Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1909 — SAYS HE’S NOT OWEN [ARTICLE]

SAYS HE’S NOT OWEN

Prisoner Held In Georgia Declares a Mistake Has Been Made. Augusta. Ga., April 2.—The man held here as W. D. Owen on request of the Boston authorities, as the fugitive Übero plantation swindler, sought for since 1905, Insists that he is W. W. Fowler. He says his arrest is the result of a case of mistaken Identity. He asserts that he Is a resident of Hastings-on-the-Hudson. W. K. Miller, his attorney, has Instituted habeas corpus proceedings. Under the Georgia law the defendant in such an action has three days in which to answer. In the meantime Inspector Armstrong, of the Boston police department, is on his way here. The theory of the police is that Fowler and Owen are the same man. It Is asserted that a short - time ago he married an Augusta woman, the daughter of a clothing merchant, now deceased. The woman is or was welltodo It is asserted that friends of the woman learned of the Identity of Owen and Fowler as the same man and told the police.