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Told Her to “Plant It” and Then He Goes and Gobbles the“Seed.1*KANSAS CITY. %#K *—That hlslt;washwoman intrusted to him $700which he did not enlarge or return.In the belief that he# a spiritualisticmedium# was on such terms of in-tim.it y with the powers of the other world that he could Increase the value or gold or other precious metals by enlarging them beyond their previous proportions# is one of the charges that caused the arrest of a man said to be Hubert H. #st. Clair ut 631 Euclid Avenue recently.St. ciair *« arrest here was not directly the result of this charge# which was made by the Oakland (OaL) authorities. He is charged with disappearing from Oakland Immediately after taking the $700 and was followed to Boston, where hr was arrested ca the charge of grand larceny*In Boston, before hi* arrest, he had a laris'- following of spiritualists* and one* a widow, had been so impressed by his powers that she furnished $1,800 fur his release pending his hearing on the California charge* It is alleged that after his release from the Boston jail he tried to settle with his washerwoman# but was unsuccessful in that he was unable to raise the $700* The day before his hearing In Boston he disappeared, and it waa through the efforts made by the woman who furnished his band that he was arrested hereSt. Clair is fifty years old. He has all of the prepsssessltig qualities that encourage confidence. He has the appearance of u man of education and refinement and there is nothing about him that suggests the criminal. As a spiritualist he is* conceded a leader wherever he has been, and during the two week* he has been in Kansas City he is said to have created a furor© among the spiritualists by his wonderful seances.The arrest was made at the home of James B. Powell, 631 Euclid Avenue, where St* Clair had been rooming for the past two weeks. St. Clair had been followed to Kansas City by Robert Held, a detective of Boston* Reid arrived in Kansas City Saturday and he and City Detective Edward Smith and Isaac Waist ron commenced tho search. Detectives Smith and Waist ron made the arrest, and Held was with them at the time, St. Clair tried to convince the detectives that he was not the man they were looking for, but finally said;“Well, 1 know what you want me for, *o I guess I inn;hi as well give up. ' He was taken to police headquarters, where he is being held In the holdover until Detective Reid has arranged to take him back to Boston*When arrested he gave the name of Robert H. St. Clair, of Oakland. Cal* In Boston he was known as Robert H. Moure, and at other places as Hugh Moore. H© look the name of Harry Rot lime I when he came to KansasCity*Oakland Police Tell Story.A letter from the chief of police of Oakland to Chief of Police Griffin a couple of weeks ago told of St. Clair giving a demonstration to prove hla claim that the value of gold and silver could be increased with the aid of spirits and thereby gained the confidence of a number of his followers that In* really possessed the power whit h he claimed, it is said the husband of St, Clair s washwoman took f “00 of their savings to him to have it increased In value.After a reasonable length of time he went to St. Clair's office to get the money, which he thought by that time had doubled. Tiny found St. Clair gone, and then followed a chase of nearly three months by the California authorities.When St. Clair left from Boston, the woman spiritualist who had furnish id his bond, employed Robert itc-ld, a detec tive, to find the man and take him back to Boston bo that she will not lose the $1,800. Reid searched all of the places in New England and where there were any number of spiritualists, in the meantime he hadSt. Clair's former residence watched| and was rewarded Iasi week when a box and trunk left the place in an. express wagon.The wagon was followed and a detective succeeded in getting on such good terms with the driver that he was permitted to ride on the wagon# and soon learned that the box ami trunk were consigned to Harry Roth-nu*l, 631 Euclid Avenue* Kansas City, Mo* VJ/.Z’Hoarding EIoti*c SIuuIovihI.With this Information Reid left Boston at once for Kansas City. When he arrived here he found the trunk and box had not been delivered. With photographs of St. Clair, Reid and Detective* Smith and Wnlstron began looking for him. They watched tho house where he lived* hut did not see him on Saturday. Yesterday morning Detective Waist run went to 631 Euclid Avenue on the pretense or wanting to rent r room, while the other two detectives wafted outside. While Wn 1st ron was at the front door Rothmel. or St. Clair, came down the stair* arid took a seal on the front porch, was recognised and arrested. Detective Reid says that Just assoon as he frets his prisoner back to Boston and relieves tho woman who furnished the $1,800 bond of the re-aponaibllUy of the man's appearance there, he will be taken to Oakland*Cab. to answer to the original charge.ofrichreheasn-thre,ngis©Ip.*«•hehlt;»‘HOlieon‘O-r %t -heh -roils.in-si.ed*o -heBd,elrir-heot-Ihs■4 at of ihe
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Mathews Journal
Mathews, Virginia, US
Thu, Sep 14, 1911
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