Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-17
DR.. Long Is Doing Well.

A travelling gentleman who calls
himself DR.. Long and gives Pittsburg
as his residence has done land-office
business in this neighborhood in SELL
ing spectacles and borrowing money
the past week. A number of persons
have been victimized by the smooth
talking stranger, who has forgotten his
engagement to return and comply with
his promises. He seems to have made
a speciality Of persuading elderly ladies
that he had arrived just in time to save
| them from terrible eye troubles, by
taking their orders for eyeglasses or
,spectacles at from So to SO per pair
Last Thursday he visited the home
OF Misses Jennie, Kate and Sallie
Hill, elderly ladies who reside at the
edge of town, and made himself quite
at home. After one look at Miss
Sallie's eyes he gave thanks to kind
Providence that had directed him to
Of her eyes was partially paralyzed
and it was his privilege and duty to
protect her from blindness, which he
proceeded 10 do by taking her order for
pair of glasses at the special price
Of ten dollars. He got the money, but
Miss Sallie has not yet received the
glasses.
DR.. Long, finding himself well re-
ceived by these trusting women, pro-
ceeded to make the most of his op-
portunity. He told a hard luck story
of having had an accident with his
automobile near Chambersburg, being
obliged to leave il there for repairs.
Did any Of the ladies have any money
TO loan on good security? Miss Sallie
admitted that she had some money in
bank, and before she knew it the
sharper had weighed her into giving
him a check for hundred dollars. II
was after banking hours, and the
money could not be drawn, so he re-
turned bright and early next morning
TO clean UP on the transaction. But
Miss Sallie had slept over the matter,
and had concluded that she would
rather have her hundred dollars than
the beautiful certificate of stock in
an oil we'll in Michigan which the |
stranger had left with her as security. |
She therefore visited both banks as
soon as they were open and also dis |
cuSSed the matter with friends who |
tried to convince her that Dr. Long was
a swindler When she got back home
she got her check from the fellow and
destroyed it
But he seems to have been hypno-
fist, for he talked Miss Kate Hill into
loaning him $3.50 in cash, utter. strang-
er though he was. In the little home |
he told them of his personal affairs, |
and with tears streaming down his |
cheeks referred TO the sad death of |
his darling little daughter who passed |
away last year. She was taken i'll |
while he was away from home and the
physician attending her was not able
to save her life. Had he gotten home
sooner he would have saved her. Her
death had affected him so strongly that
he could not bear 10 remain in the old
home-and so he was travelling about
the land and helping afflicted humanity
by selling them spectacles. The
ladies mingled their tears with his, and
il was while they were in this sympa-
thetic frame OF mind that he made the
touch for the $50. He is to pay it
back the latter part of this week! AS
security he left with Miss Kate mining
stock worth $4,000. which she was to
hold and tell no one she had it.
Dr.. Long is described as a man Of
about 81 years of age, dark COM
pexioned, with a heavy black mus
tache aid dark hair streaked with
grey. When he was here he wore a
dark blue coat and pair of trousers,
with white vest. 1t is currently re-
ported that he has victimized a con-
siderable number Of persons in this
vicinity, as he had a long list of names
Of person who had given him orders
for glasses. 1t seems queer that in
this enlightened age people continue
to fall for smooth-talking strangers
who make no pretense to furnish
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