Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-31
A SyvIndIer out West.
H. B. MONAGHAN HEARD FROM.

We are in receipt of letter from the
editor of a country paper in Wisconsin,
inclosing a slip cut from his sheet, de,
failing a swindling game, which is the
counterpart of one played in this town
few months ago. This was the scheme
here A man who in some manner had
obtained admission to the bar, approach
ed one of his clients, who was known tC
have few hundred dollars, and told
him that a certain man desired to buy q
piece OF property, for several hundred
dollars, but that by reason of personal
difficulties, between the owner and the
wOuld-be purchaser they could not trade,
and an interview is brought about be
tween the party wishing to purchase and
the friend of the member of the bar. AT
this interview the lawyer, for such he
was recognized to be ut that time, acted
as adviser for his friend, and it was ar
ranged that he should buy the property
at a stated price, and then the real pur-
chaser would buy it of him ut an advance,
so that for his friendly offices he would
be well paid. The unsuspecting young
man bought the property at the price
agreed, and paid for it, and the other
man is gone The owner turns ont to be
a scamp in concert with the other two,
they divide the price eff the purchase and
decamp, leaving the buyer in possession
of the property for a very short time,
when it appears that the seller had no
title, and he finds that he has been de
liberately swindled out of all the money
he had in the world.
We are happy to know that mt the last
term of the Rutland County Court, the
bar of this county purged itself, so far
as it could, by procuring the expulsion
of its unworthy member. The slip sent
us from the Wisconsin paper rccounts
very much such q transaction as the one
that took place in our village, aud the
principal actor was the same man. The
letter is from Waupaca Wisconsin, and
after inQuiring after the antecedents of
the expelled member, and referring to
the swindle published in the slip says:
&" He is a concentrated focus of infer
nal meanncss, and has Quartered himself
upon this town, much TO the discomfort
Of decent people and we would like to
be rid of him.
eff the reports that have come from
Vermont are true he could be arrested
and taken back for trial. If your Gov
ernOr would make a reQuisitiOn on ours,
you might have the scamp cutting mar
bic in your State Prison within six
months.
9 am little anxious to get him out
of the way, as he has threatened several
times to whip me-
He is the 'barrister referred to in
the enclosed and his partner, the sharp
er, had his jaws bruised by my right
hand last night. He called me *** ~
*+***. All Wisconsin editors stand on
their muscle in such cases.
Our Wisconsin friend will excuse US
from sending for their adopted fellow
citizen. We did not raise him, and got
rid of him as quick as we could, and if
he never returns here until he is sent for
we shall not have him for several years
yet. If he is to work for any Common
wealth, in State Prison, we prefer it
should not be Vermont For the COM
fort of our friend, who is threatened, we
would say, he is in no danger. Lots of
men have been threatened in this town
by the same man, but no one was ever
hurt, and he never will attack anybody,
especially after his partner" has had
his jaw bruised"