The Russellville Democrat., 1881-01-27


 family of Mrs. E. c. Dickens. a most esti. mable lady, who readily believed all he
 said. When he first came he appeared
 well supplied with cash, but later on he
 appeared to be hard up'' financially,
 but remained easy in the expectancy of
 every day receiving remittance oi
 SIP ,225 from his family in England. He
 was fine conversationalist, and by his
 stories of his travels and acquaintance
 abroad allayed any and all suspicious that his lack of money might have aroused. He claimed that he came to
 Canada in 1878, in the company of four
 of his chums from Eton, to study the characteristics of his American cousins,
 and when he landed that he had S, GOO
 in money, and that, after having done
 other parts of this hemisphere, the nat
 ural beauty of Amesbury and it's people
 had attracted him to it's verdant fields. He claimed to be relative of Sir Edward
 Edwards, one of the leading owners of the woolen and blanket mills in Halifax. Engy inwhich corporation he (the baron to bel also had a large interest, and from which the remittance of S12,225 was to come during the present month He took up his residence with Mrs Dickens
 III September, and, upon his money giv- ing out, that lady took motherly inter est III her honored guest. She willingly furnished what money he needed, and loaned him such articles of apparel as his necessities demanded. During the past few months Henry Alberts has been making strides in the affection and confi- dence of one of our most wealthy and respectable families in the town. He won the affections of the youngest daughter of the family, proposed mar riage to her, and the offer was taken under consideration. He pictured to her the great extent of his domains in the old country, his great wealth and the great social distinction that would be conferred upon her by the proposed marriage. Her mother was overioved at the good fortune in store for her daughter, and was made more happy by the proposal of Henry Albert to take the whole family with him on his bridal trip next spring to England. Meanwhile he bemoaned tine tardiness of his much talked of remittance from home" (which never came, of course), and so won the sympathy of bis ptQsp ective ather-in- !!ay that ma 6Ryo him money V l1a1IsxeIA IAs newanted 1t in sums which amounted to l $lS0. "Henry Albert's' would-be af. l fianced, it seems, has an older brother. who is quite prominent among literary | men, identified with the leading Ameri- can and English colleges, and this broth CT set about looking up the antecedents of the baron (to bel who was willing to become his brother-in-law. To his con sternation, he Soon learned that Henry Albert" in September last, had been ar- raigned in the police court in the town for larceny before Judge J. W. Cate, but had been discharged for lack of evidence. The brother kept this fact to himself. l, and went on with his researches. "Hen- " Albert" was one day seen to enter the room af hls ladylove and steal wallet containing $2. The brother and the |. young lady, however, kept their counsel, with the vlew Of hearing from friends in !. England, who had been written to re- specting Henry Albcrt's" standing there. The fellow soon found that he was sus- pected, and several days since suddenly left. A day or two after advices from England came, fully exposing him as an impostor. The last heard of him was by telegraph from New York, where he rep resented thatshe was sick at the Fiffh Avenue Hotel, and that he would soon be with the young lady. Investigation shows, however, that he has changed his abode in New York, and he is now sup posed to be in Canada, The police be- ieve that they have got clear case against him for obtaining money by alse pretenses, and would be happy to earn his whereabouts He is described IS p years old, of light complexion, five eet five and a half inches in height, andy moustache, small feet and hands md long neck. In his flight he took with him, among other articles not his ,wn, the following: A dressing gown, an id pattern double eye-glass, with one ems gone, and marked "S.;;" ;"pearl case 'pera glass; gold ring, black enameled, yith oval stone; gold Masonic pin, with ircie and compass; silver fruit knife, marked da;" pair of Japanese cuff but ons inlaid with pearl, and brown hecked ulster. Several tradesmen of Amesbury would also like to see him with reference to the payment for goods 'e obtained from them on the strength f his much4expected remittance from Ionle.n