Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-03-02
A CHEEKY cHARLATAN
Dupes an Honest Citizen Out Of
$500 and skips Out.
ICadiz Telephone

On tho 9Th of last December gen
tleman drove up TO the residence O.
Mr.. VIM. Wharton, III this county
and inquired the way to Mr.. w. A
Goodwin's. lie was driving span
OF handsome horses, and had a fine
buggy. He stated to Mr.. Wharton
that he was an oculist, and had just
been to the residence of Mr.. Bivin
Groom, an old friend and acquain-
lance of Mr.. Wharton's, whom he
had succeeded in relieving of what
mad been pronounced by the most
eminent oculists of Cincinnati and
Louisville as on incurable blindness
lie stated that lie had learned that
Mr.. W. A. Goodwin had a son in a
similar condition, and that he want
ed to extend to him the benefit of
his superior skill. Mr.. Wharton
gave him the necessary directions,
and lie reached the residence about
3p. m, finding both Mr.. w. A. Good
win and his son, w. f. Goodwin, alb
sent from home, he then inquired the
way to a neighbours, where Mr.. w.
A. Goodwin was visiting, and started
in search Of his victim.
In the mean time, Mr.. Wharton
started TO Cadiz, and on passing Mr..
W. A. Goodwin's, impaired to Mrs.
Groom the good news he had Just
learned about Mr.. Bivin Groom hav-
ing had his eyesight restored.
BY The time the would-be doctor
found Mr.. Goodwin, and they had
returned to his residence, Mrs. Good
win, who had received the news of |
The miraculous cure that had been |
upon the eyes of their old |
acquaintance, Bivin Groom, was adj
Vocatlng the virtues of the new doc
or with a zeal worthy of a Spartan. /
Upon the earnest solicitations of
he handsome, slick-tongued strang-
", and over-anxious mother of the
blind young man, Mr.. Goodwin got
II the buggy of the stranger, and
hey started for the residence of Mr..
j. L. Goodwin, where his afflicted
on was visiting. In the mean time,
ir. Goodwin had learned that his
raveling companion was Professor
iosenbloom, of Evansville, Ind.
The doctor whiled away the time
n the road, by relating many won-
eriul cures which he had effected,
rominent among which he named {
lr. Bivin Grooms, of Caldwell q
ounty, who, Mr.. Goodwin knew
'as blind, telling him that in '
no short space of half an hour
is lost vision had been restored [
mid much rejoicing upon the part c
Mr.. Groom and family. On II
'aching the residence of Mr.. C. e.
GOODWIN, he examined the eyes of
r.. w. +. Goodwin and promptly ex-
'esscd his ability 10 cure him for
70 small sum of $3.50 payable SIS a
cash, and the remainder when the n
ire was effected which terms were Z
cepted by Mr.. Goodwin. There
pom, the doctor measured out four a
Ince bottle of medicine, and gave =
M instructions how to use it, say il
g he would call again in fourteen A
ys, pocketed the SIS, got in his bug
:, just at dark, and left for Prince y
II. Mr.. Goodwin waited the speci- Ii
ID time, and not hearing anything P
I'm him, wrote to him, at Evans "
lie, from the address which he kind '
furnished him. His letter went to n
dead-letter Office and was re- N
rncd TO him, but not his $75. He IN
'ote to DR.. c. p. Bacon, of Evans 81
lie, Ind, who replied, saying that n
such man lived there. Mr.. Good
n is now confident that he has been d'
de the victim of a fraud. r.
The following is description of =
S Rose-in-bloom: in
About 5ya feet high, florld COM o. 2,
xion, has black hair, eyes and
ustache, and weighs about 1876 in
inds. He is about "a years old, 81
lined to have been educated in oN
ssellville, Ky, and that he OBJ NJ
ned his medical instruction in So
ston. be
ir. Goodwin says that he had a :,
* tongue, with fine address, and VI "
IS subtle as a serpent. Our infor- "(
ton is that Mr.. Groom would not 20
the quack treat him. GO