Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-07

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Autolycus-And indeed sir, there are cozeners abroad
and il behooves men to be warY.-WfhIters Tale.
Somewhere about the goth of May last, a
Young man of the confidence persuasion, cal.
ling himself W. F. Otis, came to this city from
Cleveland, beautiful city up on Lake Erie.
He put up at popular boarding house, intro,
ducing himself as the scion of prominent fam.
ilv in Cleveland There was Cleveland gen
tleman, named Bryas, stopping at the house
who happened to be acquainted with the young
mans father and knew his wealth and worth.
Mr.. Bryas, with the best intentions, took the
son of wealth under his benevolent wing and
made him known to several of our prominent
citizens. Mr.. W. F. Otis expressed his intcn-
ton of starting a brokers office here. He walk
ed out upon the line of the Hemdfield railroad;
he projected some grand Improvements out
there; he was going to build a factory and give
ten thousand dollars towards buildinga branch
of the Hempfeld to the said factory. He talk
ed of enterprises of great pith and moment, OF
large monied schemes, and
"With welI-placed words Of glossy courtesy,
Baited with reason not unplausibe,'
wound himself into the favor of some easy.
hearted men with whom he came in contact
About this time several trunks belonging to
boarders in this popular boarding house were
broken open, and valuable articles extracted
From time to time various little articles belong
ing to various persons disappeared. 1t was evil
dent there was thief in the house. The older
boarders were well known, and above suspicion.
The broker, the man Of money and worth, was,
of course, above suspicion also. There was but
one other stranger in the house, and that was a
young artist. Otis thought the artist was the
frauduiently disposed person who knew most OF
the articles which had recently taken wings
One day during the artists absence, Otis and
another party searched his trunk with view OF
confirming their suspicious They found in the
trunk a valuable chamois skin, which Otis
averled belonged TO him-that he had lost q
brace Of pistols the evening previous, and that
the pistols were wrapped up in this skin. The
artist was not advised of this discovery by the
scarchers, but his employer was. The employ.
or informed the artist Of what he had been told
and advised him the artist to "cut stick" and
leave. The artist only laughed at this advice,
and Immediately drew from his pocket bill for
the chamOis skin, fully receipted, which showed
conclusively that the article belonged to him.
The artist attacked Otis about searching his
trunk, and told him if he had caught him in the
act he should have abridged his natural exist
ence With brazen effroMtery, Otis insisted
that the skin belonged to him, and said he had
piece of it in Cleveland, which he would send
for and compare so that all doubts would be re
moved
Matters stood this way when the man of ex-
tensive means took trip to Cincinnati, as he
said to get large amount of money which he
hadon deposit there. He went down the river
with one of our we'll known steamboat captains.
and when the boat was about leaving for this
city on her return trip, Otis had small pack
age deposited in the boats safe, which he said
contained twenty-five hundred dollars in bank
notes. AT point between here and Cincinnati
the Captain wanted Eve hundred dollars for
Immediate use and so expressed himself to Otis.
That cautious individual, although he knew the
captain was as good as old wheat, refused to
A0"' wv HIOHCJ' 41e Salu lie wanted the TWEEN
ty-fivc hundred dollars for particular purpose,
but when the captain insisted by offering a large
premium, Otis said he was we'll known in the
place at which they were stopping and would
go out and get the money. He did go out but
he never came back. The package in the safe
was opened and found to contain nothing but
note paper OF course his stories about the cha
mOis skin, his father, and his large operations,
were then proved to be lies
We probably never should have alluded. to
the above facts but that our attention was at.
tr"cted to notice in a Cleveland paper stating
that this worthy had recently been arrested in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wherehe weaveda tang
led web in attempting to ''play sharp" on the
police. His Intellect evidently is not of so high
an order as the business he has adopted REQUIRES
and his schemes so far have turned out misera.
BILE failures. At Milwaukee he pretended to
hail from California, Having deposited a pack.
age, said to contain $500, with the hotel clerk,
he called on the Chief of Police. He said he
was nep hew of Mr.. Fargo, of Wells & Fargo's
Express Company, and that he had been sent
East by the company to catch criminal who
had been engaged in a robbery OF their Office
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