Show BIGAMIST AND CLEVER ROGUE claims to be an english physician under arrest in san francisco for lii and wanted in toronto and chicago on several char ats san francisco sept athe man who caya be is sir harry westwood We etwood cooper but who chief of police lees thinks ia a swindler named U 0 mcdonald McDo cald or TV cjones ise tillin the city prison A telegram was received today from the pinkertons Pink ertons at chicago saying that the elf ttyler cooper was not wanted by the Bi inkers protective association but ahat hia presence wa urgently required to answer to a charge of having passed a forged draft for apon mary E murphy of dearborn estreet at this time sir cooper is supposed to have been known under the name of di westwood cooper recently directed H S crocker A co to print him a thousand letterheads of credit and the accompanying drafts tor the purpose as chief less thinks of beating the banks in this city the order was not filled and the house subsequently recovered a perforating machine which they had sold to him cooper was married last may in toronto to champa iko an innocent farmers daughter 18 years of aga leaving toronto they went to new york thence to chicago where they tar ried foi two weeks came on to this city cooper was in san francisco a few years ago and he has been in australia and london he asserts bis innocence of the charges of brought him TORONTO POLICE HIM toronto out beat 2 the toronto police would like to lay their band on sir harry cooper now under arrest in san francisco the alleged swindler appeared in fulwar township last february as the escort of miss nellie atkin eon who was returning to after a long illness in toronto he was known to her and at the william halap boarding bouse as dr henry westwood cooper where he had lived with hia wife and her younger brother since their arrival from australia last december cooper said he bad practiced medicine in australia for about a year and a half and held papers which purported to be diplomas from one of london england england medical colleges his wife went to the village of ti tanton in april and is there at present she says she was miss of brisbane australia where cooper married her a couple of years aeo cooper followed hs wife to stanton and boarded at the home of thomas campaign where he became a great favorite he paid especial attention to wes campaign eighteen years of age whom he persuaded to marry him saying the woman atio passed as mrs cooper was not married to him he told the girls parents that ebe was suffering from a dangerous throat disease and offered t take her to toronto for treatment this was assented to on the ot may last in company with a member of the campaign family cooper went to abbel bourne and procured a marriage icente and borrowed a sum of money from friend of the family he then took airl to toronto satisfying her with the marriage license and the parents with his reputation as a throat specialist they remained together in toronto for a time and then disappeared and have cot been beard of here bince WANTED dt chicago sept 2 W cooper who travels the name of sir harry westwood cooper who was arrested in ban francisco for swindling lived in chicago for a time ander the name of milward and represented himself as an english to a number ot he explained that he was a member of the english nobility and claimed that he was in receipt of a regular in oe from bome of the estates of his umily he lived expensively ebent money freely and for a time was entertained by some ot the I 1 eat families in the city the full extent of bia swindling ial not definitely known by the Pinkerton detectives tec tives bat be a eaid to bave been one of the most clever in bis unlawful profession fes sion the bankers protective ab ia eaid to want him for alleged fraudulent work in the east and hie arrest in san francisco 13 the outcome of a long period 0 and shadowing on the part of the pinkerton agency throughout the country in addition to hie swindling operations cooper is also suspected to be a bigamist a woman in detroit claiming to have been married to him shortly before bis departure to ban francisco if cooper is convicted on the charge on which he bad been arrested in san francieco it i quite possible he will be brought to chicago for trial at the expiration pi ration of bis sentence |