The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01

about thesame time, forged some drafts at
Joplin, Mo-, under the name Of j. A. Marvin.
1t appears that in this last transaction Marvin
swindled member of the Missouri Legisla-
ture out Of $1,000. A year ago last spring
Marvin was recognized by his victim in st.
Louis, and was arrested and held to bail In
$4,000. He obtained good bail and ran
away as soon a. he got out Of Jail. leaving
his bondsmen, one Of whom was a New
York lawyer, to get out of their responsible
ity the best way they could. In his bag
gage they found some burglars, counter
fetters' and forgers' implements, and some
blank checks and a rubber stamp belonging
to bank al Owensboro. KY, but they
all proved t. be counterfeit. Chief OF
Police McDonough, however, had already,
before his flight, compelled the prisoner to
sit for photograph, and another portrait
OF him was found in his baggage. These
pictures were multiplied and sent to the
police agencies all over the country from st.
Louis.
When Pinkerton met parties who came on
here from Richmond in Miss Turpin's inter-
est, he showed them his rogue's album. As
soon rs the parties, of whom Mr.. A. NJ.
Brownell was one, saw Marvin's picture,
taken In st. Louis as that of b. A. Martin,
they at once identified the individual as the
person whom they were seeking. Arrange
ments were at once made with Chief of
Police Webster, in New Haven, to keep a
lookout for him, az well as to watch Mar
wins adopted daughter, who was living
with Mrs. Kenney. On Wednesday last
parties in this city informed Pinkerton that
General Marvin was stopping at the Saga
more House in Lynn, Mass, under the
name Of Benjamin F. Adams. Mr.. Brownell
has been North for week past assisting in
the case, and was at New Haven. Pinker-
ton telegraphed to Brownell to go to Lynn
and see II he could identify "Adams."
Brownell got to Lynn at six O'Clock yester-
day morning, and by nine O'Clock he had
identified Adams as his old acquaintance,
and quondam brother: in-law Marvin, and
had procured his arrest. Marvin, alias Nor
ton, alias Adams, is now in Jail, and yester-
day the Governor of Virginia granted q
requisition on Governor Long, of Massachu-
sets, for the extradition of the prisoner to
Richmond. Captain Pinkerton left this city
last night also for Lynn, and will 60 with his
man to Richmond.
1t now turns out that in the interval, while
Marvin was absent from Richmond, in July
last, he went to Lakewood, N. j., and there
married young widow-Mrs. Nellie De
Hart, daughter of the Rev. G. L. Hovey-
the BRIDES father performing the ceremony.
Before the ceremony he tried to get Mr..
Hovey to cash draft for s. 900 for him, but
the minister did not do it. After the mar
riage, however, Marvin narrowed 500, CIV
ing Mr.. Hovey his note, payable one day
after date, for the amount. Then Marvin
went on his wedding trip. Arriving at
Washington he left Mrs. Marvin De Hart in
that city, saying that he was going to Fred
ericksburg to visit his sick child, but in fact
he went to Richmond and married Miss
Turpin. On his way north with her, on his
second wedding trip, he stepped off the train
at Washington and Miss Turpin was carried
alone toward Baltimore. Marvin tele-
graphed to her on the train, however, that
he had missed the train at the Washington
depot, but would follow on the next train.
Going to the hotel in Washington where he
had left Mrs. De Hart, the Lakewood wife,
he brought her with him on that "next
train," sending her home from Phlladel-
phia, and bringing Miss Turpin, whom he
overlook on the way, to Jersey City.
Captain Pinkerton knows of several other
women whom Marvin has married at differ
ent times, but says there is no need or pur-
pose to be gained in giving their names. A
year ago this arrant knave married woman
living in gainesville, Ohio, under the s'gov-
erness" dodge. He also, about the same
time, married lady in Jersey City, and an
other in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia,
and, before any of these, one in Little Rock,
Ark. While he was disporting himself in
Missouri he became engaged and almost
succeeded in marrying the daughter of an
Ex-Governor of that State. His real name
is Arthur Merritt, but bis birth place and
early antecedents are not known. At va
rious times he has victimized banks in the
West and South by forged and worthless
notes for considerable sums Of money.-N
Y. Times.