Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-19
vIRGINIA'S QUIX0TE
VISITS TIE HOME OF AMsLIE RIves
AND OTHER PLACES.
Making at the Same Time some Queer
Financial Negotiaticns--No Yet
Iiquidated--Liberai View.
tcorc,pondsnco Of the Richmond DI.patoh.l

tCorrcsponienco Of the Richmond DIspatchl
ScorrsvuIE. VA, August Is. 1890.
Your correspondent at Williamsburg IN
sundays Dispatch gives. under the heading
of a Modern Don Qujxote." an account
Of the movements of Mr. Wilmer Evans nj
Richmond and elsewhere. As this itine-
rant gentleman figured IN this community
about a month ago in way likely 70 eX-
cite suspicion. your correspondent would
place his movements here on record. Mr..
Evans rode INTO town on the 18th OF July,
or thorcaboUts. accompanied by ms N"Igt'
and stopped At the Powers House; tie
claimed 40 have come from Castle Hill, the
former home Of Mrs. Amele Nves Chan-
der, where he had stopped Tor seVerai
DAYS.
TrNANcIFR.
from this place he started 90 visit Miss
NcClelaud the authorcss, ~ upper Buck
.ueham. and ON his way o. that point ne
-pont the night with Mr.. ". ID. Staples,
near Howardsville. prohering draft ior
his bin. but finally promising 20 remit ih a
few DAYS bv mail. While az Mt Staples 3
le used % small camera he bad with hlm 20
take NEGATIVES If several members Of tho
family. promising % send half dozen
photographs Of each. So completely minus
funds was he az this point that he borrow
ed Is half dollar from Mr.. Staples 20 have
bls horse shOd.
PROMPTLY PROTESTED.
To returned 60 tins place week later;
nran sfopmug az the Powers House mo
on July 2ith presented a draft t1r go al ..
l.. Moons b8uking-rO0m, when MI S ni
consented 90 cash II be would &c, Iocai
eudorser. This lac succeeded lh uoluk al
tho person Of one Of our mosi IN
eitrIaus. who believed Sir. Evans Q" pt ~
q. b." The daft was ON brother OF Af'
I.4r4 20 Roanoke and 10 promptly came
back protested. f,..-.t..,,
Some davs later a LAWYER of tins place
went % Roanoke on other business an"
took occasion o. -ec the brother VINO al'-
ys8rcI % Doe nice ceutlruan' ahH "ho
'+qfo1 tbof be- had lad several drafts on
}im drawn los Wilmer Evans protested
and minated that bee would onlv pay OUT
money TO save hls brother from trouble.
AU1rAEY SYNDICATE.
Whlo here Mr. Exams. who is man Of
polish aud % i.u no CONVEX -atonaiIst' III,
irmDI vour correspondent that he had
established in Balumoreas syndicate known
.. the Hiss Evans Syndicate Dir. Hiss
h.irra partner, from which literary pro
fu.troUs short stories were furnished
.laL1ut forty SUNDAY papers. the D'Y1@'
...n, among tho number In his travels
.eu4s not seeking tp write up the coun-
t-. through which hc travelled, but sought
data upon which o. build his stories.
rErHu8 AiuTIE OFF,
ST.. Evans wrote back from Williams
irr. 90 the gentleman VINO endorsed the
frlft for HIM here asking for the whole
amount Due him and he stated that he
would remit hs check f1r the amount, but
..>l Not been done o. set. IL Is the
confident belief Of your correspondent
r... Imt several lengthy conversations
with tho subject OF TINS letter that Alr.
r..I.s .I4v lo somewhat "oG' mentally.
.rf t.atltis not really the intention 81
rllr.n p. 1,fraui those with whom he
como. Iu contact. This. of course, is 1.-The
1.| construction To- be placed upon hls