The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-18

o'clock Tuesday night. The hour arrived
and the guests arrived, including some big
lights of the city. But where was the
host who was to have been with them? A
search was made for him, but he was not
found. The supper was not eaten, neither
was it paid for. The search was kept up
all day yesterday. Long into the night
hours ureless feet covered all the terri
tory about the falls. Finally the search
ers tumbled, and they sat down in the
bar room of the hotel and looked at each
other for several minutes. Then water
on the side for all was ordered, and the
hotel employees allowed to go into the
banquet room and gorge themselves.
While the help were performing their part
of the programme the others were reflect
ing. The stiffness of the room was OPP
pressive.
THE hotel proprietor was the first one
to break the silence, His tumble was
such hard one that it hurt him. 1t was
summed up; Board for the son of a
Scotch lord, $SS; one champagne supper
that was ordered by him, $75; cigars and
drinks while the guest was in the house,
Sc; damage tor misplaced confidence 500.
Kingsley looked over the figures and
said: Add to the bill for my cost of ac-
quaintance with a Scotch lords son, SIS,
and a soft-hearted reputation that w,.l
make me guy for some time to come,
$780,
while in the city Sloan got into the
good graces of several young women one
of whom is reported to have entered into
matrimonial engagement with him.
Some of the woman's relatives have been
hunting for the man since last evening,
and one of them has gone out of town to
find clue
"A letter was received by one of the vic
tins this afternoon. 1t was dated at
Clifton, Ontario, and said: Keep that
hotel bill, supper, carriage hire and Dor
rowed money warm until l get in your
town again. Then, If l have money, it
will be paid. Give my love to Kingsley
and the rest of the girls. and do not for
get the little girls who made my visit to
the Falls so pleasant. If there is any
supper left, give it to the janitors of the
city building. They are both good boys.
With love to all. Yours both in life and
death.
"(Signed) Sloan, the son of a Lord, late
of Glasgow, Scotland; also of the Nj
agara Falls, America
The letter has served to anger the VIC
tins, and detectives will be put after
Sloan. This evening a clue was found
which made 1t look as if the mans name
was Mcneil, and his home was in Detroit,
Mich.
''Later-James H. Sloan, the man who
represented himself as the son of a Scotch
nelly of the Colonnade hotel and George
Kingsley, is now locked up at police head
quarters. He came over from Canada
this afternoon, and was having a good
time in the Frontier house, on Whirlpool
street. when Oscar Wagner, one of the
clerks of the Colonnade, saw him and had
him arrested. On his person were found
some newspaper clippings, a diamond
ring, a gold watch, and two hotel keys,
one belonging to the Colonnade and the
other to an out-of-town hotel He took
his arrest coolly, but refused to make any
statement His clothing does not look
as clean as it did when ne was here first,
but he still wears the same smooth face.
Sloan will be in court in the morning, and
if he does not SETTLE may be sent to Lock-
port to the grand jury"
telegram of inquiry sent from here to
! Niagara Falls brought back the following
! information:
James H. Sloan, alias William Mcneil,
| the bogus son of a Scotch ford, who sue
| ceeded in defrauding a number of people
| here by borrowing money and running fat
/ hotel bills, was arrested at the north end
! of the city last night, where he was acci-
| dentally discovered by two of his vic
| Tins in the barron of a hotel Sloan
would say nothing to the police, and after
| spending the night in the city JAIL was ar
raigned in the police court and pleaded
guilty to defrauding the hotelkeeper. He
made some restitution to a few of his vic
tins, including the hotelkeeper, and also
a hack driver, from whom he borrowed
SO However, he was sent to jail for sixty
DAYS"