The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-25
& Il GOODS VICTIMS.
One Southerner Bites and the Other
Saved by the Police.

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One Southerner Bites and the Other i
Saved by the Police.
John w. Ecklar, who says he is the hon
estest man in Montgomery county. Ken
tuoky. came east to get $4,000 of some.
body else's money for $500 OF his own. say
the New York SUM-. He kissed his wife ant
seven children pood-by on Monday morn
alma to Mount Sterling, the nearest railway
station. Here he took a train for Phila-
delphia, where he had made elaborate
plans to meet a New Yorker named Cronin
He arrived in Philadelphia on Tuesday
evening with his baggage in q small wooden
box. his money in his boot, and a THE
stick in his hand. He went to the Waverly
house. and got the clerk to register for him.
Then he went to his room. Mr.. Cronin was
not there, because Detective Murray had
got him. Later In tho evening the detec'
tive called for Ecklar. When the detective
entered his room. Ecklar shouted Rob
bsrs!s and showed his bed up against the
door.
Tho two men were brought to New York
yesterday. afternoon, because the green
goods circulars had been mailed from TINS
town. Cronin arrived under the name OF
Richard Clarkson. He had t~elepraphed
his confederates, and one of them sat all
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ridor of the Federal building. directly OPP
posite the door to the commissioner
room. A lawyer had been hired and an I'M
successful effort was made to secure the
release OF Clatkson on a writ of habeas
corpus. 1t will be continued to-day.
While the habeas corpus proceedings
were going on the green goods man and the
honestest man IN Montgomery county, Ken
lucky, sat in the marshal's office on the
other side OF the building. The green
goods man entertained the farmer by tell
ing him what an awful place New York is.
"You just walk along any street" he was
saying, when the reporter entered, land
some one pulls a string, q hole opens be-
meath you and you disappear into the
river" .s -.sGy
"My! myp' was all the astonished Eck-
lar could say.
The marshals had. besides Eckla.'s $500,
a ema kable shooting iron about four
inches long. Eoklar said he made it him"
self.
ave 'uns use 'em to shoot bars with"
he said. I'VE 'uns climb into the caves
wh'ar the bars are in the winter, feel Of
thar body till we 'uns can hear the heart
beat. then put the gun up close and shoot
'em Dead"
Whether or not the bunco man believed
this story was not ascertained.
I'D. Delarch, another honest man. was
before Justice Mcmahon in the Tombs
yesterday. Delarch is the farmer
from Georgia who paid $500 for what he
supposed was S3,o 200. He was subsequently
persuaded by Detective Carey of the Church
street station that it was only SIG. The Of
fcer arrested William Mackey in Lelarch's
company at Liberty and WeBt streets on
Thursday night as he was plotting the
farmer to the Liberty street ferry. MAckey
said in court yesterday morning that he
had nothing to do with the green goods
that Delarch had. and was only showing
him how to get to Jersey City. He was re-
greener than a greenback, and Is y
years old, told his story to an interested
81 run my dads farm down in Putnam
county in Georgy,'' be said, land to- nigh
on a year ! bin gettin' printed notes f'om
some fellah up hyah whut wants to sell me-
Greenbacks is sca'ce down in
Georgy, so / reckoned I'd come up hyah n
get some cheap. The fellah's name whut
the lettahs is w. d. Fox, N he put
queah things about wha'r to address his
at. l forget whut he said about it.
When l came up hyah q fellah with black
hair met me IN Philadelphia an come on
hyah with me. He took me to some place
I dom know where, an another fellah, who
said be was Fox. knowed me the minute I
come in. Want that queeah? He counted
some bills-over $3,000-an' put 'em on
the table fo' me, an l gave him 5000. 1
ahsked him how cd he afford to give
me such a likely stack of money.
an he said that was paint of the bust
an he couldn't explain. Then
l put the stuff in my satchel. an
I left the building T come
out at the big postofice. This fellow
met me at there n I ahsked him to
show me the way at the Jersey ferry, an he
me there. Then the policeman ar
rested we-uns and showed me that my
money was only green paper. I wanted to
go back and lick that Teller, but l didn't
know the way"
How did you think you could get SO
much good none for SO little?' asked
Judge Mcmahon.
II reckon twas cause 1 amt got good
replied the southerner m%ournfully.
1.-The policeman said l was a dahn jay, IN
reckon he was right"
When Delarch was searched at the sta
ton house two big revolvers. loaded in
every chamber, and a bowie knife were
on him. He said he was carrying
the weapons TO protect his money on the
way home to GeorQy.