Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-13

/ drag \. ~ money until The next day. We'd
pegfay D. ssed aud Jelly retired that night
with wei. settled suspicion in his mind
that be had ,Neen vic,imized, despite The
| honest appearal-'ce of his gentlemanly
customer.
On the following osy Thursday Jelly
began to make inquiries among business
men regarding the standing of broker
| Landeshutt, and he found that score of
houses had accounts against him, and that
in many instances he had procured goods
in quite as barefaced a manner as he had
| defrauded him out OF the diamo nd ring.
So he consulted the police and finally
swore out warrant for Landeshntt's arrest,
and the swindler was that afternoop.-as
before stated-taken in by an officer o.. a
charge of obtaining goods under false pre-
| lenses.
A CoNsUMMATE RASCAL
Then the whole story of his rascalitv
| came outflow he had pawned the ring at
Crabal's faro game at Fourth and streets
lnstead OF taking it to his wife), and how
all OF the widows money that she sup
| posed was invested in stocks, upon which
she was about to realize handsome sum,
had gone the same road and found its way
into the till of the faro table,
The day after his arrest Landeshutt sent
at the City Prison, but she refused to have
anything more to do with him, and on the
following day returned with her child to
her parents home at the Bay. Before her
departure she tod her almost heart broken
hostess that this experience was not a new
one; that in the two years of their married
life 1t had cost her family some $4,000 to
square up her husbands stealings and keep
him out of the State Prison, and that she
was now so convinced of the fact that he
was thorough rascal that she could no
longer condone his conduct
When the fact of Landeshutt's arrest be-
came known, his victims began to materi- |
allze: They popped up-anythipg but Sc
renely-fIom all quarters and it looked as |
If charges enough would be filed against |
him to keep him in the sweat box until the |
peachbloom of his cheeks would be sup- |
planted by the pallor of the convict He |
was made to serve out a term of several |
months in the County Jail on conviction of |
one of the charges. but the others were not |
pressed by his victims. The chief loser |
Mrs. Crowley, preferred not to send him to |
the State Prison for term of years in the |
hope that she might be able to recover |
some OF her lost money from him-a hope |
that was never realized.
AT HIS OLD TRICKS AGAIN.
After finishing his term of imprisonment |
here, Landeshutt returned to San Francisco, |
Where he was soon again heard from in |
connection with mining stock frauds his |
victims generally being women. It got so |
not Tor him there that he soon left for Brit |
lsh Columbia, and again resumed his |
crooked practices on the confiding people |
or Victoria. That was the last heard of him |
until now, twelve years later, he turns I'D in
Melbourne as the swindler of banks and |
business houses to the tune of $25, 900 or
more. He is one of the smoothest rascals |
that ever trod in shoe-leather, and no COM
munlty into which he may alight is safe
from narm, for he Is natural-born conf |
dence man, gifted with all the qualities that
any man could desire for that business.
Where he will next turn up remains to be
seen.
One incident of his career in this CITY
illustrates the heartlessness and supreme
gall OF the fellow: While be was engaged
IN robblng his landlady and " blowing IN "
her money at the faro games and paving
his own and his wife's board with it. he
was constantly finding fault with the table.
etc. On one occasion he got his wife to re-
quest their hard worked and financially
distressed hostess to place finer quality of
towels IN their room. He said those in use
We're not soft enough nor fine enough-that
they We're too severe on his delicate skin.
And he frequently limited that the table
was denclent IN delicacies. And all this
time he knew that the poor woman had
not dollars income outside what She re-
ceiyed from him land that was her own
money and one other boarder. 1t is to be
hoped the wretch will be run down by the
Australian officers and made TO serve out
the remainder of his days behind the bars
of jail