The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-03-10
STORY OF A NAUTICAL SwINDLER-DAR-
ING RAsCALlrI Rs OF A AcLEvELANDER.

STORY OF A NAUTICAL LSWlNDLER-DAk-
ING RAsCALlrIRs OF A AcLEvELANDER.
The Honolulu Advertiser gives the Histo-
" Of a1consummate rascal, who, within .
few years, has, made the Pacific Ocean the
theater o SERIES of high villanies.
The name Of the individual 10 Capt. Henry
Hayes, alias Cspt. William Hayes. He 10
about thirty-two years of age, and origin.
sted at Cleveland, Ohio, where his father
kept grog shop. At an early age be be.
came sailor, and subsequently married At
Cleveland. About the year 1852 he sppro-
priated and sold some horses Belonging 70
neighbor, for which unneighborly ACT he
would have paid q reluctant visit to the
State Prison, but for flaw in the indict-
ment, by which be escaped. His next ex-
plot was to marry another woman and Zee
with her to California. On the passage
out he gained the confidence of q wealthy
Californian, whom be persuaded to establish
bis wife in a retail liquor suloon, and af-
tsrwsrds to buy the bark lOtranto and St
her for avoyags to China. Hayes called ~
master of the vessel, and this was the, last
the owner saw or heard OF him until last
winter, when he returned to San Francisco,
after an absence of'fve or six lyearssq sbsJ
After Hayes arrived in China, be ran the
Otranto for while between Chinese ports,
raising money on her, by means Of bottoms-
ries. until she was seiaed to settle her liza
bilities. With the money thus procured be
bought the . barkiJ. Bradley, jr., and after
pursuing the same plan Of raising money,
as long as be. dared, suddenly left, cheating
tailor at Shanghse out of d bill Of $500
for himself, and $40 for each Of his men.
The rascal next turned up at Port Adelaide,
in Australia, where he, conspired with the
captain of ship to, defroud the owners OF
that vessel out Of 100, 900 BY means, hey-
ing sold the j. Bradley, gjr., to meet his
expenses. 1rsa. III sajay 7iEdl fzss OF ,ssHgse
In Adelaide he married again and pro-
ceeded to Melbourne, where be sold to o
party of miners q share in . vessel 10 which
he had not the slightest interest. Soon
after he managed to get commando of thebark
Orestes, bound for Yancouyer's p Island, He
stopped at Honolulu on the way, remaining
six weeks. From one Of his passengers be
had while in Australia obtained 81 900, all
the money he had, for the purpose of invest.
ing it in liquor, and selling it on joint. sc-
count to the steerage passengers on the
voyage; but he forgot TO buy the liquor,
and the imprudent speculasor lost his
money. sii .oIazu3 xhE1aka IGf BiaizIl i
While in Honolulu, his. wife, "a worthy
woman obtained legal separation from
him, and the supercargo and agent OF the
ship discovering that Hayes had conspired
With the crew ito run away with the vessel
deposed him from command. Hayes sub
se9ently sailed for San Francisco, leaving
bad debts behind him to the tune Of So, 900.
He met in San Francisco the old owner of
the Otranto, whom he quieted by stating
| that be had several ,thousanc dollars due
him from the overs Of the Orestes, which
he would pay over as soon as received and
thinking it the only chance to get ANY,
thing, that gentleman did not prosecute
him. ,.ns 81 80 d. f,-r u g.. !
| His next achievement was to obtain COM
mand Of and run away with the brig Ellenita,
carrying off several thouaend dollars in
money and valuables deposited on board by
passengers, and leaving unpaid debts in
San Francisco to the amount Of over $2,-
500. He was next heard of ~ Maui, one 81
the Sandwich Islands, whore he narrowly
escaped arrest. Where be will next appear
is only matter of conjecture. -.
Hayes is a man of but little edcucation,
and but little talent except for rascaIity, in
which he has the assistance Of a man named
Robert Parkinson, who navigates his vessel
for him. He is very plausible in bis ad-
dress, and an accomplished confidence
man. E1Aae9 %'&oA4sH hf~a4 s'F@r -S