The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20


Tense Twelve Years Ago. Smartest
Of His Kind in Hunt for Dollar.
CHICAGO.-Old John Law got
old John Worthington today and
started him towards the federal peni-
Tertiary at Atlanta, Ga Not without
some resistance, however.
Two court appeals had been futile.
The Wolf OF LaSalle street" was
brought into the United States mar
shal's office on a stretcher and he left
it on the same one while Attorney
Robert l.. Cohan was appealing TO
Attorney General Sargent at Wash
ington in the name of humanity to al
low Worthington time to die in Chi
cago
Il want to go to Jail, Warrington
said when he had no other recourse.
Il came 5000 miles to go to jail and
I'd rather be in penitentiary in the
good old United States of America
than be president of Mexico"
He had made bis will, he said, and
mention OF the 100000 he has to
bequeath brought faint smile to the
worn features of the man who wasn't
permitted to die in Chicago, The sug-
gestion was that Long John, who had
| lived for years on his wits, was too
smart to do other than turn over his
fortune, which is all in bonds and
! securities, to his daughter Alice,
beautiful movie actress, in order to
avoid such unpleasantries for her as
inheritance taxes and income taxes.
Cheated Law Many Years.
The wolf" who cheated the law
these many years felt a little bit COM
placent when talking about the will.
Two other things annoyed him, how
ever, besides the fact he was taken
from what he thought was his death
bed in the Jackson Park tavern.
He, the smartest of his kind, he who
had hunted the dollar legally or lille
gally with such "reminiscences as to
earn him the soubriquet OF the Wolf
of LaSalle street." had been rolled
during the night. True A sneak thief
had taken $160 from his trousers as
he slept.
| liG QUIET ilEllLdl dFolulpSl was q
summons served ON him as he sat in
United States Marshal Palmer Ander-
sons office awaiting transportation to
the penitentiary. Walter F. thinner,
head of an advertising FIRM, was suing
him for $4,000 in an action described
as in trover."
thinner had been robbed of $4,000
| in bridge bonds, and wants Worthing-
ton to pay for them.
"They turned up in the possession
of broker named Jameson, in Los
Angeles" Attorney Lloyd Heth de-
clared. Jameson had purchased them
from the divorced wife of former
governor OF Oklahoma. She got them
from Worthington Under the Califor
MIA law Jameson, an innocent pur-
chaser, was entitled to keep the bonds
and he did So"
How He Got His Wealth.
The statement by Mr.. Heth gave
some insight into the way Long John,
the wolf, acquired his 100000. In
Illinois and in most other states stolen
property can be recovered by the los
er without cost.> Title to stolen bonds
always remains with the rightful own
ct mere, Out HOI 81 III AdHlOlilld
That, deputy marshals suggested,
accounted for Worthington's frequent
trips to California in the days before
he became fugitive. Hundreds OF
thousands of dollars worth Of securi-
ties are stolen here every year. For
some time the police had known
| Worthington as the man who disposed
OF the hot stuff" for safe blowers and
such.
He never had been caught at the
profitable business, though. His pres
ent trip to the penitentiary is for an
offense in 1911, using the mails TO de-
froud The case had dragged along
for II years before jury heard it
and passed out a two-year sentence.
Since then Worthington has evaded
serving it, first due to i'll health and
secondly due to flight.
He came back to Chicago Wednes-
day after an exile of six months in
Mexico to give himself up, he said.
Had Exciting Career.
Worthington began his exciting ca
reer by gambling until he had enough
money to open brokers' Office in La
Sale street He appeared to be pros
porous business man, but then one
day the government began an inves-
tigation OF his operations. He was
charged, as result, with using. the
mails to swindle his victims out of a
huge sum-
He has vowed to pay his debt to
Justice before he dies, for physicians
say he can not live to complete his
sentence.