Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-08
SAID 10 BE OUR OWN DAvEY.
The Schemer Who Bankrupted
Leutgert Was the Man
Known Here.
THE WABASHLHERALD GIVES HISTORY
"A Strange Career Of Crime
.-Representing Syndicates
"A Speciality. Y

"a man ma med Davey was respon-
sible for the bankruptcy III Sausage
Maker Luetgert, who IL now on trial
in Chicago fur-tl,e m urder Of his wife
The Wabasha Herald claims he is
the same man who had brief caree'
In Little Fails nearly ten years ago.
Daveyw was one OF the areenest looking
chaps who ever worked the COM
munity. In his traces and deals ne
usually appeared to be getting the
worst OF the bargain, but rs, ne
seldom paid for what he got, the
incl wind up was the cheating OF
the people. III Little Falls out OF
several Thousand dollars. me
Wabasha Herald says:
Alfred Davey seems destined to be
active in this world as long as he re-
mains In it.. Many Of our people re-
member him well, and 1t will not
surprise them To learn that he has
q gain become prominent.
About twenty years ago 0avey
was engaged in the butcher'ng Ousl-
ness ut Weaver, In this county. ne
attempted to poison a woman. VI
whom he had become jealous, but a
little child drank the mixture instead
and died. Davey was indicted ana
found guilty. w. j. Hahn. now OF
Minneapolis. was county attorney
at the time and prosecuted; j. w..
Dickson, OF WinOna. defenhed Davey.
and the trial excited interest all over
the state. Judge Mitchell. now of
the supreme co1rt. was the district
Judge, and Davey.was, by him. sent
enced to a life term IN the saltwater
penltentiary. Davey was a shrewd
and plausible Englishman. Whilst
in prison he pleaded for q pardon,
which was refused. In support Ut 1t
he used d number Of petitions from
prominent Englishmen. They
turned out to have been forged, but
80 skilliully had the work been done
that their forged character was not
established until the men, by whom
they purpOrted to have been written,
disavowed them. Despite all this
Davey managed to interest many
prominent men in his behalf and he
secured Il pardon about eight years
sagOs .5 4, Y r. ssss \
He at ONCE went to Little Falls, in
this state. and commenced business.
Everyone was anxious to aid the
man, who professed thorough reform
alton and in a few months he was
able to leave Little Falls in the
night time. not neglecting to take
away several thousand dollars that
belonged to his friends in that city.
Dewey then roamed through the
southern states for a few years,
picking up considerable money from
men whose confidence he gained. but
for the last couple Of years little was
heard OF him. But If he Kept alOOf
from the public gaze he was not idle.
His work IN Chicago was Of the very
rest. According to the rewspaperre-
ports from Chicago he beat Luetgert,
the sausage maker now on trial for
the murder Of his wife, out Ot $2o,
OOO, causing him to fail in business,
and thereby bringing about the dis
appearance of his wife, because, II
Luetgert did not destroy her body
IN the vat, she undoubtedly ran
away on hi airing that they had
been'reduced to poverty.
List winter he opened negotiations
with Luetgert. He claimed to rep
resent u great English syndicate
and. of course hid Ou hand all the
documents necessary to prove 1t.
The syndicate controlled, SO he said.
a secret which would revolutfonfze the
sausage trade, and Luetgert, because
OF his great factory and well known
skill as q sausage manufacturer. was
to be taken in on the ground floor.
He would soon become the sausage
k'ne or the world nrd rival the
ArnOurs ami Swiits in wealth.
Luetgert parted with $4,000 In
money anu then went to New York
to receive his shares OF stock In the
great corporation, only to find that
Davey had disappeared ana there
was no syndicate.
And now Luetgert is q bankrupt,
fighting hard with the hangman for
a stake which IL his own life. In the
meantime, Davey has again taken
himself into retirement, no doubt
only 10 emerge again end BY his
niausible manners, insinuating ways
and shrewdly laid plans become the
nDeaessor Of other mons goods. He
is q wonder, a man possessed Of
ability aud perseverance which, It
ie1itimately directed, would long
AGO have made him famous among
fhe worlds most famous men.
itching, Burning, Creeping,
Crawling skin diseases relieved In
a few minutes by Agnew's Ointment.
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