Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-13
TRAPPERS OF MEN
Capture Two Southern Specimens of
the Honest Farmer Kind.
MUCH MONEY FOR VERY LITTLE
Expected by Couple Who Have Come to
the Conclusion That
THEY HAVEN'T ANY TOO MUCH SENSE
isrrcrAt TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-John w. Eeklar,
who says he is ''the honestest man in Mont
gomery county, Ky.," came East to get
$4,000 of somebody else's money for $500 OF
his own. He kissed his wife and seven
children goodby on Monday morning and
tramped over the mountains to Mt. Ster-
ling, the nearest railway station. Here he
took train for Philadelphia, where he had
made elaborate plans to meet a New Yorker
named Cronin.
He arrived in Philadelphia on Tuesday
evening, with his baggage in a small wood
en- box, his money in his boot, and thick
stick i'll 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 bim. Later in the evening the detec-
tive called for Ecklar. When the detective
entered his room, Ecklar shouted 'rob-
bers' and showed his bed up against the
door.
An Attempt to Get Habeas Corpus.
The two men were brought to New York
this afternoon, because the green goods cir
culars had been mailed from this town.
Cronin arrived under the name of Richard
Clarkson. He had telegraphed his confed-
crates, and one of them sat all the afternoon
on the iron stairs of the Federal building,
directly opposite the door to the Commits
sioner's rooms. A lawyer had been hired
and an unsuccessful effort was made to Sc
cure the release OF Clarkson on 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 mani in Montgomery county, KY,
sat in the marshal's office on the other side
of the building The green goods man en-
tertained the farmer by telling him what
an awful place New York is.
You just walk along any street" he was
saying when The DISPATCH reporter en-
tered, "ands some one pulls string hole
opens beneath you, and you disappear into
the river.
"My, my" was all the astonished Ecklar
could say.
The Marshals had, beside Ecklar's $500, a
remarkable shooting iron about four inches
long. Ecklar said he made it himself
Little Guns for Bear Shooting.
ssWe 'uns use 'em to shoot bars with"
he said. "We 'uns climb into the caves
wha'r the bars are i'll the winter, feel of
thar body till we 'uns can hear the heart
beat, then put the gun up close and shoot
EN- dead.
Whether or not the bunko man believed
this story was not ascertSlned
j. d. Delarch. another honest man, was
before Justice Mcmahon in the Tombs
court to-day. Delarch is farmer
from Georgia who paid $500 for what
he supposed was S3,2OO He was
subsequently persuaded by Detective
Carey, of the Church street station, that it
was only SIG The officer arrested William
Mickey in Delarch's company at Liberty
and West streets, as he was plotting the
farmer to the Liberty street ferry. Mackey
said in court this morning that he had
nothing to do with. the green goods that
Delarch had, and was only showing him
1ow to get to jersey City. He was re-
ooks greener than greenback, and is %
years old, told his story to an interested
Iudience.
The Same Old Story.
'1 run my dads farm down in Putnam
county in Georgy," he said, 'and for nigh
IN year L bin gettin' printed notices fom
ONE fellah up hyah whut wants to sell me
money. Greenbacks is sca'ce down in
ieorgy, so 1 reckoned I'd come up hyah'n
ret some cheap. The fellah's name whut |
vrote the lettahs is w. d. Fox, n he put |
Iueah things about whar to address his let |
abs at / forget whut he said about it. |
When came up hyah fellah with black |
lair met me in Philadelphia an come on |
lyah with me. He took me to some place, |
don't know where, an another fellah, |
gho said he was Fox, knowed me the min
tie 1 come in. Want that queah? He |
ounted out some bills-over SO, 000-and |
nut 'em on the table for me, an gave him
300. I asked him how cd he afford to
i've me such a likely stack of money, an
e said that was paht O. the biz, and he
ouldn't explain. Then 1 put the stuff in
" satchel, an when 1 left the building 1
ONE out at the big postoffice. This fellow
Iackey met me at there n I ahsked him to
how me the way to the Jersey ferry, an he
ook me there. Then the policeman ar
ested we 'uns and showed me that my
honey was only green paper. l wanted to
o back an lick that fellah, but L didn't
now the way"
Thinks He Hasn't Good Sense.
elbow did you think. you could get so
luch good money for so lttle?" asked
ustice Mcmahon.
81 reckon twas cause / amt got good
,nse," replied the Southerner. mournfully.
The policeman said L was dahn jay, an
,ckon he was right"
When .Delarch was searched atthe station
ouse, two big revolvers, loaded in every
lamber, and bowie knife were found on
i'm. He said he was carrying the weapons
protect his money on the way home. to
eorgy.