New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-04
Oliver Osborne.
OfTanzcr Fame.
Is W al1tedAgain
Elusive Philanderer Accused
of Breaking Oregon Pa
role and jumping His
Bond i'm Theft Case Here
Also, for Fooling Police
Rich Widow Sad 10 Have
Been Saved From Folly
by Belated Recognition

They're paging Oliver Osborne again,
the same dapper Oliver who emerged
so unwillingly few years agp from
the mystery which shrouded the beach
OF promise suit, which Rae Tanner
brought against James W. Osborne.
He's the same cut-up that he was then,
when he persuaded the pretty Miss
TANKER that he was really the attor-
ney, James W. Osborne, and caused a
great TODD among the police. and
Federal authorities when her action
was denounced as q fake and the young
woman herself indicted, though never
convicted.
All they want Oliver for now is
jumping his parole from penitentiary
in Oregon and swindiing young wom-
an in this city out of $500 and perhaps
picking q pocket or so at the Polo
Grounds. When be ought to have been
Frightening corner in the Dragon
penitentiary, the resourceful Oliver
was enjoying himself along Broadway,
watching the Giants play, taking in the
races now and then, entertaining at
tractive young women in his inimita5ie
fashion and, it is reported, causing 8
demure fiutter in the breast of wealthy
widow who ought to have known better.
Police Didn't Recognize Him
But those things the police don't
mind, Wha. they really take to heart is
that Oliver jumped his bail bond in the
case of the unwiss virgin who en-
trusted her $500 to him and, most OF all /,
that when Oliver was fairly in their
clutches, they never recognized him
at all.
The trouble was that when the en-
tertaining Oliver was arrested he didn't
say he was Oliver Osborne at all, nor
die he give the name under which ne
is most widely known among police the
world over, that of Charles ii. Wax.
He went and said he was Charles
Candy. which is a name he uses only
once in a while and appears fairly
we'll down in his list of aliases.
Consequently the police, only having
him in the lineup at Headquarters one
day, and having him arraigned In po-
lice court only three or four times,
never recognized him at ali and they
are quite vexed at his neglect Of them.
It almost was studied, they fear.
Probably they would have remained
in blissful ignorance of their vanished
prisoners identity had not one OF the
detectives hunting for "Canby' dropped
in at the postoffice yesterday ana
asked an inspector if he happened TO
have any line on a bird who called
himself Candy, and posed as q relative
OF the General Candy who was killed
in the Indian campaigns years ago.
Detective Acquires Wisdom
"Why, yes" said the postoffice in
specto-. "That's Oliver, amt it!''
"Oliver who?" asked the detective:
"Oliver Osborne" said the postofhce
ins2 sctor. .4;.o and wan+
back and looked UP his records, and
sure enough Candy was one of Oliver
Osborne's names.
After Rae Tanzer's suit against
James w. Osborne fizzled, the young
woman herself put in jeopardy of her
liberty and Charles H. Wax found and
identified as her Oliver Osborne, Wax
was slowed away safely in an Oregon
penitentiary.
There he stayed with quite unusual
submissiveness until a few weeks ago,
when he was paroled to visit his mother
in this state, who, he said, was pretty
sick. The penitentary authorities
were almost equally afflicted wnen the
young man prolonged his visit unrea-
sonably and never even sent them FL
picture postal card.
He was too busy enjoying himself to
bother with postal cards. Detectives
found his trail along Broadway, and
even spotted him recently at the Polo
Grounds. When they found later that
pickpocket had got wallet that day
at the Polo Grounds they charged it up
to Wax He had been there, they
knew. and the wallet was gone. There
fore, they were certain he took it.
That's the feeling they have for him.
After Wax or Oliver had been ar
rested as Candy on the complaint of
the young woman who lost $500, post
Office inspectors who had been put on
Wax's trail learned that he had gone TO
an attorney on lower Broadway. The
attorney, who refused to take his case,
told them, the inspectors said, that
Wax admitted his identity, and said
that if he could beat this case he had
his eye on a wealthy widow who was
ready to take him to St. Louis.