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Show THROWS HIMSELF OUT CAR WINDOW Confidential ClerK cf Alton B. ParKer Arrested on a Big'axny Charge, Attempts Suicide. NEW .TOBK. Oct. 8. Eugene C. Bagwell, Bag-well, who, under the aliaa of John B. Brown, ia the confidential clerk of Alton B. Parker, was arrested while cowering behind the desk of his employer on the sixth floor of the Mutual Life building. He is charged with bigamy, but ths Interest in his arrest does not center in the charge itself; it revolves re-volves around the remarkable career of the man, the associatfons he hss formed and the dramatic manner in which he attempted to elude the detectives. Half aa hour after the officers had-clasped their hands on his shoulders snd hsd taken him, unostentatiously to the Broadway station. sta-tion. Bsgwell threw himself out of the csr under the guard rail and struck a ear on the parallel track, fracturing hia skull snd receiving re-ceiving internal injuries which are regarded aa fatal. It is said that Bagwell has hsd experiences experi-ences that come to few men in lifetime. He had been in the private councils of Woodson Wood-son of Kentucky, secretary of the Democrstio nations! committee. In his hands have rested rest-ed papers of national importance. Ia hia mind was knowledge of the true inwardness of the great political game. And all the time that he worked for theee great interests, inter-ests, he bore an assumed name and was a fugitive front Justice. Bagwell 'a antecedents are of the best. His father ia the Rev. Joha L. Bagwell, now in Ardmore, I. T. Eleven years 'ago when Bagwell was 10 years old, ha fell in love with Miss Kensh Adams of Conway county, Arksnssa. They msrried snd lived ia apparent harmony until 1903. Then the wanderlust seemed to attack him, and ha left his home and waa not heard from directly di-rectly afterward. But the deserted wife, with the iron in her soul, determined to have the young man punished. 6he employed detectives de-tectives to track him. She had descriptions of him sent broadcast. In 1003 she lesrnsd that her husband had married Miss Byrd Irousides of Labette eonnty, Kanaas. She immediately caused the indictment of the man for bigamy. The grand jury acted on the case in Oswego, Kan., ut Bagwell could not ba found. The next year, 1904, when Alton B. Parker waa beaten for the Presidency, Bsgwell, who had assumed the same of Brown, did much work for the committee. |