Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-20
subsequently turned out to be Clermont
alias La Dezma.
PREPARING TO ssRAIsE' STOCK.
Suspicion was aroused and the Read

| allaS La DeZfna.
| PREPARING TO ssRAlsE" STOCK.
Suspicion was aroused and the Read
ing Railroad officers informed Of the
circumstance, and they, already smart
ing under the tricks Horton, the Lam
caster ''raiser'' of stock the year before.
and knowing that these one share GER
tifcates were the very metal upon
which such worthless wrought, calling
to their aid Pinkerton's men, Franklin
and Bangs, q shadow" was put on
the two, the woman was allowed to
take the shares next day, having the
significant name of @. Ell. Boreim to be
filed in the certificate. The couple
was then traced to the Merchants
Hotel, where they had registered on
the 9th Of March, as G. B. Sergeant
and wife of Lancaster. AS soon as the
stock was obtained Clermont and his
real wife, Maud for the lady in the
brokers' office was none other than she
took the train for New York and
went far up>town into rooms. Frank
Inns men took rooms opposite, and as
may be imagined the comings in and
golngs out of ''the house across the
way" were narrowly watched. The
|
faithful wife did the shopping, the
mailing of letters, and everything res
curing outdoor movement, and the
willy confidence man kept close quarters
for two months. Who the closeted
&c. B Sergeant was become the
desire Of the detectives, and by the
time the two months had passed by
they were satisfied that he was Cler>
mont, the lover and supposed husband
of the West Philadelphia widow. .
A TRANSFER TO. A PHILADELPHIA DOCK.
In order to be satisfied of this Frank
lin looked up an old Indictment against
| Clermont, which ''friend" Of the lady
had procured through his counsel,
Judge Brewster, when the diamonds of
his mistress had been taken of by the
husband she had gotten at Long
Branch, and a requisitlon was issued
for the apprehension and extradition
of the apt pupil Of Patterson to a
Philadelphia dock. On the 9Th OF
May, Franklin, armed with the iequi-
sition, went to New York and arrested
his man, who, though surprised, made
the best of it, and drove with the
detective to the St. Denis Hotel. A
card was sent up, and the Long Branch
widow, now en- route to Europe to join
| her child, who was at school there, was
confronted with her profdious Cuban
lover. 1t was perfect surprise to her
for she had long since given up the
search for him, bat, sob you villain,
ohoked her utterance when she saw
him, which be returned with a bow, in
which was incorporated all the grace of
a Bayard and impotence Of q Brummel,
notwithstanding the difficulty of raising
his hat with manacled wrists.
now he GOT ouT OF THE DIAMoNp
sCRAPE.
To shorten a long story, he was
brought to Philadelphia, put in the
dock for the larceny Of the diamonds
the fair West Philadelphia got in the
tolls of love again (although when she
visited the prison she found his reaI
wife sitting on the other side of the
cell door,, made an affidavit that when
he took the diamonds he was her law
fully welded husband, and that she had
been since divorced. So after many
efforts to hold him on other charges
the Reading Railroad bonds not having
been used or altered. Mr.. Clermont
went Scot free. Madame went off tc
Europe, and the gay cavalier left town
with his wife, ostensibly for New York.
This was in May Of last year.
HE IS THE CHAMBERsBuRG BANK RoBBER
On the Oath uIt., the telegraph told
every reader Of newspapers in and out
Of this State that well-conceived plan
to rob the Chambersburg Bank had
been frustrated, and two of the burglars
captured. The leading criminal in the
affair had gone to Chambersburg Just
after the escape Of Clermont from
Frauklin's clutches here year ago, and
had set up as q Southern officer named
Colonel ROLAND, with his wife and
invalid brother, They had ingratiated
themselves into the friendship of the
cashier Of the bank and visited his
house frequently during their stay. On
the night in question Col. ROLAND had
called with friend at the dwelling of
the cashier, Messersmith, which was
connected with the bank, and they
made friendly visit. At the cons
clusion of this visit Messersmith found
himself hooded, gagged and robbed Of
$4,000. But in the uproar he created.
with great pluck, the two worthless
were caught and jagged. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that Detective Frank
lin and bis men yesterday Unidentified
Roland as Patterson'e "kid," Clermont,