Daily Republican., 1879-05-29
sANCTImonIOUs sCoyNDREL F.,

A sANCTIMONIOUs sCOUNDREL
He Deserts has Wife and Children
Gets Mucbly Married. and GoeA
into tho General III cart Be eak Ing
Business. He RObs his Victims,
ana Seeks Fresh Pastures.
Nearly two years ago our fair city re-
ceived an addition efone to her popula-
ton in Alfred Carlson, Swede by
birth, "jour" tailor by occupation,
and consummate villain by practice.
Doubtless our readers recall lis six
foot stature, his rosy cheeks, SCARED
forehead, fair hair, light msustache and
inevitable white necktie. After procur-
ing work, Alfred began to look around
for lady companions, declaring that che
was so ferry lonely, hating none to
care for him, and considering Delaware
Avenue Baptist church fine field, he
joined and commenced his siege on
susceptible hearts.
Net wishing to expose the weakness
of those young ladies, who, as is too
common with the sex, prefer the at
tentions' Of an unendorsed stranger to
those of some we'll known native OF
their own town, we omit names. Our
Hero" joined the bible class, and
was made treasurer of the funds, regu-
larly contributed by the Sunday school
children to educate young Mr.. Mckee
yer for the ministry, but alas for hu-
man credulity Alfred held the money
but the contributors to this fund care
lessly forgot to appoint some one to
hold him. Thinking that charity be.
gan at home, this gallant youth ~
laid out the treasury receipts (about
$lS.00) in pomatnm for his fair locks
horse hire, packages of sweetness fol
the fair ones, ect., etc.
During the latter part of his stay IL
Wilmington, Carlson was given tt
drunkenness and its attendant vices
To be brief we will enumarate some fev
OF his villainies; want of space and tim
forbids our going into the case with
that minuteness that its merits reall,
demand:
By false pretences he swindled a Swed
ish servant girl at the "Old Ladies
Home" out of $26. A widow lady,
tailoress, suffered to the amount of 81
money loaned him. When she calle
on him to ask its return, he, lik
the colored troops, ''fought nobly,
valiantly drawing and presenting Iii
revolver at her twice, which gentle
man near by prevented his using.
His boarding house Mistress lost So
and young lady niece of hers loaned
Carlson her watch, which he took t
Mr.. E. Hanf, the jeweler, ostensibly t.
get repaired, but really to get anothe
from Mr.. Hanf to carry. This latte
watch must be of the lever pattern in
asmuch as it left town when Alfred
did, and has not since returned. A
lady who worked at tailoring for Carl
son lost Sl5 by him. An old lady a
the "Home for Aged Women" lost he'
stove, loaned him when he rented
small work room.
| N. Melchiol the gunsmith sold hir
a re2 Oliver; which was to be paid for o
the same evening. He never returned
and it is still revolving around til
country in company with Alfred. .
Physician we learn contributed an owe
coat unwillingly, land should Carlson re
turn will likely see that his back i
warmed in another way. Pusey Wal
ton lost watch. Nathan Lieberman
Isaac C. Pyle and others lost by placin
too much confidence in his plausibility
Before leaving Lieberman's building
where he worked in a third story room
he distracted some of the workin
parts of sewing machine loaned hin
by widow lady, thereby rendering j
useless. And so on we might continu
enumerating his villainies adnauseatum
In his trunk were found fearful ap
peals from his poor deserted wife, Mrs
Hannah B. Carlson of Paterson, N. j.
and his children. We hear that thi
lady came to Wilmington shortly afte
Carlson had jumped the town, lookin
him up, and she asserted her bells
that he has already inviegled two othe
ladies into marrying him.
A gentleman of this city accepte
an invitation to lecture at Avondalf
Chester Co., Penn. some two weeks age
when 10 and behold he saw there tn
immaculate Alfred, white necktie an
all. Carlson noticeably avoided him
and after the lecturer had returne
home, Carlson endeavored to villif
him, in hopes that it might weaker
whatever our citizen might have sal
of him.
The former knew nothing of Carlson
past life, but returning learned more {
it and procured the most undoubte
evidences, documentary and otherwise
from some of our most reliable citizen
of Carlson's villianies, and returned t
Avondale again thus armed to unmas
the despoiler of homes, and robber {
widows, orphans and churches.
On inquiry he found that this conf
dence man had been taken to the arm
of some of the unwary Avondalians
and by what some called his "swee
foreign accent" and "talking' man
ners, doors of worthy people had bee
thrown open to him. If all reports ar
true, that peachy cheek, that winnin
smile and that sigh for responsiy
heart were too much for some of the su
ceptible young ladies in various part
of Chester county, and this counterfeit
of Brigham Young would doubles
soon have placed No. 4 on his list {
wives.
As it was the Wilmington gentle
man, though most kindly received b.
some, was looked upon almost as a
outlaw by others, for having the auda
city to enter the sacred precincts c
their little town and endeavor to tea
this idol from their hearts; conse
quently he cleft them alone in thei
glory" returning whence he came, bu