The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-03
CHEATED nj HoRsE BuSco MEN.
Mrs. Casper Read Their SwiusiinG Adver.
tisenent nnd Was sadly Tnkea Ip.

Mrs. Casper Read Their svvirsiine Adver-
tisement and Was sadly Tnkea Ip.
About two weeks ago Mrs. Mary Casper OF az
First street read the following advertisement
In a morning newspaper:
w able groceryman. farmer. any business 4o1 East
18th at.
Mrs. Casper wanted to buy safe horse. not
too SNOWY but good and strong. So she told
her son, Isaac Casper that she thought she
would take ono OF those advertised II 1t suited
her Mrs. Casper lives with her son. who owns
q saloon on the first floor OF tho tenement at
80 First street. He has In his employ young
man named Fred Mayer Casper sent Mayer
to see "the widow" That was on Friday. July
a. and here is what Mayer says about his
visit:
Tho Widows stable Ia q one-story brick
building on the uptown eide OF the street. two
doors east OF First avenue. 1t is not twenty
feet long nor eighteen feet high. 1t has q
small black door, on which tho number 4ol
was scrawled in chalk. There were two horses
in the place There was no ono In sight when
looked In. but as turned away man crossed
the street and asked me what wanted. He
was short man. with n broken nose and n
scraggy. black moustache. and was dressed
like hostler. / said l wanted to see the
to sell.
"'She is not in now. but II you leave word
with me I'll tell her said the man.
II gave him Mrs. Caspers address. and
about 2 o'clock the same afternoon q short
man. very dark. with black moustache and
good clothes drove up to Casper's saloon with
q big brown horse. The animal was pretty
good looking. The man guaranteed It to be
sSan R R Se Widow We wS said
take it back and either return the $50 we were
to nay or give us smother horse Mrs. Casper
paid the man $50 cash and took the horse.
That afternoon Mr. Casper hitched the horse
up and started out for q drive with his mother.
nue. and fou i a street. when suddenly the
horse reared up. broke the shafts. kicked. and
run. Mr.. Casper finally stopped the animal.
and got him hack to the house. He sent me at
nosed man. and told him what had happened.
He said the widow would send us another
tsched man Who brouGht the iirst t horse dpovo
ting s. more for his trouble. Mrs, Casper paid
On Monday. afternoon drove Mrs. Casper and
two of her friends up to l50th street. Coming
took us three hours to get to Seventeenth
street and Fourth. avenue. At the corner OF
s. or o e
Animals and an officer there sent for voter;
the horse. and ordered him shot, saying no
had spinal trouble and had been worthless for
months. and could not live, The officer shot
him. dragged the buggy homo.
Since then l have tried many times to see
the widow. Mr.. Casper and others who saw
McGlynn. who used to run a stable Off this
street In Extra place. near the Bowery. Tho
broken nosed man At the stable laughed when
was her name, He said he never saw mo about
any horse at ALL"
run BY Paddy and Mike McGlynn who former
ly did business within a block OF Mr. Caspers
terday when THE Sun reporter called The
broken nosed man is known as Natty. There
is no widow in the business with them. and
to entrap the unwary.