New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-12
HE Is AN EXPERT LIAR.
AN AUDACIOUS ENGLISH SWINDLER.

CLAIMING RELATIONSHIP WITH DIsTlN6ui HE'D
PEOPLE. HE MAKES CONSIDERABLE MONTY
Ono ~ the coolest. most audacious SwindlcrS VINO
ever found a temporary home al Police hoanqu'r.'i'
Is tho enterprising yOung man who yes'cr""' az
noon gnvc a history Of his career to inspector nv
Iauchln The young In question Is "ilnain
u rant an EngDshman, who comes from Uo7"r'n'
Northumberland where his father Is an e"s'"..i
He is twenty three Yeas old and ONLY ari1Neo III ~
country On June q OF this year. Yet ne mas 'u''
tbc five months Of his stay here 10 such e'oo ~
count that many hundred otherwise shreWd pe'9o'
have TO acknowledge themselves his dupcs MS p,I
~ opcrson was exceedingly simple. In one place ~
was Charles Mitchell son Of the man VINO h'iPV'
n build up the great shipbui!dng firm OF On.
strong Mitchell & Co.. Newcastle on'lyhc' III "'o
he was the son of Miss NJ. f. BTnddon 'Nrs' "
well. In al places he was well oreSsou 80,
OF handsome presence, carrying with INN "'", o.
nj boysh righteousness Invaluable to the professoA
0dcad heat Nearly every lie met swailoN'N
one or the other Of the two stock stones anu '
a. the son Of Mr. Mitchell or Mrs. Maxwell We sue
cceded in beating his way from New orN Az ~,
continent TO san Francisco and back as"i" -.
was percnniarv expecting a handsome rcml''""'e'
.rher from, his distinguished father or his sui! NOR
distinguished mother, and the regard IN Wn'v" o0"
names are held I'm this country was s"i"'''"' "
procure for him all the money he heeueu
rut his artihce and lying after all unnecessary
The largehearted American people, "l""S' 800
responsive 10 the sight of suffering and want are NOR
49,, . ,ordor % tbe stranger n a strange land whp
No. folio, nv the way. Bant quickly louhu u'i>
mt The mere fact that | was an hhehsH"'""
and In difficulties was sufficient to loosen an !u'
str,nrsn he said yesterday, with SUI So''e''U
lauch lie not only got money Ill sums hV' Q ~
N s5O Int he actually succeeded in Obtaining "'o
-. oc,oee tho country from the general manager %
big ,runk line s,oo ho
Having rheaied n Gosforth man out OF SlVo' he
came 10 New-York and took up his quarters nrs' "'
the stnrtevant House, and then AT the fn'h ->'o
x,o,ol lie went TO Gloucester lost all the MONEY "
taa and then at Philadelphia obtained 80 rom W.
svn,rathetic Englishmen. At chicago he op'''
COZ from SIR Henry Wood. secretary OF the hrIus"
Committee of the Worlds Fair; and So Carrying "'S
story with him. reached san Francisco whence i'o ~
t,,rned ONLY q few weeks ago. For coiIN" '"'i0
time Inspector Mclaughlin had received cu'np"
trorn persons who had been dupcd BY tan lal-""'u'
bue eyed Young Engshman. and assigned D.'e'uNo
serccants McCluskey and Armstrong 10 100" 'o' num-
Yesterday afternoon they Rant standing On inc
sidewalk at Eighth-st and Broadway ana P'"'
upcn him. When he was searched az ioi',o :,
ouar-crs two letters Of Introduction 1ro" O"uIH
Emory, o wellknovn engineer, who has hoou' w. 90
an the Bennett Building, wers hid on the Inspector
desk.
Rant placidly explained that on his return 10 New
yor,, ba had chilled OH Babcock, Wilson Co.. steam
ho,,errnokers OF No 80 Corandtst', ana III NV
character Of Charles Mitchell obtained letter ..
Introduction to Mr.. Emery. To Mr. Emery NJ h'u
that no WAS an engineer passing through the country
and at The suggestion Of his father wished 10 gam
some noints In the system Of naval constructor III
vo-uo here Mr.. Emery obngngly gave nm "o
,D.roduc,Iops-one 10 Commodore Theodore t. Wilson,
chief Of the Construction and Repair Bureau IN 'he
Navy Department at Washington. and the o'her 10
Cornmod,ro a. O. Melville. chief OF Tile bureau oI
Stna,n Tnc1nccril,r in the Navy Departments. J
attended 10 land them, with the help OF theNe et''s'
g. vnm had not stopped me- he said. | shonli nave
told them as ! have told others. thal ny H.,
Uas Tho famous engineer, Robert stephenson. iH'
,na'5c ~ 6tenhensOn'S name had been sulcIrhl 10
a. Mr. Wylie an engineer. who lives AT NO ,"
EaSt Tenth St There, however, Stephenson va
ho"cbt into strange iuxtapoStiOn with Miss l'ia9uo
3 Mr. Wylie and Mr. Rand introduced
Rant 10 several engineering clubs In & oTm az"
gave him a rcscate time lant succSNuiiS ult or
Miss Braddon racket os Duke 6 uSgasS PLpsn,ti.
~ Ann-st. and friend OF Wine VIII oi Ii
failed for want OF time 10 rob Mrs. FRANK - Si'v
Who seems TO be the natural prey OF every Snloo'n
tonyued swindler - .a lie, ~ bIs destined
v,ctims among item being S. :. lioWhnd ,rTN
CdSwcd H. /. Herbert. Thomas Hitchcock. JON
r Cowden. Eugene Higgins and W. T.. llnany, VII
the card of Harry i. Sums)n, Newly Orh hat-'T ~
Anna Kuppert the pearl powder conc ctor OF Kegeh,
e. London vas another of his trophies Fan
eeita,;med 10 have worked as reporter on u" Ih
london Daily News" and said that lie had taiRe'
With Robert r. Lincoln and Gladstone IL.
When Inspector Mclaughlin became tired Of iahl
living and gfed the few grains OF truth hld1eh u
II the ingenious young man was taken 10 'rHsI,l
Market Plice Court, and was there remandcd 10
further examination