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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1918)
1 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, A.TJGTJST 11, 1918. BROWN 15 RETAKEN BT CLEVER 111 Self-Confessed Forger Caugh at Beaverton Through Girl's Vigilance. PICTURE IS RECOGNIZED Irlsoner Tells Federal Attorney He Has Followed Criminal Career Twenty-four Tears; Passed Checks in Many Cities. Lyle D. Brown. self-confessed forger and white-slaver, who. l:en momenta rily unattended by an officers walked ! out of the Federal building- Friday aft ernon, was captured at Beaverton yes- terday through the vigilance and de- ! tective instinct of -Miss Rose Merlo, proprietress of the Commercial Hotel .! of that town. Brown waa returned ' to this city during the day and lodged ' In the County Jail, where he will be ;; keld pending the convening of the Fed. enal grand Jury. He has admitted his guilt and has agreed to plead guilty. Brown was arrested In this city late Thursday. In company with a young ; woman. Alice May Hastings, following his unsuccessful effort to pass a worth less check for $200 on Meier &. Frank. The white clave charge was placed against him when the girl bad told her tory to Assistant United States Attor tiey Goldstein. Brown waa taken to the Federal building Friday afternoon for an interview with Mr. Goldstein and It waa then he made his escape. Womaa luonsi Police Chief. After leaving the Federal building. Brown said yesterday, ha Induced a motorist to take him aa far aa Beaver ton. where he registered for the night at the Commercial Hotel. His appre hension waa brought about yesterday morning by Mlas Merlo. who recognised Brown In the dining-room from the description of the fugitive published In The Oree-onian. She Immediately sum moned Pete Van De Hey. Beaverton chief of police. In the meantime. Brown, suspecting he had been identified, re tired to his room on the third floor. When the officer knocked at Brown's door a. few minutes later, the fugitive - leaped through the window to the ground. 20 feet below. In the fall, he sprained his ankle and was taken into custody In an adjoining vacant room Into which he had crawled to hide. According to the story Brown told Mr. Goldstein yesterday, he haa fol lowed a criminal career continuously for the last four years, although be is only 24 years old. Brown says he waa committed to the Indiana Reformatory under a sentence of from two to 14 years for forgery, June 1. 1014. In July, 1917. he says, he broke his parole and left the state only to resume his Issuance of forged checks. Promts of Marriage Denied. In July of the same year. Brown ad mits, he met the Hastings girl, who . waa working in a confectionery store at Louisville. Ky. Forging his father's name to a check for $40. Brown says he induced the girl to accompany him to St. Louis under promise of marriage, but he denied yesterday that he ever ' married her or caused a "fake" cere mony to be performed as charged by Miss Hastings. Brown further admitted that after leaving St. Louis he visited Trinidad, Colo.; Los Angeles. Sacramento, Salt Lake, Spokane and Seattle, and in each of these cities, with the exception of Spokane, where he remained only three days and did not have a good oppor tunity, he uttered and cashed forged checks ranging in amounts from $23 to $123. He even admitted having raised to $125 a check for $100 which, he said, was given him by an aunt living at Los Angeles, while in that city. He frankly told the officers yes terday that throughout this itinerary he was accompanied by Miss Hastings. The couple arrived In Portland from Seattle last Sunday night, but Brown insists that the check he sought to pass on Meier & Frank was his first attempt to defraud Portland people. "Millionaire's Appetite" Admitted. "The trouble with me Is that I have a millionaire's appetite with only a nickel in my pocket." Said Brown yes terday, and when asked how he came to enter upon a check-forging career, ventured the following explanation: "When I first met Miss Hastings eh was keeping company with the son ol a wealthy Jeweler. In order to males an impression I misrepresented to her the circumstances of my father, telling her that he was wealthy. The Jeweler's son was lavishly spending money on her, and it was only by forging checks that I could procure the necessary funds to keep up with the pace set by my rival." Brown evinces no regret for what he has done, although he did manifest yesterday some concern as to the sen tence he will receive. Prospective Sentence Interests. J "Some fellow at the City Jail told me today that I would get from 20 to 50 years. Do you know what the sen tence is?" he Inquired anxiously. Among other things told Mr. Gold stein, which are seriously doubted, waa that he was a nephew of ex-Governor Stubbs. of Kansas. He also represented that his parents live at Louisville. Ky, his mother being state president of the W. C T. U. Late yesterday afternoon Brown was removed by Chief Deputy United States Marshal Mann from the City Jail to the County Jail, where he will be detained until his case is disposed of by the United States grand Jury. FROM DESCRIPTION PUBLISHED IN THE OREGONIAN, BEAVERTON YOUNG WOMAN RECOGNIZES AND ASSISTS IN THE CAPTURE OF FUGITIVE FORGER AND WHITE SLAVER. X? - . II. x :" I. ?-'v.-.v.v K.vo t l - vtj- -ti i I DISPLAY FLAGS FOR G. A. R, IS APPEAL Merchants and Citizens Asked to Stimulate Spirit of Welcome. STREETS TO BE DECORATED I Pennsylvania CInb Makes Elaborate Pans to Entertain Veterans From Keystone State Head quarters to Be Opened. LYtE D. BROWN (AT LEFT) AND MISS ROSE MERLO, W.R.C. PLANS READY Part of Entertainment of Na tional Convention Arranged. DEPOT COMMITTEE NAMED Mrs. Cora McBrlde, of Flower Or ganixatlon, to Make Her Head quarters In Liberty Temple. White Temple Meeting Place. Members of the Women's Relief Corps. Grand Army of the Republic, are busily completing their plans of en tertalnment as part of the programme for sessions of the annual National con vention In this city, August 19-23. with headquarters in the White Temple, Twelfth and Taylor streets. Saturday, August 17, Mrs. - Rosina Evans and her committee of women will be on duty at the Union Depot, welcoming all delegates arriving oh trains. Sunday, August 18, Mrs. Bertie Smith and her committee will be at the depot, and next day that work will be tf v . 'U t 3 f -At Drew Gllman. president, also will hold a reception that night from 8:45 to 10 o'clock, in the assembly-room of the Multnomah Hotel. Two luncheons for delegates will be given in the White Temple dining-room by the department of Oregon at 1 P. M. August 21 and 22, and this department also will give a breakfast at 7:30 A. M. August 20 at the Hazelwood in honor of Its president, Mrs. D. B. Gllman. The chairmen of the different com mltees of Oregon W. R. C. are: Mrs. Oilman, chairman ex-offlcto; Mrs. Cora McBrlde, flowers; Mrs. Jennie Burnett, entertainment; Mrs. Margaret Becker, publicity; Mrs. Minnie T. Horsman, ex ecutlve, and Mrs. Mildred Newell, fi nance. 28 CANDIDATES FILE ALL CLARKE ASPIRANTS ARE RE PUBLICANS BUT ONE. TV- t a, y ... a ' W'X -J ! Only One-half of Number Wao Sought Office Two Tears Ago Are In Race. Effect of War Seen. VANCOUVER. Wash., Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) Twenty-eight candidates, all but one of them Republicans, had filed declarations of candidacy with the Au ditor of Clarke County when the time for ruing closed this afternoon. It is about one-half the number who filed two years ago, when politics were a more absorbing topic than at present. Comparatively little interest has re sulted so far except for one or two of fices. The salaries attached to county offices have not been raised and do not now offer the incentive they did before the war. The principal contests will be for th office of Sheriff, School Superintend ent. Prosecuting Attorney and Com missioner from the Second District. Ray Matlock, who filed for the office of County Treasurer, withdrew in favor of T. L. Henrlchsen and leaves the lat ter without contest In the primaries. The primary election will be held September 10 and the election In No vember. Merchants and citizens are asked to stimulate the spirit of welcome to the visiting G. A. R. delegates by decorat ing their homes and places of business in some patriotic manner. E. D. Timms chairman of. the decoration committee, makes a special appeal for co-operation along this line. Every flag in the city should be in use during the en campment, he says. The committee haa obtained 400 American flags and 200 flags of allied nations for use on this oocaslon. but these will be employed on the streets. Citizens are urged to do their own dec orating in store windows and at home. thus assisting in giving the visitors a royal welcome. New Flags Are Scarce. As it is now almost impossible to purchase flags, every old flag avail able should be taken out and prepared for use. The committee also will wel come suggestions of any kind, and will be especially glad to obtain Civil War souvenirs or photos of Civil War commanders. The Pennsylvania Club, composed of former Pennsylvanians living in Port land, has arranged for the special en tertalnment of visitors from the Key stone state during the encampment. Through the kindness of Alex Rae, manager of the King estate, this club has been tendered the use of the offices formerly occupied by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway at Fifth and Stark streets, which will be fitted uo as headquarters for the registration of all Pennsylvanians. A oommittee of women will be in charge dally. Big Luncheon la Planned. Plans of the Pennsylvania Club In no way will interfere with the programme of the general committee, which has assented to a noonday luncheon that will be given by this organization at one of the principal hotels Thursday, August 22, for the entertainment of visiting Pennsylvanians. On the occasion of tne luncneon me programme will include an address by Wallace McCamant, ex-Justioe of the Supreme Court, on "Pennsylvania Sol diers In the Civil War." Messages also will be read from Governor Brumbaugh and Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, The members of the committee rep resenting the Pennsylvania Club are: J. A. Currey. chairman; C. B. Clarke, H. C. Kraner, C. E. Haak, C. A. Wolf gang. Rev. W. W. Toungson and Lieu tenant J. O. Freck. lOPER 3H 3 D ! CONSTABLE GETS IN BAD DEPUTY, ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS, IS "STUCK UP BY POLICE. Perpetual Motion Machine and Fright ened Woman Help to Enliven Things at Holiman Home. Mr. Cora McBrlde, Chairman of Flower Committee, Will Be on Duty In Liberty Temple. PRELATE SPEAKS IN EAST Bishop Walter T. Sumner Describes Work of Spruce Camp. Bishop Walter T. Sumner, while in Chicago recently, told of the work which is being done in the spruce pro duction camps of Oregon. He said that dozens of Chicago boys are in these camps, some of whom he had known when he was dean' of the Cathedral of fealnts Peter and Paul. Bishop Snmner recently made a se ries of talks to the soldiers in the spruce camps of the Yaquina Bay re gion. After leaving Chicago he went further east. in charge of Mrs. Alice Conway and her committee. Delegates will be asked to register at Liberty Temple. Mrs. Cora McBrlde, chairman of the flower committee, will make her head quarters In Liberty Temple and .will at tend there each morning until 10:30 o'clock. The convention will be opened In the White Temple Tuesday afternoon. August 20, and that night from 7:30 to 8:45 o'olock a reception will be held in the ballroom of the Multnomah Hotel in honor of the National president of the W. R. C, Mrs. Knauff, of Indiana, and Orlando Summers, commander-ln chief of the Grand Army. The depart ment of Oregon, . R. C. Mrs. Bertha BOYS VISIT HOME FOLKS Prinevllle Host to Six Soldiers and Sailor During Past Week. PRINEVILLE, Or., Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) Prineville haa been host to six soldiers and one Bailor during the past weex. major .Henry c. Smith, of the iettn Depot Brigade, Camp Lewis, visit ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Sam Smith; Sylvain Michel, of Camp Hola blrd, Maryland, spent several days in tne city witn his brother; Sergeant Ho bart Belknap, of Camp Lewis, visited his parents. Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Belknap; ut. m. j. buii, stationed at the Presidio, Sas Francisco, visited friends; Earl Saye, of Vancouver Barracks, spent the week-end with friends. R. L. Schee arrived this morning from Camp Lewis, and Ralp Christian, of the U. 8. Navy, is here visiting his wife. Stray Cats to Be Reported. The members of the Oregon Humane Society request that all strav and -Homeless cats be reported at the society neaaquarters, 153 Courthouse, phone Main 378. An alleged perpetual motion ma chine, a frightened woman, a busy Deputy Constable and a blue-coated "copper" furnished considerable excite ment late Friday at the home of Mrs. J. Holzman. 571 Fifth street. Deputy Constable Rennlck went to the Holzman home to replevin the per petual motion machine, which has been the center of considerable litigation in the District Court. 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