The national Republican., 1866-08-16
An Extraordinary swinaling Oper-

The Buffalo IN. " Express mentions an
extraordinary case Of swindling which re-
Gently took place in. Erie county, in that
State, which shows how young sharper,
aided by his two sisters, succeeded in running
an old and credulous farmer. The substance
of the story is as follows;
A young man named Robert NJ. Guise was
born and brought up in Clarence Hollow to
the blacksmith trade, and had attained the
age Of "a years, but not liking the sooty oc-
cupation, before he had entered his majority
he set about finding an easier and more lux
urious way Of living. In the same town lived
an old farmer named Randolph thinner,
about 20 years OF age, impaired in intellect
and Of credulous disposition, who many years
ago had settled on farm Of 900 acres, and
now, by long life Of hard labor and econ.
omy, had amassed about $4,000 About
three years ago old Zimmer's wife had died,
leaving him with an adopted daughter about
Is years Of age. Here was young Guise' s
opportunity, and he set himself to work, with
the aid of his two older sisters, one of whom,
Mrs. Nancy NJ. Smith, had been divorced
from her husband few weeks ago. She is
woman Of about % years of age, and man.
aged TO obtain complete control over Zim-
mer.
The younger sister, Miss Nora Guise, is
about twenty-five years of age. This trio of
leeches fastened themselves upon the un-
fortunate septuagenarian, and began, three
years ago, systematic vampirism which has
exhausted pretty nearly the whole of his
large property. Having acquired com.
plete ascendency over him, under one pretext
and another Guise got mortgages and other
securities transferred to him, while his sister
Nancy actually acquired a title deed to Zm-
mer's farm of three hundred acres. As fast
as the young scoundrel got the property into
his hands, he expended it in the most extray-
agantly riotous living. His prodgality ex-
celled all the fast blades in Buffalo. AT one
time he is said to have owned no less than
eighteen horses, with carriages, &C., to match,
while his colored servants, his richly furnished
house and his elegant wardrobe was the envy
Of the whole city. Meanwhile Guise pre-
tended to thinner that the property he OBJ.
tanned from him was safely and proftably in.
vested in Buffalo, and accounted for his style
of living by the immese profits which he was
realizing.
Guise one day exhibited what seemed to
be a $4,000 bank bill which he had obtained
in his business, and he even went so far in
the development Of this audacious fable as
to pretend at length that he had married his
rich friends daughter, and actually brought
home some disreputable females from the
city, whom he introduced as his wife and
some of her friends. thinner swallowed the
whole huge fiction, and for three years the
expensive comedy has been playing. 1t
seems that the neighbors have not had their
eyes closed to what was going on, and yet,
owing to the usual difficulty of action in
what is nobody's business in particular, they
suffered the old man to be plundered until
nothing but wreck of his fortune remained.
Atlast the county supervisor and deputy
sheriff took the matter in hand, and arrested
Guise on the charge Of swindling, and had
him bound over under 500, 1000 bonds, which
was finally raised by his disgorging the rem.
nants Of zimmer's property In his possession.
The whole amount Of property wasted and
spent is about $4,000 The extraordinary
young sharper by whom this game Of artistic
rascality has been played is little fellow
about four feet and o half in hight, with
sandy hair and .moustache, and principally
distinguished by the sinister keenness OF bis
eyes, Considerable legal talent has been
Engaged On both sides " thls Gsse,"