The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-09-01
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 mis- wife, probably knowing that
the detectives were after him and that she
would be in the way, and having made II a
rule apparently never 10 live with woman
more than a week or so. The method he
adopted displayed characteristic ingenuity.
He was IN Rochester, sent his wife To Al
bion on the pretence Of having business to
transact and affected To have missed the
train. He wrote a news dispatch purport-
ing 10 have come from Richmond, Va, an
nouncing that Mrs. TurpIn, his wife's moth
er, had been thrown from a carriage ana
seriously if not fatally hurt BY some
sharp practice he procured the publication
Of this item in a Rochester newspaper
Then he telegraphed his wife that her moth
er had been badly injured and she had bet
ter proceed at once to Richmond lie Tor
warded the newspaper cutting by mail win
railroad passes 10 Richmond, and saId ne
would meet her at Harrisburg, Penn. Hay-
ing thus rid himself of his latest matrlm9-
Mai victim Marvin was better able 70 elude
the vigilance Of the detectives. His I'M
fortunate victim proceeded on her way, was
overtaken by her friends and taken to her
home, where she found, of course, that the
dispatch was Il hoax, and her mother was
alive and we'll.
Meantime the detectives had proceeded TO
New Haven, where they found that Mr.. Beach
and Mrs. Kenny, to whom the draft had
been paid, were creditors of Marvin. They
are respectable and worthy people, and knew
the adyenturer as Gen. Morton. Under
this name Marvin has boarded for three
years past in the house of Mrs. Kenny, with
a lady who is believed to be his real wife
The New Haven police have long regarded
the so-called Gen. Morton as a suspicious
character. He seemed to travel great
deal and always came back from his fire.
quent trips with plenty of money. But he
paid his debts and lived quietly. A close
watch was thenceforward kept in New
Haven by Pinkerton's men, as it was evil
dent that that place was the headquarters of
the adventurer.
Other instruments were also at work
weaving the nets in which the willy
scoundrel was destined to be caught. One
of the peculiarities of the Pinkertou Detec-
tive Agency is its valuable system Of records.
By the aid of these Mr. Robert Pinkerton
was led to believe, 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 Il bogus mar
rage, and by means much resembling in
| their devilish ingenuity those employed in
! the Richmond case. One of these victims
he deserted in Washington, after obtain
| ing 300 from her, and the other, he, in
! turn, "a bandoned in Chicago, after robbing
! her family Of considerable amount. The
/ Young ladies in question were Of the high
| est responsibility, and both are now happi-
/ ly and legally married. Their names are
| withheld for obvious reasons. In these cases
| the Pinkertous were employed, and they Sc
| cured the man; but he was released because
| the victims shrank from publicity. Con-
7 tinuing the investigation by the aid of the
| Chicago agency of this detective bureau
and from other sources great part of the
! pravipI1. history cf this YJra- rax-polal
| The record is one which may truly be called
| astonishing. As a catalogue of successful
! villanies prolonged through half score of
| years it has never been eAcelled and rarely
| paralleed
HIS OTHER VILLIANIES EXPOSED.
| Under the name of J. B. Lindsay about
year ago he obtained ST, 800 from private
! banking firm in Eufala, Alabama, on some
| forged notes for cotton, causing the ruin of
| the firm and escaping with his plumber. \
| year ago last spring he was identified in st
| Louis by MAJOR Sergeant, prominent
| citizen of Missouri, as having, in 1878,
| swindled him out of $4,000 by clever
E---""" in Joplin, Missouri He was arrest
ed BY the St. Louis police and a full kit OF
counterfeters' and forgers' tools were found
in his luggage. Evidence was also found to
| show that he obtained railroad passes all
! over the country as an officer of various
| railroad companies, whose letter heads lie
coun terfeiteu. This practice he has since
continued. He has lived con the wing"
but rarely had to purchase railroad tickets.
1t was also found that he was just on the
point of issuing bogus checks of the Plant
tiers Bank, of Owenstoro, Ky. The coun-
terfeit plates, rubber stamps, letter-heads
etc, were found among his effects at the
time of his arrest in st. Louis. The pris-
oner was placed under 900 bail and was
plausible enough to deceive a prominent
lawyer who became one of his sureties. He
jumped his bail and was never afterWard
arrested, until captured yesterday.
Among Merritts other victims were the
Mining Bank, Deadwood, to the extent of
81 900; the Fourth National Bank, st.
Louis; the Joplin, Mo, Bank, $4,000; L.
2. Lockwood, Fort Smith, Ark, 5000; First
National Bank, Sedalia, No, 81 ,200 Beoit
Kan, Bank, SO, 900 Exchange Bank, HoI-
ton, Kan, Sc, 800.
Among the numerous wives in addition
to four already mentioned (the two New
York girls, the New Haven lady and his
latest victim, in Richmond was the young
lady in Lakewood, y. J., whom he married
on July 49, only four days before his mar
riage to the Richmond lady. As stated in
the Herald of the 4th inst, the adven turer
at that time called himself Albert Z. Mar
vim, and claimed to be an attache of the
United States Legation at Paris He de-
serted his victim in Washington, after Oh
tanning money from her father, clergyman.
His hasty departures from Richmond were
owing to the necessity OF his keeping this
wife from suspecting his plans while he was
arranging to marry Miss Turpin.
About two years ago he married a lady in
Carthage, Mo, and deserted her in a week
He then appears to have visited Philadel-
phia, where he was united to another-the
seventh-so far as known. In Little Rock
Ark, he next turns up as the husband of
daughter of a former Governor of the State,
whom he quickly abandoned. Mrs. Nellie
DE Hart, young widow, was the ninth
bride, and two Others are known to exist
one recently married in gainesville, Ohio.
The names of the ladies which are not given
in this are suppressed at the request oftheir
friends, but are known to the detectives
In nearly all cases Marvin's mode of proce-
dure seems to have been about the same.
He would avertise for governess and then
propose to his confiding charge to marry
him.
RUN DOWN AT LAST AND ARRESTED.
Yesterday morning Marvin was taken
into custody at Lynn, Mass, where he was
traced by skilful detective work. He was
living obscurely at the Sycamore Hotel, |
under the name of B. F. Adams Mr- |
BrOwneil, the brother-fn-law of Miss Ior- /
pin, fully Identified him as the man tor /
whom they were in search, and he was |
taken into custody and locked up to await |
the arrival Of a requisition from the Gov I
ernor Of Virginia to the Executive author /
ity of Massachusetts,. This was mailed /
Yesterday 1t will arrived III Boston to- t
morrow where Robert Pinkerton will be |
awaiting it and the prisoner will be taken
at once to Richmond The feeling of in
dignation in that city against aarYin Is
said 70 be very strong, and threats of lynch
ing him have been heard.
1t was ascertained that when Marvin had I
deserted his last wife" he went to Canada
and swindIed a Toronto firm out of 81 200
by worthless check drawn on the Chicago
branch of the Merchants Bank of Canada
through the First National Bank Of Madi-