The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-27
BAD BARKSDALE.
Brought Up ut Last-A Gny Young Gent Ut.
teriug N Worthless Check-Lodged In Jener-
son Market Prison.

Brought Up ut Last-A Gay Young Gent Ut
teriug u Worthless Check-Lodged In JeHer-
son Market Prison.
Many strange characters stand up daily before the
bar Ut Jefferson Market Police Court. There may
be the criminal with lurking eyes and narrow.
murdcrous brow. the wife beaten, the forger, the
panel thief, the wretched and drunken courtezan,
the poor, wobegone female vagrant and the seedy,
greasy, patched at elbows and at knees "bummer, u
who haunts the docks In the dim silence OF the night
turns In brick stoop, under the merciful stars
only to be dubbed on the soles Of the feet by the
policemans club. Worse than all OF these IS The
20 vpus, or "devil-1sh" as Victor Hugo has most
aptly named It This fish mas o hundred eyes and
q hundred arms. Let this demon once place
his tentades on the keel OF q goody ship
and AL the souls on board may pray for
mercy, but they will be dragged down to
the coral reefs below. There are great number or
polvpt. In this city who walk two legs and have
are equally deadly, and the claws once fastened in
the victim there can be no escape for hun.
Justice Shandey mad one Of these cases before HIM
yesterday. 0filcer DeDee or the Twenty filth pre-
cnct came into court with a prisoner Of blonde
gave MS name Ford Q. Barksdale. With out any
alias. He represented himself as an editor OF a
Complaint OF John Q. Devin, Of l,i9O Broadway
charged with passing
for SIS on the Union Square National Bank. Mr..
Devin stated briefly TO the Court that on Friday
afternoon the prisoner came TO his place OF business
and purchased two pair o. Kid gloves for - so, Dad
offered In payment the above check drawn payable
10 his own order, stating that The check was good
and that IL would be honored upon presentation at
the bank. the check was accepted and the baiance
OF $40 so was paid over 10 the Barksdale.
M. Devin upon presenting the check at the bank
ye sterday morning was Informed BY the paying
teller that II was worthless as no such person mad
al account there. II. Semm, OF l,lsi Broadway,
then made another charge against Barksdale for
having purchased $40 worth OF cigars from him and
having rendered another check on the same bank
winch, rs In the other case proved TO be .rahd.
Then came third charge. from the propretors OF
the Madison Avenue Hotel, against Barksdale, for
having obtained board from them for himself and
wife u the amount OF S.. For this debt he gave q
check Ike the Others As the cashier OF the bank was
not present to testify that BarksGaie had not an
account CT his bank Justice ShanGley locked him
up until to-cay when an examination VIII be had.
| The accused. II must be remembered, Was some
time Since one OF the principal instruments In the
conviction OF West Galway Co., the officers OF
! the society for the Prevention OF Gambling. The
prisoner claimed that his partner, Ryan the Cuban
| hlliouster, was Indebted 10 him for much
larger amount han the face OF the checks which he
expected 10 receive yesterday morning and to de.
post In .he bank before the checks presented
FOR payment
This 10 an Bark adae has
MOST PECULIAR HISTORY.
He Is az well known as the town pump from the
hudson 10 the BIO Grande. Our readers Will re.
member the wax work snow which was exhibited,
at TWENTY-FIVE cents head admission
less than two years ago on the south side OF
Ninth streeL up stars. There were several 'rej,csu
o. Macmillan. the Emperor Of Mexico, his coat.
nat, saddle &c, and wax figure OF the deceased
enowina several bullet holes 10 his body. Also there
cn si tie In ske her arms G po he Vs
being dried up like mummies. These two
bodies Mr.. Barksdale claimed TO have exhumed
from walled I'D aperture in convent IN the Ciiy
OF Mexico af.er they had been buried there with
suspicious OF foul play, having occurred fully three
The gay BarSsdale has by this time enjoyed the
hospitsiities OF the prison, and Wal to-day be ar.
aigned for eSsnipafsnA