The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-14
A FACILITATING sEwIN0-AAeAINE
AGENT.

He Marries Half . Dosen woman ID
Half shat Many Years, but Finally
Comes - Griefand Hsndesn-
From the Memphis Avalsnch.
For hard-vlskged and tough,looklng
individual, one OH. Parton, with nail .
dozen aliases, is the most talented person
in the art of capturing wives and speno,
ing other people, money that has passeo
this way for long time. The man Ten'
through yesterday on his way to Shelby.
Vile. Tenn. where he was captured LAT
Saturday night. He was in IRONS ana
under charge of Captain William Suris
of Miuden, w ebster Parish, La This
gentleman had been victimized to the
extent of about $1,000, and his only
prospect to get even is to bring the slip
perry Parton to justice. From oil that
can be gathered Of Parton. or Whatever
else his name may be, he possesses q gho
tongue and is q cunning scoundrel In
the truest sense of the term. His career
can not be traced beyond q period OF
three years past; yet in that time q Is
known to have married at least an aver
age of q wife q year, and cheated va
ious people out OF several thousand aoi'
lars. These exploits are known, but now
many more vain tricks have been his Is
not known. The first our informant
heard of Parton he figured at New Mad
rid, Mo-, as a'sewing-machine agent. ID
1878. He is man apparently thirty
five years of age. While operating a.
New Madrid be was known as u. W.
Wilson. He sold sewing-machines,
married q wife, and made numerous
debts al Madrid. Leaving the debts and
the wife, he shook the, Madrid dust from
his heels and repaired to Helena, Arkan.
sas. Hero he married another wife and
made more debts, again figuring IS a
sewing -machine agent. Leaving mum
Der of sufferers and his wife In the lurch
he next repaired to Little Rock, Arkan-
sas. THIS was in 1874. Here he pre-
sented powerful letter Of endorsement
from Judge Bennett oil the Arkansas
Supreme Court, to Mr.. Aldrldge the
Howe Sewing-machine Agent At that
place. With such backing. Wilson with
MS wives, aliases and debts-the latter
all ignored, found no trouble in being
placed on footing for further active
operations in the line of credit, OF Wife
getting and making debts. The record
does not state whether or not he marrled
n wife at the Rock, tbut one fine morning
he turned up missing, and MIR. Aldridge
was minus pair Of horses, fine SPRING
wagon and two new sewing-mschines.
Wilson was next heard of rs sewing
machine operator at Minden, La, where
he appeared about six months since.
Soon after his arrival here he won the
affections of a charming little well-to-do
widow, of not over twenty years. AS .
natural result he married that widow, and
in due time be had euchred numerous
citizens out of something like $2,oOO,
among others Captain Surls was victim
lied to the amount Of 900, as before
stated.
How Wilson alias Parton (the last is
the name he used At Minden), could tear
himself away from pretty little widow,
with surplus cash on hand, is mystery.
Perhaps the historyiof former misdeeds
was about TO leak out At all events
Parton alias Wilson, made tracks, leav
ing numerous sufferers and wife as re.
lated. After his disappearance Captain
s;urls, who is pleasant gentleman oil
culture and refinement, ruminsted over
swindler's doings, decided TO checkmate
the fellow ifpossible. He learned OF Par
tons whereabouts, repaired at once to
Nashville, provided with requisltion
from the Governors Of LOUISIANA aud
Tennessee, and followed on to Shelby
vile, where he learned Tat Parton had
again established himself in sewing-ma-
chine business, and was again about
10 marry a wife. The trap was sprung
upon HIM late last Saturday night,
ss before stated, and Parton's en-
yagement to attend Church the next day
with the lady of his heart was knocked
away. The captured culprit was put in
irons, and rs he came through the city
Yesterday he appeared TO be in gruf
humor, at'leas, as he rested in the station
house for a few hours, while Captain
Surls circulated about town, to hear ~
how his man Lad carried on during the
period above described. When the
couple departed on the train for Arkan-
sss, Yesterday afternoon, Surls was hear!
to remark that, if possible, he was an&
ious to keep Parton from marrying
another wife for period; also that h.
hoped to secure for the fellow q sentence
OF twenty years in the Penitentiary for
blgamy swindling. Parton is supposed
to be IN "cahoot" with regularly or
panized band of horse thieves, whose OPP
peralions extend over Northern Arkan.
sas, Southern Missouri and portion of
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