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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], A mammoth swindle — Livingston thrown into the Shade — a Million and a Quarter gone up. (search)
sponsibility, we hear the names of gentlemen in high station connected with the Government. "Decie, we believe claims to be an officer in the Royal Navy, and, we understand, had some connection with our Government. He has been residing for a year or two in Montgomery, where he owns a plantation, and has recently had elected a splendid residence. A great deal of his time, however, was spent in Richmond, where he lived in princely style, paying as much as one hundred and forty dollars a day at the hotels, besides taking his meals at the restaurants. His extravagance seemed to have no bounds. We hear the names of Wadsworth, Palmer & Co., Samuel Harrison, and — Foster, a broker, of Richmond, as among the victimized. Parties in Wilmington also suffered. Decie is supposed to have gone to England. He left fifteen or twenty negroes, farm furniture, etc., which have been stretched for the benefit of the sufferers. Other acts will no doubt be developed of this mammoth swindle. "