The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-02-28
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
How a Slick Old Rooster
"Worked" Sedalia in 1873
and Went His Way.

Sedalia has caught some strange
characters in its day.
Adventures are no new thing.
They were in existence before Sc
dalia.
Adventures will be a part of the
earth's population as long as time en-
dureth and Sedalia electric railway
runs.
Ii was twenty years ago this month
that Samuel Hoyt, a man about sixty
years old, arrived in Sedalia.
He was quiet. dignified old gentle
man and had the appearance of harm
lessness to the greatest degree.
On his arrival he rented a store
room on West Main street. about
where j. {. Parmerlee holds forth at
present.
He moved into the room lot of
goods, including immense French
burr stones, leather and gum betting,
mill Furnishings. scales, safes. engines
and boilers. He painted the front Of
the building well with signs and law
ished expensive advertisements in the
newspapers.
He boarded at the Ives House
hest place in the city. dressed fault
lessIv for man of his years and
started at once into society, by join
ing the Ohio street Methodist church
and buying pew, paying therefor
$40, cold cut cash.
His advertisements were signed,
Samuel Hoyt, manager" of the
Burr Stone Company"
His song was that he had discovered
in Cedar county, Missouri, quarry
where burr stones of equal quality to
the French burr stones had been dis
covered and that he had founded a
town there called Hoytville.
He was the first at church and the
last to leave every Sunday. AT prayer
meeting on Wednesday night he put
in good work and was an earnest
suplicator to the Heavenly throne in
long and loud prayers.
He was darling and the Metho-
dists thought they had struck it rich.
The old Sedalia Democrat was pub
lished at that time by DIR. A. Y. Hull.
Hull and Hoyt were very close and
confidential friends and almost daily
did nice and flattering notices appear
of the hero of Hoytville, Cedar
county, Mo.
A collapse arrived in due time
On the 10Th OF May, 1873, three
and one-half months after his advent
into Sedalia, he told the foreman Of
the Burr Stone Co.." plant that
there was 81 800 due him in st. Louis
and he was afraid he would not get it |
unless he went after it. He borrowed |
81 of Mr.. Gilbert and gave NJ. NJ.
Pritchard a check on the First
National bank for a ticket to st.
Louis.
He borrowed $50 of Fairbanks &
Co., of St. Louis, and that was the
last ever heard of him, directly, by
Sedalians.
He was the smoothest scamp-most
likely t, deceive that ever worked"
Sedalia.
Samuel Hoyt was from New York
City.
He had a brother in Rochester,
New York, who was wealthy man.
He had paid s15, 900 in 1872 to keep
his brother out of the penitentiary for
forgery.
A few days after Hoyt had left Sc
dalia detective named Pinckney
Amarr arrived here looking for the
slick old man, for he had another case
of forgery against him.
He did business in New York in
1872 and had the same burr stones on
exhibition there that were at 3S West
Main street.-the detective recognized
them.
He did not get much in Se'lalia.
A few hundred dollars would cover
all his croOkedness here. If money
value could be put upon the lies he
told and the deceits employed his de-
falcations would run into the millions
He was never heard of after the de-
tective was at Sedalia.
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