Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-20

| although her terms were rather high ht thought he would like to engage her, and would come on to see her as soon as he had settled some business affairs in New York 1 Miss Turpin wrote to the three personages Mir. Marvin had named as references and re l celved the most satisfactory replies. The 1 writers united in speaking of Mir. Marvin ii l the most fattering terms. They said tha | they had known him great many years 1 that he was gentleman of great culture and refinement; of the highest honor and integ | rity and possessed of large means. Int 1 clergyman wrote that his daughter had beer l MT. Marvin's first wife, and that he had treat | ed her with the utmost kindness. Miss Fur pin expressed her satisfaction with the result of her inquiries, and so informed MT. Mar win, who came to Richmond to see her, and l the interview resulted in her partial engage ment as governess for his daughter, whose sudden illness. he explained, called him away before the contract was closed. Miss Turpin and her mother were most favorably i'm pressed by MT. Marvin. He was a tall. stout, fine looking man of sixty years, with white hair and whiskers, pleasant gray eyes, of in sinuating address and conversational powers. ovERTUREs OF MARRIAGE
 l. A few days after Mr. Marvin's departure to faattend to his sick daughter, Miss Turpfn re! ceived a letter from Mrs. Taylor, the wife of the Camden Congressman, making an inter- estlng romantic disclosure. The writer said that she could not resist the temptation of betraying Mir. Marvins confidence in good cause. He had called on her since he left Richmond, and told her that the young lady whom he was about to engage as governess was the most charming woman he had ever met in his life. He was in love with her, and would be the happiest man in the world if he thought Miss Turpin would consent to be his
 wife. The writer strongly advised the latter hn11td nffav i'm
 self, saying that she had known him thirty
 years, that he had been a devoted husband to
 his first wife, and had nursed her tenderly
 through the long illness which terminated in
 her death six years ago. Two days after this
 letter came from Mir. Marvin formally pro
 posing for Miss Turpins hand and saying
 that he could not bear to think of employing
 her as mere governess.
 A day or two after he presented himself in
 person and was accepted. He again had to
 leave hurriedly on business, and on his re-
 turn settled $3O,O0O for life on his prospect
 i've wife, and on the 2Oth of July last the
 couple were married, the groom being in
 haste to get to the Hot Springs for his health
 and thence to go abroad.
 ON THEIR HONEYMOON TRIP.
 The happy couple started on honeymoon
 trip at once, but before leaving, through the Identification of MT. A. M. Brownell, Rich mond business man and brother-in-law of the bride, MT. Marvin cashed draft for $765, drawn by David & Bradley, through the First National bank of Madison, Wis, on the First National bank of Chicago. Out of this he took $250 in money and the balance in draft on the Merchants National bank of New York.
 MT Marvin had not left Richmond a week before it was known that the draft which he had presented was forgery, and when it was discovered that he had stopped to the small business of borrowing $15 from the minister who had married him, 1t was real ized that he was a scoundrel and an adven- turer.
 Miss Marvin's friends at once took meas ures to discover the whereabouts of the man who had so meanly deceived them. Through the letters of his trusting young wife, who had not yet discovered that she was the vic tim of an unprincipled villain, it was be- lieved that he was in the vicinity of this city, and Pinkerton's detective agency was com municated with. For several days it was i'm possible to obtain any clew to the scoun- drers whereabouts for he was adroit enough to have all his wife's letters tmailed on the wing" They were all posted on railroad trains or stopping places on the road, so that his wife could not be communicated with. A lady friend of the Turpins and MT. Brow nell had by this time come to New York to aid in the search and to take the young lady to her friends as soon as she should be found.
 At length on the 26th u1t. it was learned by the detectives that the couple were in AL bany, but he was too old bird to be caught there and only stayed long enough to get 8 worthless draft cashed for about $45O by Spencer, Trask $ Co. This draft was the one he had procured in Richmond under the name of Thomas A. Marvin. He indorsed it to A. B. Morton, was identified at the bank by man who knew him as ''General Nor ton, very prominent and wealthy railroad man, and procured the money, portion of which the detectives learned was in the form of drafts payable to Henry C. Beach and Mrs. Kenny.
 BETRAYED AND DESERTED.
 About this time Marvin determined to get rid of his wife, probably knowing that the detectives were after him and that she would be in the way, and having made it a rule ap parently never to live with woman more than week or so. The method he adopted displayed characteristic ingenuity. He was in Rochester, sent his wife on to Albion on the pretence of having business to transact and affected to have missed the train He wrote a news dispatch purporting to come from Richmond, Va, announcing that Mrs. Turpin, his wife's mother, had been thrown from carriage and seriously if not fatally hurt. By some sharp practice he procured the publication of this item in Rochester newspaper Then he telegraphed his wife that her mother had been badly injured and she had better proceed at once to Richmond. He forwarded the newspaper cutting by mail with railroad passes to Richmond, and said he would meet her at Harrisburg, Pa. Hav- ing thus rid himself of his latest matrimonial victim Marvin was better able to elude the vigilance of the detectives. His unfortunate victim proceeded on her way, was overtaken by her friends and taken to her home, where she found, of course, that the dispatch was hoax and her mother was alive and well.
 Meantime the detectives had proceeded to New Haven, where they found that MT. Beach and Mrs. Kenny, to whom the drafts had been paid, were creditors of Marvin. They are respectable and worthy people, and knew the adventurer as General Morton. Under this name Marvin has boarded for three years past in the house of Mrs. Kenny, with lady who is believed to be his real wife. The New Haven police have long regarded the so-called General Morton as suspicious character. He seemed to travel great deal and always came back from his frequent trips with pien- ty of money But he paid his debts and lived quietly. A close watch was thenceforward was evident that that place was the headquar- ters of the adventurer.
 Other instruments were also at work weav- ing the nets in which the willy scoundrel was destined to be caught. One of the peculiari- ties of the Pinkerton detective agency is its valuable system or T0cOEUS. Dy buo dAu oA these MT. Robert Pinkerton was led to be- lieve, and the belief was soon strengthened into positive certainty, that Marvin was no other than David Lindsay who, about five years ago. deluded two young girls of this city into bogus marriage and by means much resembling in their devilish ingenuity those employed in the Richmond case. One of these victims he deserted in Washington, after obtaining $500 from her, and the other he, in turn, abandoned in Chicago, after rob ping her family of considerable amount. The young ladies in question were of the highest responsibility and both are now hap oily and legally married. Their names are withheld for obvious reasons. In these cases the Pinkertons were employed, and they se cured the man but he was released because the victims shrank from publicity. Contin- uing the investigation by the aid of the Chi cago agency of this detective bureau and from other sources great part of the pre- vious history of this man was revealed. The record is one which may truly be called as- tonishing. AS a catalogue of successful will lanies prolonged through a half score of years it has never been excelled and rarely paralleled.
 HIS OTHER VILLAINIES EXPOSED.
 Under the name of J. B. Lindsay about year ago he obtained $6, 800 from @ private banking firm in Eufala, Alabama, on some