Con man poses as Hemingray employee

M'CLINTOCK’S METHODS

Of Seeing the World Without Paying for It —

His Arrest as a Confidence Man.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

PITTSBURG, PENN., December 10. — George McClintock, a young man who belongs to a prominent Allegheny family, but who for several years has made his home at Cincin­nati and St. Louis, has been arrested as a con­fidence man. Some time since he went to Cincinnati on the Scotia, and so won upon Captain Kirker that he extended the courte­sies of the boat. He said he was connected with the glass house of Hemingray & Co., and had been sent to purchase sand. He made himself very agreeable to a lady on the boat, who was destined for St. Louis. At Cincin­nati he offered to exchange her steamer ticket for a railroad ticket and attend to her bag­gage. She intrusted [sic] entrusted him with her ticket, which be exchanged, and to a scalper.

The following week he boarded the Emma Graham, and represented that he was a son of Captain McClintock, a nephew of Oliver McClintock, Esq., of this city. He had been on a jamboree in Cincinnati, had lost all his money and did not care to expose his predicament. He talked so familiarly of well known Pittsburgers that Captain Knowles believed him to be what he represented, and told him to make himself at home, which he did, and also made a small loan when the boat reached Pittsburg.

Nothing more was heard of him until his arrest. To-day a number of informations were lodged against him by business men, whom he victimized in various ways.

December 10.—George •*