The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1899, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SU “JIM THE PENMAN" OF FICTION OUTDONE BY A CLERGYMAN IN REALLIFF Preached the Gospel, Bunkoed Banks and Cleverly Covered His Trail for Years, but the Detectives Kept Working to Find Him and at Last Ran Him Down While He Was in Church Preaching a Sermon, \ DAY, APRIL 23, 1899. i DR PARRISH l IR afRI= 4 PULEIE 5 " > forgery was made known occurred to the detectives, and on that conclusion they acted. Records of the nisters tn charge of Cong every State were ¢ when, lo! and behold, credited to pastorate of the ¥irst Congregational Church of Marsh town, 1 was the name “F . George R. Parri; To Marshalltown the detectives went, a particularly polsonous and ing that Mr. Thompson was the pastor of Then began a long and not a hopeful {ve human insect, and tell of their ex- the Central Church in Toledo, and that chase. The Rev. Mark Thompson had | THE where they made quiet, searching inquir- s ase. he was on a vacation. Further informa- disappeared and the name vanished from fes as to Mr. Parrish, ho Y clergyman, preacher tion was given that Mr. Thompson was ministe circles. But the detectives } LETTER the strictest surveillance er 1 to the people and undoubtedly visiting with the Rev. J. M. > he would remain in the minis- { progress. For davs he was masque r g s, who the esteemed Congre; and In that channel they looked for 1. Detectives’ ey minister at Sandwich. The letter him. Tharot by requesting that the Sandwich with the r pay to Mr. Thompson the $200 called ed man w draft had prepared the iiled the letter and Sandwich. He h inquiry was put on foot, every night he slept under their guardian- ult cf learning that the hunt- they never ceased making Inquiries after the detectives. It was a ieiter purport- ship. s born in Kewanee, Ill, and Thompson, or, rather, the man who ing to be written by James Lee Barton, It was learned that the pastor “ad re- ad been admitted to the bar in Iowa: had been known by that name. treasurer of the American Board of Com- gejved his call throu letter of that he had been a newspaper reporter, Finally. in October, 1897, the detectives, missioners for Foreign Affairs, recom- ommendation, and t lette: iced law, had been Prosecuting (hrough the remarkable instincts of their mending the Rev. Dr. George R. Parrish The def s at Wichita a litlle yprofession, we tisfied that they had to.the deacon .of a Congregational church had the right man at s for years, honored and r t, but “to m W d introduced himself n ten year me A ap Jeast touched the trail of the man they at Wanwatosa, Wis. doubly sure” they sent to T Mark The r of the of the Congre church. were after. A fc draft for $500 came 7Mue letter was dated at Chicago, \ for the Rev. Mr. Lewlis, who h ‘tha ar. Central’( ch of Lewis L ng stone,” and was o their hands. the writer said while he was “loitering” gladly hurried to Marshalitown to ident- : th likel before him an in iness that kept him .yt araft was written by the Rev. in that city he had heard of tue Wan- ify the man who had so cruelly imposed e shall tell the en- ring young moving from place to place. Mark Thompson,” said the keen-cyed de- Watosa vacancy and hastened to recom- on him. > strange story of his 1i who Dy pla I'rom church to church and from one (. ijve expert into whose hands it came. mend- his friend. Then came a dramatic finish. Accom- v. Dr. George R. Parrish,’ Vet religious socicty to another the detectives jt was compared with the Sandwich forg- “Mr. Parrish, whom I have known from panied by the detective Mr. Lewis en- ; y & which appears in the r ) s confidence and received hout encouraging results. Sev- ery and the comparison showed that the his boyhood,” the letter stated, “‘was edu- tered the First Congregational Church = o t for forgery. And this record to spend the night with him. 1a “tip"” that the tyo had apparently been made by the cated for the bar, IS a broad-minded with the congregation, took a seat and . ¢ t by the detectives, tells of the . i9uscoonyer e al isughs alsame ifiand: scholar and a natural orator—in fact, one - waited for the beginning of the usual 1t of rest the kind-| place, going Mr. Lewis went with his go a detect guest to the bank and introduced him as suspiclon, name. OMwonldSmne $500 farged dr low the innocent object t, 5 Watertown (Wi e into his past and well appearing, n raft had been offered of the ablest speakers to whom I have Sunday morning service. Presently the .) bank by a young, ever listened; while in social and execu- Rey, Dr. George R. Parrish entered his | jus, clerical looking tive qualities he excels, being, in short, pulpit. ssary capture nin come to the detectlves : the Rev. Mark Thompson of Toledo. That that_he ot Mark Thompson. man who had stated that he was the just such an ‘all around man’ as to fit © spp an " whi £ald the el inker . - man, ad_ste e wa ] - That is the man,” whispered Mr. True Detective Story. TAO WAL M e f:f‘,‘ ;“g‘l;’:“’““']“] t needed link In the chain would come a feport from some Liev:Bdwasd B Alken, The draft wae him for Service In such fleld-as yours" p.ihat 18 the mar Sfidtio mirert i WL Gk Ao ey v ish, and he got the wanted other place, or from two or more other p.p nd shortly afterward a similar ~ Mr. Parrish was not called to Wanwa- af- parrish was not disturbed then. He 8 “'\:-_‘ r;n" - —?lrfl!‘fl“‘ Rrfld '*r;y"m;] ‘-h:fr:" places, and the detectives wuld hurry 0 jngirument was offéred by the same man tosa, but, unfortunately for him, the dea- conducted the service as usual, preached The slightest cue is sufficient for thelr de- ) thanked investigate them, without the desired re- (5 a bank at Blithorn, Wis.,’and wasinot. con {0 WHom the letter’had ‘been ‘sent o iy 00 ermon calling upon his congre el e act for a suit cashed. met James Lee Barton shortly after its to 1ive honest, truthful, upright il e e d s et e e L and went on his way se- There are many perfectly honest and Trailing His Forgeries receipt and expressed his regret at not to never fear to do the right,.and e 1 to abtd Rty AT upright ministers In half a dozen States z 5 . having been able to comply with his re- et & Sh eroraT o e has been true in the case of Par- ¥ After the F who unknowingly have been under the _‘WWhere Is the Rev. Edward E. Atken?” o o o to never stoop to nE, N0 matter wha rish, for the clew that has been followed X GTReL ; asked the detectives, but he had as com- the circumstances or temptations. varching eye of a detective during the Mr. Barton was more than surprised. He said he had never written such a let- , and had not been in Chicago for a Then the forged letter went into hands of the detectives. v davs the draft was returned onored. The bank that it to be drawn ndwich Bank to his ar st was a slender one, and the arrest did not come until three and a quarter years after the commissl. particular crime with which Faebine &y o) pletely disappeared as had the Rev. Mark ast ti 3 Thompson. Yet the search was contin- Piling Up Forgeries. ¥ ued, but the combined Revs. Thompson rk Thompson could not be found. and Aiken moved about as rapldly as . did the detective: When he closed a hush of approval came over the congregation, which was followed by words of commendation from one to another, while many went to the . o ew aftel L it to shake their pastor by the hand god: : v. Mr. Lewis suffe s eeke, Savaeicy ves and, though Clew ALler This was written by the forper of the el Sl It was on July 17, 1885, the Pinkertons cation of ha ] Ruc L IployeR Lo i €T Sandwich and Watertown drafts,” said 70 detectiues patlantly watted " and say, that the Sandwich Bank of Sandwich, dragged ‘nto a f of the su 3 3 the detective who had passed his jua~ _ Lne G 5 o e Iil., received a letter purporting to come From that day untii Pa " P od t i Hm a few weeks ago—the when the pastor left the church he ment on the second instrument the mo- ment he looked at it. For years the hand- writing of these drafis hau been retained from the cashier of the Lucas County Lewis did n Savings Bank of Toledo, Ohlo, enclosing a draft, apparently Issued by the Illinois wich Bank. being a m Home Missionary Society of Chicago in ican Ba Association, placed® back and forth from one e favor of the Rev. Mark Thompson. With the matter in i and it in turn other, w the draft was a pretended letter from the placed it in the professional care of the any towns cashier of the Lucas County Bank stat- detectives. detectives, old an; FTELL LT 4444142244434 4444442244220 0 444424440444 444 0444224221124 1 4224244420+ 4 4434442444442 4444444442244+ + 44444444444 44+444 nd knowledge of the . as a rule, continue hompson-Alken continued and forgery and unwit- t has led to his ndwich forgery. shown a warrant for his arrest char him with forgery, and was taken Into 2 custody. He was silent, and consented L e to go to Sandwich for trial without the Run to Earth. issuance of extradition papers. He is now That “Parrish” would likely lesp thc: there walting for the action of the Grand Another forgery came into tue hands of name until the discovery of his recent Jury. cease in doing his u is detection. Other cases were but as the several hypocrisy ¢ hotels in tingly made a clew th brother fmprisonment for the rtances a a HE following are the reasons for the t v that the Garden of n is at or near Seychelles. en put it at Praslin, a miles north ot - 1s is not allegorical, garden, its two trees, did n is a district, hosen in that dis- : GENERAL GORDON'S MAP OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN : B o S S man increases the doors by which we can be tempted. The temptation was in its result distru God, a feeling that God withheld s hing from man In man is implanted the spirit of inquiry. We w this: tell a child not to open a certain book [The following article from the § with maps, by General Gordon, in 1882 friend, a missionary :nique interest, not on!y on accoidnt of the eminence of the write s probably the most competent person ting subject, owing to the extent of earches as an archaer'ogist in the Orient, combined with the deep + + - S + 50 because of the fact that he in the world to deal with this f rand was written, and illustrated in the form of a letter to a and now sees the light for the first time. It is of but B e e R s T R SR S S phet, Hinnom, the Valley of Slaughter, the sewer of Jerusalem, the site of all ebominable sacriflces; it is connected with Jerusalem in an evil way; it has the same name as Genesis. Now comes a difficulty. PR Christians, they belleve the first, but put aside the second, eating, as impos- sible to produce any such effects. What was the forbidden fruit? Tt was fruit of the ground. What is the bidden fruit? It is' fruit of corn and Juice of grape. Both nothing—yet one caused great things. May not the other cause greater? The sequence of the one eating was not known; the sequence of the other may not be known in its full- ness. Yet it may be believed to be far, infinitely far, greater. ” % This is about the substance of every- itual qualities; he immediatly has an immense lon ous feeling which was the keynote of all his actions.] thing about Eden—its garden and isls d;: :?“(Ijtfll?:]t\i\‘p h}:fl);‘ngtnn;fi(;‘“;n:n\elr:; h, the ark, the taber- ing to open that book, which he would oo anits bgales 1 stand that by e ois J?fiwhfhmih»fifimfiflfifimkfm%m%é4~v~0000*¢¢¢¢¢4¢¢¢¢4yo¢o¢¢¢¢o¢t¢¢¢¢¢¢&‘¢too§+¢o¢¢44#4;mg@wgfixfiflfififigyflfiauhpmn:mammemmmwm the world except bidden fo touch it. You can test it iy gie the Tree of Knowledge; that mot change features of 10,000 feet high. erally connected with Abyssinia, so I God utters fo man. is. “Thou shalt not Yet the highest angel could not under- time during which they were yvourself: leave a dozen lozenges on your table, tell a childmot to eat them, we eat sometimes of cne, some often of the other; that the fiery cherubim So 1 took the rivers Euphrates as Iu- think Pison is Nile. phrates, on which Babylon, and eat”; the last injunction Christ gives stand the depths of either eating. Are we, therefore, to wait for that un- ; . . Gihon means “bursting forth”: the is, “Take, eat.” To the world at large L erefo &1 Ity consecrated or set apart for fet the child See them conatantly,Aell Iy yyie Doy o RiORt gunrds. the Tiee) of LARGIIGE Tioris oncwhich 19 NIneyeh 'Fresl Gl 1810 (he oo otiess s1ic ot e histors. SrtHE S oty foolishness; derstanding? We ate in Adam In dis- % atlons of Goc an. God’s him only once, and add to your telling Jjire and it is only through the broken (vide Daniel). They meet and flow into Jerusalem; it meets Kedron and flows, such effects could never come from so let us eat In trust. Let even n made things which were that If he eats something unknown to 3 : ecan and unclean; there- on for doubting that set apart e two trees to be the other of Knowledge; or that God when these two trees had ful- filled thelr purpose should have rele- t k to their former ordin- We see this in the le is no m han another the way the Philistines and Nebuchadnezzar carried off things of God which at one th to touch. I therefore that there is no reason to two trees of the earth amental or that they 1 they had fulfilled ; they ere, I think, rele- » their position as tr clean, no r the tempta- lloquy: “It him_will happen. Keep treating the child kindly, so that he will not fear you; some day you will find eleven loz- s—at least T think so. Therefore I think the forbidding of the tree was even to our reason a fair test to man, and that the very fact of this distrust and forgetfulness of God was virtually union with Satan, a sacrament tan; a mystical eating, though material, which led to Satan communi- cating or inoculating man with evil, soning, tainting him. Now, with respect to the other tree, the Tree of Life, there is no reason to doubt that man often had ate of it; before his banquet on the forbidden tree man had communed with God, when he named the animals, ete., and there is every probability he 'did eat of the Tree of Life. I do not go into de- tall on this, for you know the Scriptures and you know what s written of the Bread of Life, the fruit of the Tree of Life, ete.,, which eventually, in the last chapter of Revelation, abpears again alone, not with the: Tree of Knowledge; body, the veil of Chr we can ap- proach to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life, which is Christ. - 1 am now relating to you how these thoughts first struck me and in the order in which they did. Well, T thought there were two trees —actual trees—which had been sacra- mental, and had ceased to be =0; and in Prasiin, near Seychelles, and only there in the whole world, i8 a magnificent tree, curicus beyond description, called the Prince of the Vegetable Kingdom; it is unique in its species, and on earth —the Laodicean Seychellarum, or Coco di Mir. This, I believe, was the Tree of Knowledge. I then thought if the one tree is to be found, =o is the other, and this I think is the Artocarpus In- cisa, or bread fruit; it is a humble tree, of no great distinction, yet to an observer it is as unique in its kind and among trees as the other. This last tree is only found in the Indian Ocean. It is a life-sustaining tree, and, like the other, it is full of Scriptural types. Having thought that these were the two trees, then the question arose, the Persian Gulf. Babylon oppressed Israel; Nineveh gea), by the Valley of Fire; oppressed Israel. Required two other connected with oppression of The question of whether ever a river came down the Valley of Jordan into the Red Sea is one which has been much discussed. ts from the source of the Jordan to the Red Sea is the case; the ion of the Dead Sea is the diffi- cuity; the ravines of Kedron and Gihon are very deep. Taking my ground spiritually, and the similarity of the name Gihon with the brook of Jerusalem, I think that they are the same. The Pison, or Nile, flowed into the Red Sea; the Gihon, or Gihon Brook, flowed into the Red Sea, joined, flowed down, met the Euphrates and Tigris, united near Socotra, and the soundings shown end in a deep basin 2600 fathoms deep, which is close to Seychelles. Cush is written in margin for Ethiopia. Cush was son of Nimrod*; his land was prob- when it does flow, to the Salt Sea (Dead small a cause of eating of a tree. So immense PISYN OR BLUE NILE it is To- the large proportion of professing ty lead us to do so. We are bid- Why not try it? ears to be an oversight. See Gene- And Cush begat Nimrod.” Seychelles are a group of small islands in the Indian Ocean belonging to Great Britain, east of Zanzibar. Mahe is the largest island of the group. The principal port is Victoria: population about 16,000. The principal exports are cocoanut ofl and vaniila — e Rats as a Gure for Baldness. Now it has been discovered that rats may be useful to man as a cure for bald- ness. This is on the authority of the British Medical Journal, which prints a letter from a Chinese doctor, who offers to prevent hair from falling out: He Bays: “What a carrot is to a horse’s coat a rat is to the human hair. Neither fact can be explained, but every horseman knows that a regimen of carrots will make his stud smooth and lustrous as velvet, and the Chinese, especially the g e . Sk A W St 5 ably near Babylon, now Bab el Mandeb. AGmen oW iabivaks nued o5 food SEOD z this therefore, 1 think man often partook Where was the Garden of Eden? And Perim means Bab (gate) el (of) Mandeb ¢ Tl Ao il the Ntk s 8 position. of the Tree of Life in the garden. When ‘first came the information that Sey- (the world). 7 the falling out of hair and make cks He ave no other tempta- he had eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, chelles is of granite, and all other isles means overflowing—the Nile soft, silky and beautiful. I have seen it ti he could only be tempted he was prevented from so doing, for he out here are volcanic, granite being the overflows. Bgypt oppressed Israel. The tried many times. by opetite; he could desire had acquired s taint from thus eating, more ancient formation. - Then the Rev. Nite {8 believed now to flow into the SR e no dress or jewels; he had which, if he had after eaten of the Tree D. Bury mentioned casually that the the Blue Nlle encompasses “Do you make vour wife an allowance T spite fi;x]m, :-n Lm jt—n;u‘ns 4‘-.]1 ife, w;rulvl lxaveflx{ven hm;1 immor- V}:rsp Genesis ii:10, could be read that Godjam, a province of Abvssinia, in for household expenses?” asked the talk- c hate: he could be greedy and he tality; in his degraded state, he would the four rivers flowed into Eden, not whiel 5 Y ive one. could be curious; he w s a child, have mixed God with Satc. In their at- " Y o o SHa i o - b e so that the temp- scessarily, I think, that tation was which It was, We ever haye many doors open to temptation, for the increase of tributes, which cannot be: God will not serve with Satan. I do not go into all this, for I have ?ct ime, but I believe that the Tree of Life, spiritually, ex- out of it. I have been at the sources of Buphrates, Tigris, etc.,, and unless the rivers were forced to flow back- wasd no spot could agree to a central basin in those lands, while a flood does Joktan, son of Shem, went with Sheba and Ophir to Mesha (Sale's Koran says) and spread along the Red Sea. The Sea of Zugla, opposite Aden, is called Sirlus Habilah Sheba, and Op hir 18 gen- From Gordon's Map The taciturn one drew himself up haughtily. ‘“You forget, sir,” he sald, “that I am a French nobleman married to an American girl.""—Chicago Post.