New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-22
a country sharper
From the Buffalo Express, Aug, Ill


There was released from the Erie county Jail,
yesterday morning a young man named Robert
l., Guise, the story Of whose performances ls oIe
Of the most remarkable that We have ever laa 20
relate. Guise, who is now about n yesrs q age,
lives at Clarence Hollow, in this county where
lis father was an honest blacksmith.
Ii the same town their lives wealthy farmer
named Randolph Himmer Wh9 4 about ~ years
of age, impaired in intellect BY his years, efeda-
loss in disposition, aud just prepared by cifemn-
stances to become the victim OF Tascaly arts Ihe
old man settled upon farm Of 50O acres at Ga
yenee years ago. ana gIaaIia e, s3n noo
Ahouf three years ago, Zimmer's wife died, leav-
ing him alone with only an adopted daughter of
IL or Is years, to care for him.
This was young Guiseis opportunity, and upon
these circumstances his scheme was laid. BY
i6roit methods he wormed himself into the old
mans confidence and also brought to bear upon
him the sedneing arts of two sisters. The eldest
3t these. and the one principally engaged in the
conspiracy against Zimmers is a young woman
named Mrs. Nancy M. Smith, who had been di-
voroed from her husband and who has since,
6out two weeks ago, run away with certain
Major Eldrdge y to parts unknown. Mrs. Nancy
"a person of some 81 or rs years, quite ordinary
I'D personal appearance it is said ; but she is new
rtheless supposed to have exercised a complete
fascination over the old man thinner. 1.-The
5,nger sister, Miss Nora Guise, is about p years
ia age, and fair.
This trio of leeches fastened themselves upon
The unfortunate septuagenarian, and began, three
ars ago, systematic Yampirism which has ex-
listed pretty nearly the whole of his large prop
eIty. Having acquired complete ascendency
ever him, under one pretext and another, Guise
got mortgages and other securities transferred to
i'm, while his sister Nancy actually acquired a
itle-deed TO ZimmeT's farm Of 800 acres. As fast
Ms the young scoundrel got the property into his
lands, he expended it in the most Textravagantly
sriotoas living. AT one time he il said to have had
10 less than eighteen horses of valuable stock,
with carriages and equipages to match, two col
f. IL. .al
the richest rosewood furniture, wardrobe to
which every month added new suits of the very
latest and loudest fashion, and all other Injuries
Of living to correspond.
While Gnise pretended to thinner that the pro
perty which he obtained from him was either
invested ia some way or deposited in Buffalo he
accounted for his style of living by stories of a
wonderful rich man who had made him (Guise)
bis agent in certain immense transactions, and
whose iberality of compensation was something
prodigioua. thinner most devouty believed in
this mythical man Of gold, especially after Guise
had exhibited to him. as he did once, whatseemed
<te be $50, 600 bank bill, which had been given to
the said Guise by his extraordinary patron, one
half to be paid to Himner on Guises debt to him.
and the other half to be jointly expended by
Guise and thinner in d huge, tremendous spree.
Guise even went so far in the development of this
audaeious fable as to pretend, atlength, that he
bad married his rich friends daughter and aetu-
zally brought home some prostitutes from the city
5FAom he introduced as his wife and some of her
lEttHuss FtEtf
thinner swallowed the whole huge fiction. and
ST three years the expensive comedy has been
agng. It seems that the neighbors have not
their eyes closed to what was going GA. ana
u ewing to the usual difficulty of action in what
lbodyis business particular, they suffered the
nan to be plundered until nothing but wreck
fortune remained. At last, Mr.. L. G. Will
supervisor from Clarence, and Mr. George Van
deputy sheriff, took the matter in hand, and
Ga s3d the arrest of Guse on Saturday last He
y brought before Judge Lockwood, of the
MY court, and held TO bail 10 the sum of
S }G39. s1a sal
Unable to give the required bail he was com
eato jail, where he has languished until yester
szornings when he in some way obtained re-
upon disgorging the whole amount of zim-
property in his possession. 1t is thought
the rescued fragments will realize some
45a or 100000 Not less than $50 900 have
q 1pndered and squandered,
extraordinary young sharper by whom this
atg game of artistic rasoality has been played,
tile fellow about four feet and calf in
with sandy hair and moustache, and prin-
distinguished by the sinister keenness of