The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-09-02
TIE BOGUS MONEY LENDER.
n NOTORIOUS sWINDLER CiPTURED
AFTER 4 LONG CHfSE.
Derrnuding Thirty-four Persons In New York
nnd brooklyn His Carer Elsewhere. as
Told In his Scrap Hook -Thiernnd Forger.

nnd Brookiyn-Itis Carer Elsewhere. as
Told In his Scrap Hook -rhiernnd Forger.
f. Holiday, alias Baldwin, alias Gardner
alns Roberts. alias Harrison. alias Woods. tho
bogus money lender. has after many months
Of watching. boon arrested in Louisville, Ky.
Ever since his sudden departure from this city.
some ten months ago the detectives have been
untlring In their Efforts to lay their hands on
him. and several times were on the verge OF
success only to be frustrated at the last momont.
His style Of doing business was to engage rooms
In fashionable quarters and pretend to have
como from California; that he was about TO open
n law business in the city. and in the mean time
request TO be allowed the use Of the parlors
until his Office was ready. His next move was
to advertise. $1,000 to loan. in sums Of sl2j.
800. $50. or sums to suit on security. Apply
! to los WashingtO avenue" tthe place occupied
while in Brooklyn or wherever he might bel.
| Two or three weeks would apprizr the victims
that the money they had advanced to their law
yer for examining and searching the records
| Of their mortgages had boon appropriated
! to his use. and that he himscl had disappeared.
lie would invariably steal all the valuahlcs in
the house on the eve OF his departure. and leave
a noto saying thatbusincss Of importance called
him suddenly away. He dciraudod thrty-four
persons in this city and Brooklyn out Of sums
'''S'"S H''" 80" wv" w. %''' ~ '"@
TO steal several thousand dollars worth Of cost
ly jewery.
When arrested numerous mortgages wcrc
found on his person. lie also had a small
| leather satchcl which contained two rcvolyers.
an Arkansas toothpick one foot long. law
book. volume Of Gray's poems. AMI other
books. with the names Of the owners either cut
or erased from the fly l'aves. $500 bond of the
| Washington CITY Mining COMPANY md several
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| ttlling th.ns' ~ "a ,oWn ani h,HSi1 IRE id'n-
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| ih' N',u,n'p gray poems WIS "lm'd bN a
young ledN. hlhd-"m" pHlr "a supper mt
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,g'. sie9' W!narr' a5 M,ie ie q@ eo'd hands win
BALDWIN career ei,cwlcre is told in dis
connected form in his scrap book, which Is fo[
n'tes burin,- H.. war az a.. Rebellion Il. ,,,as
q eutonant in tho 'vcnth Ohio Volunteers
Alter the war b" s'itl.i u IN Baltimore. and en-
In which hc arprarS ~ havr hcrn 81. essiui
Ills name dos ~ nppcnr again in tho SCRAP.
,'Vk uhitl Ia" lflh ~ ftAruhfy' i7th lh'
h''t ,'"t NJ Giy ~ u A.. ne. Ig
! ion a woman of prent styie and famous n.nu.
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IT, printirni wiin1s.. +. for m, u@icn"e. Did.
win testified To- her purity ~ character and said
! h. had known her since 1867, Thn Judge de.
cId.l that Mrs Gen. ~. Is. u. Arlington was not
! guilty and 'h,. Baltimore papers defended hei
iu their editorial columns against the Gsper-
against her. I'll. 2i. 1874. a suit was com.
men .ei hy Mr.. Con. Arlington asninst George
An 'hor and Alfred Thompson for sjOoOo dam