Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-12
EXPLOITS OF AN ENGLISH CAD.
Young Beresford's vIctiDs-On His way
Back to Eome. Ga.


Governor Hill has countersigned the re-
ouisition papers in the case OF Walter
Beresford. the young English swlndier,
and on Thursday afternoon he Will Dc
travelling back to Georgia, says the new
York Herald
In the cotton State the plausible young
Englishman had little difficulty IN getting
the landed gentry TO cash his worthless
checks Oh the Oriental Banking Company
He told them brand-Dew stories of the
Prince OF Wales and the smart set in Lon
don. He said Gordon. Cumming could
never have cheated at cards, because ne
was o gentleman bred and BORN" and
that he was brother of Lords Charles and
Marcus BeresfOrd, in temporary financial
straits, owing, he admitted with manly
frankness, ITO the thoughtless follies OF
youth" Al,
old home from which all tho landed and
landloss gentry OF Georgia hail as well as
the Beresfords. Was not Hope Beresford
the friend of tho South during the war;
OF course he was. Would not the South
now befrierd his young klnsman, whom
generous weakness tor an un worthy woman
had suddenly impoverished when FAR away
from home? OF course the South would.
and in one week upon the gentletolk o,
Rome. Ga. young Beresford unloaded
tai Banking Company.
BEREsFoRD IN HIS BEARssIy.
One morning tho new-found friends Of
tbis gallant scion Of an historic family
woke up 10 find that he had silently folded
his tent nnd softly stolen away, and the
only sOureair that BeresfOrd left the gentle
folk of Rome was a full-length portrait of
himself in bearskin hat. for. like all the
Beresfords. he had been IN the Guards.
you know.
Not word from the gallant ex-guards-
man came TO his hospitable entertainers.
but the bogus checks came back TO roost
with the legend IN. g." inscribed across
their faces and the gentlemen of Georgia
On Saturday. as announced in the
Hfrdd Of Monday. Berestord, who had
been tracked 10 New York, WIS arrested
and has since been lodged IN cell ct police
headquarters.
When | called on this descendant of q
hundred earls yesterday tho spinner of
fashionable and Ouidaesque yarns refused
to spin one for the Herald. He il little,
insignificant man. with sharp, snappy eyes
and general cheapness of appearance
which hardly TALES with his alleged noble
lineage.
Beresford will be brought before Judge
Truax IN tho Supreme Court this morning
thing very unusual occurs before evening
he will be on his way TO Georgia in charge
of Special Officer jacques Moore. who has
been commissioned by the gentlemen OF
the Gentry Club, Rome. Ga, TO bring
them back the original OK the portrait that
adorns their clubhouse.
NEW WORKERS TAKES IN.
II will he healing JUNCTION to the finan-
cal wounds of the Georgia gentlemen TO
know that during the ten days that young
Bcrcsford had leeway in New York and ITS
environs his success was quito as marked
as were his operations down Georgia way.
It seems well-nigh Incredible, but 1t IS true
that he induced Richard X. Fox to cash
ono of his checks on the Oriental and ex-
otto banking concern for 1000.
There were other victims, too, and ono
ut least who is glad IN tho very cookies of
his heart that young Beresford only got o
considerable sum of filthy lucre out OF
him. This gentleman, who shall be name
loss. called on Assistant District-Attorney
MCINTYRE yesterday and showed him some
more bogus checks adorned with young
BeresfOrd flOurishing signature.
This old gentleman he'd q long, white
beard, and was clothed with the dignity OF
some sixty-6ve winters and fine new suit
Of broadcloth.
Az HERES EisILT WON.
He told Mr.. Mcintyre with tears in his
eyes the following story:
=" | do not want TO prosecute him. No,
Stree. am glad TO get of at the price.
Nv daughter met him ten days ago at q
tennis tournament and invited tho fasci-
mating young stranger down 10 our cot
tage on the New Jersey coast. lie came
Immediately, clad for conquest in Tuxedo
coat and white duck trousers, and the
foolish girl fell in love with him and had
the audacity to tell me the day before
young Beresiord was arrested that he was
the young man to spend my money.
Yes. am glad to get Of at the price,"
and the old gentleman smiled complacent-
~ upon the bogus one-thousand-dollar
check which his lato prospective son-in-
law had unloaded unon him