The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-14
MUCH WANTED INGRAM.
Inquiries and Information about
him Received from oil Sections.
HIS SHERPEST TRICK DESCRIBED.
lie Is still In the County Jail here aud
the Final Disposition of him has not
been Decided upon.--Thc Inlorma-
ton about him Accommodating.

tlon about him Accommodating.
Mr.. Robert McGrann, OF the thousand
aIiascs, Is still in the county jail here,
md it Is very indefinite when he will 80
elsewhere. Information as to his in.
tcrc.ling history is accommodating at
police headquarters cyeryd day, andtherc
il now enough to make n very large VOL
unc. It's dull day when there are
no. 81. least hall q dozen letters inquir-
ias about him or giving information
about him received by Capt. Delbruggc,
to say nothing diapers in which he is
written up. Yesterday letter was re-
rciycl from Montgomery, Alabama,
written by K. NJ. Porter, OF Portcr's de-
tcrtiyc agency, Mt Nashville, Tenn, say
Ing that he recognized the man Ms one
he had arrested several years ago for
W.ndIiua, and who then got two years
in the Tennessee pGnitGnhary. Capt.
Iorlrr says he has photograph OF tho
man .akcn nj that time, and that rs
toon as he gets home he will send one
enc to Capt. Dclbrugge. The man then
Ind chin whiskcrs.
AMAN WITH \ HUNDRED NAMES.
Several kilograms were received from
NIartins5nrg yesterday concerning the
man. The authorities there want him
badly for swindling Rev. Father Nc
KcciTey out OF $50 by the usual school
rac.ct. Rev. John ?. Hyde, principal
Of the Valley Female College ut Win
chester, Va, also writes that McGrann,
or whatever his name is, swindled him
out OF the customary So, giving him
check ior 500 in payment for tuition
and other expenses OF an alleged niece
whom he was TO send to the school.
The Episcopal Female Institute OF the
game town was caught for the same
amount by the same trick. a Catholic
minister there was also swlndled out OF
usmall sum. In Winchester the man
went by the name OF Hon. .Nex NJ.
johnson in one transaction, AMx Nc
CURE in another, and John B. Mcclure
in the third.
?. J. Woolin, principal OF the Sol
dicrs' Home ut Hampton, Va, also
wrote to the chief, saying that he
thought from the description OF the
man arrested here that he was an in
mate OF that institution, who had been
absent on iurlough for several months,
and had been employed till last month
in Colonel Rodgcrs's law office at Wash
ington City.
a VERY DEF GAME.
The mans deepest game is recorded
in 4 copy OF German Lutheran church
paper printed at Philadelphia, which
came to hand yesterd ny, and was worked
al Allcntown, Pa. The account has been
translated for the Embellishments read
rrs from the paper referred TO, the
Lo't'riScheS KirchcablaH, and isas follows:
The same trick that has so often
been played on Lutheran ministers has
succeeded III deluding Rev. J. B. Maus,
i Catholic priest, ut Allentown, Pa.
Last Monday well dressed man, giving
the name OF Alexander McNair, oil
Emra, N. Y, called ut Father Maus's
house and informed him that Martin
Wiling 4 former member OF the con-
grc"ation, had lately died, leaving his
whole fortune to the Catholic churches,
Father NIaus's church having inherited
$1,000. McNair said he had come to
pay the money, which amounted to
$3.50 after dcducting the legacy tax. He
asked ior no pay for his trouble, and
only demanded a receipt for the money.
To prove his credibility he showed =
letter from MonsiSnor Preston, the
Vicar General OF New York, written on
a letter head OF the Cathedral. McNair
lett after handing over the check.
Father Maus took the check to the
bank and requested the cashier to tcle-
graph an inquiry MS TO its genuincness.
An answer was received to arrest the
man, as the check was forged. NIcNair,
however, had already disappeared. In
qHiry Showed that the man had also
visited female academy in Allentown,
introduced himself to President Reilly
as Mr.. Lesion, OF Philadelphia, Tor
mcr student OF Princeton college, and
informed him that he wished to send
his daughter TO Mr.. RcilIy's school. He
wanted to pay 500 on account, and MS
he did not have the necessary money
handy, offered Mi. Reilly Il check for
600, asking for the balance in cash.
AIr. Reilly wouldn't bite, and the old
swiudlcr lett"
1t was generally remarked yesterday
thatit was peculiar that the man would
60 to the trouble OF giving bogus
caecI; Tor the sum alleged to be due the
church, not asking cent. 1t is very
evident, however, that tho man was
playing 4 deep game. The receipt for
this $3.50 would 80 far to convince other
intended victims that the man was
what he claimed to be, and that the
money would be forthcoming upon n
check, in exchange for which another
man might be very glad to give $50 or
50 as change.
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