The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-02
ONE MORE INITIATED.
This Time IL Is Resident or Wheel
ing Who Hos Learned All Abouf
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"BunkO,"
We clip the following from the Chi
cago Inter- Ocean of the 3lst OF January;
r. w. Alexander, of Weeling, w. Va,
arrived here yesterday en- route to Fair
field, Iowa, and put up st the Sherman
House. K. w. says he likes Chicago
buildings, Chicago people, Chicago push
and enterprise, but he despises Chicago
bunko. K. W. had just put away a
sumptuops dinner yesterday. and had re-
tired to his room TO pick his teeth and
AXE smoke, when somebody knocked on
the door. He opened it and was clasped
in the warm embrace Of party he
thought WAS an utter stranger. But the
knccker told HIM so much about all the
clergymen, bankers, lawyers and hrst
families generally Of Wheeling and
vicinity, that r. w. reckoned it was all
serene, and expressed his qualification at
having so much attention shown him.
Right here comes the sickening part; the
portion which makes the average Chica-
gosn wonder whether the outsider will
ever read daily paper and profit by 1t;
Well, it's very sad. but it's got TO be SAID
the man who did the knocking and
embracing, the old Wheelingite, always
the gentleman, yes, sir" Informed L. W.
that he had drawn a big prize
in a lottery, and asked If he wouldn't
90 out and help him spend
the money. And r. w. kissed his
spouse, and said he would take walk
around the block with the old, old
Wheelingite. The latter walked his
prey around some, and then asked him II
he'd like to see the place where he won
all his money. He would. The spider
steered the fly TO Room /, 1SS Monroe
street, and showed him mysterious ar
r.ngement of numbers on the green
board, where you put down dollar, and
an obliging gentleman, after looking at
lot OF small cards, also green, and enter
ing into an elaborate mental calculation,
discovered that the dollsr-plsnter had
either won anything from 81 TO
million, or had drawn a blank. 1t
is generally tho latter. But they
didn't tell Il. w. this. He found 1t on.
for himself, after he'd "played in" SlS5.
They showed him down stairs, and
coming across Officer Lehman, he squeal-
ed in time to get Joseph w. Sweeney,
the man who stesred him around, and
the suppositious old Wheelinglte ar
rested and taken to the Central Station,
but the party who presided over the
green board and received the money had
escaped. The den was cleared out the
Fo,,pl hn,np, IF iDtnrnstIDD
description, and comprising bogus
checks, check books, Kentucky lottery
scrip, full bunko layout, and IN fact
everything calculated to deceive the I'M
initiated. One book unearthed contained
the constitution and bylaws of the Great
Lottery Scheme, John b. Miller IL Co.,
managers, and the following were men.
toned as stockholders. The Hon. John
l.. Seasongood, Corresponding Secretaryi
the Hon. Luther Lsflin Mills, Presidents
the Hon. Bsrdwell LongsLreet, Vice.
President; the Hon. John b. Miller,
General Manager; and Ciincher the
Baili1, Assistant Secretary, Who
"Clincher the Ballifi'' is, goodness knows,
but the use of the other names is q piece
of monumental sudscity on the part OF
the proprietors of The Great Lottery
Scheme, unequaled in the history OF
bunko. II Mr.. Luther Lstlin Mills gets
Mr.. Joseph w. Sweeney into his clutch
es, he will no doubt make him regret the
use of his name as President of tho con-
Germ he was attached to.
The hope of catching tho fellow who
layan iar's
money is but slight, but there is no
doubt of Sweeney's part in the affair,
and he ought to catch 1t hot.