The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-23

The Spurious GenI McCook who was
Arrested i'm wheeling n Few Days
AgO--What Became OF Him After he
Was Taken TO Philadelphia.
From ne Philadelphia american Of thc 2Oth.
The parsonage calling himself Fran
els McCook, who has been circulating
us the well known General McCook, of
Ohio, was before Alderman Better yes
terday afternoon. He gives the name
of Francis McCook. Who or what he
is is not known as yet. Ga .4l 5-.sl
He was nrraigned. on the charge OF
swindling--R business infwhich for y
time he seems to have been somewhat
successful. The first witness called
was Colonel A. Is. Gorgas, now located
mt No. 205 Walnut street. Col. GOrgaS
deposed that last spring he met The de
PENDANT at Pottsvflle. IL was just after
the assassination of President Lincoln.
He had registered his name ut. Pennsyl-
wanna Hall, in that town, as BENZ.
Booth Cook" He is not unlike the as
sassin Booth, and was arrested there
upon, the superstition that he was the
murderer himself. When taken into
custody he gave the name of George ID.
Sage, Second Lieutenant in Company
C of the 18th Illinois regiment. He was
subsequently released. . 1t was not
doubted that he had been with the reg
iment in question up TO certain peri
cd, After that corps reached Rolln,
however, he appeared to be entirely at
sen as far as its movements We're con-
Cerned. 40 1l.l1zLL .sls
Mr.. Joshua II Wells, clothier, Arch
street, above Fifth, testified that on the
sd of November the prisoner ordered
at his place full suit of Major Gen
erals uniform. He said he was Major
General Cook, of Ohio. The suit WAS to
be finished in three days. The prisoner
stopped then ut the Ashland House.
When the clothes were done, word WINS
sent to the defendants to come up, that
the shoulder straps might be properly
adjusted. 1t WINS found that defendant
had departed, but had left directions
that the suit should be forwarded to
Wheeling, Va. This was done.s Sub
seQuently an envelope was received by
wltness' firm, per express, endorsed as
containing Sl35. There was nothing
inside it excepting four postage stamps,
three sheets of paper, scribbled over
with memornndums, and a letter to
somebody unknown, saying that his
future address would be Brownsville,
Texas. 1850 45t ~
Mr.. ,John Shull, No. 1920 Spring Gar
don street, testified that, about the same
time, he had met the pseudo general
that the defendant had represented
himself as the Nictimiof an adroit pick
pocket, and entirely out of money.
Witness loaned him $50, payment of
which was promised in few days.
After lapse of time, concluding that
the loan had BEEN forgotten, and not
surmising that he had been duped, the
the witness wrote to the real General
McGooi, at Steubenville, Ohio.
This set the genuine General to ferret
ing out theimposter. General NIcCoolS,
in propria persona, also appeared before
the Alderman yesterday. He deposed
that the defendant was not related to
his family, nor to any of its branches
that he had no knowledge of him ex-
cept, such as he had gained in investi-
eating the swindles above referred to.
The defendant appears, outside of the
exercises of this particular sort of ras-
cality, TO have very little wit. He was
fully committed for trial.