The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-10-30
GEORGES FORGER HUSBAND
BEAUTY, MYSTERY. AND PROFANITY IN
A SAINT LOUIS HOTEL.
Detective Cunnins New York Eiicitins from
. Missouri Clergyman the Circumstances
Attending q Marriage Ceremony ut Night.

Attending . Marriage Ceremony at Might.
Prom u. 81 Lou, Glib. Dsmcrat
On the morning OF Saturday, the 10Th
inst. the following despatch was received at the
Four Courts:
Chez Of Polio. 81 LoT,:
Look In hotel. tor man about Ave feet eleven. a5
years old dark hair dark side whskers and moustache.
slightly pockmarked around the nose. Had with him
about ~ 20 years age round face decidedly
handsome. very red hair iound ares, Tor forgery.
and notify o. W. WALLINo.
Chief Of Police. New York city
The st. Louis detectives didn't find any such
parties. and hence made no such arrests rs the
telegram called for. Possibly the circumstances
connected with the litigation for the obtsinance
OF the reward offered by Marion County. Ia.
for the capture Of certain county treasury
thieves may have restricted the extent OF police
comfy toward forgers hailing from the East:
but. at any rate. the st. Louis detectives didn't
arrest either the dark haired man or the red
haired woman.
On Wednesday evening last. q tall. sharp
faced young man. with a brown moustache.
wrote down on the register OF the Lindell:
james Smith. Utica. N. T." and was
straiRhtway assigned to room 373. The
night clerk. Mr.. Patton. was somehow struck
with the face Of the tall individual.
II didn't take the stranger very long. however.
TO ask few hundred questions respecting
good-looking tall man. with dark hair, dark
lady OF no common degree OF beauty. The
gentleman in charge Of the dining room. whore
ysl wss Of ea sSs nsS
Certainly. he knew them. They had come TO
the hotel on Saturday morning. and left Mon
ner. sir" pointing TO the southeast corner OF
the dining room, and when found out they
liked TINT corner. always sat them there. And
handsome woman
Whereupon the stranger made 1t the next OBJ.
iect OF his life 10 look at the register OF the hotel
on that page he found Geo. r. Robinson and
wife. Peoria" The night clerk and his assist
ant confirmed the story OF a dark haired man
and red-haired woman In room l66 from Sat
urday morning till Monday night.
Then the stranger. whose name was on the
register us Smith,. swore mighty oath. and
In round set terms denounced the Metropolitan
Police OF the City Of st. Louis. their chief and
his detectives. and averrcd that they must have
been binder than bats not to have seen the
handsome man with the dark hair and the
pretty woman with tho red locks.
After which. or rather during which, ex-
plosion Of his wrath 1t leaked out that the man
who ,cussed was member OF the New York
city detective force. and that he was after some
forgers, the general impression being that a
celebrated iorger on the Bank Of England had
ure TO arrest. II is needless to say that the re-
porter. listened very carefully TO all he heard
up No. 373. What he learned was that the detect
ives name was James Cunning OF New York /;
W alias Pars The one Tor Ds
Union Bank OF. London for payment at the
bbank,ng house oil hountze Bros IL Wall street
:, Flosswell alias Esmond, had hearing at the
Tombs Police Court and was, in default OF
$4,000 bnll. committed TO Jail. Esmond's state
ment WAS that he had received the notes from
man in saloon. but the detective concluded
that he was simply the agent OF the real forgers.
Inquiry. however. developed the fact that
certain notes Of the Union Bank Of London.
ieweller wer- presented by man with dark
hair. who was accompanied by magnificent
women with gorgeous red hair. BY means Of
the telegraph II was ascertained that the wo-
man came from Boston: that she had left that
place IN company with handsome stranger
some five weeks previous that she was reputed
to have suddenly become the possessor OF much
valuable rniment and Iewelry. and so on. Her
late home in Boston was carefully watched and
the mail TO the inmates Intercepted. Very
luckily the detectives came into the possession
OF letter-of which more anon-from which II
had gone West. by way OF Buffalo. Niagara and
Cleveland. telegram 20 Cleveland established
the TACT that ne dark man and his com
or two at the Weddell Hotel. and had left for 81.
Louis. Whereupon, superintendent Walling
the result-or rather non result already given,
When the fuRitvcs left n. Louis they carried
Tt4 them atrgnk' but where where that trunk ven,
know. But Cunning dug along. and in the
course OF the day struck hickman. who said
he had. on last Saturday evening. Just such q
pair Of occupants for his carriage, and that he
drove them way out west TO =. In few Sec
onds the hacEman had New YORK thief catcher
the house where he had pulled up on Saturday
night, After he had gone 4 long ways out. he
Just like the next and said. '' reckon they went
In somewhere here"
Out Jumped the detective. who tried various
door bells IN succession. 10 no good result. At
the first house he found lawyer at home and
IN the next he found commission merchants
wife. none OF whom had the faintest recollec-
ton OF having seen red-haired woman. At
the third house he met sharp Irish servant
girl. who took him for tramp. when he hastily
skipped four or i've houses. and tried again.
THIS time he hit II. He had found minister's
house and the thought at once flashed through
MS mind that the couple had gone to the parson
The minister on promise OF having his name
Yes. did m9rry such a couple on Saturday
nightT-a tall. han dsome. dark haired and dark
whiskeTed man an lady with red hair"
Good looking WASH shsp
-" She was human jewel IN noble setting
She came fro a Bostoni and was well educated
common woman or. If she we're then she re- !"
tained 70 most remarkable degree the finer
capabilities OF her sex. really think she felt
couldn't hrs been counterfeit"
Did you,earn how she came TO marry him 2"
My Impression Is that she had been simply
deceived in the matter. The man represented
himself 10 me AS an English lord. and imagine
she had married him for his title. He asked
me II was an Englshman andiI told him not
Then he snid, with very marked Dundreary
accent. Shall be married by my titular or
my family name?" and went on to tell me how
they had been married while on the Continent
by the chaplain OF some British embassy. and
that" he had some doubt you know. as to
whether the chaplain had been a priest in
holy orders. and whether the marriage
was valid on that account you know" And
30 he talked me right over. tell you n
he's, foEgsr,. then he's one Of the highest
grade His face was perfectly open and
free. His manner was pleasant and convnc-
inRly persuasive. Why II had that man S
personal magnetism | cOu id lin church debts.
aud raise money for the home field and for
missions and could make the power OF Chris
tian life and precept felt In all ! said and did
Didn't you have any witnesses ?"
That's Just the worst OF II. My family
weren't home. II was ate at night and went
over 10 my neighbors, two woll-known ladies'.
and got them 10 witness the ceremony. II II
weren't for them. | shouldn't care so much.
can help thinking That the woman was badly
deceived; that expecting TO marry and believ-
ing that she had married an English nobleman.
she mad in reality married a keen sharper"
And then the minister once more became en-
thusiastc over the woman and referred TO a
letter OF hers which the detective had shown him.
The letter was dated from the hotel at Cleye-
land. Ohio. Oct II, and is addressed to Ny
Dear Jennie ana all the rest" and s signed
" Georgia The writer says she knows they
have been waiting 10 hear from her; but that