Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-18
A JEREMY DfDDLER.
Something About an Absconuin2
Debtor who left Carson las; Week.

He arrived IN Carson three or TOUR years
ago from Wisconsin. Said ne was a
Union soldier duriug the war. which, we
believe, is true. Told of his being a
| rather well-to-do-farmer of Wisconsin.
where he left wife and four children
for the term Of four years at q remunera-
tive price and ne wished to take view
oil the Far West during that time end
make up his mind as to its capacities.
Although we'll off at home. still he would
like to earn sufficient to pay his expenses
here and lie. the rents of his farm accu-
mulate 50 as to form surplus fund
when he should return home, which
would be a, about the time the lease OF
his farm expired. As to his family, they
were amply provided for. They were
welcome to use whatever moneys they
needed; but fortunately for them, they
lived in the country where very h:tle
money won!d so grea: ways. they be-
irg provided with al excellent mansion
which he had in part inherited from mis-
father and had been sufficiently success
full in life to buy out the other heirs.
So he expressed himself as being willing
10 take charge Of a farm or engage in
any business which might be sufficiently
re,nunerative TO engage his abilities. For
the want Of better employment he worked
Tor time in Doc ben;ou's stable. and
afterwards, We believe, performed SINH
lar service for Winnie x David. After
that he became gard In the State
Prison, and preferred charges against
Warden Hymen of
1SHUMAN CRCELTIEs TO PRISONERS.
A Legislative investigation falling 20
substanti,.te his statements. he resigned,
and sought and Obtained position as
striker in tine blacksmith shop OF the
Mint under Mr. Cults. A man of fertile
imagination. q good story teller and
man of more than ordinary address, he
was a general favorite with all whom be
met. 1t was a favorite maxim Of his, IN
b. Iealings with others. that he
WA LED NOTHING THAT WASN'T RIGHT.
He said he believed that the Men who
undertook to overreach others by sharp
practice would come to no good end.
they would be caught ct last. thelr vii
lainies exposed and they would sink to
their proper level. As Iago was nothing
if not critical" SO Ben Gorsuch was
no. hing if not honest. During his stay
in the Mint Mr.. Cults helped him, We
81, of "a
bank for small loans several times.
These being paid. Mr. Cults had I'M
limited confidence in him. SO when Mr..
Gorsuch asked him to endorse note for
800 about week ago, Mr. Cults was
only too happy to accomm odate him.
SO Mr.. Gorsuch drew the money, visited
soms friends and added to the got $50
from Vsnaita, lieutenant OF the guard at
the State Prison-anG. We have heard,
other sums, and decamped that night.
Whittier he has gone no ono knows. A
of notes shows that he owes
in Carson at least $1,000. He swindled |
those who boarded him. He is good |
looking man, of dark complexion. about |!
five feet eleven inches nigh, about thirty |
eight years old, and wore when he left a
goatee and imperial q Ia Louis
Napoleon. While In Carson be
JOINED TIE oDDPELLoTs.
1t so happens that there are two resi-
dents of Carson who came from the same
locality in Wisconsin that Ben Gorsuch
halls from. They say he has no farm
there at all; that the last year he lived
there he leased farm at the halves; that
when he came to sell his share OF the
crops he succeeded in selling two hun
dred and eighty bushels of wheat that
to the owner of the farm; that
when this was ascertaiued Ben fled I'M
der cover of night and turned up here;
that instead Of providing for his family
before he left or since he came here Is
falsehood; that, on the contrary, his
wife and children have been for time
town charge during Indictment weather,
and that now his family are divided here
and there, toiling for a livelihood. II
We believed there was a redeemlnS trait
of character in Ben Gorsuch We would
not publish this; but knowing that he
has swindled everybody ne could. and
finally laid himself liable to the criminal
charge Of obtaining money under false
pre,enses, We have concluded that. al
though this little paragraph is not likely
to forward his fortunes. it may be the
means of preventing his swindling others,
o,s G., boro ~ mas into yorinf