Show CLEVER FORGER CAUGHT A Romantic Career of Crime Comes to ail End New York May 11 Ludwig B Gold horn the young cashier for the American Amer-ican branch of the Mannheim Insurance Insur-ance company who disappeared from this city on April 18 after forging checks on the company to the extent of 18376 was captured Wednesday at St Thomas West Indies His capture cap-ture was only effected after a dozen foreign countries had been communicated communi-cated with and 51200 paid out in cablegrams cable-grams alone The tact of the forgeries and the disappearance dis-appearance of Goldhorn was reported to Inspector McLaughlin on April 25 by J J Riley manager of the Mannheim Mann-heim company Checks were signed with Manager Rileys name and drawn to cash on the Merchants bank of Quebec These checks were always for amounts of 700 or 800 except the last one drawn That was on the day before Goldhorns disappearance and was for 5900 The Mannheim company com-pany have their offices at 77 Beaver street I was found that Goldhorn had to the Ashland gone house on AprI 19 From there he got the porter por-ter to send an expressman to his boarding house at 330 East Fourteenth street who was instructed to say nothing noth-ing about where the trunk was going The same night he sent a telegram to Miss Meyer of 450 West Thirtyfirst street saying that his brother hd been injured in Philadelphia and he was going there Goldhorn was engaged en-gaged to be married to Miss Meyer and cards were issued for the wedding wed-ding just before he disappeared Thai night he went to Philadelphia and stopped at the Bingham house from which on April 20 he telegraphed 1 both Miss Meyer and hisr employer I that he was attending his injured > brother and would return in the course of a week An hour after sending I these telegrams he Tvas on his way back to New York On April 30 he sailed to Bermuda I after he had sent a telegram to himself him-self at the office He sailed under the name of W Watson naturalist of 58 Lexington avenue I took detectives until May 5 to find out all the twists and turns made by Goldhorn I During the time Inspector McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin had cabled to American consuls all over the world By the time a cablegram got to Bermuda Goldhorn had left there on May 1 and gone to St Thomas The cablegram cable-gram to the latter place cost just 290 On his arrival there Wednesday he was arrested by American Consul Stewart As soon as the extradition papers can be obtained Detective William Heron will be sent to St Thomas to bring the runaway cashier back |