The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-16
0fRCial Vote Of Fulton County, Pa.
November 7, 1899.
DIST RIOTS.

yond all expectations.
Lewis, ON one occasion, did q
neat bit of shop lifting. There
was a swell ladies auction room
on Broadway. Lounging about
with eyes open on the main
chance Lewis noticed a carriage
drive up, and recognised Mrs.
John Jacob Aster, whose wealthy
husband he had heard was very
liberal in supplying Madam with
pin money. She entered the auc-
ton room and he soon followed
and, "dressed like a gentleman,
he saluted the ladies' with all the
graceful ease of an old acquaint-
ance." Mrs. Astor purchased
and placed in her velvet bag valu-
ablelace and iewelry and careless
ly threw the bag ON a bench. in a
remote corner of the room. She
was soon surrounded by crowd
of admiring friends, andin the AN
imated conversation that took
place, the little bagwas quiteover-
looked. Lewis sauntered leisure
ly around to the bench, picked up
the contents, deftly thrust it in
the bosom of his coat and cody
walked out This rich prize was
the cause of his leaving the assO-
citation. A misunderstanding IL
rose ON account of small piece
of lace hehad given his wife, which
finally resulted in row during
which Lewis was badly beaten by
the gang and he quit them.
He proceeded to New Bruins
wick, N. j., but the place did not
offer favorable field for his oper
ations. Hearing of Princeton
College and that many students
were from the South, he concludr
ed there must be 'many empty
heads and full purses, especially
as Christmas holidays were com
ing. For the benefit of the Prince
tonians present l will give in
Lewis own words his experience
at their Alma Mater and at the
same time will be revealed the
= versatile character of the subject
of this sketch: GAS soon as Ma
linda was able to leave her room
and attend to her domestic con-
Germs, | set out in the first stage
that offered for Princeton, and
having assumed the character,
the airs, and consequence of a
Georgia planter, | soon succeeded
in introducing myself to the pro
fessors, and in order to further my
schemes, | gave out that my OBJ
ject was to procure berth in the
college for my brother, whose az
rival / expected Immediately aft
er the expiration of the holidays.
l sought every opportunity to
court the society and gain the
good opinion of the young men
with whom | contracted an ac-
quaintance. Passing for man
of fortune, singing a good song
and being able to crack d bottle'
with the best of them, was invit-
ed to most of their convivial part
les, at which cards being intro
duced, was voluntary loser at
first, and apparently played with
so much carelessness and ignor-
ance that the poor youths began
to boast of their plucking the
Georgia pigeon But alas, in
less than three nights, during
which our sittings were from five
O'Clock in the afternoon to five in
the morning, not only recovered
all | had lost, but won at least
three hundred dollars Of the mon
ey which their foolish parents had
remitted them"
From Princeton Lewis went TO
, Philadelphia and for short time
operated in the same manner as
he had done in New York. He
! was planning to kidnap Mr..
Girard, but was called TO New
Brunswick by the dangerous i'll
ness of his little daughter, much
to the disgust of his companions
in the Girard plot.
After remaining four weeks he
left his wife and child to join the
army headed for Canada, under
Gen. Smyth, not for patriotism,
l>,,+ fo,. tho ,,lnp1a1. apd hOOfV in