.FOUND "MISSING
HEIR” IN JAIL
/
Long Search of United States
Naval Authorities Comes to
an End.
WAS HELD AS FORGER
Elghteen-Year-Old Youth Boasts of
Shrewd Trick Which, as He Said,
"Fooled Them All for
Awhile."
Green Bay, Wls.—In tlie state re
formatory a pasty-faced, hollow
cheeked lad of eighteen paces hack and
* forth In his cell. He Is ashamed to
look his countrymen In the face be
cause he is a deserter from the Unit
ed States navy. His name is Adoipn
Gerds, alias Daniel H. Tolman.
He is the boy who tricked the au
thorities at the Great Bakes Naval
Training station into believing he was
the missing heir to the $4,000,000 es
tate of the late Daniel H. Tolman of
Philadelphia.
The whereabouts of this youth, who
had played tag with military and po
lice officials throughout the United
States for seven months, did not be
come known until a short time ago.
Then it was his tongue that told his
whereabouts to the world.
Confides in Cellmates.
“Yep, I’m the bird you read about
In the papers,” he had told his eell
i mates. “I almost had them believing
that I was the missing heir to an es
tate of $4,000,000 left by a loan shark
In Philadelphia named Tolman. But
keep it quiet.”
But bis mates couldn’t let the story
rest. Tlie guard heard It. From the
lad he forced a confession. Then au
thorities at the reformatory communi
cated with the Great Lakes Naval
Training station. Naval and civil in
telligence officers were sent to the in
stitution. Then the identity was es
tablished.
Prisoner’s Story.
He told the officers the following
story:
"I admit that I made a botch job
of it at the finish, but you’ll have to
give me credit for fooling them for a
while.
“The whole thing started in Milwau
kee. I didn’t have a dime in my pocket
and my clothes were almost in rags.
My poor old mother, who lives at 1458
Spring street, was just about living,
and even though I tried hard, I
couldn’t help her along.
‘‘One day a fellow stopped me on
the street and told me I resembled the
f missing heir to a fortune. He said the
heir’s name was Tolman. We talked it
over, schemed and planned and before
the end of the week I had made my de
.. ..iLUUl
"Yep, I’m the Bird You Read About.”
cision. I had a good .story cooked up
and upon the advice of this newly made
acquaintance I decided to Join the
navy.
Says Station Was "Easy.”
“At Creot Lakes they fell for my
story. They gave me a ten-day fur
lough so I could go to Philadelphia
and claim the fortune.
“At the end of my furlough I came
back and got an extension. Then I
cashed a bogus check at the station
for $180. After that T threw away my
- uniform and forged checks in Buffalo,
New York city, Washington, Detroit,
and Cleveland. It was in Cleveland
that they got me, for a bad check in
Milwaukee.
“I was tried, convicted and here I
am.”
PREFERS DEATH TO PARTING
Facing Separation, Ohio Woman Kills
• Seven Children and
4| Herself,
Nelsonville, O.—Several hours be
fore authorities were to remove them
to the Athens county home seven
children, ranging in age from six
weeks to ten years, were found with
their mother, Mrs. Tony Stavisar,
burned to death or asphyxiated In
their home at Kimberly, a small min
ing town near here.
The children were tied to their beds
and coal oil had been sprinkled over
the room.
It is supposed that worry over the
separation caused tho mother to de
stroy herself and the children.
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