, 1866-08-14
4 FAMILY OF LEECnE:,

Extraordinary Operations Oc n Country
SLnrpsr ent His Tsxo :'t~scr~-EaoE
nm Old Mnu in f,1arcucc has been Plum
<1crcd oil $50, o,000-A Nodera Sso7y Of
The f.uI%cx.
IFro,n The Eu0a1o Express, hueust III
There was released from the Erie County |
Jail yesterday morning, yonn. t1,an named
Robert L. s;uiSc* the stGry Of whose perform |
ar,ces is unc of tl.c most remarkable :liat VIC
have ever had to relate. Guanc. who Is now |
Gnce uu!1o:s, in this county, where Ills iathcf
wae IN honest blacksmith. During the later
years Of his ,oyl,ood, le worked somewhat in
LIS iathcr's s:soI', OF pretended 70 work ut ~
car1y became evident tl,at lie genius Of the
Eoui,C man did not lend IN the direction Of
any honest labor, and before lic had fairly
passed his majority q scheme for feeding him
Ee1f cut Of another mans porTinser, which
would hare done credit to the oldest sharper
In existence. llad shared itself In Mr. Bob's
mind, and he had set about putting 1t into
execution.
farmer named Randolph thinner, who Is
about seventy ycars Of nt.c. impaired in tntcl~
lect 1,v his years, ereduious in disposition,
md Just prepared by civcn1nstances to sc-
come the victim Of rascally arts. The old
man settled upon a firm Of 80 ACRES al Ciar-
encc years ago, when land cost little, and by
the increase Of ills estate In value, by thrift
and economy, by loaninS sNouey at good In
1ETEHI Oh LQ1u security sluu. IuufG LAAA all
clsr, Ls the ilclp and counsel Of II good wife,
had gradually accumulated wealth to tho
amount Of not less than $4,000. About
three ycapF ago Zimmcr's :;ood wife died,
leaving him alone in lis childish old age,
with only an adopted daughter Of fourteen OF
1fteep years to care for him.
Tits was young Guise's opportunity, and
.1pun these Circumstances his scheme wss laid.
p alreit methods hs Eosnsd himself nm clint, mt
10 bear npon him the seauctnE arts Of two
eisters The eldest of these, aud the one
principally engaged in the conspiracy against
Nancy st. smith, who lad been divorced
from her husband, aud who has since, abnn,
two weeks ago, run away with . ccrt1ft
s4alajor Eldridge'' to parts unknown. Mrs
Nancy Is lGay Of some twenty seven Q
tweniy-cight year,, quite oraiuary in per
Eonal appearance. it is said !: hut she is ncTcs
the1css supposed to have exercised . com
p1ete fascination over the old man Tisnsnel
The young sister, Miss Nora Guise. !
about twcnty-t,so ycars Of n.c, and fair
This trio Of lceches fastened the'nselvc
upon the unfortunate scptuaEcnarian. nu
bcgan tlrce years aEo, systsmatic YAM
prism whiel. has exhausted pretty ncarl
The whole of his large property. Having ae
qufscd complete ascenaancy over him, III
der one rrctert and another, Guise got NOR,
cages and other SECURITIES transferred to hin
While his sisisr NaI:y actually acquired
acrcs. As fast as the young scoundrrl &c
fhr properly Into lis hands, be expended
in the most cxtsayagrntly rfotous aiyin1
Our citF boasts Of no youthful buck who e,
utaI,c equal the princely prodIga1ity and "a
style Which this country blade exhibited du
ing the period Of his successful operation
Al one lime 1c is said to hare had no ls
Than eighteen horses, Of valuable ssocks wi
carriages and cquipaEes to match, Two g
ored servants, q house mugnsticcntly I'LL
TZith tllr richest rosewood fuznlturc+ Wal
robe to which every month added new sui
of the rcrr last ind loudcst fashion, and
other lu1urics of living to correspond
While Guise pretended to Zimuter that t
properly which he obtained fr,Hn him =
either inyGsfea In some way Or deposited
Buffalo, be accounted for his style Of liri
by stories of u wonderful rich man who b
made him fGulse) his agent in certain i
mcnse transactions, aud whose liberality
compensation was something proIisio
Poor ZiuMer most dcyoutly believed in t
mythical man If gold, especially after Gu
bad exhibited to him, rs he did once, vi
seemed 10 be Sc, 900 bank biil* which
been given to the said GnIte by his cxtza
dinalT patron, onehnif 10 be paid to Nmt
on Gnise'e debt to him, and the other half
be Jointly expended by Guise and Xt,n11ct
huge, tremendous 6ptceA Grtsc cycn n
g thr II tue development Of this andaci
1nasTicd his ricL fsicna's daughter. aoa nj
silly brought home some prpsiitutcs fro,,,
city, whom he introduced rs his wife
some OF her friends.
thinner swallowed the whole huge act