Show A SLEEK SWINDLER He i Under Arrcat for Duping Various IooplB NEW YORK Nov IL William Bant 0 sleek young English swindler who operated oper-ated all over the country is under arrest The prisoner admits that he is a fraud and gloats over the fact that he duped hundreds hun-dreds of people between hero and San Francisco out of sums ranging from 10 to 50 He represented himself to engineers as a grandson ot Robert Stevenson the famous English engineer Letters of introduction Intro-duction to Commodore Wilson and Chief j Engineer Melville of the United States navy wore found on him They were signed by Charles E Emery of the Bennett building and in them Bsnt is described as Charles Mitchell of Newcastle While in Chicago recently he duped Sir Henry Wood secretary of the British commission of the Worlds fair out of 525 Time prisoner attempted to swindle Mrs Frank Leslie Wilae and others in this city Bent says his home ia at Gosforth England but that he was forced to leave there for Dwindling |