Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-07
A bogus CATTLE KING.
He Dupes Many Merchants And After
ConfidencfnS His Fellow Prisoners
Takes q Trip For His Health.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 6.-Charles b. Newman,
alias Parker, the bogus cattle king who Gre
ated such excitement here last summer by
victimizing the Mermod Jaccard jewelry
company and dozen other leading firms, is
missing, much to the disgust of the police
and Judge Van Wagner, who released him
on his personal recognizance. It will be re-
membered that Newman, who bears the re-
putat1on of being the ablest confidence man
in the country, visited st. Louis last sum-
mer and represented himself as the proprietor
of untold herds of cattle that ranged the
plains of Texas. He was Toasted by mer-
chants who took him into their family circles
and even proposed supplying him with
wife. He was thought to be such bonanza
that they carefully shielded him against out
siders who might dupe him. Trains loaded
with his cattle were daily expected at the
stock yards, but they never arrived and one
day when some of the merchants called
at Mr.. Newman's hotel to take him
driving he had disappeared. Then the truth
dawned upon the merchants and they
found they had been duped. Most of them
nursed their modification in silence, but
few told their story to the police and detec-
tives were put upon Newman's track All
sections of the country were notified
that he was wanted here and few days later
he was arrested in New York just az he was
stepping aboard steamer bound for Europe.
Detective O'NeiH was sent to New
York and returned with Newman, whose
first efforts after reaching here were in the
direction of securing his release by bribery
Having failed to secure it, he was placed in
Jail and indicted. He is about ffty-five years
old and the confinement soon told on his
constitution. The Jail physician was I'M
ceasing in his attentions to Newman. In
spite of all treatment Newman kept
sinking. Stimulants were resorted to
and half pint of whisky
| daily was barely sufficient to keep the pa
| tient alive. His sufferings were such that
| morphine had to be administered hypoder-
mically and his medicines cost the Jail 81 so
| day. A grand jury visited the jail and
saw the physical wreck and their sympa-
| thies were reused to such an extent that in
| their report they recommended that he be
removed from Jail: Dr. Eiskin recommend
| ed that he be sent to the City hospital
| Judge Van Wagner visited the Jail and
Newman's sufferings affected him SO yisibly
! that he actually shed tears and soon
after released Newman on his own recogniz-
| ance. George D. Kinney, guard at the
| Jail, had been discharged shortly before this
| for being too intimate with the prisoners,
and when Newman was released the kind
| hearted Mr.. Kinney came to the four courts
with a baggage wagon into which Newman
was tenderly lifted and then driven
to the residence of Mr.. Kinney. Last We'd
| nesday Col. Claiborn, his counsel, called at
the Kinney house to see his client and found
that the latter had gone out to see man two
days before and had not returned. An inves-
tigation followed and it was found that while
| in Jail the sick man had ''confdencedn near
ly all the prisoners out of all their little saw
ings and when released had come to the con-
clusion that change Of climate was necessa-
ry to the complete restoration of his health.