The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-03
From Tie Rochester Democrat.
A NICE YOUNG MAN.


We announced week or two since that Young
man bv the name of Charles ii. Slower, who repre-
scented himself Lieutenant in the Navy, had been
making love to young lady In Boston, and was on
the point of being married to her, when the fact of
his having wife in Buffalo became known and that
to escape the Indignation of her friends and the PEN
allies of the law he found it convenient to leave that
city very abruptly between two days, taking along
with him the trunk of fellow ledger well filled with
clothing and leaving his own filled with stones. We
heard nothing more Of the fellow until "Wednesday
morning, when we told that the mig ht before he
was lodged in our Jail, by ID. Quigg, Of Tompkins
county, and Francis j. Straon, of this city, charged
with DEMONSTRATING. The facts are these;
Some time in April last, Slower applied at the sta
ble of Mr. George Charles in this city for span of
horses and light carriage, representing himself as
the son of VIM c. Bouck the candidate for Cover
nor, and stating that he bad note due in Lyon,
which it became necessary to collect with the least
possible delay The horses and carriage were fur
nished him. and with segar in his mouth and -four
ish of his whip Mr.. Bouck left the stable, 1t seems
however, that instead of going to Lyons, he proceed
ed to Auturu, in which vicinity he cut an extensive
swell for some time, and finally pawned the horses
and carriage for the tavern bill, and left for the east
After practising various species OF roguery in other
ploces he proceeded Boston, where his love affair
was enacted and leaving that city returned to the
interior of the State and after attempting TO play
the possumnw with Mr., @ ligg at lthica, was finally
rested by that gentleman in Oswego.
We may here mention that Mr.. Charles did not OBJ
tain his horses and carriage until some weeks after
they had been gone and only then by his paying the
sum for which they had been pawned-about sixteen
dollars.
The following may be taken as fair specimen of
the daring robbery of Slower
b fore leaving Boston, he heard Of the desertion Of
two midshpmen from the navy, and forged a war
rant in the name of Commodore Hull for their ar
rest Appended to the warrant was a note, TO the
effect that if the mdshipmen should be apprehended
and il should appear that their friends opposed
to their entering the navy again, they might be re-
leased upon the payment OF the pursurs fee. One
of the mldshpmen was apprchended IN Palmyra
short time since, and very cheeruly awaited himself
of the condition named in the warrant, by paying
Slower the sum of thirty dollars.
We are told that in most of the places where
Slower has sojournod for some months past, he has
pursued career of vice and knayery almost without
a parallel in the annals of crime The greater part
of the past winter he spent IN the mbs at New
York, for fraud and other crimes.
Slower is about % years Of age, has had liberal
education and is the son of the Hon. MIR. Slower of
Madison county, formerly member OF our State Sc
nate, member of Congress, and either Judge OF
the District or Supreme Court of Florida.
We close this hasty notice by the following ex-
tract of letter from a gentleman of Buffalo, well
acquainted with Slower, to MIR. Qugg'
To use the words of his (Stower's) ruined Ia
Their he is the most consummae villain for so young
a man now extant his history is one continued chain
of crimes from the time of his confinement in the
Tombs in New York city there has been no cessa-
ton but rather increased celebrity in the crimInaty
OF rl, career"