Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-10-09
An Extensive Swindler.

Pliny White, formerly of Windsor CO.,
has been doing up the Gothamites on a
grand scale. The New York Tribune
gives the following particular:
SIN November, 1856, Pliny White
made application to the firm of II. L. &
J. H. Stevens, of this city, for loan of
money, said that he was very rich man
and worth the sum of 100000; that he
owned several farms in Vermont, worth
| S225.OOO The firm loaned him divers
sums of money, and continued to make
loans to him from time to tina, until
about the 18th of January, 1857. About
this time, White applied to Messrs.
Stevens for the loan of large sum of
money, under the pretence that he was
about purchasing the entire stock Of a
large iewelry establishment in this city,
at price less than one half of its real
value, Chat the proprietor was in failing
circumstances and was obliged to sell y
thai he could realize a large sum of
money by making the purchase.
He said he obtained from James R.
Whiting $4,000 to aid in said purchase,
and further sum from Deputy Sheriff
Bensel of nearly $4,000. also to aid in
said purchase, and if he could obtaine
from Messrs. Stevens the sum of $50
LOCO or Whereabouts, he should be able,
with the addition of his own means, to
make said purchase. At the same time
White exhibited to the firm a number of
large & valuable diamonds, which he said
belongedto and were part of said stock
so to be purchased, and stated price at
which they were to be bought, which was
less than one-third their value. The
stock, he further stated, might be pur-
chased at a like depreciation. As a
further inducement to obtain the requir-
ed loan, White represented that he was
the owner of check of 100000, drawn
on the Suffolk Bank of Boston, and duly
certified by said bank to be good for that
amount, which check was in the hands of
his brother in Vermont. He further re-
presented that he had in the hands of j.
R. Whiting belonging to him (White)
: stocks of the United States government of
over S100,000;that heowned bonds, mort
cages and real estate in Vermont to the
amount of nearly 100000. At the time
White took from his pocket key, which
: appeared to be the key of safe, and
l said to Messrs. Stevens, "That is the
: key of my safe, and it is full of dia-
monds and watches. I have diamonds,
watches and jewlery worth FIVE times the
amount of the money want you. I
am a very rich man, and you cannot, IN
der any possible circumstances, lose any
thing by me.
Relying on these representations,
Messrs. Stevens did, on the 18th of Jan
uary, 1857. loan to White the sum of
$4,000 and on the 18th of January
the further sum of $4,000; and on the
3lst of January the further sum of 81
500; and on the 18th day of February
5 the sum of $3.50. The firm had previ-
S ously loaned to White large sums oil
t money, portions of which, on the said
l 18th of January, 1857, remained unpaid
S and there now remains unpaid of said
j loan the sum of about $4,000, beside
: interest. On the 25th of March, 1857
q White again applied to Messrs. Stevens
for loan, representing that he had g
: large lot of jewelry pledged for loan
> and that the goods were worth a large
b amount more than was loaned on them
Believing such representations, the firm
loaned White the further sum of S2I95
a on the 18th of March. which sum also
e remains unpaid.
On the 18th inst, James H. Stevens
# one Of the above firm, made complaint
q that all the representations of said White
a were false and fraudulent, and made witt
q a view of cheating and defraudino then
A warrant was issued and on SATURDAY
afternoon White was arrested, when ht
gave bail in the sum of $1,000 for his ap
u pearance, P. G. Clark of No. SO Yves
q Ihirty-seventh street, becoming his su
r rety. White is 80 years of age, was borr
Il IN Vermont, and lives at No. "a Wake
/ street,
e. Sheriff Bradish, of Montpelier