The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-01
Vim. HOQtz A FOrgGr!
Serious Charges Against A
Snyder County Boy.

The daily North Imericun of yes
terday contained the following start
ling revelations concerning William
Houtz, formerly of Freeburg. The
dispatch was dated Lewistown, July
80, and says:
William II. Houtz, of this borough
who was arrested in Dubuque, Iowa.
on Saturday evening charged with
forgeries in this (Mifllin) county ag-
gregating at least $4,000 was IA dan
dy, and no mistake He was born
i'll Snyder county, and was the pos
SCISSOR of an extraordinary basso
voice and was i'll great demand on
all occasions when u musical voice
was one of the necessary requisites,
having sung in several of the finest
operas in New York, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, Chicago aud ST. Louis
under different aliases, and when he
came to this town and went into the
agricultural implement business he
was Mt once taken into the arms, as
it We're, of society and made lion
of. He was appointed the leader of
the choir in the Lutheran Sunday
school, performed on the organ for
all the church services and virtually
sung himself into the good graces of
rich and poor III the town, which
he said he had concluded to make
his home.
Miss Lille Jackson, II beautiful
and intelligent member of the Luth-
eran flock of this borough, was Sc
lected as his female victim, and he
lavished all his attentions upon her.
Young and susceptible, she believed
all mis- honeyed words, placed i'm
plicit confidence i'll all his protesta-
tions of love, and consented to he
his wife about four years ago. He
kept her in grand style and humor-
ed her i'll every whim.
William Willis, wealthy gentle
D man Of this borough. who was al
elder in the church he CHoutz) ut.
tended, next claimed his attention,
. and rs will be seen was his next vie
= tim.
About three years ago it was ru
70 mored that "Houtzie, as he was fa
p milially called, was not strictly hon
c est. Wm. c. Britton, his brother
: in-law, who employed him, said so
u but when Houtzic became Indignant
5 at the charge and went into tn,
i business for himself, nobody believ
i ed it, and Britton lost the custom o.
; the honest farmers, whose patron
age Houtzie secured.
- Finally Houtzie left town he lef
- suddenly he didn't tell anybody h,
. was going he didn't even tell hi,
g wife, and when he left, the Sunday
:, school and Church mourned they
said they had lost their best man
= But the week after he left, note,
!; became due; they were asked for by
;, the banks. and suddenly the veil wa,
= lifted, and everybody realized thai
- they had been duped. A reward
was offered for Houtz's capture, but
no one knew where to go.
y Last week Harry, a son of L. NJ
d Uttley, prominent attorney Mt tn,
bar here. who is clerking in Dir,
3 goods store in Dubuque, Ia, saw
y Houtzie in n hotel, and remember
ing that his capture would net tn,
It informer IL cool $500, informed OF
Is him. He was arrested, and tn,
e Miffiin county Sheriff is now on tn,
g. way out there after him. When h
+ faces the music he will find tha
William Willis, his benefactor ant
II friend, will swear he put his name t,
n about $40, 900 worth Of paper with
y out his consent. The manufacture
l. ers of the "Tiger Rake" who wer
S, beaten out of about $1,000, will cor
3 front him, while the Bradley Ploy
:, and Empire Drill Companies wi
k try and get square with him TO
2 raising Ned with their ledgers.
in York, Pa, suffers to the tune {
10 several thousand dollars by reason {
TO his Vaccinations. A. b. Farquhai
the agricultural implement man,
o. facturer, being the leading sufferer
x and at least 100 honest Omish fa
ne mers of the Kiskacquillas Vale
o. weep because of the iniquitie