Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
ALLEGED ICON"
MAN Is CAUGHT
BY PINKERTONS

The arrest in Montreal, Canada,
Saturday Of H. H. Muggley, alias
| Fl. II. Hubert, news OF which was
| received in Atlanta Monday by the
| Pinkerton Detective agency, halts
| tne spectacular career or man,
who, according to the Pinkertons,
| posed in Atlanta as wealthy Cali
| fornia manufacturer of safety car
Wheels" gained the confidence of
railroad officials to the extent where
| they ordered his Wheels" bought
| several automobiles from Atlanta
firms, was feted at Atlanta clubs,
occupied an expensive suit of rooms
at an Atlanta hotel, got prominent
Atlantians to vouch for him at the
bank, and then suddenly disappear
ed after cashing checks for several
thousand dollars which turned out
to be worthless.
W. r. Gloer, assistant superintend-
ent of the Atlanta Pinkerton office,
said Monday that Muggley has op-
Grated in number of other cities
as well as Atlanta. He will be
brought to Atlanta for trial, how
ever, said Mr.. Gloer, who announced
his intention to go before Governor
Dorsey and seek a requisition for
Muggley's return to Georgia.
Mr.. Gloer said that Muggley came
to Atlanta last December, and with
his wife and child, a little boy, reg
istered at q downtown hotel under
the name of H. H. Hubert, the alias
he went under in Atlanta. Mr.. Gloer
described him as fine outstanding
figure of a man, expensive, genial,
radiating prosperity and inspiring
confidence by the very aroma OF
his fifty-cent cigars.
According to Mr.. Gloer, he bore
fake letters Of introduction with
which he made the acquaintance of
prominent railroad officials. To
these, said Mr.. Gloer, he explained
his patent brake by which he made
car wheels safe and convinced them
not only that he owned large fac
tory in California, where he was
turning out orders wholesale, but
that the brake was worthy of trial,
at least.
Mr.. Gloer says that the railroad
men signed contracts for the dellV-
ery of the car wheels, although they
did not pay any money, so far as Is
known.
The Pinkertons' theory is that
Muggley's safety car wheels" was
simply a dodge to gain the conf
dence of men of standing, in order
to pass his checks. If this is true,
he succeeded, according to Mr.. Gloer,
first at several automobile agencies,
where is said to have purchased
1ber of cars for which he gave
drafts TINT the Pinkertons declare
turned out to be worthless. Again,
they declare, he passed checks for
several thousand dollars at local
banks which, they say, were returned
by out-of-town banks on which they
were lrawn with the statement that
MI. Hubert" had never had an
account there.
The Pinkertons state that Muggley
cashed all of his checks within
few days, paying his hotel bill with
the last one, and so timing his
departure that he left Atlanta just
before the checks were returned as
worthless, taking his wife and child
with him.
When the case was put into the
Pinkertons' hands, they traced Mug
gley to Indianapolis, to ST. Louis,
to Minneapolis, where he is alleged
to have defrauded jewelry firm
Of a number of valuable gems; to
Spokane, Washington, and finally to
Montreal where he was run to
earth.