Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-08-16
THE EVENING STAR.
EBsrssvtinary Operations of a Country
sharper and his Tive Sisters.

IFrOm the Buftalo Exprsss S,,urdayl
There Was released from the Ere Coantry
JSs yes'eToay morning. a young man Imed
Roeert l. Guise, The story Of whose perform
absts IL one OF the most remarkable that we
have ever had 70 relate. Guise. who is now
about twenty -four years of age, lives At Cla--
tnee morrow, IN this county, where nfs father
was an honest blacksmith,
In the same town there lives WEALTHY old
farmer named Randolph Zim nsr,. who .
ABOUT seventy years age. impaired IA ln.slleet
oy ms wears, cred ulous Ia disposition and IS.
prepared hy circumstances 70 become the vic
Nm OF raseaIly arts. The old man settled upon
q farm of three hundred acres At Clarence.
years ago, and gradually acc an uiated wealth
20 The amount OF not less than S1U-OOg. About
rhree years ago Zimmer's wife died. leaving
HIM alone with only an adopted deugh.er Of
fourteen or fifteen years, TO care for him
This was young Guise's opportunity, and
upon these circumstances his schense was laid
BY adroIt methods he wormed hmseifinto the
old mans con fidence, and also brought 10 boar
upon Dim the seoucing arts of two sisters The
eldest OF these, and the one princIpaIly enkag.
ed IN the conspiracy against Zimmers, is q
young woman named Mrs. Nancy M. smith,
VINO nan been divorced from her hu band and
VINO had since, abouttwo weeks ago, run away
Win certain "Major Eldridgr" 10 par. Is un-
hno"p MTe. Nancy is a lady OF some twenty
seven or twenty-eight years, quite ordinary IN
personal appearance, IL is said, but she IS ney.
ertheiess supposed 10 have exercised a com
The younger sister, Miss Nora G MIS-, is about
twenty-five years of age and fair
This trio OF leeches fastened thems selves upou
tne unfortunate septuagenarian, and began,
three years ago, sy stsmatic vampPrIsm which
nase1hausted pretty nearly the whole OF hls
large property. Having acquired a complete
aseendency over him, under one preiexr and
another, Guise got mortgages and other Sc.
suritles transferred to him, while his sister
Nancy actually acquired title deed 10 Tim.
mer farm OF three hundred acres. As fast as
ehe young scoundrei got the property into his
hands, he expended it IN the mast extravagaut.
ly riofous living. At time he is said to
have had no les than eighteen horses of VAL
nabIe stock, with carriages and equipages 10
match, two colored servants, house magnir.
Gently filled with the richest rose wood fur
niture, wardrobe 10 which every mo:h added
new suits, OF toe very latest and loudest fash
ION, and all other luxuries Of living to CORES
pond.
While Guise pretended to thinner that the
property which he obtained from him was
S,tnrr invested IN some way CT deposited IN
Buffalo, ne accounted for his style OF living by
stories OF a wonderful rich man W no had male
him tGuise) his agent in certain immense
transactions, and whose liberality of compen-
satIOn was something prcdigious Zimmer
most devoutly believed IL this mythical man
of gold especially after g Mise had exhibited 10
hlm, as he did once, what rrmpd TO ne "A S2n.GsD
bank bill, which had been given to the said
GUise by bis extraordinary patron, one half
TO BE- paid 10 thinner on q uses debt TO HIM,
and the other half 10 be Jointly expended by
Guee and thinner IN huge, tremendous
spree. Guise even went 50 far in the develop
Hent OF this audacious fable rs TO pretend M
length. thar De had married his rich friends
aaus Inter, and actually brought home some
prosntu fes from the city. whom he introduced
as has wife. and some OF her friends.
Nmmer swallowed the whole huge fiction
and Tor three years the expensive comedy has
been playing. II seems that the neiyhbors
nave rot had their eyes closed 10 what "a
going on, and yet owing to the usual diff ,ulty
OF ton IN what l. nobody's business in mar.
heular, they suffered the old man to be piuu
dersd until nothing but n wreck of his fortune
remained. AT last Mr.. L. G Wiltsie Super
visor from Clarence. and Mr. George Van Tine
Deputy Sheriff, took the matter in hand ana
caused the arrest of Gulse on Saturday las
he was brought before Judge Lock wood, OF
fhe Country Court, and held TO bail in the sum
or s2,fn. Unable 10 give the REQ nired bail ne
was Committed TO jail, where he languished
unti yesterday morning, when he in some
Wsy OBTAINED release upop disgorging the
whole remnant OF Zimmer's property in MS
possession. II is thought that the rescued
fragments will realize some SI5,GUO or S2Ofn
Not less than sJO.OJO have been plundered and
squandered.
The extraordinary young sharper by whom
fhls brilliant game of artistic rascaIity has
been played, Is little fellow about four fee,
and half in height, with sandy hair and
moustache, and principally distinguished bv
the sinister keenness of his eyes.