The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-13
HARRY LACEY FOUND GUILTY.
OF Obtaining MapsS Under False PFstsnleS.
Merry 70 the Last,

OF Obtaining Money Under fnl4e FFetenAeA'
Merry to the Last,
The case OF Harry Lacey indicted for
obtaining money under false pretenses,
was put on trial yesterday in Part Of
the Circuit Court, Judge PAUL presiding,
before a jury composed Of the following
named citizens; Elmer oaFlin, Adam
Singer, Harry Warner, William Lyle,
Albert Beltz, John Whelan, Ben
iamin Leach, Thomas Killsen, Ed
ward Elliott, ". H, Exley, Samuel
Busbey and Edward Burt, They
returned a verdict Of guilty" about 0
o'clock last night after having been out
less than a quarter Of an hour, Lacsy's
counsel, Colonel Arnett, made a motion
to set aside the verdict and grant a new
trial which was taken under considera'
ton, The penalty prescribed for the
Offense OF which Lacey has been found
guilty is the same as that prescribed ioF
grand larceny imprisonment from two
70 ten years,
Harry Lacy, as nearly everyone who
reads the Wheeling papers knows, IA
the little confidence man who made
such a splurge here during State Fair
week last September, He represented
himself 10 be the advance and contract
ing agent for Adam Forepaugh's big cir
Gus and, II will be remembered, made
contracts rightsapd left. Saturday oil
Fair week he was brought up with q
round turn, word having been re-
ceiyed from F~orepaugh that
he was a fraud and q
thief, and that he was never In hif
Forepaugh's) employ. Lacey was frsI
arrested at the instance Of the proprie'
tors OF the Mcclure House, To whom he
owed Sl2 for board, Lacey Is gifted
with a wonderful nerve aud he attempt
ed to bluff his way out Of the box he
evidently realized he had gotten himself
into, lie denounced his arrest as ar
outrage, and while in the office o.
Justice Phillips, who had issued the
warrant on which he was arrested, pale
the board bill and the costs, amounting
In all TO about SIS, and demanded thai
he be released. The money with which
be paid this bill was part OF $25 he haC
borrowed that morning from Mayor Sea
bright, with whom he was quite friend
Lacey was not released however, To-
as soon as the Mcclure House bill wa
satisfied there was served on him q war
rant sworn out by Sam BFublker Il
whom he had leased the bar privilege
on the State Fair Grounds, where th,
show was to exhibit for two days, 0cto
Der 7and 8, for 500, and from whom b.
obtained $S5 on account.
} The Grand Jury returned two iudiCt
ments against the fellow and It was un
der tho one based on his transaction
with Brubaker that he was tried, Lace,
\ during his imprisonment has persistent
/, " maintained that he was a REGULAR,
accredited agent for F%orepaugh and tina
! "the old man" would never dare com
here or send any one here to testify tina
: he was not.
In this, however, he was mistaken 10
; Mr.. FUrepaugh sent his treasurer, MI
< Frank Brooks. The unexpected appear
anceof Mr.. Brooks and his ConvinCin
testimony did not, however, disconGel
Lacy to any ap, aren't degree. Nj
brooks testimony left no doubt but thH
Lacy was a fraud, yet the little !ello'
had the wonderful nerve 10 go on th
stand afterwards and swear that he wa
Forepaugh's agent and made all his COL
t tracts In good faith.
i, The evidence was concluded at
o'clock aud the arguments were mad
after supper,