The Red Cloud chief., 1880-03-04
A MATCHLESS IMPOSTER.

Within the writer's recollection there
stood in the Overgate, Dundee, Scot
land, an old dwelling of curious archi-
lecture. 1t was several stories in height,
and at one corner was a round tower
containing a staircase. In the middle
of the last century this was the residence
of the Hauck family. Henry Hanck was
a Hellander, who settled in Dundee
about the year 100, and introduced a
new method of manufacturing sail-cloth.
He grew wealthy and acquired much
property. In 1871 he died, and was sue
ceedes by an only son.. This son re-
moved to the dwelling already men,
toned, and was equally prosperous rs
his father. He died in 1850, and left a
son and daughter.
The latter died, but the son continued
in the same place and business, and,
dying in 1881, left his property to his
two sons, John and Henry, who were
twins, and at the time of his death in
their twenty-second year. While Henry,
however, received the bulk of the estate
and the business, John vas to receive
only a certain sum in money, for John
was dissipated and of depraved habits,
and it was said that his mother died
from the effects of a beating which he
gave her, because she expOstulatcd with
him on his conduct. Be this as it may,
soon after his fathers death his brother
gave him the large sum of money which
his father had bequeathed to him, and
he went to Holland ostensibly to act as
paid agent for the firm.
For some time he appears to have con-
Quoted himself with unusual propriety,
and was SC successful in business mat
tiers that his brother came to place great
confidence in him. In 1874 he wrote to
his brother Henry, informing him that
he had it in his power to make large
purchases of fax and hemp on most ad-
vantageOus terms, but that to do this he
must have funds at his disposal. Henry
at once provided for this, and John drew
large sums on letters of credit. Then he
disappeared, and nothing was heard. of
him for years. Henry married a Miss
Newall, and, having built a handsome
residence up town near what is known as
the Perth Road, removed there. The
name had come 10 be spelt Hawk, and
the spot where the new residence was
built was named Hawkhill, by which
name it is known TO this day.
Henry Hawk took his wife's brother
into partnership. After the new part
ner had become sufficiently familiar
with the business, Henry resolved to Wis.
it Antwerp and other modern ports, and
put his business relations on a better
footing. There were no steamships in
those days, and he had to cross the Ger
MAJ Ocean in a smack, which ran as a
regular packet. He had delayed his 60
ing on account of the health of his wife,
and did not start until June 10, 1885. six
weeks after the birth of their first child
"a son-who was born on Nay 3, of the
same year.
On the evening of the day on which
Henry Hawk sailed one of the domes-
tics rushed into the house from the gar
den, where she had been spreading
clothes to bleach, and exclaimed:
"Good sakes, guide us! I've Just seen
my master looking in at the gate!"
essay not q word" one of the older
servants said, so it win alarm your
mistress, for she will think it is his
wrath and that something has happened
to him."
But Mrs. Hawk had heard the excla-
nation Is she was coming down the
stairs, and entering the kitchen she in
CURED what it meant.
81 was STOPPING to lay out the
clothes" the girl said, and happening
TO look up, I saw the figure of q man
at the great gate. / q startled but
looked again, and then / saw my mas
ter's face distinctly, al pale and hag-
gard"
Mrs. Hawk restrained her feelings
and said:
s"It's you fancy, girl; what else can
it be? Your master is beyond the Bass
Rock BY this time, with a fair wind and
n clear sky"
Three weeks later a Mr.. Dewar, who
had q ail-loft on the Leagate, called at
the Office of Hawk & Newall.
IS Where's MIR. Hawk?" he asked.
"Why, he's been gone since last
June,- answered Mr.. Newall.
"Gone since last June!" Mr.. Dewar
gone whereof"
ITO Antwerp" was the reply. |