Show THE CAPTURED an arrant alla A AIt chicago betes yews march An andrian dritan gorter forger thief swindler pseudo grimit and escaped convict a rascal with twenty five aliases and as clever as ever graced the rogues calendar was arrested by officer franzen of the larrabee st street r act station and leaves loaves for st louia morning for to the jefferson city penitentiary from which lio lie escaped in june 1879 gorter first attained to a national notoriety in this country during the sickness a of ortho the late president whose last official act was the bisigni signing jig of the extradition papers whereby the forger was to betaken betoken from halifax N S the crime for which he lie was sentenced en fenced to the M missouri assoun penitentiary was the forging of rev H van der sanders name upon a note for this crime was committed early in june while gorter under the name of rev dominique itna in the fails e character ofa priest was attached to the st louis archbishopric his arrest and sentence followed immediately afterward within a month after his committal to prison he lie effected his escape when the news of his escape reached tho the rev van der Sa sander ilder that divine enlisted himself in the pursuit of the rascal who had baa defrauded him and traced him under no less than twenty five aliases through as many swindles perpetrated in this country and in europe gorter eluded detection however until he turned up in nova scotia and V in an excess of boldness betrayed himself the rev van der sanders investigations tend to show that A gorter was born in der holder heider holland about thirty seven years ago in 1864 ho be turned up in Tr N S and in lou ea que under the name of frare bere rere robert serving the frenel canadians as a priest r t no tracos tra cof him is obtainable abl after that time until six six years ca later when ho be is found at kirk kirkwood mo still under the title of frere ro robert ert four years afterward he lie had bad returned to europe europ and was doing priestly service in in the prison of savoy and france in 1876 lie returned to the united states and created a sensation at new orleans as the alionso dc de gorton in F february 1879 ho he had again assumed the cloth and was rev at galveston TX tux A month later he be was circulating among among the smaller towns of texas and cansas kansas as the cliance lor of galveston rev rey francis de do rouge DD and Baron dalfonso as suited his fancy during the same fame year lie returned to E europe and at Ost ende belgium mas masquerades masqueraded masquera I craded ded as the rt Rc Re vAlfred de rohan ohan condi coadjutor u tor of thea the archbishop of san francisco returning in to america in november of g the same year lie appeared as the rev dr norber sw ceney S B in december he went to savannah ga as baron de lemoral he be traveled through canada under aliases and during 79 circulated through theowest in the garb ofa priest bringing up finally arst louis as has been related A singular accident brought about garters Gor arr arrest esthere here A week ago today to day a young appearing man applied at the alexian brothers hospital and asked f for or u position as nul nurse arse he gave the aristocratic name of victor de Ar said lie had come from germany six B IX months previously and was very poor though of good family and education he spoke in excellent english a circumstance which aroused the suspicions su vi 11 chions odthe of the principal who was of course cognizant of the rev van der sanders case the principal took in the applicant and although saying nothing of his suspicions lost no time in communicating ni wit with h the st louis archbishopric there was in the hospital a belvidere tolice police officer under treatment w who wore his uniform about the place the presence of this patient seemed to make gorter nervous and friday morning he lie announced his intention of leaving and borrowed carfare car fare to take him M to the west side H he e went at once lice to the jesuit college on west street here among the first persons he met was a priest whom ho he had met in his travels and recognizing this was no place for him he be returned to the hospital meanwhile a letter had been received from st louis inclosing gotters Gor Gort erg picture in priest costume and this letter had bad been put in the hands of baus who at once detailed officer franzen to find the man gorter and the officer met almost upon the threshold of the building after the briefest parley parle the arrest was made and the audi looked for swindler was locked up in thesta the station baus bais recognizing the importance of hia his prisoner m made ane no mention of the circumstance until all po possible isible doubt had been removed |