The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-13

Shorn way Of Tsriissg Orders ana
Making Out Bills -A TrEsfy Sales
man and n Fashionable MilIines
play a Double Game and are Caught
at 1t.
An ingenious though not original dodge
in the way of swindling has been brought
to light in the establishment OF Messrs;;
Bosworth, White & Belcher, importers and
iobbers in millinery goods at No. 255 Canal
street The dodge consisted in selling bills
of goods and sending more goods than BET
down in the bills. Henry M. Wood, sales
man, was charged with perpetrating this
spocics of fraud, and upon the charge was
arrested and brought this morning before
Alderman 0'Brien, acting magistrate at the
Tombs. Mrs. Myra W. Bushnell, who keeps
the well-known fashionable millinery
establishment at No. 36 West Eleventh
street. was also arrested on charge OF con-
spring in the fraud. The following are
the facts developed before the magistrate
and disposition of the accused parties
For some time past Messrs. Bosworth,
White g. Belcher have missed goods from
their stock, Of which there was no account
inr for in their bills Of sale. The closest
espionage upon their employees threw no
ligbt on the matter. Goods still were miss
ing. The case was laid before Captain
Jourdan, of the Sixth precinct, who lett
the working of it up TO Detective Wool
bridge. one of the shrewdcst officers in this
lepnrtment of the police. After taking
ouiet look he selected Mr.. Wood as the man
who could best solve the mystery. An ordcr
came from Mrs. Bushnell Tor some gooas'
~ ha InI
and the goods to be sent to her place.
Mr.. Wood was in the habit Of filing her or
ders. He did so, apparently the goods were
packed, the bill made out, and both given
TO one OF the porters to take to her csta-
blishmcnt in Eleventh street. Detective
Woodbridge arranged for the overhauling OF
This package en- route, and for this purpose
was accompanied by Mr.. White, one of the
partners. The mystery was Mt once
cleared up. The fraud, as stated above,
consisted in sending more goods than had
been ordered or we're charged in the
bill. Nearly every order Of ribbons,
laccs, vclycts, feathers, and other classes
Of millinery goods sent for, was IN
creased, and goods thrown in not specified
in the memorandum After this discovery
the next thing, of course, was the arrest of
Wood and Mrs. Bushnell. Both we're ar
raicncd at the court. Wood bore himself
with stole coolncss, but Mrs. Bushnell
tainted away, and it was some time before
she recovered sufficiently TO answer intelli-
ribly the questions put TO her. Mr.. White
made an affidavit setting forth the charges
against them as detailed above. The ac-
cused waived an examination, and were
thereupon held for trial al the Court Of
General Sessions.
Mr.. Wood has been in the employ Of
Mcssrs. Bosworth, White & Bclcher for the
past ten years. The firm had the utmost
confidence in his integrity. lie was a
splendid salesman, and was receiving a
salary of s., GOO at the time Of his arrest.
He is a Georgian, and has wife and chill
lren living there. The establishment o.
Mrs. Bushnell is well known as one OF the
most prominent and fashionable Of its kind.
She was to have given public opening on
the 22d instant Of the fall and winter
fashions .-Ncoc Iorh Commercial.