The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-24
NIPPED AT NASHVILLE.
o. III. Gregg, the Defaulting Route Agent
Taken in by Detective Lacy. of the U :
Mail Service.

o. Ii. Gregg, alias Howard. the route
agent between this city and FL Paso, who
defaulted and disappeared last July, leay-
ing Uncle Sam In the lurch for consider
able sum, has been arrested in Nashville.
immediately after he decamped, news was
received here which it since transpires was
sent by himself, that he had drowned,
and it was published in some of the new s.
papers that he had suicided, but he again
bobbed up serenely, and after playing a
star engagement here and there over
the southwestern states, he is nip.
ped ut Nashville. The statement that
he had q wife here lacks confirmation.
There was woman here who claimed to be
his wife, but the most dilligent efforts on
the part of n HERALD reporter failed to find
her. In speaking of his arrest the Nash
vile American says:
About the middle of September last, a
neatly dressed man, apparently fifty years
OF age, dropped into the furniture house oil
Mr.. Bradford Nichols, on College street,
and applied for position of any kind. He
gave his name as q. ii. Gregg, and repre-.
scented himself as Mason in distress, with.
out money, and In fact, anything to eat. lie
also stated that his wife and mother-in'law
were with him, aud dependent totally upon
his exertions Tor support. That they were
entire strangers in the city, having just ar.
rived with him in Nashville from the north
which locality they had left and come south
for q change of climate, which was neCessi-
tated by the bad health Of the two ladies'
He was given employment and worked
very faithfully and satisfactorily until one
week ago, when he threw up his position,
and requested a letter of Recommendation
as to his energy, honesty and ability AS a
business man. This was given him, and he
left the establishment. Gregg then went
next door to the furniture house OF
Atwell IL Co., and procured employ.
ment. lie remained with that firm until
yesterday about o'clock. At that hour a
Mr.. Lacy. Il detective, In the employ OF
the United States mail service, called on
one of the proprietors of Atwell Sneed x
Co., and informed the gentleman that he
would like to see one OF the firms EN-
ployes who was there under the namo OF
Gregg. The detective was asked il he
wished to see Gregg on any particular bust
ness, and replied that he did; that doubt
less the man whom he wished TO see was
one whom he had been looking for all over
the United States; that his true name was
Howard, and that he had been formerly
CukhEtu us u IullIOhu Iltuil uEtUt Oul W
Dallas, Texas. On the 9Th day of last June,
so the detective continued, various packa.
ges of money, one of which amounted TO
$500, were stolen from Howard car, and
the theft had been traced to him, but before
he could be arrested had fled the state and
gone to Kansas. To that state he was
traced, and from there to other portions OF
the United States, until finally run down
in Nashville.
Gregg was brought to the front part OF
the store, where he was immediately iden-
titled by the officer and placed under ar.
rest. lie was then taken to the custom
house, from which place, after a mittimus
had been issued by the United States court
clerk, he was transferred to the jail and
placed in cell.
Baxter, and will be forwarded Tor signature
to Judge Key, after which the prisoner will
be taken to Texas for trial.
The day that Gregg left the employ of
Mr.. Bradford Nichol, his wife called on the
propretors of the Fair and applied for u
position as cashier, and produced as creden.
tials the letter her husband had
received from Mr., Nichol. The lady WAS
given tho position she applied for, and
filled il very satisfactorily until the fact be-
came know that her husband was arrested
on the above charge. when her services
were dispensed with. She was resident
of Topeka, Kansas, until about four months
ago, when she met Gregg ut that place and
married him. As IL is understood, he rep
resented himself as a man of wealth, ETC.,
Offering her home of luxury and happi-
ness. After marrying him she found that
he had misrepresented his financial stand
ing, and discovered that he was, compara-
lively speaking, without dollar. She
nevertheless accepted her lot, and to-
gether with her husband aud mother,
left Topeka, and after stopping At
several intermediate points arrived ut
Nashville. A month after they had been
married, the mother OF Mrs. Gregg received
indirect information to the effect that her
daughters husband had wife and family
oil grown children living in some part OF
| Texas, but the statement could never by
her be authenticated until yesterday, when
Detective Lacy informed them that his
prisoner had, at the time of his flight from
Texas, deserted most estimable wife and
family OF grown daughters living at BAL rs.
| The grief that the young girl who is proba.
bly, not over twenty.three years of age and
who had been living with Gregg
as his supposed legal wife since
their marriage, was pitiable to
witness when informed OF the true state Of
affairs. She, as well as her mother, Civ,
evidence by their cultured address and re
| fined manner OF being ladies' in every sens,
of the word, Their present condition 1:
one to be ptied by all Thousandso mile,
away from home, no friends to assist them
and IN all probability with not enough
money on hand to pay weeks board
The mother OF Mrs, Gregg was postmistres
In one of the largest towns In Ia ,nsas io
four years, and has in her possession mos,
tlattering letters from an ex-governor o
Kansas, and also from quite number o
The representative men oil tse state.