The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-27
CALIFORNIA,s PIOUs FRAUD.
A Forger Of 100000 Goinr 60 the Paciae
sIopo from Wicked Brookiyn.

The California forger Il. II. Sumner, was
arrested In BROOKLYN snort time ago on
requi tion from tue Gov rnOr ~ California on
the charge OF making forgeries Amounting TO
over s2O0O0O. while passing through New Jer-
sew his lawyers ubt lined a writ Of hlbe "a corpus
aud last week SUNNI was tiken before Judge
Knapp in Hudson county on an application for
his dischlrge on the ground that he was held on
a fraudulent requisition. Tho Judge decided
that the 5 atc's return to the writ was insuni.
Client. and lie ordered 1t am nded. The prisoner
was therefore remandcd. Mr.. Osborne, by whom
Sumner was arrested. Immediately served
with a summons requiring him to answer In a
suit for 10000 DAMAGE for false imprisonment.
Yesterday judge Knapp decided that Sumner
Is properly IN custody, and be will be sont back
to California.
The detectives say that Sumner Is a native
OF New York State. and has resided I'm
many Of her towns. At one time he was
financial manager of an Indiana college.
About ak years ago he moved to Cli-
formal he was gentleman In San Francisco.
real estate agent and rancher IN Napa county,
and four years ago he opened an on 20 In san
Francisco and lived in the adjoining village Of
Oaklani. He Joined the Baptist Church Of the
Rev. Mr.. H. r. Pirshall, and was soon delcon
and an influential ms mber Mr.. 81 inner IA de-
acrlDed as being At TINS time OF COmelY person,
with soft. winninr voice and an insinu ting
address. Hia spotless nictv and meek aud lowlv
Cnrisn9n spirit Mr.. sumner especially prided
himself upln. lie had not been long n church
member before the name OF his pastor was nm
pleasantly associated with That of a Young lady,
Miss 1D u Ingals. A church meeting was c,lled
80 investigt e the scandal, aud Nc sumner was
the chief prosecutor at the snsOrctsd minister
he litSr w,s lr9n Do Sul,tS' snd soon
there. after reviewing his trial. aca itted him OF
tue CHARGES.
one ullnt nv the rlhdsiie, ADD irently wounded
and bleeding. lie 2 We gut that he hal been at
tecked hy Mans and that the ass lul' g in
stiR ted nv Parshall, ~ no had received many
threatening letters. supposed To have been sent
Nv the latter. sumner sank rapidly. and his G Use
became 81 critic ! tn 4 his unte-mOrtem state
mcut was TAX N, in which he declared that his
belief that the attempt to a-sHs-inate him WIS
made Ny emlss aries Of Parshall was ~ strong
was hi hope that he VS. soon TO meet 1.-THE
blessed Jesus" The relief that sumner felt
NJ er the delivery of thi- statement WIS electric.
AMI after few duys lac WAS on his TO the
East He returned ~ CalifDrniN In 1871 and
procured the services ~ ruff IN who swore
that ne committed thH assault ON sumner at the
ins'iRation Of ParsnaIl. Afterw 70 he confessed
that the whole tiing WAS conspiracy ncOcted
by sumner and himself. He also disclosed
other schemes, by wAich Mr.. Parsh II WIS to
be brought tn Crief. Sumner therefore com
fessed his viil.inies. and Parsh,ll sued him for
libel 1t was shown by tho clergvm IN tn Il the
ciuse OF summers cnmity toward him was his
Rar-halsl opposi ion t. the clerical aspira' Ions
OF Mr. sumner Mr.. rarshlll said that 1t had
W, iNh'AN'A tilh SIIllcl rNluulcu
and then insnl ed lady In ST Helena, Napa
county. and that ne hsd been publicly cowhi ed
by the litter. lie investigated the ruuior and
found thai It was true, aud then Sumner TO
slve himself concOotcd the scandal about the
Girl Ingals. The story of the attempted assgsd-
nation was used for tn" same end After Par
shall had been driven from hts church. Sumner
swinded gentleman. who fore d him TO m ke
restitution at the point Of the pistol After
this. summers swinlles were numerous and
bult. Has Usual p. .,t-c go was t. OK hAngc m
estate In Nan, county Or property In the Fast.
lie called his propertv Inrirwu1d, and re re.
scented IL as picture II Paradise. L. was, how
ever. v'fcd Wit m lrfg tges, md wa nrarft-
cal Y wort lss Many Flstern men lost heavily
hy Ills fraud "a tines trusted inplicitiv m tho
tunes.
l. "a sai' that There are In lictmonts enough
against Sumner to send him o. urispn for the
rest Of lis life.