, 1866-07-03
4 STRANGE AFFAIR,
\ III. Confidence Game successfully
Carried OWt-ArreAt uC tue PARTIES
SS,GI2 Stolen.

\ Big Confidence Game Successfully
CasfIct!~ Out-ArreAt uC tue PARTIES
sS,Gl2 Stolen.
from tic Peoria Transcript, Jurcs11
The following particulars Of robbery in 4
this section have recently CONC to- light:
About the first Of July, 1854, gang Of Hyp.
>ies took NJ tEcir abode near the ;citg OF
Cnpton, IN Fulton County. Oue of1the &c.
males oi The band actcd as doct!ess, and
TOR citizen iiyin. nSar the G5psS cncampius
ground. The gc,lileman, augustus Emery, /
by nnmc, nnd lis gypsy doctrcss, who bears
tic appcllation Of Pnillis Boswell, grew Init:
naate. Augustus poured INTO the enrs' OF
PhI,lss his troubles, how he had no wife, how
he went on wool.speculntiug tours, and how
he had come home with over eight
thousand dollars In his pocket+ Phil
lis took deep Interest IN hcv patient
and tried 10 persuade her patient to let hcr
take the money and hnry It in the ground,
promising him to double the money in
week. This be would not do. She tiually rcr-
| Suailed him 10 lei her do 1t up, and put 1t in
trunk that was in the room where she u:t!-
| ally dNctored him. He consented. and WIS
Yer. On lis return be saw the package Of
money lyin. in the trunk, all right, ashe sup:
7,oted, She performed over it several {ncan.
iatious, aud: tola him not 10 look at it tor
week, and at the end oi that time lie would
find his l,ile doubled. Sue !Gn ne house, aaa aa.
u
ducc meanwhile lit tic money stay quietly
in lhc trunk. for tour days; but the more
he he thought -ot 1T the more CON
viuccd he was that there Vas IN Ethiopian
about the enclosure. At the expiration o.
four days lie opened the trunk, mid found a
bundle Of strips Of white paper instead q
lis money. Ills feelings may be better in.
uEireI than described. He had tho good
sertc to~rny nothing about hts loss, but got
Il a detective from SprinEaeld, and put H'm
devious turnings nna twistlu,ss, the Old
I vnuIan and her son Seth were found IN thu
/ southern part of the State, ana s%ers =,
brought to Fulton County and LODGED IN ja'l
From thence they were brought to t9is cny
, Ehsforc judge Williamson. Theylay here II
1 i1U for dsy or. two, and Ut last, toi pleass
the Old wUfneni were taken back to fult1t
: County, and were nGain brought l.esei on ths
! evening Of the ad,h. Instead of bsint
bousc, In tho part kept for vagrants ans
= <sffollcre utiah1t 10 give II account OF them
Z selves. ro1iccmau. Heck, In the morning
!: i forgot to say anythins about them in th
: aroa,nd to see tho prisoners II brcakiasl time
!. | found these two, Upon asking what the
c wcrc,iu Tor, they told him nothing. and be
. suprostpg from their appearance that tue
v were yasrauts, turned them out. as soon a
Y 1t was known who they Ncrc, qllt3en
n. Se4tcu WnS IlauS lO{ kAeM. Adu ~" 81
i VI $1,000 offered for their arrest. AMER
81 three days. search, officer Murray, lot th
III city; traced them into Stark; County, az
IL win The assistance Of the Sheriff d sta!
n County succeeded in eaptnrin: thenI Iyes.e
day: ,Thny Hefe tho miles unil hasfiwest .
r. West Jersey. lying concealed in the} brus'
u | They ha stopped NJ = tarrn house :a4d ho
n rowcd matches, lit q lre, boiled tefkcttl
lie and then laid dnwn in tho brush. They re
Y brought here last .'niehtfand lodged IN 5a
- nf Offcn* Tower
NJ from whom they win hardly be able
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