Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-02-16
A native Of Whitehall, N. T.. hi, fam.

training and earnings to study theology
at the Methodist Institute in Concord, Il.
II. During this period he was for year
clerk in Tinkham Il Co.'s store in this
city, where he is remembered as a bright,
clever fellow. The breaking out Of the
war found him young Methodist minis
ter OF twenty-One, at Chester Factories
lnow CHESTER, and he promptly enlisted
In the army as private, but soon became
a Chaplain, serving in that capacity, in
either army or navy, through the re-
bellion, and for year or two after. 1t
was while in this service, by the way, that
he developed the mania for speculation
which has proved his ruin; the vessel to
which he was attached lay for some
time in San Francisco harbor, and
he got to dabbling in mining and
fancy stocks, with which species Of gam
bling he became quite infatuated. Return
ing then to the ministry, he was for while
at Franklin, where he combined preaching
on Sunday with selling boots and shoes
the rest of the week; next was led by
some sudden freak to emigrate to Mis-
souri,, but was back in year, to preach
in Boston and vicinity, till he became
publishing agent of lions Herald, where
he stayed till early in 1871. Settling
down then in Newton, he soon drifted in.
to politics, and was elected to the lower
branch OF the Legislature in 1872 and
1873, and to the Senate in 1874. Mean
while he had been building elegant
houses (among them two of the finest in
Auburndale, now occupied by Messrs.
Pulsifer and Haskell, of the Boston Her.
aid, as well as the mansion in which he
II i'm alf livn1 I'LL tic hot
destruction by fire few weeks ago), and
launching out in real estate speculations
generally in way that was surprising to
people who knew that he had not the
capital which his operations implied
Then he took to the newspaper business,
getting hold OF the Boston Nems, and do
ing good deal to improve its character,
though the enterprise was one which de-
manded manager with q deep pocket.
Last year he added to this the nominal
control of the Boston Post, and, for some
time, has had the name of owning "two
papers, both daily" as different in char
acter as could well be imagined. Through
all these varied experiences, however, he.
has maintained his connection with his
old profession and he was at the meeting
of the New England Conference in this
city last spring, when he fervently assured
the brethren that, though he was unable to
preach on account of lung difficulties,
his heart was as much in the work as ever.
For man of established fortune to
have done all this might have been set
down as one of those vagaries in which
millionaircs sometimes indulge, but how
MIR. Winslow could do it has long been
a mystery to steady going people. The
explanation comes at last in the revela.
ton that it has all been sham-that,
while outwardly good Methodist, upright
citizen, moral man, he has been swindling
people right and left. How much his
swindling fOots up is not yet known, but
it threatens to exceed rather than fall be.
low quarter of million dollars. The
heaviest sufferers are his associate in the
Boston Post Company, L. F. Porter,
whose name was forged to the amount of
$150,O00; w. f. Sheldon, who has been
business manager of the Boston Neacs,
100000; and Daniel Chamberlain, 500
AS there were several IT,
dorsements on some Of the WORTHLESS
notes, the same amounts sometimes al.
pear twice in these totals. Francis T.
Hayes, Leopold Morse and several Others
suffer to the extent of nearly $780, 900
more, while there are very likely some
victims who will never say anything about
t; and it is now established that Winslow
has made large Over-issues of the Boston
Post stock-how much cannot yet be told.
In fact, it will take some days yet to de-
eide the extent of his operations and the
losses of individual sufferers. True TO
his character to the last Winslow re-
uot hold of q paocn, o,rn.t ,.,o;
dence, and was fitting it up in grand style,
running up bin of So, 800 for frescoing
and ordering costly carpets and furniture.
His last appearance in the pulpit was at
Auburndale last week Sunday, his sub
ject being the good that is found among
men, the nobleness of human nature,
and the sermon being remarked as one of
much power. The fact that Pond, the
Worcester swindler, and Winslow had
been intimate and Endorsed each others
notes, naturally suggested the theory that
there might have been some collision be-
tween them, but Pond stoutly denies itand
says Winsow's performances surprise him
as much as anybody. Winslow left for
New York on Wednesday with his wife,
sister and child, and it was supposed
had sailed thence to Brazil, but it proves
that he took a steamer for Rotterdam, Hol
land, Friday, and, as ", have no extradi-
ton treaty with that country, he is at pres.
ent safe from arrest.
OF course, all this comes with a shock
to the general public, though we fancy
few close observers of the man will be
greatly surprised. Such persons have
seen all along that he had no moral
foundation that, with all his plausibility
of exterior he had not the root of honesty
in him. The mystery of it all is the
length of time he has succeeded in keep
ing up the illusion. But the end has
come at last, as it has been inevitable it
must come from the first.
There is no need to draw moral of such
a career-it draws itself.-Sprina1iei
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