The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-04-19

packed up her diamonds. valued q
S25, 200, and the twain prepared tC
leave. Suddenly Clermont remem
bered that he had forgotten something
in the city, and sent the lady in witt
note which would fix it. Wher
she returned it is needless to say thai
her hero--her Adonis-had gone of
with the bandbox of diamonds under
his arm. A hot but fruitless pursuit
by the lady clear out to the Pacific
coast followed, but although her per.
idioas husband appeared in San
Francisco and carried out the snug
operation of bagging $4,000 on
raised" silver mining stock-Van
yalkenburg, the gentlemanly super.
intendent of the Atlantic and Pacific
Telegraph Company, being his vic.
tim-his friend, did not come up with
him, but here first learned that her
gay Cuban was q most expert fOrger,
from Chicago Clermont, after the
San Francisco transaction, next ap-
peared in New York as depositor
with Belmont & Co. of $4,000, the
purchaser of bin of exchange on
London and ticket to Europe. This
was in 1873.
Ia July, 1874, Lou. La Dezma. a
gentleman who might have been with
difficulty recognized by detective
acquainted with biz history as Cler-
mont, was passenger on a home
ward bound steamer for the United
States, and the special acquaintance.
and even friend, of Mr. William II.
Camp, president of the New York
Clearing House. Through Camp
and the Belmonts our suave friend
was introduced into the best stock
brokering circles Of New York, and
Wall street soon rung with his bold
transactions. Success, and then the
fate of Daniel Drew fell on him, and
be left New York in debt to his bro
kers s2 500 in margins on Toledo and
Wabash.
just here an episode in his early
life in Chicago becomes important
Maud l.. Margrave daughter a
large family of responsibility, had
won his young affections. and the
priest had joined then 10 sneA way
that no man-aog woman either
seemed to be eTer able to put them
ssGnder. She was not crooked"
but her love for him soon made her
obedlent to every crook of his little
finger, and it led her into many dark
and devious way. She was rather
prepossessing in appearance, but has
now but one eye, through frequent
use of poisonous cosmetics for the
purposes of disguise. Through the
world she followed him"-alwsys
obediant, always uncomplainiag, even
under the trying circumstance of be-
ing an aeeomplice, though perdu, in
the Long Branch venture.
The scene now shifts to Philadel-
phia; time, 9th of March, 1875, and
the visit Of very lsdy-like woman
to the Office of c. & H. Borie, the
well known brokers, on Third street.
The lady wanted Eve shares os Read
ing Railroad stock, hut desired it to
be Issued in single shares aud to be
first transferred to the brokers and
from them to her. These conditions
were unusual, and the lady was told
they could not be complied with. At
this answer she was non-plussed and
said she would return the next day
and give the names which she wished
to be Sled into the certificates. She
left the money, some $500, to pay for
the stock and then went out. She
was seen to connect" with man in
the, quiet precints OF Vikings alley,
a man who subsequently, turned out
to be Clermont alias lie Dezms.
Suspicion was aroused and the
Reading Railroad oGcers informed
of the circumstance, and they, al
ready sraarting under the tricks OF
Hortop, the Lancaster raiser" of
stock the year before, and knowing
that these one share certificates were
the very metal upon which such wor-
thies wrought, called to their aid
Pinkerton's men, Franklin and Bangs.
A shadow" was put on the two, the
woman was allowed to take the shares
next day, having given the significant
name CT 6, Roreim to be filled in
to the certificate. The couple were
len traced to the Merchants Hotel,
where they had registered on the 9th
of March as o. C. Sergeant and wife,
of Lancaster. As soon as the stock
was obtained Clermont and his real
wife, Maud-for the lady in tkS bro
ker's Office was none other than she
took the train for New York and
went far Up town into rooms. Frank
Inns nen took rooms opposite, and as
aay be imagined the eomings in and
goings out OF "the house across the
wsyn were narrowly watched. The
wife did the shopping, the
mailing of letters, and everything re-
quiring ont door movement, and the
wiley confidence man kept close quar-
ters for two months. Who the clos
eted 20. B. Sargant" was became
the desire of the detectives, and by
the time the two months had passed
by..they were satisfied that be was
Clermolt, the lover and supp sed
husband Of the West Philadelphia
widow.
In order to be satisfied of this
Franklin looked up an old indictment
against Clermont, which a friend" of
the lady had procured through his
counsel, Judge Brewster, when the
of his mistress bad been
taken off by the husband she bad got
ten at Long Branch, and requisition
was issued for the apprehension and
of the apt pupil of Pat
terson to o Philadelphia dock. On
the 9th of May Franklin, armed with
the requisition, went to New York
and arrested his maa, though surpris- |
ed, made the hest 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 1
Europe to join her child, who was
at school there, was confronted with |
her peridious Cuban lover. 1t was
a nerfecf snrnrise 10 her for she had |