The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-09-12

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From the San Francisco Bullctin, Aug. ~
Truth Stranger than Fiction-A Man
Supposed 10 have been Murdered
Fourteen Months Ago is Heard of in
New York.
Ssme fourteen months ago there was
established in Vallejo thriving estab-
lishment in the furniture business, of
which the owners were Lazarus Cohn,
the founder of the business, and Mr..
Morrison, who had recently joined. Mr..
Cehn was o married man, with family
of children living in Vallejo, where he
was generally respected. About the
time spoken of above, Cohn came to
San Francisco to make some cOnsidera-
BILE purchases in the way of mis- business.
He brought with him about Sl5O in gold,
S400 in currency, and Sl4OO in i've
twenty bonds belonging to Morris
on, which he was to sell, and use the
proceeds for the purposes of the firm.
lie attended Newhall's auction room,
and also visited Rosenbaum's store and
shipped goods from there. On the
second day he purchased still more
largely of Newhall and others, and
among other places called at brokers'
office regarding the sale of the bonds.
He found that he could not quite realize
the minimum price fixed by Mr.. Morris
on. and wrote to Vallejo for further in
structions. In the evening he visited
q private family, but left about y
O'Clock, stating that he would go home
for he was very tired He set off, pro-
fessedly to 60 to the private house at
which, he had been sleeping, but was
never heard OF again until yesterday af-
ternoon, when letter was received from
him at New York. His statement is
that he was shangbaed and carried in o
state of insensiblity on board vessel
in the harbor. He believes that he must
have been drugged after he was knocked
down, for the first he remembers was
the sickness of recovery. 1t appears
the vessel struck reef shortly before he
had fully come to himself, and one of
the first thugs he remembers Is sailor
coming to the bunk in which he lay,
after the vessel had struck, and giving
him water and biscuit. the sailor,
in view of the fate which seemed I'M
pending over them, expressed his re-
morse for what he had done-whether
the crime referred to was the shanGhae-
ing or only the subsequent robbery,
Mr.. Cohn does not know. But the man
made restitution of his share of the
plunder by giving back to the owner
the watch aud 800 of the greenbacks,
which had been taken, with gold,
bonds, and other sums from him. The
crew, he believed, then left the ship in
the boat, he never saw them again, and
believes they were drowned. During
the following night the beating of the
ship on the rocks threw Cohn out of his
bunk on the deck. In the morning, sick
and faint, he crept up the ladder, aud look
ing out saw that the tide had receded,
and left the ship almost on rocky island.
His strength returning, he got ashore,
and afterward made several journeys to
the ship, getting out stores OF provl-
siops each time. After while the ship
broke to pieces. He lived the past win
ter on food he got from the ship, but in
the spriug his provisions were exhaust
ed, anu ucdlu Wy oeot' ocAS
in the face. Fortunately the ships
boat, we suppose the one in which the
men had sought to escape, had drifted
ashore, and LAUGHING this, he put of to
sea. without food or compass. The
third day he became insensible, and re.
members no more until he found himself
sick and broken man on ship pro-
c.adinp tn New York
From that port he now writes, and his
letter states and his writing shows him
to be in very bad health. He has sent
his wife S72 in currency cut of the 800
restored to him by the repentant sailor,
and expresses his intention OF coming
back to California as soon as heis strong
enough and obtains the means. The
surprise created by the letter is very
great, and if his story is true, and We
are informed that his family and part
per believe it, it is one of the most ex-
traordinary adventures ever published.
OF course, at the time Cohn disappeared
there were not wanting rumors that he
had absconded, but his partner and his
wife both held stoutly to it
that he had been foully
dealt with. The Investigation was not
commenced until he had been missing
three days, because his friends here,
among whom was o lady whom he had
invited to go the opera the following
night, thought he had returned to Val
leio, and those in Vallejo thought he
was still here. A telegram from his
wife, asking why he did not write,
first aroused the suspicion that he was
missing. The other facts, accounting
for his time up to o'clock the night be
was shanghaed, were ascertained by the
police of this city who were employed
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