Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-06
TROUBLE FOR BBRI)M!
The Alleged Attorney Who Passed .
Bogus Check in Wheeling

Is Wanted in Columbus on Another
Charge Has Been Frequently
Arrested for Different Onenses.
Traded Some Choice Ohio River
Real Estate for Livery Stable.
It is not likely that George T. Bar
low, the alleged attorney. who had two
bogus checks cashed at the Hotel
Brunswick, will ever be brought to
Wheeling for trial. Barlow is still in
Jail at Columbus, and will be held to
answer to a charge of obtaining goods
under false pretenses. Evidences CT
his rascality have multiplied at an
amazing rate since his arrest, with sew
eral communities yet to be heard from
The charge upon which Barlow will
be tried in Columbus, is securing $500
worth of goods from the Leon Furni-
ture Company under false pretenses.
He was indicted for this offense, but
for some unexplained reason the case
was never pushed.
Mr.. Leon stated that the false pre-
lenses in 1894 were ingeniously made
to him by Barlow. There is an uncle
of Georges in the furniture business
in Charleston, w. Va, having the same
name and initials, George T. Barlow,
who had been on the books of the firm
and was we'll rated being worth from
500, 600 to $4,000 and Al credit. Bar
low came to the city and represented
himself as the uncle and had a bill of
goods to the amount named shipped to
a place where he stated he would start
a small business. When the bill be-
came due it was sent to Charleston,
and Mr.. Leon was amazed to receive a
letter from the real George T. Barlow,
disclaiming ever having ordered the
goods. 1t was found that the goods
had been shipped back to the city and
that they had been sold piecemeal by
Barlow to secondhand stores.
Another and more serious charge
came to the surface Friday night Mrs.
Amanda Wing, living on West Rich
street, came to the prison to see Bar
low about a deal reported to her as
having been concluded the past week.
Mrs. Wing claimed sh> had learned of
a note negotiated by Barlow containing
her signature, or what purported to be
her signature. Barlow bluffed her with
the inquiry whether notary had not
visited her at her home, and got her
signature to a mortgage. She denied
the charge. 1t being after business
hours, the absolute facts in the case
could not be ascertained. Enough is
known, however, to state that there
has been a business transaction of Pc
culiar nature. to say the least, entered
into by Barlow 1t is stated on good au-
thority that Barlow secured 500 on
note signed by himself and Endorsed by
a prominent real estate man, covered
by a mortgage on Mrs. Wings property,
the name of Mrs. Wing being forged
by some one to the paper, it is be-
lieved by the police authorities. The
conversation of Mrs. Wing and Barlow
Friday night was not very satisfactory
to Mrs. Wing, and she complains that
there is something wrong.
Barlow had another, but more
agreeable visitor Friday night in the
person of a tall, slender, dark-eyed
lady, who kissed him affectionately.
her identity could not be discovered
Barlow was locked up in 1896 for some
days on a charge of alleged criminal
assault preferred by Cora Huntington,
of Fourth avenue, but the case was set
tied, it is claimed by the police depart
ment, though dismissed after a long
trial. He was arrested on the charge
July "a, 1896, and released some weeks
later On September %, of the same
year, he was arrested on the charge of
obtaining property under false pre-
lenses. 1t was found on investigation,
that he had consummated a real estate
deal with William Gray liveryman,
brother-in-law to eX-Representative
Frank Merton, of this county, in which
he transferred the right and title to
some city lots in West Virginia for
Mr.. Gray's livery stable.
1t was found later that the lots, if
they lad ever been laid out, had been
laid out in the middle of the Ohio
river The charge was made as above
indicated, but the case was afterward