Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-27
A GAY DECEIvER.

The Romantic Career Of Swedish Tailor
Last May there came to Lancaster ;
tailor giving his name as Alfred Carlson
He was Swede of rather pleasing address
and obtained employment as coat makel
in Smaling's clothing house, North Queer
street. Some time after his arrival here {
Wilmington newspaper published an ar
ticle denouncing Carlson as swindler and
dangerous man, alleging among othel
things that he cheated everybody that
trusted him, and that he had three
or four wives living in different
places. This newspaper article was
brought to Carlson's notice, whereupon he
| denounced it as a gross and unfounded
! SANDER, and threatened to sue the publish
| ers for libel--acknowledging, however, that
he owed debts in Wilmington to the
amount of s75, and that the publication
| was trap. set to induce him to come
back to Wilmington SO that he might be
arrested and locked up. The Lancaster
police wrote to the Wilmington authori-
ties that Carlson was in this city and could
be easily arrested if he was wanted" but
no response was received from Whining
ton.
Carlson continued to work for Mr.
Smaling until the last week in January,
when he rented a room over Skiles & Frey's
tobacco warehouse, and went into business
on his own account, employing few girls
to assist him in shop-work. He only kept
the rooms a few weeks, and then came
back to Smaling's, where he continued to
work until Saturday, the 14th inst.
Having become acquainted with Mrs.
Henrietta r. Krug, residing at 142 East
Walnut street, he became suitor for her
hand, was accepted, and married her about
four weeks ago, Rev. DR.. Greenwald per-
forming the ceremony. On Sunday last
Carlson left his bride and has not since
been heard from.
Before leaving he told her that Col.
Reynolds, engaged as salesman in large
clothing house, had secured him situa-
ton as cutter in Dayton, Ohio, and that it
would be necessary for him to leave for
that city at once. On these representations
his wife gave HIM all the money she could
spare (more than enough to carry him to
DaytOn) since which time nothing has
been heard of him. His flight has deeply
affected Mrs. Carlson Cor Krug), and she
is lying quite sick. 1t is now
thought that the Wilmington stories
about Carlson are true. and that
he has deserted his last wife as he did the
others. Color is given to this supposition
by the fact that before Carlson's late mar
riage he told some of his friends that an
acquaintance of his was about to marry a
rich widow, and wanted to know if he
would fall heir to her property in case she
died. 1t is believed it was his own in
tended marriage that he had III view at
the timc and that he could not get hold of
her property, which is held in trust for
her.
The Wilmington Charges.
We have seen copy of the Wilmington
paper referred to. 1t is the Duly RepubI-
can of May 90, 1879, and denounces Carl
son rs g a sanctimoniouS scOundrcl," who
deserts his wife and children, gets much
ly married and goes into the general heart
breaking business robs his victims and
seeks pastures new" From the Republi-
can's account, it is the same " six footer,
with rosy cheeks, Scared forehead. fair
hair, light moustache and inevitable white
necktie' that has been operating in
Lancaster. lie joined Baptist church
in that city and became treasurer
of the Bible society and spent slS of it's
funds on his personal adornment and
rapidly degenerated into drunkenness and
other vices. He wheedled servant girls
and widows, boarding house mistresses
and tailors out of various sums ranging
from 50 to S26, besides raising money on
many other peoples goods, which he ''bol-
rowed." One deserted wife, Mrs. Han
nah Il. Carlson, of Paterson. N. j.,
hunted him out in Wilmington and de-
clared that she believed he had deceived two
other women into marrying him. He fled
from Wilmington to Avondale, but his
sins found him out just before he was
about to marry wife No. 4. He left there
for Lancaster, where his career is told
above.
Correction.
In noticing the death of Mrs Alexander
Schultz, of Strasburg, yesterday, we stat
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