The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-23
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q sharp AWlndIsr Brought 10 Grief In
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T. BuTpALo, August 22,-An accomplished
system Of swindling by the use OF the
United States mail was broughLto TO light by
deputy U. 8, Marshal Wait, and the
BWindleri VIM. Dunbar, 10 In custody. He
appeared at WAtertown, this State, in
$780, As excursion manager, publIahipE as
his Arst advertising effort q small pamphlet
OF 100 psRes, entitled, "Dunbir's Official
Guide to NlSgAra Falls, st. Lawrence
River and tue Rome, WatertoWn 4 Or.
densburg Railroad." He was next heard
OF at Warren, Pa, where be did some.
thing In the excursion business and was
fairly successful, Among the excursions
given was one from Bradford 10 Niagara
Falls last summer, In which the public
were told that they could 10y over several
hours OF Buffalo between trainS. 0n the
return trip q number did 90 aud had TO
pay their fare home. Dnnbat's frst ap
pearAnce Ia Buffalo was made last fall.
In the latter part Of January last Dunbar
engaged rooms in the National Hotel, Ell.
change street. Employing nine young
men aO assistants, the large packages sent
out and received indicated that business
Of some sort was q IuriShiug. About
March IA he removed 10 rooms on the
lourth q or Of the Hayden block, corner
Main and Seneca streets, and changed his
boarding place to the Tiff House, aud for
about four weeks he employed from
twelve 10 fifteen girls 10 day, and four
men At night, and sacks 81 mail were
carried 10 aud from the PosttfticR. At the
National be failed TO pay hls board bill or
room rent. AT the Tidt q big board bill
awaits liquidation.
The nine men who worked the National
are still bis creditors, and The OF her four.
teen girls and four men who worked in the
Hayden are yet without tangible pioot oi
his honesty, aud $40 rent and bill for
room cleaning, by the jAnitor oil the block,
are still unpaid. So great q quantity OF
mail from only two classes Of business
men-hoel keepers and breeders OF fancy
stock-gave fiae to suspicion on the part
Of the authorities, Rnc an investigation
followed. In the room In the Hayen
Block and elsewhere stacks Of letters from
oil parts oil the country were found, aB
well as q number from Dunbar, addressed
TO individuals, which had not been sent.
From the different letters, The testimony y
Of the iormef employers, and oil the facts
gathered, it w. discovered that frsm
the time the rooms were taken at the
National up 10 the present, letters
had been sent bICk to stock breed.
era and hotel men oil over the
country, stating that Dunbar was the
publisher OF Dunbar's National Hotel and
Pleasure Resort Guide and Directory and
the National Stock Breeden Directory
and Register, both oil which we're 10 be
published In editions Of 10000 and repre-
sent only the principal stock breeders 10
the one and only the best hotels In the
official directory Of the other, on the eh :
yelopeS Of which was cut Of the German
Insurance Building, aud under II "Dun-
bare Publishing House" the autographed
letter containing an elaborate description
OF the forth coming 10000 edition, and 0
formidable array oil references from we'll
known stock breeders, patrons and sub.
scribeis, which were snc0essi1 ID nearly
every instance In bringing 10 the little
dollars.
The Hotel Directory was wofled in the
same manner, aud copying these letters,
which wero unchanged In language, kept
the large corps Of assistants engaged. Not
less than 600 letters, each Of which had
contained 81 were found, aud peach
basket Of eleclroiy pc cuts Of stock for In.
settion in the advertising pages Of the
stock work we're discovered. Several lei.
lers, sending q second II Oh the suppnsi.
tion that the hrst had cen lost, were dis.
covered, aud one from an old iarmsr who
stated bis experience, but added thai Dun.
bar had sn honest look, and he thsrettrs
cent on bis dollar. Everything indica'eJ
that the amounts recsived have run up 10
the thousands. .