The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-23
YACHT NORMA IN LONDON.
HER OWNER, NJ j. WEAVER, WATCHED
By THE ENGLISH AUTHORITIES.

~ NNuAuNNub htNNS eNu bne WAS
Recently seiIcd TOR Hts Scheme for
. Three.Tear Trip Around the world.
Nicholas J. Weaver, tho reputod owner OF the
schooner yacht Norma, and q former member Of
the Atlantic Yacht Club, 10 interesting the
London authorities Just now, according to q do
spatch published here yesterday. The Norma IN
lying at Gosport, and Commodore" Weaver
has been entertaining London swolls on her. He
has transformed her into n floating gambling
palace. II Is said, and already there are stories
OF heavy losses by those who have visited the
yacht. The Commodore" has already had q
little difficulty with the authorities, and ON
Monday last the yacht was seized Tor debt, but
abe was released on Friday after her owner had
paid q considerable sum to the complainants.
He Is trying an old game Of his In London which
got him into difficulties In this country
on several occasions. Tho Commodore man
aged to escape Jail in this country whenever
arrested, however. He is registered at the
Hotel Cecil In London as ~. N. Weaver, New
York, and 10 posing as a millionaire and living
like a bonanza prince. The story with which
no is seeking the prestige OF British swelldom
is that his physician here ordered q three years.
cruise for him on his yacht and he has tried 10
for several months. but finds that his physician
was mistaken in his calculation Of tho time
necessary to restore his health. He now feels
that he has sufficiently overcome his Illness,
and, bored by the life on his pleasure yacht, he
has decided to enter active life again.
Accordingly no Is spreading a story that he
intends to start a newspaper In London modelled
after the late London edition Of the Neu Fork
Herald and calculated to rival the Times and
the Telegraph. II is said that the Commo-
dore" has already ordered presses from Ameri-
ca, especially some to print colored supple.
ments. He also says he has engaged a dozen
says. will be in that section of the WalSingham
Tho 1s,hmi,n Club "
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,. MSav wI, is 4 known So"S here heosva as nn a tall; a mel s1sIns
eyes Ha wac ,rres,oa h.ra IN Iuna 80, wv.
eseS no was arres.eo nero IN June OF last year
and Wood under instructions from pI tn, f Ch1s1 .;
the Detective Burean IN the e1ect that he .ho,id
The detectives saw him in The Barre,. gouso
and locked him up at Police Hoadquartera He
was remanded in the Centre Street Police Court
70 await complaints. Capt- o,Brien said he had
orae,ea "eavefs arrest upon
snaSo,' Sno . mont thH Nv, weaver mad ist. the city
oaiaotnS 80" e,o IN oi'ef having
Using scheme. for which he gave no Returns.
Capt. O'Brien said Weaver frat Attracted
public notice here in 1883, when he was arrested
Chicago firm. The detective. who was SHADOW.
Ing Weaver, saw him and a man named Edward
store at 40 Third av e tS'G and IL la uoroi rem orS1 /,
to a building at Eighteenth street and Broad.
way: He arrested them and Harding turned
Il Levin III. and sim %e4 Sna s @s. hf Known "a shady ID record
Central Office communicated With The chi.
eago police and it was found that
goods, which was valued at $500 from Nnllerr
Brothers OF Chicago. They posed as beginner
IL business : S %i5h 2 cash ndnt capital p Of 80 600 and
Bank in which that sum was entered to their
credit. They paid for the case Of goods with =
for a Year. but weaver eot of. SEN His 70 nl Rfison
however. was added to the collection of rogues
that famous gallery. Hardins served two
terms In prison after this.
wildcat newspaper scheme. as' IL is s1 said .hns
In this city was at the Waldorf in the spring of
last year., where he engaged q suite Of rooms
He represented himself as the commissioner 81
guages- He engaged a large corps Of writer's
the tRs e Waider an fr these a sh 1neor asd i to him as de of5, Ct
which he leased in the Rhinelander building in
Duane ne street, .u.s
with Frugene & Balletto and Isaac Goldman,
both OF PSI William street. Advertisements
for the International paper we're solicited At sis
launching the scheme he suddenly disappeared.
saying that he was going to take a trip on his
yacht in Florida waters: After he had gone
complaints rolled in and the Boston publication
which he said he represented repudiated him.
IT was estimated that he had collected
from $4,000 10 $4,000. After this came TO his
his arrest on sight and notified the police OF
other cities. When he was arrested In June no
declared that he had Just returned from Florida
IN his yacht. Which was moored at Bay Ridge.
Herald that it would send o man on 10 accuse
Weaver OF having swindled their snbocriberQ
out OF $4,000. and another notice was received
from the Philadelphia Inquirer statins that 10
would send q man TO accuse Weaver Of swim
ding It out of S3. 900. The Western Union Tel.
egrsph Company. sent a representative. who
said no believed Weaver was a man who had
swindled the company out of largo sums of
money by means OF bogus money orders sent
from California
Weaver said he was 80 years old and was
married, and Capt. O'Brien said he had O con In
college. The Captain said his home was In
Cleveland, o., ana he had a sister living In Los
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