HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-3-8, Page 2ERASTUS WIMAN ARRESTED.
He is Charged with Forgery and
Embezzlement,
DUN & UO. COMPLAINANTS.
The *mount Involved lti $929,000—Text or
the Complaint on which the Grand
Muer* Indictments were wounded.
er
Mr. Wirmart expressedmenee surprise at
Iris arrest, and then naked if there would
be any opportunity to get ball. He staid
Yoe aught ko have a lawyer, and would like
to be represented by counsel. Au effort
was made by friende to get bail late in the
afternoon, but without euccees. Neither
slid Mr. Wiman have counsel when he was
taken to the General Sessions by the detect -
THE COMPLAINT.
Al soon as ib was known that Mr. Wi-
en8n had been arrested, Assistant District)
.Attorney Liudsay made known the can
Irlaint en which the indictments were
3enuded. The oomplainb is as follower, ad-
dressed to John R. Fellowe, District At-
torney :
4' 1 beg to submit to you for your official
action this complaint ef the firm of R. G.
Aun & Co. spinet Emotes Wiman for the
crime of forgery, and ask that you send the
same te the grand jury. I have taken
great pains to investigate these charges for
the purpeee of ss iefying meal whether
any euoaesstul explanation or defence of
them can be made, and I think you will
agree with me that clearer oaeee, more
easily proved by reputable witnesses, have
rarely, If ever, been submitted to
the anthorlbies. The asmeoiation known
an the firm of R. G. Dun & Ce., with
whioh the clef,:ndant Wiman was connected
during the period severing the act com-
plained of, wee formed en January 1st,
1889, but Wiman for many yeare prior to
that had business relations with Mr. Dun.
Wiman was not a partner ef Mr. Dun in
the menet sense. Under the articles o1 as -
sedation he had no right, title or interest
In the property and geod-will of the bust.
mem er prefits thereof, for while it was
agreed that be should receive a certain per-
-vantage of the profits, it was specially pre.
aided that he eheutd receive only such sum
for salary and for faithful service rendered,
and that the amount of profit , should only
Be the basis of determining the ameunt of
eatery. It was also provided in the anterior
mt association that he aheuld not employ
the name of R G, Dan & Co,, except in re-
gular and proper business of the said mer-
soantile agency, and that he should not
nee the name of said association in issu-
ing, making, drawing or endorsing any
mete, hill of exchange, draft er other oblige.
lion except only in endorsements of suoh
papers ter the account of the association.
He also had a right to sign firm cheeks for
iflrm purposes only. All Mr. Wiman's rela-
tions to Mr. Dann, vibe was the sole owner
of the business, its assent, property of every
•desoriptiom, good -will and profile', were
expreeeed in these papers. Wiman was a
Salaried manager !or Mr. Dan, with mach
mowers only rte the contract gave him, with
additional power to draw oheoks. The
property of R. G. Dun & Co. was net his
property Ira any sense. The moneys of R.
G. Dun & Oo. were net his meneys in any
sense, and the profits ef R. G. Den & Co.
mob his profiler ; and yet by various acts of
embezzlement, through mierepreeenta-
I3one, concealments, breaohee of his
agreement, misuse ef the powers con-
Bded to him, and gross usurpation of
powers with which he was net trusted, he
eueeeedel during the years 1888, 1890,
1891. 1892, and up to February, 1893, in
steelier from Mr. Dun the enormous sum of
$229,018 90. That sum he owes Mr. Dun
to -day. That, in view of bis relation to the
broperby of Mr. Dun, whioh Mr. Wiman
elied to manage under the name of R. G.
Dan & Ca., ho is guilty of the crime ef
having embezzled the whole or the greater
mart of thie sum I have little doubt. He
has committed so many crimes that the
Selection for prosecution is difficult, bub out
of the long Es) of his offences I have selected
for presentation to you two forgeries and
two or more larcenies so perfectly clear, se
easily eetat:dished, and to indefensible that
they will serve the purpose ef proseontlon
without reference almost to ethers.
SPECIFIC CHARGES.
:r In February, 1893, R. G. Dun & Co.
owed upwards et $10,000 to E. Bollinger,
sof tine oi`y, for materials pnrohased on the
Gbh of February, 1893. Wiman being in
-argent straits for money, directed the cash-
ier of R. G. Don & Co. to make enb a cheek
te the order of Mr. Bellinger, and instead
of brarsmltting it to him in pan pay-
ment of his Amount deliberately barged the
Blame of E. W. Bollinger on the back of the
cheek, and depo.,ited ib to his own credit in
Iris own bank. The account of Ballinger en
the books of the firm was debited with that
house in the usual oenree of time. I need
hardly Bay that these ants of Wiman's were
wholly without the knowledge of Mr. Dun
or any of his ars ciates in the firm of R. G.
Dun & Co., and that since then they have
maid to Mr. Bollinger the tom whioh Mr.
Wisner), on the day named appropriated by
;means of forgery te hie own use.
" A few days before the Bellinger case
fast mottled, viz., en the 20bb day of Janu-
ary, 1893, Wiman committed another for-
gery ander Minuend very similar. On
that date R. G. Dun & Co. owed the Camp.
belt Printiarg Preis and Manufacturing Ce.
the sum of $5,580 for two printing presses
pnrohased in May, 1892. Wiman proonred
drone the cashier of R. G. Dun '& Co. a
cheque to the order of Ogden Brower, Treas-
nrer of the Campbell Company, on the
pretext that he desired to pay the aooeunb.
He then went to the O+mpbell Company,
and, tellieg them that R. G. Dun & Co,
were 'herb of funds, asked them whether
they would like notes for their account
Instead of cash. On Mr. Brower
acquiescing in his preposition he made
two noboa covering the amount in bis own
mama and delivered them to him. He
then forged the name ef Ogden Brewer,
fllreaeurer, on the book of the cheque
and appropriated it to his own use. All of
these hobs were concealed from the know;
ledge of Mr. Dan or any of his aetoelatee,
'hat they subsecieently, on discovering them,
paid the Campbell Company the ameunb of
their amount,
" Mr. Dun first learned of anyof Wiman's
vrimes in the latter parb of February, 1893.
Neither be nor hie aselabante in R. G. Dun
Co. had any suspicion of the extent of
them or ef the amount embezzled by him.
That could only be ageerbained by a enthral
a eenrtneatfon of their books, whioh has re-
mmtly been cemplebed. But on diboovering
uorne of them, Mr. Dun immediately, maths
MOth day of February, 1893, terminated his
reontraob with Wiman, dismissed bim from
his employ and has never seen him shoe.
" On learning that his erimes bad bean
detected, Wlnlan offered to transfer to Mr.
Dun oerbsin roti estate intends en Staten
bland of doubtful value, but Mr. Dan,.
7eternieg that) Wiman was insolvent, re -
dosed to accept them or receive any prefers
.surae over hie other oredibore. Wiman
theerefore made a formal assigreinenb far the
benefit of his eredltoro, but his swotshave
amounted to almost nothing.
Villi niar4AY IN FRU:DWI:MING.
" Mr. Dan dM not submib the proof of
Wiman's crimes to the aubhoeities en iamb
discovering them for several reasons. In
the first place he was moved by oontidera-
tione of sympathy for Wiman's family,
with whom he bad been en terms of
friendship for many years, and the piteous
appeals for meroy which Wiman made to
him in a letter. In the ecooud plane bo
had then no appreciation of the extent of
Wiman's embezzlement nor of the leegbh
ot time during which he had systematically
abused his confidence and betrayed the
trust reposed in him. The whole history of
bis many (hinge had to be lamenhed from
the voluminous records of the businese
of four or five years. Ib has rognired a vaeb
amount of time and labor to find all the
irregulartbiee by which he succeeded in
embezzling So large a sum of money. The
whole account, with the history of each !tern,
was not made up until a comparatively
recent date.
" Again, Mr. Dun was led to believe, by
the groat exaggeration of Wiman to the
value of Wiman's interests in Staten Is-
land, that it was possible to realize some-
thing substantial for hie creditors, many
of whom would suffer mere severely than
Mr. Dun htmaelf, although nob in eo largo
a tum. In view of the fraud practised
upon them as well as upon himself, and
upon the conviction that a man of Wiman's
bad character ought not longer to he
allowed to masquerade as an benetb man in
this community and as an adviser and ex-
horter of youth, and out of a eensm of
obligation to the mercantile world, with
which he is so closely identified, ho ham de-
cided that his duty requires him to expose
Wiman's conduct and to band him ever to
the authorities that he may be dealt with
as the law direota."
There was no signature to the foregoing
complaint, bub its authorship is credited to
ex -District Attorney Delancey Nicoll. The
names of the witnesses signed were R.
D. Dangles, E. W. Ballinger, Ogden
Brower, Treasurer Campbell Printing Press
Co, and Cashier R. G. Dun & Co.
On being arraigned before Judge Martine,
Mr. Wiman was asked whether he would
furnish bail tinnight. "No sir," said Mr.
Wiman, " I de not intend to." Judge
Martine then held him in $25,000 bail and
he was committed to the Tombs prison.
Before going to jail, Mr. Wiman sent
a despatch to hie maned, Benjamin F.
Tracey.
MR. WIMAN CONFIDENT.
H. Dan Wiman, a sen of Emotes Wiman,
upon hearing ef his father's arrest, went
immediately te the Tombs, but .aa it was
after bbe hour for looking up the prison be
was only permitted bo send in a nate. He
said : I received a meseage in reply, in
whioh my father stated their he was
getting along all right. He said that
all was serene, that he is conscious ef no
guilt. and has committed no prima. If he
has blundered he is wilting to stand the
eansequences. He said that several friends
wanted to obtain bail for him, bub he de-
clined to allow them to do so. He also
said that he has an engagement to deliver
an address at Grammar School No. 27, in
East Forty -Second street, to -morrow even-
ing, and that he is going to make every
abet to keep the engagement." H. D.
Wiman said he was not familiar enough with
his father's affairs to attempt to make a
reply to the oharges, but that he believed
his father will be able to answer any charge
of wrong -doing satisfactorily.
Eraetns Wiman has long been known as
nae of New York's met prominent citizens.
He was an adveoabe of commercial re-
oiprooiby with Canada, a promoter of
numerous prejsote of great financial im-
portance and a prominent member of the
New York Chamber of Commerce and the
Board of Trade. He was, until his amdgn-
ment in April, 1893, oeneidered to be a
millionaire. He did much to further the
interests of Staten Ietand, and liven in a
magnificent home at Erestina. His name
has hitherto bean synonymous with all that
was uprighb and honorable. Mr. Wiman
was barn near Toronto fifty-three years ago,
and rose from a peer farmer's boy to
wealth and imperbanoe by his own exer-
tion.. His latest enterprise was the plan
te tunnel New York Bay between Brooklyn
and Staten beheld, and thereby parry the
New Jersey trunk lines into Brooklyn. Mr.
Wiman was known among bim friends as a
lavish entertainer.
Dressing the Bride.
, Very heavy white satin is used for the
wedding gown, written Isabel A. Mallen in
the Ladies' Hotxe Jotwnal. The dirt,
whioh is quite plain in (rent, has a flare
about the lower part, the result of there
being two full plaits en each side of the
broad gore. In the back there are two
deuble box-pleitis that fall far down, spread
out and extend through the train, whioh is
very nearly a yard long. The bodice is a
pointed ane, laced in the baok ; is high in
the nook, and has over its whibe satin
cellar folds of white tulle, caught at
one side with a tiny bnaoh of
orange blossoms. The sleeves have
enormous puffs of the satin thea reaoh
quite to the elbows, and below that
they fib it to the army, sed each. comes
down in a paint over bio hand. Folds of
tulle outline this point. Over each shoulder
Is an elaborate epaulette of orange biot-
eome. The hair is arranged quite high and
pinned cheerily and very firmly to the head ;
and the veil, which Is fastened on under a
wreath of orange blossoms, extends to the
edge of the ekiri in front and ever the en-
tire length of the train at the book. It is
necessary iu arranging this veil to remember
that while it is worn over the facie going tip
the aisle of the church, it is thrown ack
after the ceremony, in enols a way thab the
bride may look her beat when the veil is eff
her faoe.
They Don't Take Lon to Biped.
Mr.. Yonngbrlde—And what else have
yon nine that would de for dinner t
Groner -We have some nice egg plant,
ma'am.
Mrs. Youngbride—Well, I might take an
egg plant if yon have one that yon thiuk
will bear fruit pretty teen, but I'd rather
have the ripe eggs if you have them, be.
camel wand to nes some right away.
Well Merited Punishment.
Jack Anton (be the e'beenth heire" )—
•Meet it be neealways, Mine Saadds 2 My
love pleads bolero a meatless judge.
Mine Soadds--True ; but what ought an
habitual criminal to expect l
Translated from the Hgngerlaa.
While all the world t' pretending bo knew
all about Jekat, we may mention that three
of hie navels have been translated into Eng
Timar's TwoWorld's," "Eyyes
Like the Sea and Dr. Damany s Wife."
blether—Nob playing Nasky 1 Ob, Johnny,
think of Gorge Wrebington. Johnny--
That haboheb story is a ahetbnnb, mom.
George Washington was stealing oherrlen.
Mother—Bub the chips were found there to
attest Johnny --Yen found chips !hippie
pookebla.tnighb,and there wasn't no oherrie.
around.
MIND RULES OYER MATTER.
Sandow, Hypnotized, Becomes Weak as
an Infant.
UNABLE TO LIFT FIVE POUNDS.
Next instant Ile Swung a 130.1b. Dumb.
Bell—Tossing a Big Isar—A Good dabicct
for the Ilypnotizer.
A Now York dospletoh says : Sandow,
the strong man, met his match yesterday
for bbe firat time, and friends who wibneseed
a content between bim and hie opponent had
to acknowledge thab the man with the
menthe of steel showed himself but a man
of May in the otter's bands. The meeting
took pierce in Sandow's reams, at No. 160
West Thlrby•fourbh street, in the proeenoe
of several physicians and a half-dezen medi-
cal ebudentr.
Dr. C. H. Marmorean was the opponent.
He used hypnotism In the contest, and that
accounts tor the fact bhab he came off a
victor. Dr. Mereereau had been acquainted
with Sandow for the last six menthe, and
some time age suggested that the lather
notelet prove an exoeilenteubjeob for hypo.
do tette. So it was afterward arranged
that Dr. Mereereau, with several other
phymioiane, ebould make the teats yester-
day, and they put in an appearance about 4
o'clock at Sancta's's apartments.
Sindow laid aside his clothing, and ab the
Dooter'e inetrnotiens 'conned upon a sofa.
A gas jet was lib and the room otherwise
soreewhab darkened.
You're weary, Mr. Sandow," said the
doctor, soothingly, when hie patient began
to show signs ef giving in to the slight Loftin
he was then exerting. " You are
going to Bleep. Your eyelids are closing.
Now you are asleep."
Sure enough, Sandew was apparently in a
deep slumber. In response to the physi-
cian 'a suggestions he breathed hard, and
finally hie chest rose and fell like a greab
bellows.
' Yen can't raise year arm. Try it,"
commanded Dr. Mersereau.
Sandow tried and failed. He strained
apparently with all his muscle power and
grew red in the face in his attempt to ele-
vate his right arm, but to no purpose, until
the ward was given, and then it flew up like
a batberlug-ram.
Then a five -pound dumbbell was pro-
duced.
" New, Mr. Sandew, tbie dumbbell
weighs tour hundred pomade, and I don't
think yen can lift ib—in fact I'm quite sure
yen can't," maid the doctor.
Then the strong man took hold of the
baby bell in the middle. He tried to pull
it over toward himself preparatory to rah
bug it am he dem usually with the one weigh-
ing twenty-six times as mnoh. He could
net stir it. He went through all hie exhi-
bition mittens, and to all intents pub forth
all his tremendous strength.
The muscles upon his neck stood out like
bare of iron until they were as big as an or-
dinary man's wrist, and he became red and
purple and finally almost blank in the fade,
but he was unable to budge the little bell
open iia end on the fleor.
Then the trick was changed. One of the
130 -pound bells had been taken to the house
and this was brenght out.
" Here," said the doctor, " ie one that
only weigher five pounds ; see how ea+y it is
fer yen to swing ib."
Urged en shill by the mystic influence
Sandew never gave much an exhibition ef his
brained powers as now when he grasped the
big bar and threw it above his head with
almost the ease that he would have ex-
hibited bad ib in reality only weighed what
he had been led te believe.
These were about all the tests upon the
mantles that were made, but the experi-
ments were continued for some
time. Others in the room eug-
geebed to him various trials, bub it
was curious to observe that the patient
recognized no one as his master but the
physician who bad plaoed bim under
hypnotic control, nor dsci he renewer any
questioner put bo him by any other person
present, though he obeyed Dr. Mereereau's
slightest request.
Shown tame sugar upon a table, helmeted
it and insisted that ib was salt, though Dr.
Merserean had previously pronounced it
sugar.
When the taste had been carried out to
everybody's eabiefaction Sandew was re-
stored to tie normal condition of meatal
and physical etrergth. Teton gutted about
a minute, and he was somewhat dazed fer
awhile. Then he complained of extreme
lassitude and said the muscles in hie book
and arms ached.
Birthday Pie.
Half -a -dozen married couples celebrated
the birthday of a friend feet week, by
giving her, ab a supper bo which another
sponse bad bidden them, a birthday pie. It
was in an enormous pan, covered with a
" really truly "crust, bub filled with the
cork whioh may be obtained, as this was,
from a fruit seller who imparts Malaga
grapes. A number of small gifbe for the
hostess were deposited in this pie, wrapped
in tissue paper, and each accempenied by a
congratniahery verse from the giver. These
amateur efforts proved no smell part of the
fun.—Pheladelphia Press.
A New Insulating Material.
The great electrical manufacturing con-
oera of Berlin bas introduced a now insu-
lating material which is intended to replace
robber and vulcanized fibre. Ib can, ib ie
claimed, be turned, filed and drilled more
easily than hard rubber; fine screw -threads
can be out on it, and ib can be polished. It
doss not attack metals, and man be used in
place of marble and abate for switchboards.
It resists a temperature ef 450 degrees F.,
and is nnatteeked by hydrochloric er dilute
sulphuric acid.
One Chance for Fame.
"Jane, I think your boy will become
a very diebiaguiehed man if he lives long
enough."
"Yee f What do you think he will be
distinguished ter ?" 4,
"Longevity—if he lives long enough."
Retrospect of the !Mechanical World's
The last number of "Oaseler'm Magazine
oentains a retrospect of the mechanical and
inventive features of the World's Fair. The
book le about twine the usual vise, and the
contents are gaiter interesting and abbraotive,
as Cassier'ta always are.
late a Malo Armand Her Charlie.
No woman ever falls to love wibh a man
unless 'he has a better et fnien of him than
he deserve.. Atchison Qlobe.
Of all the telegrams daily sent be England
40 par cent: are diapatohed from the London
peideeffioer.
Business Man—And nephew has
badhis
trouble in bank, they bh tell me ?
Aunt Sarah --Yes, they've appointed a
deceiver.
ANOTHER SAINTLY ROGUE,
1(Be Talked Higion Like an gel,
Says a Victim.
A BOGUS WILL SCHEME,
Collecting Money for Charities—Adven-
Cages of a Priestly Garb-111orwy Charges
of Frond—lio'w Ile was Nabbed.
Stone's office. From what man be mom
tatted, he has been very aotive In a Presby-
terian mission in the west end. It to said
also thathe tried to swindle Rev. Mr,
Sbus, of the Congro;warionai Church, and
also a high Raman Crieholio dignitary on
the will scheme.
Token altogether, if what they attribute
to Mathioson is true, he must be possessed
of a monumental aanouub of nerve.
u:Thomas Grieve Matheuea,whoee extensive
operations end arra et were ohronicled in
yesterday's papers, wee arraigned before
Magistrate Denison yesterday morning on
throe ohargoa. (rho first wen attempbiog to
ot,brrio$1001y false pretences bona Rabbi
Lazarus on February 21st ; the mooed,
obbeinieg $100 fraudulently from Samuel
Alcorn on December 15i.h, and the third
This is how it happened. Yesterday , obtaining $10 from Mrs. Oawbhra oa Janu-
afbwrnoon a tall, dark man of clerical aspect ary flat.
called ab the house of Rabbi Lazarus, To each of these he pleaded guiityab once,
Gawge street. IL introduced kstmself se a but the Crown, through Mr, Gunther,acting
member ef a welt -known legal firm in the Crown Attorney, soured a week's remand
city, and showed the Rabbi an extract from that the prisoner's record might be still
a will, end abolished to the entreat a cheque further looked into. Already the polios
for $2,000, made out in the Rabbi s name, have several Octillions' charges against
The him, besides those reported yesterday.
EXTRACTS PROM THE WILL lin has boon -identified as the man who
etolo Ald, .Rubbard'a bores en March llth,
se follows : 1893, under the name of W. S. Howsrd,
Extract from the probated will ef Mrs. and who tr ell to collect accounts for Under-
Ellzabeth Joseph, deoeased,dabed Dec. 31st, baker W. H. Shone.
1893: He was also reoAgnized yesterday by
Ciaues 3. "And I, the raid Elizabeth 'JameO+rwiwhoaendeav6re d to getSherbourne a street,
tr entas
he ity
J aaph, de will and doylies the follosvi y of coal and wood from him het fait in the
asoma to the following gentlemen to bo by name ok Hon. 8, H. Blake. giving W. H.
Gilchrist ere his own sorsa.
Ae Rev. John Carr he visited Mr.. Henry
Cs.welna and got a eheepe for $10 from him
"far the relief of the poor," bub this
ohs qac was never presented, and was found
ateong his palere after his earnest. On
ano•.her conoid+•n be obtained $10 from Mr.
Neil Curcio, No. 631 Chard street, on a
etmalar plow, and there is little doubt that
be victimized many ebhere who will nob con.
ft es ho the fact.
When he was remedied at the station a
card of waive membership in the northwest
branch of the Y. M. 0. A. was feted in hie
packet, and alio a ticket Meowing him to be
e teacher in the West Presbyterian Sunday
Sobool.
In spite o? these facts the police records
show that he has already teemed a term in
the Central Prima, being sentenced for two
years in that institution from Perth on
October 7th, 1890, for obbeiniog geode
under false pretences. Since hie release he
ban worked toaestly a portion of tie bime,
having been employed by Metiers: Inglis &
Hunter and also by the Street Retlway
Company, leaving bbe latter company en
Oo ober 17th last, since which time he
appears to have been living on the prooesds
of his venous fraudulent sobemes. He is a
menisci man with ecverai children. There
Is little doubt bhab the accumulated convio-
tiees which will new be piled np against
bim will oonnign him to Kingston Peniten-
tiary for a lengthy period.
/SOCIALISM IN THE ULTIIMATE.
It Meana Destruction of the Family and
Abolliten of Reward*.
Now we hove been told lately that the
faintly la played out and doomed. Mr.
Pearaen, in hie remarkable and able work,
bas argued that ib will nrttmabely, to a
great extent, be merged in the nation. He
loots terwsrd to a state of things in whioh
there will be a weakening of the marriaage
bond, wedlock being, instead of a union for
life, a partnership during geed behavior or
p'easere, and in which ohildren growing np,
trotter edn•eafeit than father or mother, will
know thab they have to thank the State far
Bottosling and protootlon and are little
Indebted to their parents, who have
simply tekon advantage ef their tender
years to eeafisoate the proceeds of their in -
Malay. In tees° baloyen days there will be
a S ate creche, a State school and State
seedingisaetitnbion, supplemented by State
meals, and the child when well drilled in
tee Sate gemnaeium will peso from the
Scabe school info a State a orkahop, and
finally on to the State crematorium. The
result ef all th s will be that as marriage
becomes legelired oonoubinago the obliga-
tion of family dutiea will attenuate ; es
ehlldren understand that ib is to the State
they have been indebted for maim
benenom the old feelings of grati-
tude and affeotion whioh bound
them to their parents will dwindle away ;
and es parents lore their proprietary and
administrative rights over children they will
more and more ebift the responsibility for
them on to the State. The family, with all
its seemed traditions and precious training,
will decline, end man—like the cuokee—
will be constantly seeking to foist on others
the maintenance of bis offaprtng.—Popular
Science Monthly.
appended were written en foo1se p,and read
them applied es herein stinted:
" Hon. Sernoot H. Bake, the eum of
$2 000, to be by bim used to alleviate the
suffer -Inge of the poor.
" Rev. 0, H. Dixon, the sum of two
thousand dollars, to be by him used to help
the poor in connection with the Episcopal
Charon.
" Revs. 'J. D.' MacDonell, the sem of
two the: amid dollare, to be by him used to
help the pox in oenneotion with the Pres-
byterian Church.
R,bbl A, Lszerns, the sum of two
thoueand dollen, to he by him used te help
the poor ,,f the Jewish syua;togue.
"The Right Rev. Father Reoney, the
enc ef $2,000, to be by him nerd to help
the poor ot the Roman Catholic Church,
and request that the above genhlemon
nae bbe above ander their own name, or
say that it is '`In memoriam,' and I re.
quest that the above gentlemen ba for-
warded the chiques for the above
amounts as roan as possible after my
decease."
Attached to the extract was a cheque,
apparently written by the deceased, for
the amount named, and payable to the
Rabbi.
A GBEA'r SOHEms.
This was one of the finest eehemei for
swindling purposes that coaid be conceived,
and here Is where the beaubifel nerve of bbe
adventurer came in. , e represented to the
rabbi that the cheques signed by the de-
ceased to the gentlemen named would ex
hetet the ready cash in the bank beionglug
to the estate ; that there were small press-
ing debts for funeral expenses to be paid,
and bhab the gentlemen named had each
loaned $100 outoi thelrch,qusetothe lawyers
to pay tame debts pending each time as the
seonritiee and the rest of tate rotate could
be reatizad upon. When this was done the
money would be repaid. Ho said that the
rabbi would he expected to contrioute as his
preporbeon $100, and he would be obliged
If he wetter give him a cheque for than
amount. The rabbi felt emphases, and he
asked the man to get the cheque marked
and then call again, and he would give him
the $100. The man mild all right, and said
he would be back about 7 o'clock in the
evening. As seen as he had gone, tee rabbi
communicated with the detective office, and
there learned that his visitor was wanted
for playing a similar trick on Mr. S•.mnel
Alcorn. Ib was arranged that Detective
Siemin would go np to the rabbi's hence
at 7 e'elsck, and wait for the mysterious
attorney.
HOW HE WAS NABBED.
About 5 O'olook the stranger called again
at the rabbi's place. He had the cheque
marked, bub the marktog was olums ry
done with a pen in red ink in imitation
of a rubber stamp, and word wee at once
sent to the detective office. Slemin started
for the scene in hot haste, and managed to
catch his man as he was about to eenape out
of the hoose.
The prisoner was taken to police head-
quarters, where he gave his name as Theresa
G. Mattison. He is very respeobable
in appearance, and is dressed in semi-
oleriosl garb. He said he lived ab No. 910
Queen street west, and that he bad been at
work stringing wires for the Street Railway
Company.
FORMER OPERATIONS.
Thla man has beenbhe bete noir of the de-
tectives for three months or,mere. He bee
about a more of mem registered againot
him in the " Ooeurrenoe Book," and the
ingenuity he displayed in his various trane-
aotione would have earned bim an honest
living in almost any line of life.
On Dec. 16th be played the same trick on
Mr. Samuel Alcorn that he attempted yes-
terday on Mr. Lazarus. He reproeented to
Mr. AIcorn that ire was Mr. Brook, of
Meters. Cassels & Brook, barristers, antihe
produced an alleged exbractfrona the will of
the late Mrs. Randelph McDonald. This
clause gave $1,600 each to Mr, W. H. How-
land, Mr. Hooper, the druggist, Mr Dixon,
of Dixon, Ansley & Martin, and to Mr.
Alcorn, to be distributed by them in
charity. He had a chi que from the de-
ceased for Mr. Alcorn, apparently marked
by the bank teller as good and be explained
that the fatrerai expenses amounted to $403,
and that each of the gentlemen named in
the will were giving $100 as a loan Mil the
estate was disported of. Mr. Alcorn believed
the story, sad cavo him the ebegno. Next
mornbeg he realiz:+d that he be had been Bulk Shipments of Cottonseed Oil.
'VERY MEAN SWINDLES.
swindled. Cebben.esd oil will now be ebippod in bulks
like petroleum, en moan steamehipe. The
pioneer venni for this new commercial de.
p'-rture was lately handed at Port Glas-
gow for the American Cottoneerd Cop pan'.
The new dap, panted the " Aro," le 345
feet loog, 43 feet beam atsd 22- feet in depth
ef held, and is built throughout of steel.
She is so designed that she non marryeither
a liquid or general cargo, or both at the
same time. There wilt bo room for 500,000
gallons ef ail mbar holdo,baeieoeeboub 1,000
tone of general cargo.— hos Age.
Great 9811 -Distal.
"I might have enamel at home from Sun-
day School to day, 1f 1 hedl wanted," maid a
small sohelar in a Milberg Sunday School
bo bis baaolser.
"Imieod 1" replied the teacher, who
admired the boy's preference.
" Yem'm ; might have stayed at home," he
went on, proudly.
"Why, Johnny?"
"'Cause my cousin died."
Noblemen and Gentlemen.
At a well-tuaewn West End Cub, nays
London Answers, a Mr. Adams leaving the
club on a very wet night was much die -
gusted at finding ha umbrella taken by
somebody also. He immediately put a
r ,ice on the board as fo`1,ws
" Will bbe nobleman who has taken my
umbrella kindly return ib ab once!"
A member of the oath committee an see-
ing tide was intensely horrified and palled a
meeting to oenmider ic. Mr. Adams was
raked to ntpear before them, and it was
pointed out bo hien that, although it was
true ibab there were many noblemen in the
oiub, it wos very offensive to imply that
one ef them had taken his umbrella.
Mr. Alamo was, however, ready with his
defence and maid time on looking in the olub
book of rules ho had daoovorod rale No. 1:
"True club shall o:-nsist of noblemen and
gentlemen," and than av he was sure that
no gentleman would have taken his nm-
brolla, therefore, it mueb have been a
nobleman.
The next case was on January 11th,
when a man anewerlog to the description of
Mathiesan called at Mira Cewthra'e. Bever-
ley street, Hello tlog money for theFowiand
memorial Lund. He was given $10, On
January Dab he went to the Ron Marche
and purchased from Mr. F. X. Oonsineau
some blankets ter the 'Wehrle Hospital for
sick children. He presented a ohrgne
purporting bo be ',geed by Mrs. George
Gooderhate, bub they would not Dash the
olneque until it was verified, and he failed to
consent] there. On the 20th he galled et
Mr. George Bedell's furniture stere ar,d
purchased tome cobs for the Slok Ceildree's
hospital. Ho presented a ohegvo for $100
frim Miss Jostle Geoderham to Mr. John
Rues Robertson and eadoreed apparently by
that gentleman. He got the change.
Ib is oleo supposed bhab he bee neon col -
looting fer the ohildren',t hospital and other
charities. His plan was to hire a horse
and rig and de hie oolleobtng In etabe. He
would drive up be a honre and with a
good deal of flourish present his tlnb-
soripbien book. He is muppeted to be the
man who get away with a horse belong -
log bo Mr. Hubbard while engaged in this
oleos of work, and traded the horse to a
man on Avenue road. It is glee eupposed
by the pollee that be Is the men wh•e hem
been walking about town collecting %foments
for Mr. Stene, the undertaker. The ^a-
liennte were deka from the desk in Mr.
Mande—Yen know that horrid Mise
Nadler"? Genevieve—Yes. Maude—Weil,
I gob even with her yesterday. Invited her
te my pink too, and she's a blonde bhab
ain't stand anybhtng but blue.
JONES' w&ar ItIDE.
Ne Modern Bassist ltsal Transit Ever Ea led
R
Ws Trip.
(harpers' Weekly.)
" Yen seem to have been very fond of
fart travelling all your life," encouragingly
remarked Rebineen, as Joces finteeed a
somewhat Mild narrative of having had his
coal -tails caught on the rear platform of the
Chicago limited as it passed throug Dun-
kirk, and of flying boated from there to
Toledo.
" Of what other rapid travelling did $
ever tell ?' inquired Janes.
" Well, there was the time you rode year
hen farm down Pike's Peak, the turn you
took on the Montana jaeguar, and the trip
you anjeyed in your oyclebe cottage, nob to
mention the time you stopped the balloon
by taking hold of the drag rope, and went
acme the country, putting (down one feat
here and the ether from a quarter to a half
mile farther en,"
Jones mulled complacently and Risked•
the tabes off hie cigar. The roheareal of his
encrmibiee appealed rather to please him
bhaa otherwiee. Then his eye fell en Jack-
son Peters, who seamed to bo meditating
btessonable swamp. He arched hie eye-
brows and said to him:
"Still, I dare may that on none of those
eccnsione did I go es feat as did my young
friend J,okeon on that night when he ran
20 blocks while returning from a late stub
dinner, having m'.ataken a flu fly for the
head -light of a locomotive wh.ioii bred jumped
the meek and woo chairing him with murder
in lie iron heart.'"
Peters smiled weakly, but made no reply.
though it was the first ha had ever heard of
the inoident. But after a moment he said
" I was just reading of a young man who
recently get married and bought $5 worth
ef merry-go-round tickets and rode them
ant with his bride for a wedding tour."
"Not a bad idea," observed. Janes. "He
didn't have the bnmiliabtng experience of
attempting bo deceive a hotel clerk by try-
ing to reglater 'and wife' for the first time,
like a man who had been married ten years,,,
and }timing the eagle eyed fellow call a boy
and direct him in a distant voice to ' brush.
the rice off the gentleman'e hat.brlm anti;."
chew him up bo the bridal chamber.'
"New that the subject of rapid transit
has come up, if you gentlemen will pardon.
me I will tell of any hated exper:eu ce in
that line. I was, as you must remember, a
captain in the Tenth Minnesota Cavalry
during the late war."
" Wiry do you never use your bible 1 " in-
quired Smith.
" For the first few years atter I Dame Ont
of the army I was always called ' Uptake'
I was living in Illinois at bhab time. I
moved to Iowa, and the people there called
me ' Major.' I then went on bo Nebraska, ,
and they palled me ' Colonel.' I made
another move, to Colorado, and found my- ,
melt referred to as ' General.' I eaw that em
promotion. depended eimply on moving
went, and decided that it was benetbh a
man of parts, and have always since asked .
my friends to refrain from calling me by
anything but my name. As I started is
say, ib was at tie bastle of Gettysburg. The
10.h Minneeeta played an important part.
We were exposed to a severe lire, and after
several hot charges I found that every officer
above me had been killed. I instantly put
myself ab the bead of the troop, and deter-
mined to break the enemi'e centre, twee:des
away aorta s the valley. We were Wrenn of
battery of heavy New York artillery, which_
was stationed on a ridge above us and was .
flrtag over our heads. Galling my men
abeve me, I told them that I proposed to
remade the enemy e centre er die in the at-
tempt.
btempt. They were wild to have me lead
them bo victory. I waved my sword, with
some Leconte remarks, whioh, had bbey
been my lamb words, would have gone dawn
the corridors of time, in•plring soldiers
yet unborn, and we were off. We were
euperbly mounted, and rade like the wind.
I clapped spurs bo my borne and
dashed down a little deolivity, cer-
tainly faster than I had ever ridden before.
Suddenly my hone plunged a forward
foot into a hole into bbe ground and went
down like a flash. My momentum was se
terrific that I roes from the saddle and abet,
forward. I did not strike the ground, as I
expected, but instantly felt myself riding
on even mere rapidly than before. The
noble animal had moan under me, apparently,
pad was carrying me on to vice cry faster
than ever. Shill I wae.net going fast enough
to satisfy me. I waved my sword, shouted •
bo my men, and again applied the mama furi-
ously. What was my surprise when my heels
dasbed together! I looked dowu,genblemen,
and was dumfounded to find myself aet•ride
a 12•inoh conical ,hall f. om the New York
battery, and riding it scrota the valley for
the enemy's centre, thirty foeb from the
ground.
44 My first tbenghb wet to *amount, but
I could nob dlo ppelnb my gallant men. I
knew they were coming: 0 ca mere I
waved my eward, and again I shouted. The
speed was awful. The air cut my face like
knife -points. The shell was two feet long
and gave me a good meat, bub I held on with
difficulty. Soddenly I noticed a lighted
fuse projeobing iron near the front end of
the shell I dared not let go with either hand,
but I wan nob ready to become a nebulous
bit of star dust. I leaned over, pulled oat
the fuse with my teeth and began Bmokinga
is like a cigarette. A dezen garde before the
shell struck the g'onnd Idiemoanted. Ibbere •
on through the ranks of the enemy, and
I shouted, ran forward, and began laying
about with my swerd. I held my own for-
flto minutes, when my men came up, and
out the line bo pieces and won the battle."
Robinson seemed to be the only hearer
left with the power ef speech. " Yen must
have been h+ghly osmmended for your-
aobioe," be said.
" The newspapers epoke favorably of it,
yes ; but 1 name near getting oourb-
martieled for pulsing the fuse out ef the -
shell, Mane impairing he efficiency. Ib was
expensive for me, firseetotally, too, am I ac-
quired the babib of smoking fuse in plane of
o:gare, and it coati me $10 a week for the
■tuft till I was mustered out."
An Anthracite Leather Polish.
The name given thie oompeeition denotes
bhab ib is free from acids. Ib forme an ink, ma.
.
which it combined with enough adhesive
snbettanee to make it stick well when ap-
plied. The component parte of this pelieh
are given am follows in a fereign oonbena•
perary : 50 gramma nutgall powder, 36
grammes log.rood, 200 grammes water (fil-
tered Ober two hours hotline), and dissolve
in the hot liquid 200 grammes syrup and 3(1^
grammes sulphate ot iron, The resulting
liquor is kept bolting until it begins to,
thtokon, when a seint•ion of 10 gramme
ruby ehellao and 200 gramme aloehol is
added ; the whole is now well stirred, and•
the polish is ready for bottling.
The ourrenoy of the Argentine republke
consists altogether of paper notes, ranging
in value from one oenb to one hundred
dollars.
" Ara yen pleased with your dasghbnr'e
programs in remote ?" "Ob, yes; .he forgets,
to proof/ee half the thee." ,
A pbitonopber ear t " Ira the economy of " Mamie," said papa, " won't Non have a
netaro nething 10 het, The inside of an little place of tide thicken 1" " No, bbank
orange may retresh eat nran, while the out- yen," mid Mamie. " What) 1 No chicken tx'
aide of the same fruit may serve asamedtum "Oh, yes, I'll have chicken, bub I don't
for breaking another mar; a leg."' want soy Mitis places."