The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-19

DESPERATE CHARACTER,

The Renegade Son of CIergyman..All TO
Love of a Woman--A Chapter of ThriIIins
Incidents.
Pete Mccartney, the celebrated counter
feiter, who is now fugitive from justice in
Texas, has led one of the most remarkable
lives up to the present time that has eve,
befallen the lot of any criminal in any
country. The hero Of hundred audacious
escapes, he is worthy to share the honors
with Jack Shepherd, the housebreaker in
this particular feature Of the outlaws life.
Mccartney is the son of Methodist minis
ter named Samuel Oakley, who died few
years ago in Bristol, England, the city of
/ his birth and ministry Samuel Oakley, Jr,
now known as Pete Mccartney, the counter
ffeiter, was born in Bristol on the 9TH of
February, 1889. Attic age of eleven years
NE was apprenticed to acknowledgement, an
sengraver. Ferguson was a friend of the
boys father, and noticing an inclination on
Che part of the boy to use his pencil in
drawing, he had persuaded his parents to
apprentice him to learn the trade of an en-
eraver This permission was the more
readily accorded, as the clergyman was
very poor and could not afford his son an
education that would fit him for o higher
position in life.
Samuel served an apprenticeship of seven
wears, and had developed such remarkable
aptitude in that time rs to become first
class workman. When his time was out he
entered into the service Of MIR. Ferguson,
and seemed destined to settle down in the
mouotonOus routine OF a tradesmans life
But such was not the case. After the lapse
of another year his employer was visited by
his younger brother and family, who had
been living iii American for many years
The family numbered half dozen members,
and there was one among the number whose
fate was to become linked with that of the
humble engraver, Samuel Oakley, in a
manner to be forever regretted by all who
knew them. When Oakley was introduced
TO Helen Ferguson, then
HANDSOME YOUNG GIRL
Of scarcely seventeen years ago, he became
infatuated with her, and as the family re-
NAMED at their relatives house for several
weeks, he found frequent opportunities of
eoAversing with her, and in very short
time proclaimed his love. 1t was recipro-
Gated; but there was difficulty in tic way
of their marrying that neither could hope to
overcome.
The girls fat her had amassed large for
tune, and was partner in one Of the Wealth.
est lumber firms in the city of Chicago. He
was proud Of his success in life and aimed
to have his daughter marry into u family
whose position was not beneath his own in
the social scale. There could be no hope
entertained Of his granting consent to the
marriage of his daughter with so humble
person as the ministers son, and the youth
full sutton did not ask for the favor that he
knew would be contemptuously refused
him. He, however, continued to court the
daughter, aud finally
OBTAINED HRR CONSENT TO ELoPE WITH HIN.
He professed to be worth some money in
his own right, which had been bequeathed
to him by an uncle who had died in the
East Indies, aud with whom he had, when
an infant, been q great favorite In proof
Of his statements, Oakley exhibited to the
girl several Bank of England notes OF large
denomination. He gave her q number of
these from day to day, with which to pur-
chase various articles of an expensive we'd
ding outfit. The notes were invariably &C.
eepted. and in nearly every case change was
returned to the extent of twothirds Of their
face value. In this way the girl purchased
her trousseau, and the money she received
rs change for the notes was given to her
lover. Everything passed off satisfactorily
until the day before that setfor the elopement
On that day Helen Ferguson was arrested
in her uncle's house on the charge Of
u1rEKING FORGED NOTES OF The BANK OF
ENGLAND.
In her dismay she related how the notes
had come into her possession, and the ar
resting officers were at once directed to
new scent. and had within u very short time
arrested Samuel Oakley, Jr The affair
created the most profound establishment in
the city Of Bristol, rs both parties arrested
were very respectable connected Oakley
1t frst preserved . sulen demeanor, and
would not speak word in reference to the
charge brought against him. When he was
brought to trial, however, and caught