Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-02-11

For systematic love making, he was
ue-ribboner."
Mr. Arnold served a long sentence
in Joliet for his many hymeneal
frauds. At the trial he confessed that
he averaged about three thousand dol
lars a year, and would have made
more, only that paid for as much whis-
ky and tobacco and food as he cared
for.
THE most remarkable case that
ever came to my attention" remarked
the inspector, "was the case of Harold
K. Saville. This was a fraud on wom-
en-. Saville used to advertise that a
gentleman of means desires to make
the acquaintance of lady either
blonds or brunette, at different times,
In order to catch them all, with q
view to matrimony.' Then from the an
swers, he would always pick out those
who were in business for themselves.
THE case for which he was first ar
ed a woman in Columbus, Ohio. She
had a millinery shop, out Of which she
was making four or five thousand dol
lars q year. He called on her and told
her that he was Louisiana planter of
a very old family. To prove 1t, he re-
quested her to write to the governor Of
Louisiana and the mayor Of New Or
leans.
Then they took walk, and he mail
ed the letters. Really, he mailed two
others which he had prepared before
hand. A couple Of days later, he had
half persuaded her to sell her business
him. About that time, back came let
ters on the governors stationery,
speaking in the highest terms of Mr..
Saville.
Then the Columbus lady didn't
mind selling her business and going
into the real estate syndicate She visit
ed Chicago; and there he met her and
took her to the Trinity Building, where
he ordered the ELEVATOR man around
as If he owned the building, and de-
manded TO see the agent, to have some
changes made. The agent called him
colonel and his cabman called him
governor and, altogether, it was as
neat a put-up job as could have been
pulled off.
They dined at the Palmer House;
and when it came time to put up the
fn lar raf,to
signed the deeds, the money was paid
over, Mr.. Saville went out to get a ci-
gar, and was not seen for several
weeks. When he was arrested, he
jumped his bond, and went to live In
Mexico, where American law ceased
from troubling.
But Mexico was too small for him,
so he quitely came back to Brooklyn,
and started the same game But the
postoffice was open-eyed, and secured
the publication Of big feature-story
about him in New York newspaper.
The same day 1t appeared, the detec-
tives found him at the Hotel st.
George, in that city, and he was ar
rested at three o'clock in the after
noon.
EARLY in the evening a woman ask
ed for the inspector, and said she be-
lieved she knew Saville. 1 took her to
see the prisoner. and watched them
both carefully.
"'No that's not the man. she said
as she left the room.
- 1t is the man. 1 said, sharply.
After burst Of tears, she admitted
that he had been paying attentions to
her sister, representing himself as con-
nected with one of the finest families
of New York, though not on good
terms with the head Of the family. Her
sister was another of the mail order
sweethearts, and had sent him a
check, only the day before, for three
thousand five hundred dollars. AS 1t
was, we hadn't a scrap Of evidence
against the man, except the Columbus
ase and his advertisements. We went
to the hotel and asked If there was
any mail for him. The letter containing
the check was there; 1t had been de-
livered at four o'clock, exactly one
hour after we had arrested him oil sus-
picion.
1.-THE mail order sweetheart vas sad
der but no poorer, and Saville, 4 few
weeks later. began a term in the 'r-
lumbus peritenrary for his previous
fraud, with this second case held over
his head.
1T was hen that we learned that
he already had wife, who was. his
confederate She it was who stole the
official stationery in Louisiana and
wrote the letters of Identification. To-
gether, for several months, they had
worked this game in various places,
and lived in fine style in Chicago; only
in the cases I have mentioned they
were caught."-Scrap Book.