The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-27
miscellaneous.
ROBBlNG A. WIDOW,
HOW MRS. STONE LOST 100000,
John W. Hull, After Inducing Her to sen so''
900 in Government Bonds and trust ING
Money to Him for REIMBURSEMENT
in Missouri Loans, Dis
appears.

appears
Among the inhabitants OF the board
inc house ll9 North Thirteenth street
are three ladies of the highest respecta'
bility, Mrs. Stone and Mrs. English, who
are widowed sisters and their aged
mother. One of them, Mrs. Stone, has
Just been made the victim of a conf
denCe operation which netted the rogue
Who perpetrated it $4,000. Mrs. Stone
had on deposit at DrexePs banking
house ST. 900 in 5 per cent. United States
bonds. These represented part OF the
estate left at her husbands decease, a
year ago. Along about Easter a new
boarder made his appearance at Mrs
Aliens. He was an Englishman, about
70 years of age, named John W. HULL
He came we'll recommended from his
former residence on Arch street. In his
department he was most gentlemanly
his attire was neat and his apparent fee
bleness added sympathetic interest. He
wore a dark wig and had whiskers OF a
corresponding hue, which owed their
tint to the hairdresser. In stature he
WAS about f;e feet eight inches.
He got into the good graces OF Mrs
Stone and her sister and proceeded to
relate in a plausible manner all about
his building operations and the tempo
rsry financial embarrassments under
which he labored. He had discovered,
almost by intuition, the amount of Mrs.
Stones possessions. He told her the in
terest she was receiving was entirely too
small and that he would put her in the
way of realizing a better return for her
Investment. He recommended her to
sell her government bonds and ~reinVest
in Missouri state IS. He seemed such a
business man and actuated 30 entirely
by motives of disinterested friendship
that finally Mrs. Stone said she would
avail herself of his suggestion. 1t was
arranged that on Thursday morning last
they should visit Drexel's and draw the
money. The amount was paid over to
Mrs. Stone, being five $1,000 bills
Hull's conversation previously had led
the lady to suppose that he had With
him the Missouri state bonds. He said
"Give me the money and III give you
the bonds" and put his hand into his
breast pocket, apparently to draw thence
the securities. At that moment he was
seized by such a violent attack of asth-
matte coughing as seemed to threaten
his existence. He continued coughing
until he reached the sidewalk. 1t then
suddenly occurred to him that he did
not have the bonds, and when they re-
turned to the boarding house he &C
knowledged that such was the case and
that they were in New York and he
would go after them. All the time he
kept the lady's $4,000, however, and the
%strangest part of the story is that she did
not discern that she was being triCked.
Such was her confidence in Mr.. Hull,
the nice old gentleman, At the break
fast table on Friday morning Mr.. Hull
notified Mrs. Stone that he was going to
New York. He had already packed his
trunk and was ready to depart. Then
it was that Mrs. Stone had her suspi
Cions fully awakened and the effect Of
this became palpable in HulPs de-
meanor. A relative Of Mrs, Stones fol-
lowed Hull from the House and made
the discovery that instead of going to
the New York depot he went down to
Broad and Washington avenue station,
The gentleman asked a policeman to
keep Hull under his eye for a few min
utes while he went for a warrant. The
policeman, however, said he could not
leave his beat. While the conversation
was going on Hull slipped out of the de-
pot. Information was lodged at the 6h
district police station about 3 O'Clock on
Friday last, asking the arrest of Hull on
the ground that it was feared he was
about to depart for Europe. The gentle
mar was informed that if the transaC.
ton was in the nature of a loan Hull
could not be arrested on a criminal
charge.
Chief Of Police Givin was visited and
informed of the circumstances Of the du.
pliCity of which Mrs. Stone had been
made the victim. Instructions were
sent to watch all the depots and a de
sCription Of Hull was %telegraphed to all
the principal cities, as follows John
W. Hull, 70 years old, 5 feet S inCes,l light
complexion, blue eyes, dark brown mus.
tache and chin whiskers, brown wig
black coat and trousers, white vest,
shoulders slightly stopped, diamond
stud in shirt bosom" Since Hulrs de
parture a mass of papers has been dis
covered in his room indicating that he
had been an accomplice IN a number Of
previous swindling games Two years
ago he was in trouble about a lot of bo-
gus houses. One of his claims in the at
tempt to get possession of Mrs. Stones
money was that he was the owner Of
property worth $4,000. No traces of the
fugitive have yet been found. Mrs
Stone was reported to be i'll from nerv-
Gus depression oVer her loss.-Phla.
Times.