A Napier “Sharper.”

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 59, 27 October 1887, Page 3

A Napier “Sharper.”

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ON THE WRETCH’S TRAIL.

Somi two and t half years ago there arrived io Napier a Mr Webber. E. Seavey, bringing a woman with him who pawed as hi« wife. The couple teemed to live very happily together, and Seavey appeared a taiart m-tive man of business in the commission agent line. During a flood up-coun-try the to-called Mrs Seaver along with another woman was flouted aw ay on a kind of raft and unfortunately drowned. Searey, however, did not long remain disconsolate; be united himself in holy bonds of matrimony with a very charming young lady who at thetimdhe first met her was assisting to diapence favors at the Masonic Hotel. Presently he disappeared from the confiding gaze of the wite of his bosom —it is said again with another man’s wife—and sundry creditors to whom he was under obligations, it is said, to the amount of from £l5O to £l7O, and Napier that knew him once now knows him no more for ever. Ina number of the New York Police Gazette a portrait of the dashing and smart ex-commission agent of Napier is published with the following letter press notice:— “ Chief of Police Seavey, of Omaha, has rather a serious charge msde » gainst bis good name by the Los Angeles, Cal., Times of hi ay 24th. It relates to his alleged elopement from that city a number of years ago with another man’s wife. It reads as follows |—« Omaha’s newly appointed chief of police is a man with a record. A few years ago he was City Marshal of Sants Barbara, where he forsook his wife and child and absconded with a married woman from San Irancisco, and now, after all these years that he has been as wholly lost sight of as if he were dead, be turns up as one of the guardians of the public peace and morals of the flourishing city bf Omaha. Evil deeds do not always meet tbe punishment they merit, for the devil has not yet forgotten how to put on a false livery, but now and then a man ventures, in a sense of fancied security, to accept a public office, finds the black past suddenly starts up to confront him 1” 3hech ef has not yet made any public denial ot the charge, but it is hoped that the able copper will be able to come out with flying colors.”