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Show VICTORIA CROSS IS WDM JfjUSPECT John R. Swann Arrested in San Francisco for Alleged Murder in Souih Africa. RECENTLY SAVED LIFE Devotion to Two Natural Children Chil-dren Leads to Capture of Supposed. Criminal. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. isi Devotion to two natural chlldivn whom he refused to abandon through yours of adventure In various parjs of the world led to the ar-i ar-i rest here today of John R. Swann. wearer wear-er of tho Victoria Cross b'dlovcd to be a fugitive wanted by the British government govern-ment for murder committed In Bloemfon-talne Bloemfon-talne Transvaal republic in December, 1001. Swann Is alro accused by the police po-lice hero of having killed two men ln Alaska three years ago. Papers found in Swann's post-esslon show that John U. Swann wus member mem-ber of the British royal marine artillery, enlisting from Klrkshlrc, Scotland, and that after repeated mention for bravery in tho dispatches to the homo government govern-ment ho was awarded the Victoria Crosx. Description Fits. A police circular printed at Johcnnes-burg, Johcnnes-burg, also found among Swann's effects, gives a description of a man wanted for murder and 11 rewnrd of .ClOOoVor his arrest The description, according to the police, Jits Swann to the minutest details, de-tails, the -most definite marks of identification identi-fication consisting of tattoo marko on various parts of the bods'. A full-rigged ship. . described in detail as. covering the back of the right hand, did not appear, ap-pear, the hand showing a rccentls' finished fin-ished design of tho Union Jack. A microscopic micro-scopic examination, made at th bureau of criminal identification, showed that a tattooed design had been removed and the place covered wfih the Union Jrick A closer examination showed traces of the outlines of the ship' still existing. Other .tattoo marks described minutely minute-ly in the circular were found on Swann's back and knees. Undoubtedly Brave. Tn tho circular and in a newspaper clipping describing the killing of tho two men ln Alaska, the name had been removed, re-moved, so the police- do not know whether or not the man under arrest has been sought by thy British government under the name of Swann. Swnnn recently re-cently rescued two young women from drowning at a summer resort near here nnd newspaper clippings found In his pos- 1 session showed that he wag awarded a watch by the citizens of Seattle for braveiw in saving a human life. Swann's two children were cared for by Miss Viola Page, whom he employed as a housekeeper. A remark dropped by one of the little girls to another child led to a suspicion on the part of the neighbors and It became genorallj known that he feared the police. -This suspicion led to his surveillance by detectives de-tectives nnd he was arrested early today to-day on a charge of robbers', a number of petty thefts having recently occurred In the neighborhood. The discovers' of the supposedls (ncrlmlnatlng papers caused the police to charge, him with li-Ing li-Ing a fugitive from Justice lat tcdas. Communication with Johannesburg Is being sought. |