Show AMAZING CAREER OF RED ADAMS Is Safe In Prison at Last After a Long Lon ong Life of Crime BEEN TRACKED TR BY MANY CREDULOUS AND CRAFTY ARE EASILY FOOLED New York ork April have got Red Adams at last It was a long chase and a stern one unc and the tha first Generation gen ration of t crook catchers that started on his trail had ad to give the task t k over to the tho second generation Put But the second generation tin finally ally landed him and to today Jay h he Is a ai aSam guest ot of Uncle Sam at his select prison In Atlanta i Ga Oa the same at which Charles Charlea S w Tu TuMor V Morse Mor ft and ana Lupo the counterfeiter and others of or greater or less leas note ar guests However do not waste any pity or sym pathy on him At least if it you have any such Buch sentiments dont let the government officer or any of ot Adams victims ot of the past jast ast four tour decades de eB know how bow you feel In stead of ot four tOUr and a half halt years rear they all aU wish that he had been sent seat away tar for fOO years and then some Bome more Because of ot all aU the gentlemanly smooth clever diabolically shrewd slippery oily ally Insinuating human beings who ever ver roved proved proved the truth of ot the adage that theres a sucker born every minute Red Adam Adamu wee was we Just about the king of of them all What the authorities believe they know about him may be summed Bummed up In a few tew words It Is Ia practically certain bis hs name is not Red Adams or Charles W Adams although tho the latter Is the cognomen n under which he be was convicted lit Iq the federal court In la New York recently Had Many Aliases There are some who have bave known him himas as Cameron Hostetter and It is hi generally believed this is his real rw name or at at least a very early alias as he traveled under It some or thirty years ago when he first began to figure prom prominently promInently as a dangerous character He H has also alse been bean known as William H IL Stout Stevenson and Adamson And as James Thomas Southwick And it Was wag under the last name that they arrested him on December 22 last It was just a case of bad luck that 1 landed him this th last time and nothing mere Year Tear after atter year Red R d Adami Adams had played the same game gams that tripped him up finally year after year he had with the assistance of a few tew confederates taken things as he be found them in one way or another and year after atter year the I authorities of ot this t cis country and England had pursued him with unremitting en energy energy energy ergy only to have to acknowledge them themselves selves J time after atter time beaten The chase began away back a Q little after the olvil civil war when the farmers tanners out through Ohio and the middle commenced to make frequent reports of ot being gulled out of ot their money by a smooth stranger giving the name of ot Henry Hurd In some cams MiJI William H U Stout in others othen His practice was to ar arrive arrive arrive rive at the farm in question ques Jon and nn l an announce pounce that he wanted to buy b Y It for tor his 1118 hisson son eon The price pries fixed Hurd and the farmer tanner would dr va over CVet Ute the broad brood norsa to see how they thay were wera looking In Inao ao au 81 out ot of the way war place la e they would meet with a who wore won ore a L woebegone face tace and Lad told a story ot of ben being robbed b bl by byoma tieme oma ame lUck hick person down the river through h a card cad game gams Farmer Would Be Fleeced By 2 a strange Coincidence he would have havethe havethe havethe the cards carda with him their number was wed generally three and would show Shew the farmer far tar farmer mer and the sympathetic Hurd just how the tha trick was Wall done Then Hurd would try it with the stranger and would win soma dome of ot the unfortunate mans man money Mr Farmer Farm r being not averse to getting some coma easy cash th the same way would try d his hand at t It with the result that the stranger would win Sometimes the farmer got wise at this Stage of the game and also angry Then Hurd would go away satisfied with with what be he and the stranger who was walS of course his confederate had won Sometimes tha the 4 farmer would still tIll be game and in such sucha a case caS the prospective purchaser of the tha farm and he would continue an on their 1 ray Y to the bank id n town where a II certain for formality formality formality mality was to be b gone through with The farmer as an instance of ot good faith was to draw M and place it In a satchel with the same amount from Hurd This was to act as a guarantee of the intentions of ot both parties to the sale of the farm tarm Of Ot course the farmer fanner would produce his and und ostensibly Mr Hurd would do likewise Then sometimes the farmer would grow suspicious auspicious In this case a quarrel would ensue and Hurd would throw the farmer and the satchel out of ot the buggy and drive away aWRY But the greatest of ot all schemes which Adams ever worked was one which finally brought him at the age of ot et 61 t to book and at length l landed him In the federal prison The Old Spanish Swindle Everybody who ever reads ads newspapers has bas heard of ot the Spanish prisoner swindle Adams worked that of ot course courle in fact It la Is generally supposed that ho was one of ot its originators You for tor in instance Instance stance would get a letter from a beautiful beautiful beautiful ful young cousin in Spain of whom you had never heard Or it might be a nice old padre In some village At any rate the letter was about an old friend of ot yours or a aa distant relative who had died In Sn a Spanish prison leaving a letter In which it was expressly directed that his fortune which was hidden In n an old trunk somewhere was walt to go to you Now all you ou had to do was to send seed a II few tew hundred dollars over to Spain to the old padre or the beautiful young cousin to take the old trunk out of at pawn or to pay certain expenses and the fortune would be forwarded to you Does Dots It seem possible po sible that any anyone one would bite at such bait balt No Well many a man did The best proof Is that Adams and his friends became rich through it and the governments of both Spain and the United States Issued cir circular circular circular cular warnings time and again as a an necessity n toward stopping the wide Tilde practice practIce tice of ot the swindle So Adams sat Bat himself down to think out a better one than this und and for tor the past ten or fifteen years he has been working a swindle that Is perfectly beau beautiful beautiful beautiful In its Ita simplicity and in all its ele elements elements ments It was this When people In England die the pro probating probatIng probating bating of ot their wills is Vane one e In Somerset House London the equivalent Of our pro probate probate probate bate court It Is easy enough to get all necessary information lla ha ls to a mans heirs the approximate amount of his estate etc at Somerset House and it is isa Isa isa a simple matter to look up his past life Ute a II little All this Information can an then be forwarded to the United States to be used for the furtherance of the sch scheme me Adams worked this end having a confederate erate In England On receiving the In Information information formation required be he would write a nice letter to the dead man In England tell telling tellIng telling ing that the gold mine which they had staked together some thirty or forty years previously or had taken control of ot ofin otIn ofin in some way had panned out wonder wonderfully wonderfully fully tuny and he thought it would be a goo good goodplan aplan a l plan to buy up the adjoining property before its owners could discover its rich richness richness ness 11 Played on Greed of Heirs The writer miter would also state that a mutual friend of his and the dead man had sent a package containing about 40 worth of gold the cleanup of ot thelast the thelast thelast last few tew months which was to be divided between them and would ask that a rep representative representative come over and get gat his share of ot the th gold The heirs of ot the dead man would of or course get the letter which was timed to reach them Just about when they were dividing up the estate and had not earned all about what their relative had left In their cupidity those who got the letter would say Well heres beres a fL gold mine which Uncle Bin Bill forgot to mention In his will Maybe if It we hurry hu ry over we can get hold of ot all this gold without the rest of ot the relatives knowing anything about it Whereupon they would hike for New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and meet the gentleman from the gold fields who would be none other T than Adams Ha He would weep to find that that his old friend in England was wu dead would produce the gold generally in two large bricks worth J at least He lIe would have the heirs of his hla hI dead friend bore boro Into them and take the borings to an assayer who would pronounce them pure gold As All the gold goldbricks goldbricks goldbricks bricks were nothing but it re required required required a little sleight of ot hand on the part of or Adams Ad ms to substitute some somo gold for the brass borings but this he knew how to do and the victim was easily fooled Finding the gold to be pure the tha vic victim victim victim tim would readily fall fan Into the trap of ot buying his half baIt of ot the fortune paying ready cash c h for it Then he ho would go goback goback goback back to England with the two beautiful gold bricks in his possession and Adams would be in so much money Caught the Wrong Man But a little tittle while ago one Arthur Jones of ot London got a letter addressed to a dead uncle of his and setting forth the old gold mine story Jones happened to tto have heard he rd of the swindle in some someway someway someway way and he let the tha American authorities into the secret Jones had h d been instructed to correspond with James Thomas SouthwIck of ot Bayonne N J 1 in regard to the delivery of ot the fortune He did so 10 and arrangements were made to meet Southwick in New York at a certain date The Th authorities represented by Chief Inspector Meyer of the postoffice and Inspector McCafferty and his aides of at atthe the New York Yok Yo k police got ready for the meeting They found that Southwick had told the postoffice at Bayonne to forward his mail maU to the Broadway Cen Central Central Central hotel New York city So there they went to wait walt for tor him himOn himOn himOn On December 22 who should stroll into the hotel but Adams He was an Im Imposing imposing posing figure six feet four tour broad shouldered ruddy cheeked with military whiskers of ot white they used to be bo red and a n stalwart bearing He H sauntered carelessly to the desk and asked the clerk Oh by the way Is there any mall mail for tor forme torme forme me James Thomas Southwick The clerk handed banded him several letters and he started out Then the officers spoke to him He denied being Adams or 01 anything like like that but they knew him too well He was was arraigned ed and tried His law lawyer lawyer lawyer yer was Edward Lauterbach who plead pleaded ed that the whole thing was a conspiracy acy against agate st a roan man who had never n ver done J Jany any wrong As Jula a matter of fact they have anything in particular that I they could nail to the th man They I Just simply knew he be was their man and that for four tour decades he hail haO beer been l I eluding their best and shrewdest efforts to catch him So all they could do was to put him away awny for tor the last chars swindling through the malls mails The Th let letters letters convicted him of at this effort And so Adams the last of the picturesque con men meni Is but of the public eye for fora a while 4 |