The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-03
DR.. RosEIN TROUBLE AGAIN.
A Portland Swindler Arrested In Auburn
For Cheating An Old Woman.

John A. Rose, whose name appears in
the Portland directory as an electro
mental healer, residence Heath street,
and who in the Portland police court
record is put down as an EN- bezzler, o
disturber of the peace partaker Of
strong liquors and thief has been ar
Sested in Auburn charged with obtaining
money dishonesty from an old woman.
Rose is very well known to the police
here having cured in the court on vari-
GUS charges, the last time being up for
larceny some time in February.
Hose went to Lewiston last spring and
hired an office on Pine street which he
fxeds up in great style, and advertised
himself as DR.. DeRose.
His peculiar methods of healing and
tention of City Marshal Teel of Lewiston
who started out to investigate the pro-
fessor's operations. His suspicious were
verified when several complaints had
been made by different people concerning
the professors game. After a weeks
investigation, however, Mr.. Teel had not
secured enough proof to cause his arrest
until he learned that the professor had
in some mysterious way secured the sum
of 500 from Mrs. Ross, clairvoyant,
residing at 102 Second street, Auburn.
The professors relations with Mrs.
Ross have been very peculiar. 1t seems
that owing to the fact that Mrs. Ross is
Interested in hypnotism and the other
branches of psychology she felt she had
something in common with the professor
who posed as an exponent of these arts.
During recent illness she had the pro-
lessor administer his magnetic treatment
and although he was not successful in
making her believe she was not i'll be
succeeded in getting the confidence of his
patient which was all that he wished.
After he had been acquainted with Mrs.
Ross for some little time he succeeded in
getting her to loan him 800 which he
said he wished to use In fitting up his
office and opening school of psychology.
He also borrowed SIS from her previously
and short time before he kept $40 of
her money which she gave him to pay
fine OF her son who was arrested for
drunkenness. He explained to her that
he carried the money with him as
charm to keep her sen from drinking.
At last Mrs. Ross confidence was
shaken and she had b er son place the
matter in the hands OF the police. AS
the deed was oommittd in Auburn Chief
Marshal Turner took the matter In hand
and arrested DeRose in his office on Pine
street Tuesday. Rose took the m after
calmly but would not say any thing con-
corning his affairs. In the meantime
City Marshal Teel mad inquiries of
Rose and found that he went to Lewis
ton from Portland early in the summer.
he Immediately telegraph Marshal
Triokey and received the following re-
ply:
"He is very slippery and Will bear
watching, not part of the time but all
the time.' 1t is said that he has a de-
cided aversion to paying bills and oonss-
uently everybody with whom he came in
contact N business way has suffered
He secured $75 wol tn of
costly furniture from leading firm in
this city to adorn his luxurious office on
Pine street and has only paid SO on it.
1t ia said that there is an account of
some 1926 on the wrong side Of the ledger
at the Hotel Rockingham, where he has
boarded during his stay in Lewiston.
The innocent victims he is reported
to have feeced In his profession are too
to mention Some of the most
respected citizens Of Lewiston are
amongst them.