Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 11

REPORTER ACCUSED | IN 201,000 THEFT Newspaper Man Shielding Identity Balks Police in As- ! certaining Real Name. By the Associated s. NEW ORLEANS, November 22.—Con- Slicting reports of admissions and de- nials have further complicated the enigma of the identity of the New Or- Jeans newspaper reporter, known here 8s Kenneth T. O'Hara and sought by California authorities as a thief and embezzler, California police believe the man known as O'Hara is James B. O'Neil, | former Los Angeles bank teller, under Federal indictment there charging the theft of $25000 in bonds and also charged with the embezzlement of $176,000 in bonds from the First Na- tional Bank, where he worked. ans police quote O'Hara s admitting he was the man wanted in California, and saying, “They may call me what they please.” Department of Justice agents who Questioned O'Hara about the Federal man quoted | | me was neither was “an honored | j; and I'd die before | ) name of Kentucky Td reveal it Harry O: Gregson, captain of detec- tives, who so fascinated the reporter in his _tounds of i O'Hara as th man,’ that the newspaper reporter under ar- rest in New Orleans for the theft of $176,000 of Liberty bonds from the First National Bank of Los Angeles is James B. O'Neil of Los Angeles, for whose arrest a reward of $13,000 has been offered. The bureau sent out fingerprints and pictures of O'Neil on June 15, 1926, and its investigators declared they found that since that time he had traveled under the aliases of R. A. Ramsey and | W. H. Frost, in addition to the name {of Kenneth Terrence O’'Hara, under which he worked in New Orleans. His mother is listed as Mrs. Phile O'Neil | of 5132 Victoria avenue, Los Angeles; his brother, O. E. O'Nelil, is said to | employed in the Security Bank there, and his sister, Ilene, is attending Redondo High School in the Southern Cl_:lxliformn city, the bureau's records show. O'Neil was born in Louisville, Ky., June 5, 1891. Investigation into O'Neil's record, the department said, showed that a few weeks after he left Los Angeles he sent to the Treasury here $151,000 of the bonds, asking that they be registered in the name of the owner. | He was said to have returned the bonds through the Treasury by representing himself as an officer of the k. The bond owner is listed as Willard Austin Van Brunt of 6255 Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles. New Zealand is developing trade with the remote Cook Islands, in the Pacific. THE EVENING STAR, WASHT COLORED PAIR ADMIT MURDER OF AGED MAN Threw Body of Hunter in Lake, They Confess to Mobile Police. By the Associated Press. MOBILE, Ala, November 22-—The be {mystery of the disappearance of Chris- topher Columbus Coffee, 70, retired life insurance agent, from a hunting camp on Hals Lake, Clark County, 70 miles north -of here, on November 12, ap- parently was solved last night by a con- fession of Percy Lang and Carson Lewis, colored, that they killed the aged man and sank his body in the lake. Lang and Lewis, according to the confession, now a part of the court rec- UPHOLSTERING DRAPERIES— LIVING ROOM FURNITURE Made to Order STANDARD UPHOLSTERY CO. i e et io! @z GTON, D. C. THURSDAY, ord, said they both struck Coffee, who ABSENCE OF wlTNEss was hunting wild turkeys, with clubs and robbed his body of & diamond ring and stole his shotgun. They further admitted, according to a statement by County Solicitor Bart B. Chamberlain, that with the assistance of three other colored men they tied the body to wagon wheel and sank it in Hals Lake. Mrs. Frank A. Barthold of New York City, daughter of Coffee, today author- ized the county authorities to offer a reward of $500 for the recovery of her father’s hody. . Customs officials freouently resort to the X-ray to examine objects suspected of containing contraband liquor or val- uables. ) WINS CONTINUATION Cases Against Fireman Are Held Over Because of Woman's Illness. Claiming the excitement of a slight automobile accident and his subsequent arrest on two charges of disorderly conduct had so upset a woman com- panion that she was unable to testify in his behalf in court, Joseph Richter, a fireman, had the cases against him continued after partial hearing before NOVEMBER 9% 1928. " Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court While driving on Eleventh street northeast, Richter's car sideswiped a machine driven by J. R. Apolinio. The two drivers agreed on a settlement of their property damage, but were arguing over another feature of the mishap when Policeman H. S. Carrico of the® ninth precinct appeared and ar- rested Richter for disorderly conduct. At the station house, the prosecution claimed, Richter became disorderly again in protesting against such treat- ment of a fireman by a policeman. Thereupon Lieut. Lauten of No. 9 or- dered a second charge of disorderly conduct placed against his name. Attorney John P. Mullen appeared for Richter. POLICE HOLD ALLEGED MAIL TRAIN BANDIT Man Wanted for $133,000 Robbery Is Silent When Quizzed in Chicago. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 22.—Sought as an accomplice in the $133,000 Grand ‘Trunk mail train robbery of last Febru- ary and for several other alleged crimes, Virgil Litsinger was captured by police and Federal authorities yesterday. Litsinger, taken to police headquar- | ters, and later to the Federal building nspatls 3 for questioning by postal authorities, refused to talk. He was accused of taking part in the | holdup of the Grand Trunk train last Winter, in which a gang, headed by Charles “Limpy” Cleaver, dynamited an | express car to get the loot. Cleaver was captured and sentenced to 25 years. Litsinger also is accused of hold- ing up the Chicago theater several weeks ago, stealing about $6,000. 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