| Show I IS HE IN SALT LAKE Officers Looking > For an Absconding I Banker Front Washington S H Hart alias Louis L Kan alias Louis Derscher etc is an absconding ab-sconding banker from Buckley Wash who is supposed to be l in Salt Lake or in this vicinity and the officers are on i the lookout for him He is a German Jew but denies i He left Buckley the 15th of November in company with I a young man who is evidently his son I about 21 years of age of slight build and light complexion and with a Jewish Jew-ish cast of countenance He the son recently arrived from Boston Mass I where he was in the employ of the shoe house of A Mosey Co on I Washington street and Known thereby I there-by the name of Will Roberts Louis IL I Kan which is believed to be his right name is described as follows 1 Five feet ten inches high dark hair I getting thin chin whiskers sprinkled I with gray which he Is supposed to have gay off before leaving Tacoma Wears no mustache ordinarily Has a small pursed mouth i 47 years of age but looks much younger has along a-long swinging meditative walk teeth well filled with gold showing prom I wel fled linently i one front tooth having gold band i entirely around i Weightabout l63 pounds He is a Mason and presumes a great deal on the order being a Shriner I He cannot look any one direct in the eye and walks with a slight stoop converses con-verses with his eyes directly on the ground He usually wears laced shoes is very flatfooted one foot being pig fatfooted eontoed wears a No 9 shoe dont know which foot turns in keeps his finger nails very clean and short back of hands very hairy dark and longhair long-hair wears a No 15 shirt collar standup stand-up with a tightfitting black tie Prince Albert black broadcloth suit wears hair pompadour and disguises as a Catholic priest part of his disguise being nose glasses wears a plain gold band ring on small finger of his left hand talks fluently and precisely has very small brown eyes long eyebrows ver a very large wen on one of his wrists also 1 During the civil war he was a bounty jumper and now poses as a Grand Army man His home was originally In Baltimore and he was known as the champion billiard player in Maryland He ran a billiard hall in Baltimore under the name of Louis L Kan which is his right name having used the name of Hart for the past six years only Has four sons one of whom is Dlnsmore known as his nephew here Will who lived In Boston and Harry I who was employed In Portland Oregon Ore-gon as bookkeeper for the Goodyear Rubber company and Charlie who lived with him at Buckley and was known as his nephew His first wife died in a lunatic asylum in Halifax Nova Scotia He then married his second sec-ond wife at Oskaloosa Iowa The first wifes people live In Baltimore lve Baltmore on South Charles street and his father inlaws name uSed to be John Smith He has a sister Mvlng In Philadelphia keeping a millinery store between Tenth and Twelfth on South street Her name is Rosa Heimer has also two sistersinlaw Mattie and Carrie more Smith living on Charles street Balti I This Louis L Kan failed in business and swindled his creditors in Oska loosa Iowa and < Ottumwa Iowa in 1879 or 1880 Went from there to Gait Ontario Canada where he opened a large boot and shoe store under the name of Hershman Co and failed and swindled his creditors there in 1883 Went from Gait Ontario to Aususta Ga and opened up in the Wood oil and turpentine business and failed thereIn there-In 1S81 He went by the name of L L Cann there Went from Augusta to Richmond Ind and opened up a wholesale whole-sale grocery house on Main street a Louis Dosher Co and had two branch stores He remained there three years then sold out and swindled swin-dled his creditors in 1887 Then went Philadelphia and lived on a farm a short time near Philadelphia Then went to Camden and opened In business busi-ness In Philadelphia on Penn Square as L L Cann a wholesale cigar and wine merchant and remained thereabout there-about a year when he sold out swindling swind-ling his creditors and the United States on revenue His principal creditors were California and foreign wine dealers deal-ers He also swindled exPostmaster Wanamaker out of considerable cash He then went to Skowhegan Maine and opened a wholesale boot and shoe house as S H Hart and where he started in to make a reputation for the purpose of coming west to go in the banking business which he did by opening the State Bank of Buckley Washington as S H Hart presIdent He ran for county treasurer about a I year ago and came near being elected I During the 70s L L Cann was in business in Stillwater and St Paul fyTinn also Atkinson Kansas and Halifax Hal-ifax Nova Scotia the latter place his first wife died and no doubt he failed rand swindled in each place but am not able as yet to learn what alias and kind cf business he vas engaged in Xi Cann alias S H H rt has four a ms Frank alias Dinsmore about 25 t years of age Harry about 23 follows jbqqkkeeping and trading WJ1L about 21 years reported to have worked for A Mosely Co Boston until recently and Charlie 17 years usually remains with his father Either one of his sons I i may be with him as they all left the vicinity of Buckley about November 17 1S93 His wife about 30 years old fair complexion tall and slight build blue eyes smiling face quite a talker dresses stylishly wearing diamond jewelry no doubt will be with her husband after he gets settled The daughter is about 12 years old medium size for her age name Ncillle dark complexion resembles the father very much her hair which was very long has been cut short and she may be dressed In boys clothes when she joins her father Hart passes at times as a single mam When he wishes his wife to join him reports that he is going off to marry a widow as he has done in one or two instances the wife when passing as a widow goes by the name of Green her father J Moorman lives at Oskaloosa Iowa travels for a Rockford Ill glove factory This man L L Cannis liable to eo into any kind of commercial business or trading and have his sons with him in time to act as bookkeepers cashiers and run branch stores that he usually opens in connection with his store The last heard of him L L Cann alias Hart he was heading your way Frank Kan alias F A Dinsmore is a son of L L Kan and who assumes the role of his nephew acted as cashier of the Buckley State bank Buckley Washington S H Hart referred re-ferred to above was the pr ident of the State Bank of Buckley Wash and Dinsmore was the cashier He is described as follows He is about 5 feet 4 inches dark hair and mustache pale countenance left leg shorter than the other requiring a boot about five inches deep sometimes wears an iron skeleton boot He has heavy eyelashes and a prominent nose wears a 14 inch col lar is a morphine fiend using it four or five times daily injecting it into the arms He chews tobacco most ex travagantly Was in Emergency hos i pital in Chicago some months ago i his nurse being named Swan Pie lived in Chicago under the name ofF of-F Doscher His wifes home is in Chicago Her mothers name was Wood and she kept a boarding house thtere Doscher was known there as a book keeper and kept books for either a large drug house or a granite company com-pany between the years 1886 and 1890 His brother Charles may ba with him He is about 18 years old rather Jew looking is very musical and always on the trade Dinsmore has a wife and baby probably prob-ably traveling with them She Is dark and swarthy very black eyJsbrows coming close together thin features very long and large hands she is about five feet six inches in height When she left here she was dressed In a large dark silk wrap trimmed with black fur and wore a navy blue dress Baby was dressed in a blue plush coat and Is about 13 months old and is called Albert Mrs Dinsmores age Is about 23 Mrs Dinsmore registered at the Ar lington hotel Tacoma as Mrs Boyd She is traveling with one zinc trunk and two grips Hart called on her at the Arlington just before she left Dins more being lams always walks with a cane or an umbrella His father may start him in some business in some thriving town his Inclinations running toward the boot and shoe business He is an expert bookteepfcr and may seek a position as book keeper County authorities offer 1000 reward and also a liberal compensation will be paid by private parties |
