Litchfield Enquirer

A Robbery Undetected, but a Fraud Discovered.—A dashing and genteel looking young fellow, Erastus Eaton, (who had been confined in Wethersfield jail for no good) earned by his industry while there $100 at overwork. When he was liberated, he came on to this city to seek a wife, and having purchased a fine suit of clothes, he took board at a house in Sullivan street, and passed for a wealthy merchant. Here he gained the affections of a handsome young lady, who protested, however, that she would marry no one that was not wealthy. Eaton, to supply the deficiency in his stock of bank notes (for he had not $40 left), cut up a lot of play bills so as to resemble the "real stuff," and putting the pieces between the genuine notes, displayed the huge roll (thus made up) apparently without design, to the inmates of the house. Lulled into security by his outward show of substance, the girl was about to marry him, and sacrifice herself to a felon, when Huntington heard that Eaton had been seen in the possession of a large roll of bills; knowing that he was just out of prison, and could not have come by so much money honestly, and thinking that he might have stole the $2,250 from Mr. Weakley’s pocket, on board the Constitution steamboat, a few days back, Huntington ventured to arrest and search him, and thus discovered the trick he had been playing upon the girl. The fellow after an examination, (in which he confessed his roguish intention) was liberated, and the young lady was thus saved from a wretched and disgraceful marriage, thro’ the instrumentality of Huntington, who, though he did not discover the robber he looked for, certainly prevented the perpetration of a much greater robbery, for which Miss C. is bound to thank him to the latest hour of her existence.—N. Y. Transcript.