Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-08-18
IS IT COPELAND OR WARREN ?
The Career of Young Man i'm Knox
Vile
winds Up Last Night with IA coat of
Tar and Feathers.
From Daily Chronicle August Il [

FROM Ddlly CnrOnlcle august II
About the last of May of this year,
when the flowers We're blooming, the
birds singing, and nature was assum~
ing her loveliest attire, handsome
young man handsomely dressed
dropped into Knoxville, no one hardly
knew from where. He was good
looking fellow aud but for his inordi-
nate egotism, would we think have
made favorable impression generally.
This trait in his character caused him
to assume airs Of superiority, and
whatever else may be said of him, we
have never heard it charged that he
failed to give himself full credit for all
he knew. He said his name was
LUCIUS F. COPELAND.
He presented credentials az a local
minister in the Methodist Episcopal
Church signed by Rev. DIR. Hubbard,
of New YORK, and exhibited letters
recommending him as gentleman of
good morals signed by q number of
well known gentlemen, among whom
was General Clinton b. Fisk, of ST.
Louis. He also produced his
CHURCH LETTER,
Or certificate of removal, of which the
following is a copy
CERTIFICATE OF REMOVAL.
CENTRAL New YORK CONFERENCES.
Geneva District,
East Marion, March 10th, 1875.
This certifies that the bearer, Rev.
Lucius +. Copeland, has been an ac-
ceptable member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in this place.
lSigned w. A. ELY, Pastor.
This he showed to Rev. j. +. Gold
man, Pastor of the First NJ. +. Church
in this place, who, however, never en-
rolled his name as member of his
charge BY his energy, activity, and
we may say ability, he soon ingratiated
himself into the good graces of a large
proportion of that congregation aud
was invited and did preach i'm the
church. He also preached once i'm the
Second NJ. +. Church, in Northwest
Knoxville.
LAWYER.
He soon displayed his versatility of
talent by claiming to be lawyer, and
applied for license to practice law, and
upon examination was found "duly
qualified" and received license TO
practice in our courts. He made sew
eTal attempts to form a partnership
with number of our resident LAWYERS.
but falling to do this, he went into the
office of Attorney General Williams
and hung out his single"
NEWSPAPER REPORTER.
lie next turned up as a regular re-
porter for the Chicago Times, and 9TH
er papers, and in this capacity he visi-
ted Greeneville and was quite active I'm
reporting the death and funeral OF Ex-
PRESIDENT Johnson. In this CAPACITY
ne assumed great superiority again and
evidently regarded ordinary newspa-
per men as mere pigmies when COM
pared with himself.
JACK OF ALL TRADES"
In addition to all his other accom-
plishments he was a Sunday School
man, a Temperance Lecturer, a " beau
tiful u singer. His dress was in stvle
and faultless, and he no doubt took
some pride in his personal make up.
Ihlngs went on swimmingly for
awhile, butsoon suspicious circumstan-
ces began to present themselves.
CHARLES W. WARREN.
He called at the Postoffice and re-
quested the officials that if any mail
came addressed 20 Charles w. War
rem" to put the same in his box, as he
had a client Of that name. This re-
quest was complied with, and numbers
OF Charles w. Warren's letters were
delivered to Rev. Lucius f. Copeland,
ESD, Attorney at Law and Solicitor
in Chancery. In the meantime, he
had rented.box pa in the Post office,
and his mail was placed In that.
About this time, Judge Andrews, us.