The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-19
CRIMINAL VARIETIES.
Called Here and There from tho Columns OF
the Daily Press.
A sample Detective.

vas shot One Of the burglars, named Chas
4. Leavitt was arrested, tried, convicted ant
nntto penitentiary for life; a large reward
deiug offered for the other burglar, who hat
escaped Three or four years afterwards ont
Nuncie, a Cleveland detective desiring to &c
Ce large reward offered for the missing burg
lar, went to Leavitt, who was in the peniten
Gary, and offered to get him pardoned out l
he would swear that Frank Meeker, wilt
young scapegrace OF Cleveland, had been hi
COMPANION IN committing the burglary o
Dams house and shooting Joseph Dain; ant
Leavitt agreeing to Muncies Offer the latte
crested Meeker, who was tried and on Lea
gius evidence convicted and sent to the penn
Gentiary. Now Leavitt appears before mag
istrate in Buffalo and makes an affidavit de
Gailing Muncle's conspiracy and asserting
SIeekers innocence, who, otherwise had al
gays borne good character.
Meantime, to show that Leavitts story Is
probably true. 1t Is proved, on Muncie that
soon after this exploit IN Canada, be returned
70 Cleveland, and found a wealthy man who
Ganted to get a divorce from his wife, and
Hired MuAcie to make his wife commi, her
self Muncle hired another man, got disrep
C:able woman, and sent the two to a hotel
Uhere the man who wanted the divorce found
dem and claimed the woman as his wife be
fore witnesses, which she admitted. The man
Gen secured his divorce, the wife never hav.
ing been notified 6 but she afterwards learned
If the affair, had Muncie and the other iniict.
81 for conspiracy, proved an alibi, and the two
worthless were sent to state prison. where Nun
c1e's COMPANION committed suicide.
Bold Attempt to BlaOkmaii Jay Gould.
Mondays New York papers are ablaze with
sensational headlines over an attempt to black.
<nail Jay Gould. AS the story runs, as long
ego as Oct. 17th Gould got letter through
Ole post Office from AN Old Victim, threaten.
ing HIM with assassination The letter began
9th the comfortable assurance that
within six days from the date of this letter
your body Will have returned to the dust from
Vbenee it came. therefore entreat you to
make your peace with God, and prepare for
De fate that awaits you. This is no wish of
mine to take your life but | am inspired and
eequested by the allliving God to do so as
public necessity and for the benefit of
(ue community at large. You must
Undoubtedly be aware that you have been
rogue Of the first water all your life that
urough your arttul cunning and deception
{ou have robbed thousands Of people of their
1rlhright You have had no mercy; you have
fobbed the rich and the poor the father and
Oe fatherless, the widow and the orphan, in.
discriminatory, of theirla dollar and through
lour villainy you have brought rum and de-
Arnctlon upon thousands of families" &c. Sc.
Gould was cot assaled, however, within SIX
days, but instead OF that other letters kept
Coming to HIM from the same person. finally
telling Gould that the writer had lost
thousands of dollars In stocks, and'beggcd Mr.
Gould for Gods sake to help HIM and save
him from ruin. What he wanted now was pos
hlve information as to the future movements
O. certain stocks, in order that by investing
npder MIR. Gould's advice he might retrieve
his lo5ccS and recover his position IN the
street. and in society. He said that he was
Connected with the largest financial institution
In the country, and unless he was saved the
failure would cause great crash.
Gould haYing called to his AID force of de.
tectives, replied to the man through person
HS'' In the papers and offered to send him
check to make up all his losses If he would
make himself known; but the man was too
GINNING TO be caught in that way Gould al
a. gave him points" In regard to certain
socks, with view Of finding ont through
Shat brokers he operated, and thus did satisfy
himself that tho brokers were Decker, Howell
& Co, but even through these was unable to
ENTITY the man Finally an arrangement was
made with the pOstoffce department to watch
Sl letters dropped into the street boxes, and in
Obs way the man was caught, who turned out
U be one Col. j. II Welles, wellkn stock
operator, residing at 3G5 Fifth Avenue. The
@an admitted having written the letters
Gould, declaring the sole object TO have been
v get such Information from Gould AZ would
enable him to retrieve certain heavy losses
failing to do which he was iIretrievably ruined
Having been arrested and exposed, he declared
bis purpose to kill himself, and he is now care
iuiiy guarded In prison TO prevent his commit.
Gng suicide
~ seems that j. Howard Welles is no, the
only victim that is threatening Gould bp,
ibe World Of Sunday says:
IL IS only three or four days since Mr. Gould
received tae hrss OF another series of threaten
ting letters. The letter in question was sianad
eVicum," and was almost identical 1,,t ,t
Grst one written by Mr.. Welles, although av ~.
Gins epistle contained a square demand 70,
money. IL was marked by the same HOOD
thirsty threats, and 1t informed Mr.. GonId
that within day or two the writer wonid
murder him, Another letter was receives
from Victim" on Saturday and another nh
sr"sning As 9 general fnle the writers q,
suSa letten ars caught with but little trouble