New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
Bandit King
Snubs Girl He
Made a w aif
Sends Word From Cell MOI
TO Admit Young Woman
Who i'm Tears Begs for
One s'Last Look at ItIS1
More Banks Accuse Him
Wallace Is Identified as
Cunman in Robbery of
Roselle, N. j., Institution

Lettie Johnson, small, slim and of
an appealing type of beauty, sat amid
the wreckage of her dreams in the
detective bureau at Police Headquar-
ters yesterday seeking permission to
see Just once more" Stewart S. Wal
lace, who was arrested Thursday night
in an apartment she shared with him
at Sc Morningside Avenue, and is said
TO be chief of-the boldest band of bank
robbers in the country.
Wallace is more than twice as ol1
as the twenty-one-year girl he is
said to have lured to New York fro..l
Chicago with a promise of marriage.
He has only one arm. The police as
sert that he is as nervy a crook as
ever was put behind bars. He has
been identified not only as the leader
in the $183,000 bank hold-up in Wyo-
missing Pa, for which he was ar
rested, but as participant in two
more bank robberies, and is under sus-
ups.
Fears Come With Awakening
The pallid face and tremulous lips
of Lettie johnson and her utter dis
regard of the tears which crept down
ICl CHSChS ana OEODDcu upon tue
splendor of her black satin gown,
showed that the young woman realized
chat the feet of her idol had crumbled.
Her very attitude as she crouched upon
the bench was ar acknowledgment that
the once pert cloakroom girl at the
Dearborn Hotel ia Chicago believed
now she was the dupe Of hunted
man and not the fiancee of the spend
thrift millionaire she had imagined
Wallace to be.
"Let me see him, just for a moment"
she begged. 81 will never see him
again"
She did not sec him. The forid-
faced, one-armed man. who is said to
have posed as millionaire in the most
luxurious hotels of the country and to
have led armed robbers without fear
into bank Businesses, sent word that
he did not care to see Miss Johnson
that at least was the word brou hit
from below by patrolman at whose
side a bunch of keyes tangled sigHii-
cantly.
SO when Lettie Johnson returns to
Chicago or to her parents home near
Marion, Ohio, she viii take with her
the picture of a man who always was
generous and kind to her, despite his
evasion of the mention of marrlage; of
man who dominated the situation and
shielded her from photographers, even
when confronted by the revolvers of
detectives who had burst into his
apartment.
Identified as Jersey Robber
Besides being identified by persons
from Wyomissing, Wallace was recog-
nized yesterday by Police Captain Fen
ton keenan,, of Roselle, N. j.. as one of
a gang which robbed the First National
Bank of that town of 1000 on Octo-
Der 16, 1919, putting bullet through
keenans body when he pursued them.
He was identified also as one of the
robbers who got. $4,000 from the
Williamsbridge Bank, in the Bronx,
September Is. 1919, and is believed to
be one of the holdup men who at
tackled two messengers for the Colonial
Bank, at Eighty-frst Street and Column
bus Avenue, III June, 1919
Wa lace, Charles Stark and Harry
Bernstein are being held for extradi-
ton to Pennsylvania to be tried for the
!!ooting of the Peoples Trust Company,
in Wyomissing, near Reading, Tebru-
ary a.