St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-03
w. c. LATINER.
Extraordinary Career Of Young
Man Who Destroys Hearts And
Absorbs His Employers
Money.

The performances OF one w. T.. Lattlmer
in this state for the past two years as a wo-
man masher, dead beat, defaulter, seducer,
money borrower, character defamer and
gambler, has at last eliminated in his suf-
fered fight to the island of Cuba, taking with
him rs a wife very esteemable Young lady
of Merriam Junction as the latest of his VIC
Tins. Lattimer is supposed to have origi-
mated at Utica, Y. Y, and claimed to have q
mother in Chicago, married a second time
to a grocer named Smith. He is from % to
80 years old, six feet in his stockings, of an
oily tongue and smooth address, and has
worked his game on women, employers and
friends by hard up, sympathetic, unscrupul-
Gus and gambling lodges until he has blighted
the lives of both male and female dupes alike,
and made private and bank accounts sick.
His first known appearance. in this state
was at st. Cloud in 1882, ostensibIy as the
salesman of New York furnishing goods
house. Here he mostly devoted himself to
playing poker and drinking whisky, and ''by
ways that were dark and tricks that were
vain" succeeded in depicting the pocket
books of those who would play with him,
only losing his winnings to smarter playing
or cheating statesmen who happened along
Owing to his endeavors man named
Moreas, who ran the West house, was bro
ken up in business by his losses at poker,
while the rascal ingratiated himself with a
married lady, named Emily c. Parsons, to
the extent of breaking up her home and dis
rrraoiutr har Mann Uh is
nate in a divorce from her husband.
On his vices becoming known to them the
New York house gave him a walking ticket
and he came 10 St. Paul. Here, by great
display of cheek, he ingrAtiated himself into
position with Ranney & Hodgman of the
ST. Paul Rubber company, who, discovering
him to be a gambler and falsifier, and learn
ing That he had wife and child in Eau
Claire, who he abused and failed to support.
and that he was keeping a married woman
mistress in the city, sent him adrift He
then secured a short job with Peabody Bros.
81 Co., wholesale liquor dealers, to whom his
true character becoming known, he was soon
hoisted. Then the plausible rascal his wife.
Mary Lattimcr, having mean while secured a
divorce from him, managed to obtain a DO
sition as travelling salesman for Perkins,
Lyons & Co., wholesale liquor dealers on
Robert street. and for a trip or two proved
himself so thorough business
character as to ewin their
confidence in considerable degree. During
this engagement he made the acquaintance
of Miss Luufman at Merriam junction, and
a.. =
Saturday, June q, had collected heavy sum
for his employers. The young woman is held
in high esteem by her acquaiutances. has a
father and mother at Waseca, and two
brothers in business in the state The we'd
ding occurred at Merriam junction at the
residence of one of these brothers, who asked
the bridegroom if he was not going into the
city before the wedding trip TO settle up with
his employers, AMI who replied that he had
collected his own dues from the house into
So. and as he did not care for that, he
should not 20 in 10 see them.
Tickets were bought for Chicago and Lat
timer announced that he thought he should
extend the wedding trip to Guba, and told
the brother that he would write from Chicago
Whist route he would take thither, since which
time not Il word has been heard from them.
Several DAYS after his departure the firm of
Perkins, LYONS x Co. received by mail their
uncolleeteG bills. and notes and receipt
book from Lattimer, done no in an Omaha
railroad letter head which had been oiled so
that the post masters stamp would
not ink it plain enough TO give
away to them the place at which it was
mailed, all Of which mark which could be
made out being lis Falls"
On learning Of Lattimer's fight Perkins,
Lyons & Co. dispatched several of their men
TO their customers TO pick up the real amount
of the collections abscondesi with. which Mr..
Perkins informed GLOBE representative
Yesterday amounted to a triie over 1880.
The firm say that they are so anxious for his
capture tbst they viii pay any reasonable
amount therefor, that he may be punished
not only for his dedication but for the mis-
err which he has inflicted on three families
in this state. His photograph is being pro-
cured for duplication to be sent TO different
points in the country in order to endeavor
TO accom- plish the latter result.