The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-14
TWO TITLED FRAUDS.
How Sham Nobility walks into the
Confidence and Pockets of Trusting


man went up TO the office
of the New York hotel last September and
registered as Edinboro Bey. Being told, on
applying for a room, that the hotel was full,
he threw his eye over the register and found
the names of two gentlemen with whom he
had become acquainted in London. These
gentlemen, recognizing him at once,
introduced the distinguished look
Sng stranger to Mr.. Crandall, the land
lord, and suitable rooms were soon
provided for him. Mr. Bey represented
himself to be representative of the Turkish
government sent to this country to examine
into the United States torpedo service. The
handsome Turk was scholarly man, agree
able, trifie taciturn, and it was said had
record as daring officer in the confederate
service. According to his own story, which
was corroborated by other persons, he
entered the service of the East India COM
pany when a boy, afterward served In
the British navy, and afterward in
the confederate navy, and in Peru,
Egypt and Turkey. 1t is probable,
least, that he was atone time in the Turkish
navy The hey took to the New York hotel
several large trunks marked with the Turk
ish crescent and star, and there he and the
trunks remained until a few days ago.
Meanwhile he made many influential ac-
quaintances in New York. In his character
as a Turkish agent he met many ship own
ers, and to several of them he made propo-
SltlOnS IOr the cnarIeTlnS OF Lnelr vessels IOr
the Turkish service. Captain Stead, of the
steamer Professor Morse, soon became his
warm friend and frequently loaned HIM
money. He made his way, too, into some
excellent society, giving expensive dinners
at Delmonicos, and being entertained sew
eral times by Ex-Governor Winchester, in
New Haven.
Edinboro Bey went to New Haven, upon
one occasion, professedly on business con-
nected with the Winchester company, who
have contracts for furnishing arms to the
Turks. When he returned he had several
thousand dollars. AT several other times he
appeared suddenly with large sums of
money, which he was free in spending. He
was one of General Newton's guests at the
He'll Gate explosion, associated freely with
officers of the American and Turkish govern
ments and made no secret of his professed
mission. On returning from New Haven he
engaged rooms at the St.Omer hotel, on Sixth
avenue and intrusted to the proprietor three
gold certificates for 81 900 EACH besides sew
eral hundred dollars in currency. The same
day he visited Mr.. Edwards, agent of the
Winchester repeating arms company, in
Barclay street, and asked him to cash draft
for 5000 in gold, on Brown Brothers. Mr.
Edwards did so, and handed him two 500
bills, 800 in S. and SO bills, SIC in notes of
smaller denominations and the balance,
$500, in gold. He told Mr.. Edwards that
| ne was going 10 ledN6 LOnuOu tldl AFTER
noon on the steamer Denmark, adding that
| the ship might possibly not sail. His draft
/ was afterward returned to Mr.. Edwards
| from Brown Brothers with the information
/ that they knew no such man and that he had
not nor had ever had, any funds with them.
In the meantime, however, Edinboro enter
tanned several of his friends at Delmonico's
paid his bill at the st. Omer and securing his
gold certificates decamped. Nothing has
been heard of him since, although, so far as
can be learned, he has not sailed upon any
of the European steamers leaving this port.
On one occasion he represented that he
| had had long interview with General Sher-
man and President Grant at the Hoffman
| house, and the president had announced
to him there that he proposed visiting Tur-
key at the expiration of his term. 1t is un-
derstood that no such interview took place.
| He has publicly announced in many places
| that Senator Jones, of Nevada, has made
| him an offer of S25 900 year to introduce a
method of making artificial ice into India
and even went so far as to engage civil en-
gineer. at a salary of $1,000 a year, to assist
| him to Professionally secure a large steamer
to transport the necessary supplies. Senator
Jones says he never met the man but once,
! then but for a very short time, and that no
| such proposition was ever made or thought
of. 1t is believed that the bogus Turk has
gone either to San Francisco or New Orleans
a BOGUS BARON.
Paris True Kentuckian.
Many of our citizens remember the self
| styled Baron Harry DeKalb who figured in
this community in the summer of 1855.
Upon his arrival here he presented letter
of introduction, purporting to be from Gov
| ernor Powell, recommending ''Mr. Baron
Harry Dekalb, Esq, as worthy gentle
man, possessing rare scholastic attainments
ETC. The way in which the letter was adj
dressed caused many to whom it was pre-
ented to set the bearer down as fraud bui
having an oily tongue, fine conversational
powers, and representing himself as q
nephew of the distinguished Baron DeKalb
of revolutionary fame, he managed
| to ingratiate with a large number
of our citizens, got up classes in French and
German, rented two rooms at the Bourbon
house, tuition money was advanced. and fol
a while all went smooth. But alasl for the
baron" there stopped at the same hote
one day, Archibald Williams and son, from
Warsaw Ill. The son recognized the pseudo
baron as teacher under whom he had beer
a pupil, and addressed him by the name he
bore in his town. The baron" protested
he was not the man; said it was case o.
mistaken identity, but the boy insisted
whereupon the baron threatened by hin
arrest if he again addressed him with name
he did not bear. The boy then brought hi
y father to his aid, who, after {
close scrutiny, said, as Nathan did t.
David, "thou art the man." The Messrs
Williams then made known the fact tina
DeKalb had left their town for having beer
discovered as the man who had figured a
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as Count Nessel
rode, but had to leave that place for tryinl
his hand at forgery, or endeavoring to in
crease his exchequer by obtaining money
under false pretenses in some manner
Finding that exposure and disgrace wer,
inevitable, DeKalb took advantage of tn,
darkness and fed, getting a German FRIEND
to hire buggy, stating that he had accepted
a challenge to fight duel near Frankfort a
sunrise next morning, and wanted to b,
| nth on ha nv ;.rl