Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-08-20

About ten years ago a man named English
held responsible position in the New York
post once. and he was highly esteemed for the
supposed uprigntness of his character. He
had wife and SIX children, 10 whom be ap-
peared 10 pay all the attention and respect that
could be reQu ired OF good husband aud IA.
Their. Having the confidence of the business
community, he succeeded in obtaining q large
sum OF money, estimated a. thirty thou
sand or forty thousand dollars. with which
ne oecamped for parts unknown. Previous 10
leaving New York, however, he had formed q
liason with couTteZan, and she was the CON-
panion of his flight, together with little girl
oy the name OF Richardson, whom she had
adopted. They went 10 England, where they
lived in good style in one OF the interior shire
towns for year or two, when the woman. He
s rem 10 me pisce and attes yeaE sought
very intelligent and respectable young lady
Some time alter his marriage with her.
ne returned with her to the United
States and settled in Portland, Me-. where
he lived for some three years. There he
was known as VIM. &. Robinson, and by his
apparent in tegrity and fair dealing so worked
he succeeded in swindling a number or them,
and among them one NJ. o. Merrick, from
whom he fraudulently obtained four hundred
dollars, and as suddenly disappeared from
Portland as he had from New York He re-
turned TO England, where he renamed up 20
few months ago. Marrick had searched
MN out, and was about to ask for his
return under the extradition treaty when
Robinson became aware of what was going on,
and with Only notice OF one day, started. with
his wife and two children, the Issus of her
marriage, and the adopted daughter for South.
ampten, where they met the steamer LEIPZIG,
aud took passage for Baltimore. When the
arrangement had been made for the arres. of
ROBINSON IN England. IL was discovered thar
ne mad lieu, and after q short time, but too late
TO telegraph before the arrival of the
steamer AT this port. On reaching BaltI-
more, be took board at a house on Fayette
street near Poppeton, where he was
living In apparent security. Soou howavar
information was communicated to Chief De-
tective Crone, of the police department re.
questlng HIM to be on the lookout for the fugi.
tive. He was soon traced, and last week when
the party who made the complaint OF swindling
against him. and the brother of the wife whom
he had gbandoned in New York, were IN the
city, Mr.. Crone. with Detective Pointer
went 10 his boarding house and arrested
HIM. A dispatch had already been sent
TO England on behalf OF the wife Iiv.
ing with him, and without his KNOWLEDGE
and on Sunday last her brother reac he'd this
city. The Vile stated that she was wholly ig-
norant up TO that time tina, the woman who
died in England was no: the wife OF Robinson
and always supposed that the girl Richardson
was their child. A requisition from the Gov
ernor OF Maine was received. upon which Rob-
lnson was surrendered q few DAYS since, and
the lady who supposed herself his la wfuI wife
with her children. left the city on Monday
morning with her brother tor her home in Eng
land There are said TO be other charges against
Robinson in Portland, and when the authori-
ties OF that State have done with him he will be
handed over TO the British Government ID be
prosecuted for the crime Of oisamy.-Balimore
Gazette.