITH HIM
Fugitive Says He Lost
100000 by Drop Of Stocks
in Wall Street.
SENT WORD FOR CLOTHES
Wife Gave Letter to Police and
Postal Inspectors Accom-
panied Apparel South.
HAD 8.7O7 WITH HIM
SENT WORD FOR CLOTHES

Elmer Dwiggins, the New York In.
ssrance man accused Of swindline dollar
4 week Liberty Loan subscribers. was
arrested yesterday in Montgomery. Ala.
lie said that he fed from this city be-
cause he put money paid him by bond
buyers into the stock market and lost
about 100000 when the market de-
ciined.
Dwiggins. who left New York on Sat-
urday while ubst ONCE inspectors were
examining his accounts. travelled as
r. A. Durham. With the help Of his
wife the searchers traced him to Chat
tnoosa. At Atlanta he stopped long
enough to buy wig, which fooled the
inspectors for q time, but he was recog-
nised when he reached Montgomery.
He says he is anxious to get back to
New York and believes he can arrange
II % that nobody who made payments
on Liberty bonds through his Club" will
lsse anything He waived examination
before United States Commissioner
Thomas Ia Montgomery and not having
,3S 600 bail was locked up for the night.
Postal Inspectors Hugh McQuillan and
Alwyn B. Williamson will start for New
York with him this morning.
His capture was achieved with the
kelp Of his wife. who at the Dwiggins
home, 2o4 West Seventeen street: CAV.
10 Detective Sergeant Franklin Of Po-
lice Headquarters u letter and . tsle.
gram which her husbar,d no. sent her.
She told Franklin when he convinced her
that Dwiggns had run away with lot
Of money entrusted to MN by men and
women of small means enrolled In his
Liberty Loan Extension Club that In
the interest of justice and patriotism
she felt compelled to do all she could
l. assist those who were hunting for
IN
Wife Puts Justice First.
Mrs. Dwiggins is a sweet faced. gray
aired woman. She said last night to
eporters:
Il have given no interviews and can
live none. | do not understand II even
aow. ON Saturday evening Mr.. Dwig-
lie did not come or send any VOID. AT
o'clock In the morning MIR. FRANKLIN.
tie detective sergeant. called And told
me Mr. DwigGins had disappeared and
that Government officers were looking
for him. Later ! got vague telegram
from Mr.. Dwiggins and then a letter.
which turned over to the detective.
Yes. the detective had>spoken to me
Of the pocr people whose money Mr..
Dwiggins WAS said to have taken and
Of the patriotic duty l owed to the Gov
Gnment. believe told him that placed
Justice above every other consideration.
cannot tell you what help l gave the
authorities; ! prefer to tell my husband
ised to tell me II he was arrested. but
they have not done so. learned about
from reading THE EVENING SUN
The letter mentioned by Mrs. Dwig-
gins was mailed In Washington. and de-
lvered 10 her OF Monday by friend
10 whom II had been sent. In 1t Dwig-
Gins asked her TO address letters to +. A.
Durham, Dwiggins also asked her to
send him at Montgomery a suit case full
@ clothes. especially summer clothes.
p Franklin's dircctions she did so. and
vent Post ONCE Inspectors Williamson
And McQuillan.
Had &O.sOO Of Bonds.
Dwiggns was arrested in the railway
patton as he Mas buying n ticke. tc
v" Orleans. He had with him seventy
,nee Liberty bonds, worth $500, and
'l,sOI cash. In the United States Com
missioner Office he chatted Senially
while transfer papers we're being filled
ou'
Just 10 satisfy my curiosity" asked
one post Office inspector. did YOU ~
nsck 10 your safe deposit vault in New
lork last saturday when we were ex
a'nlnine your accounts and after I hat
seen You leave the vault once?"
Yes, ] was back within forty min
n'es replied Dwiggins. 1T would hav,
peen better for both Of US II l hadn'
gone back"
Ills Automobile Located.
p Tic authorities in their Search fo
pwisgnss assets that may reduce tn,
.ze Of his apparent shortage hav,
i'uhd seven passenger automobile
valued at $500 in an uptown garag
shd have taken charge of the small
amounts OF money left by bond sub
erlhers At stores
H. W. Nothstein. field manager for tn
,shh'rs Life Company. came to New
'ork from Des Moines yesterday an,
.ooN charge Of Dwigginss office pendinI
,c'lon ~ new agency manager
ne thinks Dwiggins who at one tim
sS tn Insurance agent in Brazil. wa
,,F'ug to get away to South America
:" added that as an insurance ma
Wv gyms was wonder, turning In s.
"'".'oo worth of policies In his firs
'onr months IN New York. lie earne
'"ni' $1,000 . year.
~ l'olice Headquarters it was sal
','erday tha' DwigR ins apparently hs
"il"udoi about 1000 bond subscriber
rn' mat In" matter would he prescnte
,he New York County Grand Jur
lo.lsy
h'hd buyers WHO called at Dwiggins
1--WE Yesterday we're told TO return nes
p VI, Earle, vice e-president OF tn
ha"Ner Lifo, aid that nothing coul
rad - TO the rcs,Ousils siiliy Of III
mrl for nHiygins's transaction
! '"''l the directors acted.