The evening world., 1888-10-31
GAYLY WORKING THE TOWN.
A REMARKABLE swINDLER, WHOSE cam
is A STRIKING SUCCESS

He IL an Oily and Persuasive Rascal w.
Has Been Previeusly Exposed hy % SL~
Evening World" - Liberal Orders n,
Goeds to he Loft ut a Maiden L..e
and Seme Wanted on the Spot.
While Winter was lingering In the Inn =
Spring with his ulster AND rubber boots ON
while the blizzard was O blizzing, TIE Eyxr-
M Womb published an account of the one
ration Of o remarkable swindIer who had
made victims Of q score Of dealers In the mar
row and crooked streets of the lower wards.
He was q muddy mettled rascal, with =
smooth face and red hair. He called ct stores
where stationers' supplies were sold, gan
orally; ordered q bill of goods for James B.
Horner. who is an importer Of essential ofls
at A Cedar street, but invariably gave orders
TO deliver the goods OF A Maiden lane, where
J.B. Hutchinson has q stationery store.
Then the swindler always wanted to deliver
that his firm was in immediate and dire need
of the goods,
Among his victims were Crouch q Fitz.
gerald, John Sullivan, dealer in horse goods,
street Mechants' Stencil Works, rs Barclay
street Robert Gair d Co., stationers at 16l
Chambers street, and O dozen others. Out
of each deal he made from 81 TO &16.
LIE EVENING WORLD tOlQ the BtOFY OF t6yD
fellows work, and those who read &c
was Henry Gade, of $40 Broadway. *
1t came MIR. Gade's turn on April 0. The
blond young man. who is only fve feet two
inches in height, called at $40 broadway that
order Of stationery for j. B. Horner. But
while he was doing it O clerk slipped outs and
returned with an officer from the Tenth Pre-
cinct squad and the young man was arrested.
He gave his name as Henry Hennessy, but
would say nothing further, and when Crouch
q Fitzgerald appeared before the Court of
Special Sessions and made affidavit that
Hennessy had obtained $13. so worth Of goods
from them, pretending to be acting for MI.
Homer, he pleaded guilty INC was sent 70
B~lackwells Island.
He was liberated q few weeks ago, and al
ready q half dozen merchants are complains
ing Of losses by q smooth-faced, diminutiye
Hutchinson is busy telling delivery boys that
James b. Horner is at A Cedar street, Mr..
Horner is just as busy convincing the deiiy-
cry boys that he has not ordered the good
which they bring. Aa
A boy brought one of o pair of expensive
lamps yesterday from an uptown firm. The
other lamp was taken along by the swindlee
when he left the order.
would not entrust the young man to deliver
to Mr.. Horner two $6 Gladstone bags. and
found how wise he had been when his own
delivery boy brought the bags back, with Q
note saying tnat MI. dorner ma not ofooroo
them. A-l
An attempt to got o horse collar of Collins,
Bailey & Co., 10 Peck slip, failed in the same
way. uE
But Benjamin Moore, sail-maker ut ~
South street, let the young man have two
truck covers worth $40, and when he called
on j. B. Horner with his bill for the same
discovered that he had been victimized. Thia
was Friday last.
On Saturday the blond young man had tho
effrontery to work his scheme on Mr.. Hutch
inson, to whose store much of the goods
tictitiously ordered had been Addressed.
The swindler ordered $15 worth Of blank
in plumbers supplies at 80 West street AZ
usual he wanted % worth of them immed1-
ately. But he didn't get them, and to o mes
senger Mr.. Higgins denied all knowledge OF
his alleged agent. :.
Detective Oates, Of the Old Slip station. e
looking for the young man, who Ia believed
to be Hennessey again.