The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-06-08
A Rascal---Mark Him

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lowing account of the career of a rever-
end rascal, who has been committing
depredations upon the community for
some time past. 1t says:
"Last autumn there appeared in Hen
mixer, N. H., man calling himself Rev.
G. N. Adams, about 35 years of age,
whose professed object was to stir up the
people of that portion of the Granite
State to proper sense of the value OF
religion, education and temperance
He represented himself as clergyman
in the NJ. E. Church, in regular standing,
and exhibited credentials, forged, of
course to that effect.
"At meetings for prayer he was par
ticularly exercised; but, with all his spir-
itual devotion, he did not wholly lose
sight of worldly ones, since he soon COM
menced paying his addresses to a daugh-
ter of the resident Congregational minis
ter of the place, whose affections he won,
and whose peace Of mind and reputation
he succeeded in destroying. To do this,
however, he had promised marriage to
bis victim, and made ostentatious prepa-
rations for the nuptial ceremonies. While
he was thus pursuing his schemes of vii
lainy, he affected great abstemiousness in
diet-was much troubled with dyspepsia
but took care to make frequent visits
to Concord, where he made ample "a
mends for his abstinence, by a free in
dulgence in champagne and oysters.--
While labor;ng for the "gooi of souls, !"
in Henniker, his expenditures upon the
body, in the way above stated had a.
mounted to over fifty dollars,
"While thus engaged, he became ac-
quainted with Mrs. Emma G. Templeton,
whose husband and one child were killed
at the Norfolk bridge catastrophe in May.
For this sad bereavement she was "a
warded $1,000 by the railroad company,
and word was sent that the money would
be paid in New Y ork city. OF course, a
circumstance like this would not be like
ly to escape the recognizance of so busy
man as the "Rev G. n. Adams" and
he volunteered his services in getting the
money. The necessary papers for this
purpose were made out, and away went
the volunteer to New York, where he
drew the money, put it in his pocket, and
suddenly disappeared from public view,
thus robbing lone widow of nearly all
her reliance for subsistence, and leaving
behind duped young woman, exposed
to the pitiless peltings of an unforgiving
world.
"The Sunday preceding his departure,
he oficiated in one of the pulpits in
tcnniker, and in a selection of texts
seems to have copied somewhat from
performance known as the life of Stephen
Burroughs. lie selected as a text for
his mornings discourse Numbers 80
chapter, and last clause of the % verse :
"And be sure your sin will find you out, p"
This doubtless was designed to strike
home to the heart of the woman whom
he had injured and was about to aban-
don. In the afternoon he grew waggish,
as his selection of text would seem to
imply. 1t was found in John, 8th chap
ter, 21st verse; 81 60 my way and ye
shall seek me-" No doubt he thought
this an excellent joke to perpetrate upon
those who had dealt so kindly by him.
The graceless scoundrel embodies in
himself a varied and deep dye history
His father was resident of Chatauque
county. highly respected by the commun-
ity in which he dwelt. But it was his
misfortune to have one son-tbe rascal
in question-who gave early indication
of an Infamous manhood; which his sub
sequent acts have but too fully verified.
He served a term of three and half
years in the State prison for counterfeit
ing, and on his enlargement got married
to a woman, named Smith, and who was
residing in Chatauque county at the time
her husband was at his laborS in New
Hampshire. He is pompous. brazen
faced scoundrel, and was last seen in
Charleston, Vt.
1t may not be out of place to add that
Mrs. Adams appeared at the scene of his
exploits at Hcnniker, shortly after it was
discovered that he had embezzeled the
money. She represented herself in
straitened circumstances, and through
the efforts OF Mrs. Templeton among the
neighbors, was supplied with s., with
which she suddenly decam ped, it was not
altogether ignorant Of the proceedings Of
her husband.