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Show VERY YOUNG IN YEAR9. Out au Expert ut All Kinds of Kwiiidliiis Operation. Henry O. Watson is the namo of a beardless youth who is truing about the country on a swindling tour. Ho left New York recently, ufter telling a friend that he would travel across the continent in fifty davs and would reach the Golden Gate worth at least .".0,000. He was in New York settling up a little matrimonial difficulty and while there managed to get into a great deal of unenviable notoriety. His father ia H. D. Watson, a wealthy and respected real estate dealer of Greenfield, Mass. Watson has traveled under the aliases I of Harry R. West, C. P. Moore. A. P. Day aud various other names. Though only twenty-two years old, he has a criminal record which is easily trace- ( able back to his college days. His smooth boyish face and good manners have enabled him to create havoc in more than one good family possessing, a fair daughter. In the fall of 1889 he met Miss Leone Pearl Preston, the handsome and accomplished accom-plished daughter of Prank E. Preston, an employe at the postomce, New York. Fie had met her at the Dion Boncicanlt School of Acting. He finally prevailed upon the young lady to elope with him. This was in the summer of 1890. At the time he had about S100 and she about twice as much. They were married mar-ried by the Rev. George W. Reichall of Buffalo. They traveled around. Now York State until their money gave out. A little thing like that, however, did not bother Wilson. He promptly raised money on forged checks and the honeymoon honey-moon went on. In New Haven, Conn., yonng Watson left his wife for a few days. She very promptly went home and had a reconciliation recon-ciliation with her parents. Then she and Watson started off on their travels afain. Watson did not have a dollur, but he managed to raise money as they went along. Mrs. Watson, after a few months of this sort of living, could not help but lc.?n her husband's true character, and on Nov. 1, 180!', she left him in Nebraska Ne-braska and again went back to her father. Watson pursued her. Mr. Preston kicked him out of the house when he called to see his wife. It was for this reason that Watson appealed to Lawyer Pratt. lie wanted the lawyer to get his wife back for him. Mr. Pratt did not get a retainer, but he began to labor in the young man's behalf, and kept it up till young Watson, through his swindling operations, was forced to flee from the city. He took with him, in place of the young wife whose loss he so deeply mourned, a j'oung actress known as Maud Thornton. |