The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-15
READS LIKE A ROMANCE.
The story of n Claim to AN Estate Valued at
Several Millions of Dol
lars.
Confidence Operators Rig Haul Pecuniary
Balm in Gilesd for Alienatsd
Affections


like romance comes from the Children's Aid
society. James Anderson, New York mer
| chanlt failed in 1856, and his three children,
William Michael, George and Margaret, ages
eight ten and fourteen years respectively,
we're placed in good homes in Michigan the
following year by the Children's Aid society.
Through its agent, Rev. ]. p Root, frequent
reports were received from them. The little
girl died, but the boys grew to manhood and
entered the army, receiving honorable dis
charges at the close OF the war. They re-
turned home in Michigan, where one of them
married and built up good legal practice.
| rhe other is farmer. Their interest in the
| Children's Aid society was kept up by cor
| respondence, and in 1875 one of the brothers
| called at the Office when on visit East. 1t
| appears by the death Of Michael Root in 1880,
| in Edinburg, Scotland, these children fall
| heirs to an estate worth several million dol
| lars. The former agent of the society, Rev.
| Mr.. Root, called at the office of the society
last week to gather the facts prepare
tory to claiming the estate in behalf of the
| heirs.
| GOOD DETECTIVE WORK.
|
affible person in Broad street depot, PhiladeI-
phia, on Monday evening, who asked him to
| take drink. He accepted the invituton,
and went with his acquaintance 10 a saloon,
leaving valise containing $1,000 in gold on a
sea. in an outbound going Train. When he
returned the valise was gone. The person
| who took it, however, lett In its stead an old
bank note directory bearing the name Carrie
Afeck, COS East Fourteenth street, New
York. This was telegraphed to Inspector
| Byrnes, and Wednesday he wa, informed by
the cashier of the Union Dime Savings bank
that a woman giving the name OF Affleck had
deposited $500 in gold there on the previous
day. The Inspector, who knew the woman
to be the the wife of a confidence operator,
ordered Detective Gerow to watch the rear of
| the tenement in Fourteenth street, where she
lived, and sent Detectives Mcclure and Far
| ley to look out for her al the bank.
! The two latter caught her in the act oftrying
to draw out her deposit in the form of bills,
while two men whom they recognized as her
husband and companion criminal were wait
ing for her outside. The, companion Of Afieck,
who was James Dunn, is known as Pop
| White" and "Old DIR. Long" presently
Joined Mrs. Aftleck, and the detectives, with
the aid of Captain Williams. who was passing,
arrested the three. The prisoners were
searched in the Central office. Each had
ticket from Philadelphia to Baltimore dated
March 5th, bearing mark made by a gate
mans punch. A bank note directory similar
to the one found in the Broad street depot, and
also marked with his wile's name, was found
on Ahleck, and he as well as Long carried
bogus gold coin and bank checks on different
banks. Long had also $I24.
| Mrs. Afflec& said her husband had come
home late Monday and given her $1,000 in
gold, OF which she deposited $500 in the
Dime Bank and $500 in another. Both were
attached 'th Aiieck and Long were iden-
tilted yesterday by persons who had seen them
in Williams company. Atfieck is in the
rogues' gallary under the name of George
Davis. Long, who is also there, bears the
reputation of being the oldest confidence man
in America He is 70 years old. The two
will be taken to Philadelphia to-day. Mrs
Affleck will be discharged. Another who was
concerned in the robbery has been arrested
by the Philadelphia police.
| THR SCHNELL SCANDAL.
| Increasing interest is manifested in the
| trial OF the suit of Edward Schnell to recover
| $4,000 damages from his uncle, Fred Blohm,
for the alienation of the affections OF his wife,
which is in progress in the Brooklyn Circuit
court before Justice Cullen and jury. The
court room was crowded by those who desired
TO hear the spicy testimony. Mrs. Schnell
steadily remains in court.
Samuel Price, 4 bootblack and private mes
senger in the iwenty-ninth Precinct police
station, New York, testified he followed old
Blohm and Mrs. Schnell. He saw them in
Central park. They were seated on the grass,
and Blohm had his arm pressed around his
fair companion. He had also caught them
kissing each other. The couple selected very
sequestered spots to do their billing and COO
ing, after which they went TO the dairy and in
dulged in milk and ice cream. On July s,
1882, Price followed them to the park He
hid himself behind bench and watched. He
saw him hug and kiss her, and heard Mrs
Schnell say her husband was going to get a
divorce. Then they again Rugged and kissed
Mrs. Schnell said if her husband began di.
vorce proceedings she would sue him for
$50 600, and Blohm advised her to make il
$Ioo, 900. Price could hear what the couple
said very distinctly. On July Is, while he was
! following the pair, he was arrested ny park
policeman, and accused Of foil, The parties
three times. but Bohm refused to make COM
paint when they reached the Arsenal station
house.
Edward S. Brondt swOre he heard Mrs.
Schnell say she was tired of her husband and
intended 10 get divorce
A clerk in the plaintiff grocery, Henry
Sieborn, testified Schnell and his wife lived