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Show A VILLAIN. Scooutlretly Prctlce ol s Tel-t-graph Operator. B:!3 0. N. Y., 25. On Tues.iay j aa-f Cii-tr tea E Sciiuv'er, of Little I Faiis, if.fgrapu oper-st r, called ou the daug:.ter 01" one o! the prominen: citizens at ner school; Schuyler repre-senied repre-senied 10 the girl that be was in tbe employ ol ber lather and. who bad btren lLjured by the f o. of a buiidini; aud d-rr-ired to see her. ?ne acooru-piuiej acooru-piuiej Scbuy;er to Hie plat.e where he eaid uer Ulcer was lying, and as t he-two he-two entered the rcoai he locked the doer and told the girl she was a pns-1 oner until money nd been paid him. He then lorceu ber to copy Lhe follow- j icg part of a letter to her father. J wnicb he had written: Mir Papa: I you to give : ibis man $5;X), IVr uniis hi-1 raises that sum witnin :i week he is ruintd. He pledges you hi word aud bouor ibat it tihall be relumed re-lumed U you in sixty days. For tin-ioaii tin-ioaii be has no security to ofier except uivticll whom tie baa in keeping. He mut have Una sum immediately, wittiiu a week. So long as I think ycu intend 10 py this sum just so long shall I be kindly dealt with, but at Uie first indication " At Ibis point the girl stopped writing writ-ing aud begged to be released, promising prom-ising to raise tbe required sum and bring it to bim. Ua swearing to never disclose what had happened she was released, and yesterday told the 3tory. Schuyler was arrested and confessed to-day his crime. On his person was fuund a letter to the father of the girl, iu substance that he bad bis son Willie, 6 years old, in custody, and would release him on payment of $5,000, and if not forthcoming the child would be drowned. Schuyler was held to bail iu $5,000. The names and residences of a number ol children of wealthy pecple were also found with him. |