The Morning herald., 1878-10-14
ONE. CENT:
coNJuRED INTO DURANGO VILE.

CoNJURED INTO DURANGO VILE.
], 400 oHnDRIK CHEATED BY 4 FALSE
ooNJuBoR-rHH NICE "scooP" NEGRO
MANoEn WOULD HAVE HAD II HE COULD
HAVE aLuDlD ARREST a, t.ey-~ 3
Scholars Ticket
LARUE,
TIE GREAT NEoRoMANoER,
With hiG Talking Hand, Dancing Babies
and MarionettesI
This ticket and 10 cents will, admit
scholar at Institute Hail. on next Saturday
afternoon, October 18th, at o'clock.
Every scholar will positively receive box
of French mixed candies, In which $4,000
lin gold will be mixed and given, to the
scholsrs. They will also have chance for
the furniture, $4,000 in greenbacks, barrel
of flour and 15O costly presents. Every
scholar will receive box Of candy. 'l
"Two extra presents viii be given to the
scholars boy suit of clothes, andto
. girl . silk dress pattern. Children are
always lucky Tsa 10 uoedin@I aslva
The above is 3 copy of onssids of card
that. has been distributed for some time
past among the school children Of this
city The Other side was equally alluring
and confined its statements to exaggerated
accounts Of how "Larue, the greatest living
mimic, pianist, comic vocalist, vsntriloquist,
|coDjuror and mermerist," accompanied by
q troupe Of wonderful performers, would
give the most delightful entertainment on
earth. @ - s. - -s e 1 3 ss.sga
I The announcement was sufficient to I'll
Institute Hall with an audience of perhaps
fourteen hundred persons, mostly children,
all full of expectation. The performance
WAS q very tame affair, and. to use the
| words of one of the boys: "He Larue)
Just acted worth nothin'.. He took doll
baby In his hands and let on that IT was
talking he took some eggs out Of . bag
and then after singing song or two, said
the performance was over, and that's all
there was of it," Long before the per-
formance closed the fraud of theowhole
thing became apparent, and steps were
taken for the arrest of the parties. In
formation from other places as TO their real
character, had gone before them, and the
authorities were on the alert.
Having gotten through his apology for
performance, .Larue at once proceeded to
| couture himself away, ~ the Arabs are
said to have done once upon a. time, leaving
an assistant 10 keep the children's, atten-
1 tion and act as though about to begin the
distribution of presents, he stepped down
and out ,sbut was meteby officers Bernhart
and Richards, who took him into custody r
1 The wife Of Lafue and his assistant, who
gave his psme as Martin, were also arrested
/ and all were taken to the Hall followed by
the audience of. overjoyed children, who
rslished the discontinue Of the swindlers
/ hugely F2&Im~t' sBGy sVCl sH@AyH a@4
4 They were given hearing before Esquire
\ O'Nelleat about 8 O'Clock, and the exami-.
4 nation of number of witnesses fully con-
frmed the guilt of the PARTIES Mr. Levi
i G. Bird acted as counsel for, tho prisoners
and said that the only thing he would offer
4 In defence at the present time was that 1t
was usual for .thestrical -partie 4 Ito pmis-
represent to certain extent their perform
| ances.
I The agistrate decided that the charge
had been fully sustained, and held the
parties under 5000 to answer the charge at
| Court The wife of the ring leader was
dismissed from custody 1as itawss proven
that she was not party in the deception,
but had only entered the box office at her
husbands instance after the sale of tickets
was stopped. g Sor!-3' EEe"jGsit44 =
Sergeant Whelan said that; he desired, to
bring charges against them for performing
| without license, but as the testimony OF
Mr.. Wilmot, taken ia the fore part Of the
trial, had showed that the Institute hady q
general license, the charge was not pre-
! ferred. 'a.' '". 'taTN." ~ '~h' "S''A
Larue gave his full name asc Pref. j.
Larus, alias Zera, and Martins name nan as
Henry J. Martin. They are still In custody,
they not procured bail yet, and ito Unlikely
that they will bs. committed. The parties
are well known through the country, being
the same parties who teok in the children
of Philadelphia, Norristown, Lancaster and
other places. 1t is to be hoped that,
punishment such as they deserve, will be
inflicted. ..,.......-.