Deseret Evening News | 1904-12-26 | Page 1 | A Great Confidence Man

A GIUL CB MAN IN homo 0 Ulel linen Hold Swindle Inventor Now NH York Doc noe report hiss hI reached this city that Thomas 0 linen lirlen the notorious confidence nun man tan and Inventor of ot the gold cow brick swin swindle die dle Is II dell dead III In the tho French h penal ret Mt at Cayenne where whre he had been serving nerving n a f life tt sentence for tor tine the murder murl of ot f bis partner Kid In In hi II lr Several of old friends In this city are Mi sell to have ha received tile the Ihl news nw direct from rom Cayenne Several years ago HO It 1 was wa reported thai limit had bath escaped from the penal vas ARS on Oi his way wa to New York The report never neer WAS WAi confirmed 1 and anid the authorities never Iler got sight sigh of ot I OBrien I career was 11 n a remarkable one oils He lie le WEIR was I born br U 13 a years ago ar In II Chi Chicago cago rind And aided Aide by b an attractive per personality managed lanSe to make malre an nn enviable pr ecard i In Now DW York bold swindles running Into 1110 tho thin w were eN n nuin num I erotic orous and were vere vee credited to lo his hi genius In 1519 11 he hl Jumped a bond bench of ot 10 and sal IVd Id to 10 I uro but was raa ra recaptured and to the penitentiary I IA A rm plot conducted by hy a 1 wo WOo woman woman 1 man resulted In his escape t H from a hotel In Utica Utra he lie UHS In charge of o a n aprison prison keeper r caught a R CI or hero lien for tor J and arid reached ehe Paris safely end and there until he was wa nm arrested tod on thin tho charge of at Wad WM Waddell dell deli del hU hll partner Money vas 11 spent lavishly In his defense e but failed tAl to save him from a ft 1 life le sentence I