Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
AN ADVENTURES.
The Psc1iisr Career Of Mrs.. Seymour Hitchcock
How Size Worked Amoro1s DaPs
From ths West.

DELHI, y. Y, August 3O.-The srrest
at Meadvilla, Pa, of Seymour Hitchcock
and wife on the charge of usirg The United
s,stes mails for purposes Of fraud, is
matter Of special interest in this vicinity
Were the offenders are well known, and
where thsy began their career Ofswindlin5'
ssgmour Hitchcock Is the son OF Matthew
Hitchcock. a well-to-dO and highly re-
sDec.able ferlner Of the town Of Franklin,
mis- c,untv. He grew no to be an idle
Int irofsnsive young man, ana ls now, u
ia believed. the victim OF an INSCRIPTIONS
o7vsntn-ess rather than of his own evil
propeus,tiee. r,..,-,
Several years $40 young Hitchcock,
while still nvirg with his parents, saw an
advertisement II a so-called matrimonial
Newspaper setting forth that young
woman wanted a husband and invited c)r-
respondence. lie wrote % the advertiser
vho urovsd 20 be Sarah Hugel, young
woman with O curious history. she 10 the
daughter Of respectable parentsllvlng near
Snithport, Pa. When sixteen years oid
she made a runaway match with good
looking young fellow, who fret III treated
and tsen deserted her. For year or two
following. tits sad, she led a gay life on
the strength Of liberal drefis upon
the bank account OF a wealthy OIL
generator. When this resource failed
SHE SOUGHT a HUSBAND
through the columns OF the matrimonial
newspapers. She is not noticeably hand
some, but she Is bright ana arttul and Of
Winning ways. She quickly perceived that
q marriage with young Hitchcock would
Bring money end q degree OF respeciabllty
snd she spread o net that landed him.
After a time old Mr. Hitchcock got
tired Of maintaining an idle son and gay
and extraysgant daugh,er-in-law and cut
OF the supplies The clever and unscru-
Ynlous woman vas equal 20 tho emergen-
CIV. Doubtless the novel and ingenious
scheme she put il practice was sug-
gested by ner own successful expert
ence in matrimonial advertising
She took her husband to Oneon-
"a. aud from that point sent adj
yertissmerts 20 Chicago and San Francis
co papers, saying that q respectable young
widow desired to hear from a Western gen
tleman Of means and good standing, with
view TO matrimOny. She got letters by
the score from all parts Of the West, and
sent back ardent replies, enclosing the
likeness Of q beautiful young woman. The
deluded Westerner who took the bait was
prevailed upon to send costly presents, OF
money 10 nav the fare of his bethTOthed to
Inc Mace where they were to meet and
marry. When the sWindlers had bled
their dupe to the utmost, they paraly cd
him BY mailing a receipt signed Sarah
Hitchcock, per Seymour Hitchcock"
HOW SHE FLEECED THEM.
The records of the OneOnta post office
show that during the two months they
oparated there Mrs Hitchcock received
over $500 in post Office money orders and
nineteen registered letters containing re-
mittances in cash Of unknown amounts,
together with packages Of iswelry, &c
When the business was at fall tide they
cot warning that an agent OF the post Office
department was after them, snd they
skipped out of One0uta, and repeated their
operations at Oiean, Ashtabula, Erie, snd
% Mesdvil.e, where they came to grief al
last
When arrested, with characteristic cun-
nirc ard sudacity, Mrs Hitchcock at
tempted 10 shift the entire losd Of guilt
upon her husband. She induced him 10
make confession 70 the eject that he was
tha CHIEF criminal and she sn unwilling
ac,ompl'cs. Ire chances are that the al
ventures viii 20 scot fee, while the
weak and infatuated husband will so to
the penilentlary.