Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-02-28
HIS SAD DOWNFALL.
CAUSED BY AN UNCOMFORTABLE
APPETITE FOR LIQUOR.
Young Clark FORCES His Fathers Name to
Checks for Small sums-Mers of
Fenwick's Nefarious Work.

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatcn.l
PETERSBURG, Va, February 27.-In the
Mayors Court this morning W. G.. Clark,
n well-known printer Of this city, was ar
raigned on the charge of forging the name
of his father. Mr.. L. jefferson Clark, the
oldest printer in the State and one Of our
most hOnored citizens. to check for
Sl2.63 on the Petersburg Savings Bank.
The check was made payable to the order
of the accused, who endorsed and passed
1t upon Messrs. X. NJ. Anderson X Co. in
payment of dozen or two plow-llnes.
which he purchased and for which he mad
no use. He received the difference be-
tween the amount Of the check and the
price of the plow-lines. The accused
voluntarily waived examination and was
committed TO jail TO await trisl at the
March term of the Hastings Court.
IL IS said there are two or three other
fraudulent and forged checks passed by
young Clark upon other parties within the
last two or three DAYS about which no
complaint has yet been made and in which
1t IS probable none will be made. Here is
an instance of the sad downfall OF young
man caused by an uncomfortable appetite
for liquor.
OPERATED IN PETERSBURG.
Victor Fenwick. the alleged tramp
printer whose dishonest doings in Rich
mond have been made public. spent seve-
raj days in Petersburg last week, during
which time he seems not to have been idle
In his nefarlous work. He went to the
rooms Of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation and by a pitiful tale of honest
poverty and anxious endeavor TO obtain
work enlisted the warm sympathy OF the
association. The payment of his board at
respectable house was guaranteed for
week until he could obtain employment.
lie lived well on this charity, and during
the while received pecuniary assistance
from some or our ministers. was presented
with railroad ticket 10 Richmond, which
he sold, and then quietly slipped of to
Norfolk, leaving the victims of his decep-
ton here IN the lurch.
DEATH OF AN Ex-cosFRDERATE.
Mr.. John f. Butcher. gallant ex-Con-
federate soldier. a member OF the Twelfth
Regiment (Mahones Brigade). died sud
denly SUNDAY morning at his home, on
Harding street. He had been a sufferer
from consumption for some time, but was
able even until within the last several DAYS
to bo out on the street. About 4 o'clock
A. NJ. he awoke his wife and asked her for
drink OF water. She noticed that he
seemed to be in an alarming condition.
he was dead. The deceased was fne
soldier and genial gentleman. He leaves
widow aud four children. He entered
the army when a mere youth.
DEATH OF A FORMER PEIERsBURGER.
Information has been received of tho
death in Baltimore of Mrs. Sarah Kenne-
dy, for manv years a resident of this city,
where she leaves many near relatives. She
was lady OF high culture.
The Women's Auxiliary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South. will,
by appointment. observe this week as a
week of prayer, and every afternoon ser
vices will be held at one or the other of
the Methodist churches in this city in be-
half of the cause which the society repre-
sents.
Mr.. II. B. Tunstall. prominent lawyer of
Norfolk, was IN the city to-day.
The burning of the stable building be-
longing to Mr.. T.. j. Gates, on Old street,
on Saturday night, caused the destruction
of a house which in times past sheltered
many a political voter-not only slngly
but in droyes-and furnished accommoda-
ton for many an unfortunate man under
the influence of liquor.