The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-15
SW|NDLER IN JAIL
The College Deadbeat Waves
Examination.
WAN IN BALTIMORE
HAS PLAYED his GAME IN sen
ERAL PLACES.
BUT IT DlDs'T WORK IN RhLti6H
Burton the Forger Sent TO Jail in Default of
500 Bond. Still Refuses to Dis
close his Identity.

Rigeer. the check forger, or any other
kind Of a skin gamer, and he VINO comes
hi;her to play suck schemes may expect
to get it in the neck, unless he IS 1t
mighty slick duck.
\ very handsome fellow. faultleSSlE
dressed and with every appearance of
gentility. slept i'll room 81 at the arpo7
rough House on Wednesday night, and
Thursday night the same handsome gen
teel looking fellow slept in a cell III the
Raleigh station house last night. Ills
name is VIM. y. Gale, of Richmond:
VIM. y. Burton. of Norfolk: I'll. \ Clay
ton, OF Omaha. or any other old name
that Won NAV choose To call him..
When he left Norfolk Il few days ago.
his name was VIM. y. Gale, when he
registered at the Marlborough House
night before last. he was III. y. Clayton.
from Omaha. When he called on DE-.
NJ. NJ. Marshall, Dr. Eugene Daniels,
DR.. Bennett Smedes and DR.. Jas. DIN
widdie yesterday, his name was W. A.
Burton. At other places his name has
been Hamilton. Langdon and klmball,
but wherever he was and whatever
name he assumed, he was ShreWd, poilte,
plausible and calculated To deceive amy
body. He is to all appearances chaste,
refined. polished. we'll educated ana de
cidedly %genteel. but he is. according to
his own confession, to say nothing OF
the evidence against him. an accomplish
ed swindler. and until he hit Raleigh he
had worked a splendid forgery game
most successfully, his dreams have not
been disturbed by nightmares of cllnk-
ing chains. nor the grating OF prison
bars, but he has quietly dozed away
long autumn nights 1T Mulphys Hotel
in Richmond; at the Atlantic hotel III
Norfolk: at Kennart in Baltimore: at
the Marlborough House i'll Raleigh, and
other tirst-claSs hotels, but last night he
was walking up and down Il cell corridor
i'm the station house at Raleigh.
During the forenoon yesterday a hand
some, we'll dressed young gentleman
called at the residence Of Dr.. NJ. VI.
Marshall. rector Of Christ church. He
wore Il pain of checked pants, made Ill
the acme Of fashion, Il brown SILK vest,
made double-breasted, Il black sack o
that fitted to perfection. Il high standing
collar, buttoned TO a very tasty checked
shirt. a scarf to match the remainder
of his costume. He wore, too, a tine
tailor made top coat that htted
to perfection. He carried a very hand
some cane and his shoes were We'll polish-
ed. He asked to see DE-. Marshall.
When DR.. Marshall came in the
stranger met him with most decided
Suanitv of manner no unnecessary de-
monstration of upishness, but JUST
enough to Justify almost anybody IN
concluding that what he stated was the
very truth. The stranger soon. with
some show of feeling, told how the re-
cent death of his mother had broken up
4 happy home i'll Norfolk. He announced
his purpose of making Raleigh his busl-
ness headquarters, and he was looking
for a school in which he could place
his seventcen-year-old sister. st. Mary 5
had been recommended to him, and he
had decided to have a little talk with
DIR. Marshall, and then go to see Dr.
Smedes. After Il few moments OF con
versation the stranger arose to retire,
and as he was about leaving he. in the
most polite way remarked that perhaps
he could approach DIR. Smedes Il little
better. and transact his business more
satisfactorily if Or. Marshall woulo
write him just Il line of Introduction.
The kind-hearted Rector wrote Il few
lines to DR.. SmedeS introducing Mr.. w,
y. Burton, of Norfolk.
\ few moments later the same hand
some. welI-dreSsed fellow alighted from
the street car in front of st. Mary's
He rang the bell, walked into the of
flee, asked for DR.. Smedes, took of
his hat and gloves and of course WheI
DIR. Smedes appeared presented first o
all his note of Introduction. He told The
Rector Of st. Mary's the same story
about the death of his mother and how
he desired to arrange for sending hi
sister to school. Asking if she could bt
taught music on the harp and the violin
ut st. Mary'S as he was particular!
anxious that she should nave yer!
thorough musical training. He spoke o
Il very fine telescope that he procure,
and would like to leave with Dr
Smedcs for safe-kCcping. or sell it t.
him in case he desired to purchase. II
made minute inquiries as to the facult,
of the school. the advantages rs to hom
comforts and talked at some length owe
other details, finally saying to DR.
Smedes that his sister would arrive o
Monday, II he would nave her go i'm
mediately to St. Mary'S. meanwhile II
would pay him fifty dollars in adyanc,
rs he might not be in the city when hi
sister arrived. He handed to d.
Smedes a check drawn on the Citizens
Bank of Norfolk i'll favor of W. +. Bun
ton and signed by w. II. Doyle. On tn
back he had endorsed the check in a
entirely different handwriting and in
"c,la'tH Hiluef the endorsement wa
Written N, J. 5. Wynne, II. 10, '9>
on can. if convenient. Just give m
the Twenty-Five dollars Inference" /
sand. lnasmuch as he was a little sho,
Of funds.
The check looked genuine. the endors,
hlehts We're III due form and the nam
OF Mr.. Nynne appearing as an @,
dorser. DIR. SmedeS readily consente,
and paid the stranger the SO 90 in cas-
A lew moments later the door he
rang at the residence of DIR. Euge1
DahIel. ana the same young fellow w:
uShered into the sitting room. n
Daniel came in and within n few mi
utes the same story that had been rela
ed to DR.. Marshall was poured into II
case of DR.. Daniel, and he desired
know if Peace Institute would be