Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — BOGUS SIREN’S SNARES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOGUS SIREN’S SNARES.

Matrimonial Swindler Falla Into the Hands of Uncle Sam. With the aid of matrimonial publicstions and the photographs of a pretty girl a dozen or more men who wanted to

marry were made the victim* of a Chicago bartender who has a record for this sort of thing. The swindler, whose name is C. G. Arnold, was arrested fthe other day by Post Office Inspector George Christian. .He is a neat-looking fellow, with a light-

brown mustache, aged 31, and formerly tended bar at thp Palmer House. His arrest was hastened by a.letter received from H. H. Warner, a dealer in groceries and farm produce at Sedan, Mmn. wanted to marry, and in-serted-®|i advertisement in paper. Arnold answered it, .representing himself as a young woman frith an alP erfect character and a cruel aunt, SIO,OOO worth o 1 vacant: ,eity~lots, a yearning for the sample joys of a country life and a deep-nxited prejudice against living lmChicago. The letter was signed Clara S. LeClaie,” and with it-he enclosed a photograph of a charming girl, a copy of which is given herewith. These pictures Arnold is said to have secured by the hundred from a photographer. " • The second letter from Arnold, wfth’ the photographs inclosed, brought back! a promise of marriage. The third letter contained a request for S3O to pay car fare and some minor expenses incidental to a wedding in Sedan. Warner had been dealing in country produce too long to get caught in a game like that, aqd he sent the letters he received to the Chicago police. ' - W ■•'- • ‘ ‘ - vFfc Arnold had rented a lock box, and Inspector Christian watched it till he cams to get his mail. He was taken before United States Comhiissioner Humphrey and sent to jail in default of SI,OOO bail. Arnold is married, and has one child. He

was arrested for the same offense five years ago and fined SSO.

ARNOLD’S “DECOY.”

THE REAL “CLARA LE CLARE.”