The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01

telegraph to Buffalo st oncs. Bursting
into tears, the unfortunate woman said
she would be glad TO do SO, but the
scoundrel who had deceived her had not
lie { her even a penny to buy food with.
Mr.. Mckenzie kindly offered to relieve
her difficulty, az d not only vrots her dis
7 atch for her, but gave her money to send
It and to relieve her more pressing imme-
diste necessities. Within short time
friends furnished her the means t 60 on
to Buffalo, carrying with her q revocation
of his power of attorney.
There she learned that Soule
had some time ago written to Messrs.
Lee 81 Picking for loan, offering a mort
gsge on Mrs. Patch's property, and they
had replied to him that the loan could be
negotiated i. he had q power of attorney
to sign the mortgage. With this arrange
ment he had come on, and Is minutes after
they had received her dispatch he had en-
tered the office, and they had refused the
loan. That evening he returned with q
note addressed to Mrs. Patch, and in
dorsed: "Deliver or send If called for"
1T WAS A LETTER,
saying that he had gone to New York, and
asking Elite ibis wifel to write him there.
She did write, requesting a return OF
part, st least, of the money
as he had left them pennilesss. To
this, so far as heard from, she has not re-
ceived any reply TO date. From Messrs.
Lee Il Pickiug's & flee she went to the
Western Savings Bank, where Mrs. Patch
had a deposit, and there she learned that
the attorney who had been acting for Mrs.
Patch had suspected something wrong
and had caused his name to be entered on
the bank books SIS Joint deposition. The
bank refused to pay over the money on
III Of 4 ho rif
Authority of the lawyer. This could not
be obtained, and that deposit was safe.
Hast sning TO the Erie County Savings
Bank, she learned that the villain had
been mora successful there, the money
having been paid to him. Arranging mat
ters so as to prevent any further use of
the power OF attorney, she returned to
this city, where the ssddest blow OF all
awaited her. Persies who profess TO know
declare that the decree of divorce he
showed her as genuine was forgery, and
that she was never legally married to the
internal scouDdrel. In proof of this they
point to the fast that his wife and four
children are living with his father, their
amicable relations never having been dis
turoed, and his correspondence with her
never having been broken. They claim
that
HE has DECEIVED HER
INTO the D0lio1 Lnat no was west on
business, and was either preparing 9
home for her out there or would
speedily return. To induce his last wife
to come West, he made many fair prom
Uses, which he never kept. AS last re-
sort to secure Mrs. Soule's influence in
getting the power of attorney, he said that
| unless Mrs. Patch was willing to show
that much confidence in him, be would
serd her back to Buffalo. Rather than be
| 81 parated from her mother, against her
grant his request. Mrs. Patch has taken
the neces sary steps to have Soule arrested
on charge of false pretenses, and an Off
Ger will start to Buffalo to-day, to which
point it Is understood Soule has returned,
| II, indeed, be ever went to New York.
Jacob Steiner, sdjuster at the Wheeler
q Wilson sewing machine office, says that
Soule had a very bad reputation in Erie. He
was always drunk there. His first wife
| came on from Buffalo to induce him to
return there. She was unable to do any
| thing with him until she had him ar
| rested on the street ty the police. They
were recor ciled, and she returned to
Buffalo with his promise that he would
| send her money as he earned it. Instead
Of keeping the promise, he had gone back
20 Buffalo and married his second wife.
Mr.. s. IL. Altman, manager OF the Wheeler
Il Wilson off, whose name was ely
any acquaintance with him, but his
| reput3tlo was so bad that he would not
even recognize him.