Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-14
He Is q Graduate Of that Awful Place, Chi
Caa5-NO Wonder he is what lie is.
LITTLE Rock. March s. ISL

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LITTLE Rock, March s, 1871.
Editors ApDedl-The great sensa-
ton here, now that the impeachment
furore is on the wane, is the great
Hard wicke scandal. This blond and
Oleagenous scamp seems to have been
fitted by nature for certain peculiar
work of the devil. He has been at it
from his youth upward. He is a
native Of Erie, Pennsylvania, a place
he left for hooking silver quarters out
of the till of his employer bar
keeper named Rudelheimer. He was
detected in this by the employer, after
a very busy beer-drinking day, heat
ing two OF the quarters to a cherry
red, and leaving them in the midst of
a pile in the drawer, young Hard
wicke, when the employers back was
turned, grabbed, and into his pocket
went the two heated quarters; at the
same time he was passing out on an
errand on the street. Before he went
twenty yards, the two coins had
burned their impressions on his thigh
he has the marks to this day. He,
of course, was exposed, and had to
leave, at the same time taking a girl
along with him to Chicago, where
b" they ran together" on various
speculatiOns for some time. He,
however, true to his original
instincts, went from thence to
Iowa. He was well dressed when he
/ left, and had, in his walking to and
/ fro in Chicago, acquired the ways and
! style of the successful frauds that have
! been a characteristic of that town from
! its infancy upward. He Travelled
| round Iowa on various speculatiOns
for a couple of years, and finally, hav-
| ing reached KeOkuk, he married a
young widow, who had a farm and
| dead husband, six months in the
/ grave, and no responsibility. Besides
! beiug pretty, this lady had some points
among the mass of common feminine
weaknesses. He found it exceedingly
1 difficult to manipulate her. His aim
| was to get possession of everything,
! convert it into ready money and
! leave. In the course of about three
! years ne managed to worm out of her
most all the reauy money she had, |
and then, on pretense of going into a
big and brilliant business in KeOkuk, |
he got her to mortgage the farm. |
Some of the money was invested by
| herself in the brilliant business, which |
was nothing but some New York !
sWindle. He laid his hands on the |
remainder of the money and left. !
Left the woman with two children !
and a prospective third. He knocked !
around st. Louis for time; fell into |
partial bad luck-bad company was |
always natural to him. Then ne came |
to Little Rock. He came Aere some !
time last fall, and entered into the |
general merchandise business in con-
nectiOn with our esteemed fellow !
tOwnsman, Colonel w. N. Parish. |
He was polite, affable and agreeable, |
and considered a good business man. !
he took rooms at a private residence |
in this city, where he continued to |
board until his flight, about six weeks |
since. At that time he had succeeded |
in gaining the confidence Of several !
business firms of the city, and got |
loans or advances of money to the |
amount of several thousand dollars. !
Among Others, he managed to get |
quite a sum from Jones, Mcdowell & !
Co. After he had succeeded in OBJ |
tanning ali the money he could, he |
took French leave of his business !
partner, his creditors, and left |
the city. He went East and |
while on a railroad train from |
Memphis to Jackson, Tennessee. |
sealed in the same car with him was |
a lady passenger, a Miss Galloway,
daughter of w. S. Galloway, reputa- |
BILE and wealthy merchant of Jackson. !
HardWicke, who is a man of good ad- /
dress, a fluent and smooth taIker, en- !
gagged in conversation with Miss Cal |
lOway, and upon arriving at the depot |
at Jackson, the latter recognized a rel |
ative by the name Of Acton, and so !
/ expressed herself to her travelling ac-
! quaintance. An introduction fol. |
| lowed, and to the utter astOnishment !
of both Miss Galloway and Mr.. Acton, !
| HardWicke exclaimed, why, he is |
my cousin, and l must necessarily be |
adistant relative of yours" This was |
a sumner to the parties, but little did 4
they suspect that it was false, and that |
| it was the commencement of his swim !
ding operations.
The young lady became very much |
interested in her newly discovered yet |
unheard of relative, and pressed upon |
him an invitation
TO STOP AT JACKSON AND PAY HER
FAMILY A VISIT,
which he too cheerfully and willingly |
accepted. To make along story short, /
he was taken to the Galloway man |
sion, where he was introduced to the /
senior Galloway. The latter at first /
failed to recognize any resemblance \
between him and any of his family,
but finally yielded to the oily gam
mon Of HardWicke, and was made to /
believe that he was in some way con-
nected with the family. He was then
rendered the hospitality Of the man
sion, and parties were given in his
honor. He represented that he was
single, man OF wealth, and MEM
ber OF the long established firm of
Parish & Hard wicke, merchants, OF
Little Rock that he had large consign-
ments of cotton in Memphis, in the
hands of Jones, Mcdowell & Co., of |
that place. He also, it is alleged, ex-
hibited papers made out in the name /
of that house, showing large trausao-
tiOns and balances in favor OF his
firm, and in his own Individual name.
tits further alleged that he represented
himself as being born and raised in
Lynchburg, Virginia, where he had
extensive and wealthy family oOnnec-
tiOns, and, further, that he was part
owner and one of the editors of
1.-THE LYNCHBURG REPUBLICAN"
He played his cards remarkably
well in the Galloway mansion, MAX
ing it a point at every turn to give
color to his representations, In the
first place, he was free in the use of his
money, and, secondly, he purchased
and presented books to the Sunday
school of Rev. ]. A. Harrison's Epis-
oOpai church, at that place. All these
acts on the part of HardWicke tended
to show that he was Ostensibly a
wealthy man. He became apparently
sick. HardWicke, during his illness,
received thesympathies and attention
Of young lady, and it was not long
before the smOOth-tongued patient
proposed and was accepted. The
eventful day was fixed and the mar
Tiage ceremony duly performed by
Rev. J. a. Harrison. On the same
day the marriage knot was tied, the
bride and groom, accompanied by
John Galloway, son of W. S. Gallo
way, started for Philadelphia, the
home and residence of the uncles and
guardian of the bride, Reaching