Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 7, 1887, Page 8

A BIG CONFIDENCE GAME. More About the Missing Ohicago Bride, Lilian 8navely Watson, THE BURLINGTON'S BIG SCHEME Quietly Pushing an Airline to the Northwest—A Dead Body Found —Paxton's New Resi- dence—Other Lo A Stupendous Confidence Game. I'ie arrival of City Marshal M. B, rita- gerald, of Stevling, 11, and A. A, Wolf- ersberger, u well-known tawyer of that place, both of whom are at the Cozzens adds an important and interesting chap- ter to the sensational story of Mrs. Wat- son, the missing ¢ go bride, whose ventures weve detailed in yesterduy's Beg. It appears from the story told hy Mr Wolfersberger, who is the lawyer of Mrs, Snavely, the mother of the missing girl, that the bride has been the vietim of one of the MOST STUPENDOUS CONFIDENCE GAMES ever played. She has fallen, 1t seems into a gang of sharpers, who are simply “playving her for her money. “The story of the girl,” said Mr, Wol- fersberger to a reporter who interyiewed Jim at the Cozzens hotel, “is a very sad and peculiar one. She is the oldest dauglhter of a large ly of children, Her father died some time ago and left his estate to be divided among his widow and children. The share of Lillian S| y amounted to about $3,000. Lil- was a live pretty girl, well thought of in Ster 1lis., where she always bore a correct character. She had many friends, and had a bright prospect in life, had she not been ruined by this g, INFAMOUS GANG of confidence men. Her mother took a good deal of vride in her and she rec a good education. About a year was sent to Ch tastes. Here she lived with fricnd, Miss Ida Duncan, at 233 Van Buren strect It was while here that Miss Snavely was introduced on the street one day to the man M. H. Davidson, with whom she subscquiently came to Omal Davidson represented himself to be o thy cat tleman from Texas wher he is known to the pol blackleg and confidence was a rather nice looking fellow, well dressed amd polite and Snavely, who is an innocent countr, was rather taken with his appe: A few days later Davidson ln.mw Jearned that the girl had a good d mone ncocted with two of his ciates, C. V. Watson and M Bell, a scheme to confidence Mis: IT WAS A RISKY but it has been suce y so far. Watson was introduced to Miss Snavely and soon succeeded in ingrati: ing himself into her confidence. He was gpomewhat of a masher and in less than thr ecks time he had won Miss Si y's love and consent to a mar riage. The girl’s folks in Sterling, sus- pecting that something was wrong, for- bade her to marry lim. She was head-strong, however, and wouldn't give him up. Finally, as a last resort, the relatives of Miss phed her to come home y, a5 her mother sick. Ul Luurw she returned only to find that her relatives had adopted this as a rus ave her from man. “*She was ind g: she loved Watson and would marry him. That gentleman, hearing that she was Sterling, camo down to the place, but her folks refused to let him sce Miss Lilian. He hung around Sterling two or three daysand then disappeared, failing to pay his board bl He returned to Chicago, from which point he tele- graphed to Miss Lilian for money. She at once sent him §200 and he returned to Sterling. One night Miss Lilian came to town with her sister, and, after giving her the slip, met Watson and went with lhim to the house of a preacher, where they were married, They then went to Chicago, where they stopped with Mrs. Duncan on West Van Burean street, Watson all the time kept working the girl for money. Finally, he found that HIS GAME WAS PLAYED OUT, and he gave way to confederate number two, Mr. M. H. Davidson. Watson went east on what he claimed to be im- portant business. During his absence, Davidson, his co-worker went to Mrs. ng the part of sympa- ng friend \lc)mlul to her, in black colors, what a scoundrel her husband was. He told her how he wasa big: mistora trigamist. That he had a wife living in Chicago and nnother in l\v\\ vk ,eity with a fanly Wi or three children, ll\- told In'l how Watson had worked a lm-u\ u.nn the south side, whom he had induced (o give him §360 fo buy wed- ding dresses, ete, on the strength of a promise that he would marry her, He told her all this andalot more, Murs, Watson w TERRIPLY BROKEN UP pyer these revelutions, but when David- £0n wooed her s stened to him read- ily enougn, e \ oposed to her that th ran away fegether as mgn and w come west and be married. The gul thought this a_splendid scheme to got revenge on her husband, Of course she fell into trap. On March 24 she left Chi- eago witk Davidson and came direct to Omab The rest of the story you know. “How did you learn that the girl was stopping in Omaha?" was asked of him, “From a letter which she wrote, while Miss lda Duncan, She vx'ub.mly UNBEENOWN TO DAVIDSON, as it was for his interest to kcep her whereabouts a seeret.” *‘How much of the girl's money Davidson in his possession now ¥’ “Probably between $1,500 and $2,0 The gir], as I already imw mld you, h ad about $3,000 left her tunately, is in the ml\.n bmlm.. Where those fellows can't get it at present. It isa nil{ that such & bright preity girl should have fallen a vietim to THESE THREE SCOUNDRELS, Bell, Watson and Davidson. The schems D”h vidson and Beil, who are now with the girl, is undoubtedly to work her for all ner available money and then dron her penniless at some little station to find her way home as best she cun. lxll-nhhmgl to me that _this girl, who is naturally brght, don’t appreciate the fact that she is being piucked by a gang of nonhdnn;n wen, She must be terribly infatuated” As soon as (.ilgfll\mnhnl Fitzgerald aad Alr, Wollersberger found that the has bird had flown—in company with the valtures they telegraphed to the heart-broken mother Sterling. They at onee received the ans - “ll\|' Illf!l AND BRING HER BACK As mentioned in the Bee girl, with the two men, Davidson and Bell, started on the 30th for Denver, intending to go from that Portland, Oregon. Telegrams y sent to the chief of police at the one at Portland, asking that the party be watehed for and appre: hended soon as possible. Messrs Fitzgeraldand Wi rremumed in the city until 7 night, when they left for Denver in pursuit of the varty They propose to neither money, time nor pains to run th the earth, — As will to the [ the <pa so1 {8 now o of de 1 gerald, one of the gentlemen mentioned ab I«‘H for lh nver ye ~\<‘| day morning, the other, hy wse of Bdward and Phillip H for out an imiwtion of d Capsule, the final de- cision of the 4 urt of als of th ate of N. Y, confirmed the decisions of the pw\um. courts in favor of Ed and John Burke and inst the defendant, PAXTON'S MAGNIFICEENT HOU A Strneture and $100,000 -She Contracts were be Paxtc granite be erected on the Twenty-sixth street, nue and Dougt nd His lot 1s now'h The building b three stories high, in the style of French renaissance. The low two upper cotta, * The roof will bea gable one »\nh In the tr John B using on his bottlod Burke's Red He ng let yesterday for n's magniticent new idence, whichis to block bounded terior of the bouse wiil be mag- On the first loor will be ng room, reception hail, stair sitting room, library, dining room akfast room, Kitehen, and ser- vants’ dining room. Un thesceond story there will bo the sleeping apartments, while on the third story there will be billiard rooms, storage rooms, aml addi. tional sleeping apartments. ‘The interior will be furnished in the very finest hard woods, while the glass work will be the stained, jeweled and beveled order. In addition to tus building, Mr. Paxton will ereet afine system of barns and out- houses. ‘The squire will also be magni ficently parked, so that the residence, in all it ointments, will undoubtedly be the finest in the city. The cost will'ap, proximate 00,000 Mendelssohn & Lawrie ave thearchitects. «'T'he same architeets have drawn plans for u big tive story block which is to be erected on the corner of Fifteenth and Howard, adjoining the Ramge block, by J 1 It will be of brick and h the same general in- uents as the Ramge block, though the exterior will U be different, The ground dimension 14 N Cts of “You run this her, a sad faced man as he lu, into a western editorial room. been waiting to see the biggest li Iliinois for some time,an’ now—oh noy And the editor got up and tumbled out ot the window on top of some sharp iron railings and went on with an article on the merits of Kivs’s “Juvenile’” Yoilet Soape do \uu‘” 8 ———— - lagher's Bond, ppointed postmaster, Con 75,000 bond drawn y public yoster- e [u.lr m'ummvnk to the amount of over The bond will be forward: ton at once and upon i Gallagher will step into his new position. This will be in about ten d s that he has about seventy-five anpl cations for positions on file but will ms no ehanges for the prosent, llunthll!-t. The Mo. Pacific and Northwestern have submitted propositions (ur bonds which will be voted sure. J. Ri the real estate bmml wots, Dawes & Foss 1 Bpecinlty, Roonis 4, 6 and 0, House. e A Case of Glanders, State Veterinarian Gerth was in the ity yesterday ealled here by a case of alanders, which developed yesterday in the west part of the city. The horse1s in quarantine and will - undoubtedly be Killed. is the first case in fou months, e Woodman on Rurning Slack Coal. ‘The recipient ot the following letter, solicited it for practical proof of the al- leged economy in using slack coal and allows us to publish it (as contirma of the article published first in the E ing BEE of April first, entitled “Slack vs Lump Coal.”) which we are pleased to do, it being !rum not only the pioneer in lvnrmu(: slack, but alsothe recognized authority on such matters: Woodman Linseed Oil Works, Omaha, Neb., April 4, 1887 Dear Sir;. Referring to your favor of the second inst, I take pleasure in giving you my expericnce of over twenty (20) years in burning coal. For the first twelve years of that time I used lump ec |, since [ unloml |h|' R r brought used only slack important points necessary in burning slack, that many do not give suflicient attention to, and therefore '7 )\,ll proper styie of grate aund corree bailer setting, I have tried many style of grates and furnaces for burning slacs, as well as e amined most kinds in use, and can say without qualification that the “Dorrance” grate is superior to any other device I huveever used or know of. The large percentage of air space given in the grates, together with the ?\nnbl‘ng move- ment eaused by the simulitaneous lifting and lowerIng of alternate sections when rocked, for the br king up of clinker, and the large openings created lnl\\u‘u the sections, when the shaking lever is thrown to its fullest extent for the es- cape of clinker into the ush pit, pecuhior advantages to the “Derrance” rrate over all others, liese grates not only save largely fuel and labor, by “maintaining cleanest fires, but inereose large steaming capacity of a boiler. grates pay for themselves shorter time than wou fuel bill showing an one-half sine over lump e in the y the Such in a much 1 be supposed, my economy of fully using sluck upon them Yours resp'y, Crang \{munlw - A Crook Pleads Guilty, John Kelley, a notorious eroos, plead guiity 1 police court yesterdry asked that Philome while ¢ musie, ) 0F beok coutaining a $25 note from Her- mun Blaufuss, He will be brought be- foro Judge Nevilie as 45 f000 a8 possible, seedSw"etPulatues JUST HECEIYED, choir and ) 8oven Varieties vn x Stimmel & Co. m.v nes 8t matisy THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THE HAMILTON BROTHERS’ CASE 1t Involves the Constitutionality of the Five Day's Notice Section. The case of the Hamilton Bros against the city of Omeha was argued yester- day in district court before Judge Neville. It simple case as to facts, but out of it is arising the constitutional question of whether the legislature had any right to incorporate such a provision as section 60. The plaintiffs, through their attorney. W, W. Slabaugh, Ksq., contend that l|u- section is unconstitutional. If they su ceed in establishing their point the eity will have three or four other sujts against it which ha been held back beeause of this section and the failures of the plaint- ifl« in complying with it, The following 18 seetion 60, which was not incorporated 1 the new charter: ‘Lhat no city of the first _class shall be liable for damages arising from de- fective streets, alleys, sidewalks, public parks, or the publie places within such city, al notice of the existence of the on of which the in- jury for which damages are claimed, shall be proved to I riven to the mayc least five sefore the oceu of such injury 1< hereby made the duty of the m to keep a record of such notice, showing time when and by whom such was given and deseribing the complained of. A WAYWARD SON, Costs His Mother $10,000 in Years, “There is no question,”’ said Aftorney Hawes, “'But that the woman who came up from Kansas City and got the pick- pocket John Loomas out of jail by put- ting up $1,000, was his mother. She told that that boy had in two years cost her, serapes, over $10,000. And no doubt but that she was telling tho truth, She told me that she used to live in Brooklyn, N. Y., where her boy got into bad e Jm lln»plu\' to break off these a s moved to Kansas Ci lhn the s associates followed him out. Loomas has been going from bad to worse, until he landed in jail here. Mrs. Loomas is wealthy widow and young lLoomas has consider- able money of his own."” days nd deteet He Two Horseshoers' Contest. Among the sporting events in great favor in th t nowadays are those among horseshoers, the point at issue being who can make the most shoes in a given time. Chicago workmen were all agog Inst week over a contest of this kind. Tuesday an ex-champion horse shoer, William I, € oll, arrived in this city, and the prospeets are that a mateh at shoe-turning will take place here Mr. Carroll 1s not a member of the “anvil rus,’’ now but a repro itative of the Northwestern Horse Nail company, the largest of the kind in the world r. 1 be in th ' his reputation as roughout the notable amor been p ident of S for representa J. 1), Riley, Real Estate Brok inzs, Neb. References: City Nat'l b and Adams County bank. (o= Taggart, of truck 1, has ma He has Hor: llerent terms « 1\ of L. man, "lh Fireman John seeured next week will lead POWDER Aheaalutely Pure. Thispowder nevervaries. A marvel of purity,strength and wholesomeness. More economic than the ordinary kinds and cannot be sold in competition with the mul- titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders,” Sold only in cans. Royal Baking Powder Co.» 106 Wall street, New York. Catarrh Cured in from thre: to six months; warranted, Loss of Voice From fnflammation of tho Vocul Chondst e specaily relieved und Curcd BRONCHITIS Cured in overy ranted Gaiarrhal Deafness Cured in from three to six months, SORE EYES Inflamed or Granulated Lids permanently curcd 0; war- ve been | notice | 20 lots for sale 1n Me n's ndd, eall us for orices. Benawa & h st 0ppo- sice. 1 SQHAW & C0., 610 8.410th st., have for sale tho Y tollowing ; 300 nu A good lot in Walnut Hill ear line, 1 lot tn Washington ty will nover be any Come 4 nnd go with ue and look at a 1ot in Deer Park, close to Hauscom Park, 2,000 will Lty & very fine lot on Eaunders st.; will heworth 3,000 inside of & yonr 1,200 will buy a house and small lot'on 1%th st 3 + smull_payme Remeinber the plnce, 1 8" 16t \uu 1AL Two fine enst front lots in Amble 3Y place on the county ronds, Easy ieris, #89) each, Bartlett's ndd., 50 ft south front, 2,500 Tedford Pl r to £300, Bakor Plice, 1018 Trom #4350 to $: Jitlotin Crestoa” tronting on Fleasant st., Aadd., $850 fo Piirk nt $510 per acre hach's 1t wild, lots on 16th st, in K @ lots in 1 rdorn’s add ‘sots b I ighiand Park chonp in lots in Melrogo il for 0 onch ots in MeCormicks 20 wdd ut € W south front lot in Osford 1 £500. Fine south front lot in Omaan View #1000 B) ttsouth front on Lake st $1,500, and terms e for haed hill lots from $75) to $300. 2 ft, ubout six blocks from the postoftice, \ $1 i idd'nt $1,7500 cres in Tuttlo's sub at a bl hargain Corner lot on the 1 e roud for 81,50, Hesids Aflne corner o s Wvenie, 100x150 feet, with @ nico house having all lot, 50x150, on Georgin cashand halance do- ‘v merit, 1, and 4 years at 7 per cent intero: 6-room house on Poppleton ave, lewu and 2ith sts, willinake nlow fie We have a very cl We would b bice list of r pleasod improved and property. ran 16th and Chicago rear Douglas ( (MAHA HEIGHT tuilrond’ ghops n lota atonco, 15t west of Ft Omuhin, 1depot_ assured, & lots -xl]ll- TH and Dodge N. W. c solo ngent. 3 nice plices two bloc < south of Brownell Hallon 10th street. G, Bt. Elsasser, 513°S 10t O, Fremont, Mo. Val djoin it nddition on the mar big money Elkhorn & Lith st. T SAl nw corner th and Doross ats (oxIs or Business propoerty, oot with i larwe ain. 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This is our first spring season in Omaha, we are now ready to show not only an entire new stock of Spring Clothing for men, boys and children, but also that we are selling our entire line for less money than any house in the United States. Our large assortment of Spring Overcoats surpasses anything ever exhibited in Omaha. We call special attention to our $5.75 and $7.75 line, The latter is trimmed with silk facings and satin sleevelinings. The prices of these will surely surprise everybody. The better grades which donot exceed $15.75 in price are as good as you get at the cus- tom tailors and for which you would have to pay at least $35 Our offerings in Spring Suitings, of which we have an enormous as sortment, will give us a wide reputation, for we have marked them to sell 25 per cent less than any house in the city, and particularly to our strictly All Wool Men's Suits at $5.75, we challenge any house in the country to compete with us in price. Commencing to-day and continuing the coming week we will offer 200 Pleated Suits for Children from 4 to 13 years for $2.95. Also 400 Children’s Knee Pants at the nominal price of 25¢ per pair. We mean to give yow all the details regarding the clothing we sell Those who traded with us last fall have long since become convinced that we are not misrepresentatives as to styles, qualities and prices, All goods are marked in plain figures and at strictlv one price at the Nebraska Clothing Gompany Cor. Douglas and 14th sts., Omaha. — = AND=— PERFECT IN EVERY RESPECT The onty Machine that will sew backwards and forwards equally well, and the Lightest Running Sewing Machine in cxistence, We desire encrgetic and responsibledealers in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota «nd Western Towa. If you are looking for a cheap Machine, don’t answer this advertisement, but if yow want to handle the best Sewing Machine that money can buy, address for particulars, Union Manulacturing Co 209 N, 16th $t., Omaha, Neh. Mention Omaha Bee. SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE! The YANKEE style is to know what to do and how to do it. We it will pay. Success Crown our Efforts! People that have eyes can gee that after looking over the display of Clothing at the struck the lead and Two Orphans, the prices ave lower than all others, as large stock to select from, as good taste used and careful judgment in selecting Spring Clothing The next will be the prices, we are bound to un(lr-lfi(‘ll all. Two Orphans never call peo- ple into their store to be dizappointed. We desire the confidence of our townsmen. We will never lwtrly it. ANDREWS BROTHERS YANKEE CLOTHIERS AND TAILORS, At 1113 Farnam Street. C.S.RAYMOND RELIABLE JEWELER. | Watches, Diamonds, Fine Jewelry, Silverware The largest stock. 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