New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-26

The MURDERER OF NsE-It appears that Nathan II.
Crist who has been Cleveland
of Nye at Mobile, respectable tanner of Co.
lumbus Ohio
In February last Crist wrote letter gentleman IL
Montgomery Alabama (or whom he was selling patepts
stating that he had made $4,000 and wished to
ther into the business Subsequently Cris called upon
the gentleman at Montgomery and requested the loan
money The letter produced. and he asked why.
when he had made $4,000. he wished borrow money
His reply that he did it. but n; Mobile the man
down. choked him tied napkin about his mouth and left
him for dead describing in fact the details Of the
der and making himself the victim.
1t appears from long account in the Cleveland Her
aid that the officers traced Crs to the house of Judge
Lugenbeel where Mrs Crst the Judges daughter was
residing and there arrested him The Court of Common
Pleas being in session and Judge Lugerbee serving upon
the jury when in the midst of argument Mrs Crst
rushed into Court forced her way to her father and fall
ing upon her knees informed him of the of her hus
band The scene was one of intense interest The Judge
was of course excused.
Crist i3 in jail. awaiting the arrival of q reouson
from Alabama.
1t is said that Crs is laboring under embarrassents
and that he has to pay considerable of money
LIST of April This and the supposition that Nye had
$4,000 in his possession, the most popabe motives
for the murder.
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THE swrplER GREES-We announced in paragraph
few days since that fellow calling himself Green had
perpetrated some outrageous swndes in Philadelphia
by representing himself as U S, Mail Agent The fol-
lowing particulars will prove interest Mr. Green has
figured some in this vicinity:
He went by the names of John W Green. alas Smith
alias Rev j. w Green. and represented himself having
held for the last twelve years and still holding the stu
alton of u s. Mail Agent Also represented himself
elder and local preacher in the NJ f. Church He has
preached in the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian
churches in this city and known four years ago, in
| Cincinnati Ohio, minister.
woman and two children with him. whom he
claimed AS his wife and family lie engaged in
preaching about in several churches of different denom
nations almost constantly and stated that after having
itfnttifi bn ,ld
succeeded in acquiring snug and comfortable little place
in CINCINNATI having paid for the property out of his
salary from the Government, which $4,000 year,
His object in coming to Philadelphia he stated for
the purpose of employing secret deputy agents the
great southern mail line bet7een Newly rk and New
| Orleans.
| He chose gentleman for each situation the to
California was to get $4,000 the agent Of of the
routes through the Southern States $780, with ex-
tras to make up $4,000 S25O0 all the others $1,000
with perquises.
The 18th of this month was the day fixed on for all the
parties to meet Mr.. Green in Washington upon
their duties, their salaries to the LIST inst
eating back by previous arrangement they We're to b.
| secured bondsmen worth $4,000
Under date of Washington, March LIST, 1852 each
the gentlemen engaged received through the Philadelphia
postoihce, communication stating that the necessary
| documents for their appointments were all filed,
postscript informed them that it customary wher
men got into situations they had been so ucly to oh
tain to make Major Hobbie present he got from each
them for that pretended purpose from S25 to $50 IL,
also borrowed sums of money from other persons anC
bought articles on the credit of two gentlemen
Among the articles two handsome gold levers chains
| and keys.
All Of the swindled persons egregiousy deceived
hey gave up their situations and sold every thing the,
had and the worst feature of the is that with thrc,
exceptions the persons thrown out of employment
| men of limited means.
lie is represented as being ycry smart intelligent man
and popular preacher. Last fall he worked in Phadel
phia at painting the dals of gas meters when he got
| ney under false pretences and made off.