The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-09

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| Away His Fortune. Turns Stew.
| ard, and Runs Away with Cen
| siderable 2atES Wsan MAse1.
From the louisville courisr7Journai, No
T Hsi6saIs4 Asher a man ii~a.a sv,soaa..
10 hotel circles here and elsewhere,
came to this city last December from
Nashville, where be bsd besppmployed
at the Battle House. and engaged him.
self to Mesars. Burton 4 Stockton q
steward 81 the United States Hotel. &c
served . few months there, and was
then traps erred to the same serylcs, q,
Paroquet Springs, and when that hotel
closed for the season vas returned to
his old place in the hotel here. Soon
after Asher's arrival in this city it
was learned by the, proprietors Of the
United States that he was no rIess q
parsonage than the Herman Asher who
was, in the year 1854 proprietor Of the
Mcclure House. in Wheeling, Wet Va,
and. in 1865. the owner of the Gibson
House. in Cincinnati.
Asher is said to have once been q
man of considerable wealth and i'm
portance, his property and money at
one period OF his life amounting to
about $500 900; but while 10 the midst
of plenty and luxury be vie ded to bis
passion Tor gaming, and in few years
! reduced himself to cpenury. While in
the, employ OF the United States Hotel
be was often heard to speak OF his past
circumstances and boast OF his inten-
zion to recover his lost fortuLe. Those
who were most with him say that he
had not lost the pride of his former
position, although its pecunisry back
ing had gone glimmerng into the
"tiger's" jaws, and he addressed himself
to men of means with the boldness OF
one who had q fortune at his back,
pushing in now and then an application
for a loan, and becoming quite iodig-
rant at refusal, taking it as sort o.
doubt o. his honor. Besides, he was
cool, calculating, and confident, and
represented everything 30 fairly that
m any felt unwilling to insult him with
a doubt
1t appears from the developments
that he did not confine himself to men
OF means, but pluudered everybody he
could, from the colored waiter to the
milkman who furnished the means OF
diluting the coffee OF the guests. He
mysteriously disappeared yesterday
morning. and the story of his absence,
from the best information we could
gather, is as follows: He latterly
pr4c,iced q system Of swindling on a
large scale. by borrowing money from
all he could in sums eli from y to $50.
besides buying goods on credit in vari-
Gus houses Daring the past two days
he borrowed several Gums OF money
from persons 10 the hotel, and yesterday
morning ne suddenly and secretly LETT
the city Tor paris unknown, leaving his
friends and creditors in the lurch.
Asher was q wldower when he came
to the city, but was married about elk
weeks ago 10 a lady from q distant
State, who IL almost an e..tire stranger
in the city, and who haa, during the
few weeks of her married life, been
boarding at a private boarding house in
the central portion of the city. She
says her husband left without her
Knowledge, and that she has no idea Of
his whereabouts. She attributes his
conduct to his inveterate passion or
play, and seems very much distressed at
the course he has pursued, which, o.
course, she had no power to prevent.