The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17

mant that he courted and made PROPOSE
tions of marriage to several ladies of the
city, and in order to prove his identity
he would write letters to his brother %
Count Won Wellingburgh," asking him
! to attest or assert his Won Weller's) real
title. These letters he would show to
the ladies and give them 10 understand
that as soon as answers were received he
would be able To establish, beyond a
doubt, his identity, and endcavored to
/ induce them to believe that il would be
the mistake of their lives to decline his
offers of marriage. Fortunately for the
ladies they did refuse all of his offers,
and yesterday 1T was discovered that
these letters Were invariably returned
! through the Dead Letter Office
He made the offices of Drs. Summers
and Mallette, in the Ely Block. his head
quarters and claimed to be an accom-
piished lineuist. Finally, one day DIR.
I Summers attempted to converse with
him in German, and learned that he was
not versed in that language. After
wards Prof. Strini tried a little Italian
with him, when il was seen that he was
totally ignorant of that language, and
I then 1t was that persons suspected that
he was more or less fraud.
Out OF curiosity an investigation was
instituted, and through the Austrian
Minister it was learned that no one was
known in Austria of the name given
as his own Or his alleged brother. Early
in July Mrs. II. ID. Bonnetheau lost her
diamond ring, lie was a very handsome
gold ring, made in the shape of a serpent,
with a diamond head and was valued at
about 500. Both she and her sister,
! Mrs. Love, from all the circumstances,
had every reason To suspect that Won
Weller had taken it, but were forced to
refrain from saying so,owing To his high
standing IN society and his many
| friends Recently Drs Summers and
Mallet have missed surgical Instruments,
books, etc, from their offices, which are
in connecting rooms, and were at 4 loss
to account for their disappearance, but
did not suspect Won Weller.
About eight weeks ago he packed. his
effects up, there being two large dry
goods boxes, and notified Mrs. Love he
was going to california on a visit lie
owed her S102 for board, but said moth
| ing about this, supposing that he would
return before leaving and settle; but
after he left she saw nothing more of
him until Monday. Then he failed to
mention anything directly about the
bill, only giving her to understand ina
general way that he would return TO the
hotel that evening, settle up and again
take his room, in which his things still
remained. That was the last time she
had not left the city at all. but up To IA
week or so ago made the Everett Phar-
macy his headquarters, taking his meals
at restaurants ana sleeping, no one seems
to know where.
Some time ago tenant of the Ely
Block, on leaving here for n vacation,
gave Mr.. Ely the keys of his room and
asked him to occasionally air it. Mon
day MIR. Ely missed the keys from his
| office and won't n the n If Ina
had not them in the door. He found the
dc IT unlocked, and on going in found
! Won Weller secreted under the bed.
In explanation Won Weller claimed that
he had been on drunk the previous
night and didn't know exactly how or
when he got there, but Thought that in
wandering around the building, and
finding the door open, he went i'll and
| remained there during the night. Mr..
Ely also discovered that Won Weller had
in his possession fine meerschaum
pipe valued at fifty dollars, which had
been taken from DIR. Mallet's office. He
reports his discov cries, and it was de-
cided to go into a general investigation,
! but in the meantime Won Weller sue
ceejed in again getting out of sight and
has not since been seen or heard of since.
Besides Mrs. Bonnetheau's ring and
DIR. Mallett's pipe, there Were found
stored away among his things in his
room at the st. Johns house yesterday a
large number of surgical instruments
and books belonging TO Drs. Summers
and Mallett, poetical works belonging to
| Mrs. Summers and Mrs. Mallett and q
| great deal of sheet and other music be-
| longing to Hr. Henry $. Ely and the
| Congregational church. besides many
| other things. On the fly leaf of some of
| the books it was found that he had
crossed out the names of the proper
owner and written his own name, at the
end of which he added the letters, Nj. ID.
All the articles identified, which almost
| filed carriage, and were valued at
about $500, were removed; but there are
| still a lot of fancy article unidentified.
! together with some old threadbare cloth
/ ing. etc.
| Won Weller is about 40 years of age,
weighs about 40 pounds, is about feet,
or 10 inches high, wears a long NOUS
tache waxed and tightly curied and n
small goatee. He also wears spectacles
which curve behind his ears; he comb
| his hair straight up on top of his head
has long, Ratchet face, the general ap-
pearance of foreigner. and is possessed
of powerful baritone voice.
| 1t is said by the reporters informanis
| that he has a wife somewhere in Mis-
souri,, that he was raised Catholic, but
| since he came here has been a communi-
cant of st. Johns Episcopal church, and
| the parties in interest are of the opinion
that he has skipped the town, and they
| are making efforts to find his where
! abouts. The charitable supposition Is
that he is not in his right miud.-IimeS-
| Union