Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
26 October 1913
From an article entitled "Adventures of A Detective - Scotland Yard
Sleuth Tells of Odd Experiences Hunting Criminals" about a Detective
Sergeant Kemp.
"You, of course, remember the Borough poisoning case, where a man named
Klosowski, or Chapman, as he chose to call himself, was convicted of the
murder by poison of a number of women. Well, I was engaged on the case,
which I remember with a certain degree of satisfaction, for it enabled me
to procure the release of a wrongfully convicted man who was then in
prison. Some time before the murders were discovered the man Chapman had
accused another man of robbing him. The man was innocent, but he was
convicted in the face of the sworn testimony of Chapman and the very
woman, Maud Marsh, who, among other women, he was afterward convicted of
murdering.
"Chapman wanted this man 'removed', and this was his way of doing. Among
the money supposed to have been stolen were bank notes bearing certain
numbers. I and a mate of mine arrested him at the public house which he
kept in the borough. It was on the day of the coronation procession, and
the public house was decorated with flags and bunting. After his removal
from the house in custody I made a search of the place, and in a drawer
upstairs I found a bundle of bank notes. When I came to look at the
numbers I noticed that several of the notes bore precisely the same
numbers as those which Chapman had sworn he had been robbed of. I promptly
embodied this discovery in a report, and soon after I had the satisfaction
of knowing that the man had been released."