Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-01
A Respectable and Wealthy
Wise County Man
IS NOW HOPElESSlY lNSANf
As a Result Of a Trick Played on Him BY
Shapefs.
No Placed $500 ln a Box in Nov York. but
When Opened In Dallas u Contained
Nothing bat a Briokbal The
Shock Was Too Great

Dallas Tex. Dec. 81 Especially ID.
Nicely Of Bridgeport. Wise county. IL
an inmate Of the city hospital tonight
Ii an insane condition Of mind He is
a wclldrcsscd and intelligent looking
farmcr and has been the hero Of sem
suuon today This morning he register
cd at the st. Jumes hotel at an early
hour lie was good-humosed and
talkativo then and struck the other
guests as a friendly md lively Did fel.
low. An hour later package was de-
iiyored TO him from the Adams e,proa
Office. ID had been shipped from ~.
Smart. ~ Park street. y. Y. g., 20 ID.
Nicely. Dallas, Tex" The old man took
the package TO his room removed the
" rring paper aud ia q neat paper box
hc found % brick The shocs was ~
terrible one He hurled q brick through
window aud stated that ho had bccn
robbed of i5Oo. he PLUGGED tho MONEY
Ia the package in New York A frcnd
whom he had met Ia Gotham aided him.
Tho landlord Of the st. Jamcs escorted
the fcntomun FROM Wise county to POI
lice headquarters and Detective NJ W.
Kcarhy begun an investigation when
Il was discovered that Ncely's mind was
dcthruo1 10 had become temporarily
dcr ged 10y thc shock. The oliccrl
managed 60 extract the Information from
him hat q mouth nro he LETT bis homo
ga Wise COUNTY and loufneyed TO New
York. lie bad busiu sa there with
gentleman and Dee also Ind $500 on
lhe day OF his departure 1his friend
induced Nicely 10 place his money ia a
paper hox. wrap e securely and ship Il
by express Co Dallas.
The 'ficnd' shipped Il for Nicely,
escorted him to depot, purchased
ticket aud nw him safely on board "the
cars He wis satisfied the money had
been nbstncted en- route aud The brick
substituted in lieu thereof. Detective
Kearby sent Nicely O. the hospital and
wired the sheriff Of Wise county that
one OF his constituents was In sad
plight IN Dallas Neoy said hc Ind
sold "city property" In New York. but
Koarhy says ". Smart, ~ Park street.
| New York City, rs The individual who
las Hooded Te2us with green gooda
circulars for the posi year Nicely re-
fused on WINS unable ,o rccollect just
what sort Of mnu he had transacted
business with while In Gotham, The
officers found upon him Sl15 Ia
cash und the following circular from tha
green goods man
"p. s.. Note the following Instructions
/ Buy your ticket via che New York Gem
! trul aud Hudson River railroad. aud do
! not come 10y any other Ioute.
] IL yuu cannot buy your ticket IN your
/ town, 80 TO the next largest town aud
get a through tioket 60 New York and
also wear q stin hat, as that b the kind
/ worn Do New York. and you will not .Ooll
! Ike stranger DO not bring ANY
hng with you, us ! viii furnish you one.
DO not talk tO nnyOur On The train
coming To New York FOLLOW these in-
strueions and We win meet an right.
Tho package was received hy tho
! Adams people at their New York office.
! Tho charges on same, Sl.25, was paid
| by Needy IL " the h0ary old game,
90 old that " has whiskers. The drtec-
lives ARE confident that Nicely ran
against the "reon goods men" IN New
York that TRADED with him" and nll
he has 20 show for his trip N the brick
aud a heavy John l.. alteration OF the
mind.