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Show PROVED HIMSELF A FRAUD. Ueiealile t'.mcliut of a Cnlnreil Man t UiiiiliiB to Re a I'orlor. Tiitox, Mo., Aug. f. About two mom lis ago a colored man. culling him-i him-i self Dr. Ollio Love, came here profess- insr to lo u com doctor ami to cure j rheumatism ly mesmeric treatment. He soon proved himelf a fraud. After being here about a mouth he pn.posed to Mime young men to write, them prescriptions pre-scriptions to use for immoral purposes. They asked him to go to the drug store and get it for them. Me complied, but on trying to purchase I ho drug the druggist declined to sell it to him. The druggist promptly reported the matter to the authorities. 1ml ho had disappeared, disap-peared, lie returned here last evening and was piomptly arrested and tried today by a jury in Justice Seliearer's court. He was found guilty of practicing practic-ing medicine without a eer'lilienlo and of attempting to buy drugs lor immoral purposes, and was given four monthsin the county jail. Since the trial word come from Clarksburg, a village mix miles east of here, that ho was ruu out of there last evening ou account of his conduct, and some threatened to shoot him if he did not go, or if he ever came back. |