Show A SAD CASE A GREAT deal of sympathy will be felt in the community for mr M C phillips and his family of this city in consequence of the misfortune that has befallen them it to is fhe old story of the oily tongued designing villain and believing confiding women and the surrender to the plausible deception of the balance of the family it might have been presumed that the very gigantic character of the financial pretensions of the insinuating swindler would have led to a powerful suspicion of double dyed rascality lurking behind a polished exterior especially when followed by the usual confidence game of borrowing money on the plea of inability to reach the banker in time to meet a manufactured emergency but doubtless when the drama reached a certain stage of development the victims in desperation pe ration tried to smother their suspicions and make themselves think the fellow was genuine and then with everybody the retrospective view is a good deal clearer than their prospective glance mr phillips stands well in the community and the principal victim of the arch deceiver lithgow the batters lat unfortunate wife is a comely and much esteemed young lady These facts will intensify the feeling of execration for the swindler and deepen the sentiment of sympathy felt for those whom he drew into his web of deception it is rather rare for a lady of the hebrew race to unite in marriage with one who belongs to another in this particular instance of departure from a time honored custom the results are most deplorable |