San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-03
ALLEGED CROOK
ARRESTED HERE
MAKES ESCAPE.
Neil McConlogue, Con.
fessed Forger, Eludes
Guards at Kansas City.
|CYPPED' WOMAN HERE
Elves Deputy United States
Marshal the Slip at
Railway Station.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 3.-Neil
E!IcConlogue, alleged international
Fbrger. arrested in San Antonio, Tex
rs, March is, escaped from Deputy
Emitted States Marshal George Bots
brd in the central railway station
ere this morning. McConlogue made
lis getaway while the officer and
Prisoner were changing cars. He fled
ito a crowd, and quickly got out Of
Few of the officer. McConlogue was
Hot handcuffed.
McConlogue was being taken from
AN Antonio to Washington, ID. c.,
answer charges of obtaining a
|1000 government certificate on a
Prged check.
United States Marshal d. a. Walk
Thursday afternoon declined to give
ny information regarding the escape
McConlogue. He said he was not
1T ready to give out the information.
Edward Tyrrell. secret service op-
.ative, stated that he had been in
rmed that AlcConlogue had escaped
ON the deputy United States mar
bal at Kansas City, and that he had
ired Washington asking for infor-
alton. He had no details of the
fcape.
Mozambique. Sc, sleek and we'll
PRESSED, was captured in San An
pnio on the afternoon of March IL,
st, by Detectives Fox and McMur-
~. When taken into custody he
ad a wealth of bogus cashiers checks
his possession and admitted he was
anted throughout the United States
pr forgery and passing worthless
pcuments.
He was termed by plain clothes
en- here a master forger, and, rec
IDS since received, tended TO show
was perhaps one of the cleyercsC
rgers in the country.
n He was held prisoner for several
lys, after which he was surrendered
federal officers to be taken 10
Washington, ID. c., where. he adj
|3itted he obtained $1,000 through a
bgus purchase of United States saw
HIS certificates. He purchased the
Certificates from the federal officials
Cleveland. Ohio, he told local de-
jctives, paid for them with a
|Hrged cashiers check and later con-
Is,rted the certificates into cash at
He treasury department, Washing
Mn.
Mozambique readily admitted his
|.,iilt when taken here. He has served
.rms in the Georgia state prison ana
San Quentin and Folsom prisons.
X(acordS recently reaching here from
1e State Bureau of Criminal, identi-
cation at Sacramento, California.
owed he operated throughout the
United States in the issuance of LOCUS
ecks and in the theft of postal and
her government documents.
When taken here, according to San
Intonio detectives, he is said to have
len posing as movie star. lie
his well supplied with funds, repre-
nted he was here incognito and
Id victimized n prominent San AN
knio woman of $1,000 and was on the
Urge of obtaining $500 additional
6om her when nabbed.
He expressed his regret for having
sctimized woman, saying it was his
Est offense. that his victims were
Jose who could well afford 10 be
ipped." One of his victims in New
kypped" One was. it is said. George
bhan. theatrical director. At the
me Of his capture here. McConlogue
id he was preparing to 20 10 Calls
<rnia where he said. he was wanted
many charges of forgery. whirh. il
reported. netted him many thou
nd dollars.