Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-26
ROBBED OF $655.
A Confidence Man SW1ndles a Bradley Street Resident Out of $655 i'm am Easy Manner.

A Confidence Man SWindles a Bradley Street Resident Out of $655 i'm am Easy Manner.
 About two weeks ago a well known and steamed old resident of Bradley street fell in with confidence man State street, who robbed him of $655. He is about sixty-five years of age and somewhat deaf and had some business on the day in question at the Probate court and on his way there stopped on the corner of Church and Chapel streets to talk with Andrew Munson of Hamden, who was having his boot1 blacked on the Flock corner. After a short talk between the two on the labor question the Bradley street man left MT. Munson and started down Chapel street on the north side. A moment after the Bradley street man left fashiona- bly, dressed man about thirty years of age, wearing dark suit of clothes and silk hat, stepped up to MT. Munson and asked him who the gentleman was that had just left him. MT. Munson answered, ''Why, that is MT. -; don't you know him?" The fash ionably dressed man thanked MT. Munson and started rapidly down Chapel street on the opposite side from which the Bradley street gentleman was walking The latter walked down Chapel street and up State and when in front of F. S. Bradley & Co.'s hardware store he was met by the same young man mer greeted the Bradley street gentleman, saying, "Happy to meet you, MT. -" The latter replied: "You have the advantage of me; I fail to recognize you" "Oh,' replied the other glibly, q am George Ives, nephew of MT. Hoadley B. Ives, president of the Ma Il 1-..1 quite frequently when I was engaged in the bank" The two men drifted into converse tion, during which George Ives, as he styled himself, said to the other that he WIS teller in bank in New London, and WIS short of funds and wanted to borrow : money. The Bradley street man re that all his ready money was in Mir. ' bank and that he had about 5000 there. George Ives said this would be enough, al though he would like $700, and, after more talk, finally convinced his new found friend that he ought to lend him the money and the latter said that he would go home and get his bank book and draw the money out for him. This he did, receiving from tle bank check payable at the Yale National bank. He then went to the latter bank, and getting the check cashed, gave Ives the money. George Ives then gave in return his note payable June 25 (yesterday,) but at 8 late hour last evening his victim
 
 says he doubts if he should recognize him if should see him. He and his estimable fife were seen at their house tt evening by COURIER reporter, and the lady after making the latter promise not to use any names said: My husband is a pretty shreWd business man and how he ever came to be swindled in that manner I can- not see. He is, however, very deaf, and tie man probably following along his convers.- tion by skillful questioning got out of h4.n the fact that he had money and then got him to lend him the money. On the day in ques- tion my husband rushed into the house in a greatly excited state, and going into the bedroom took his bank book out of the drawer and told me he was going to draw his money out of the bank. He acted very queerly, as if under some spell, and I asked him if he had been drink ing He said no; he never drank. I, however, thought that he might be drawing the money out to pay bill which fell due shortly and so let him take the book and leave the house before I realized what he was doing. When he came back I asked him if he had drawn out the money, and he said he had and loaned it. I said, Who toP T don't know was his reply; The would pay it back June 25.' I thought he told my son about it, the first per. son to know of it outside of my husband and myself. My son immediately went to Mir. Ives and asked him if he had a nephew named George Ives, etc., and when told he had none we came to the con- clusion that the money had gone for good and so was the man who borrowed it. Pres ident Ives showed the stub of the check paid out and took my son to the Yale bank where they cashed it. The strangest thing about it is that my husband seemed to be under spell and knew not what he was doing all this time, and when he told me of the loss of the money he could remember very little of what had passed between him and the stranger, who was no doubt a clever con- fdence man."