{"id":1804,"date":"2024-04-02T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:11:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:11:21","slug":"the-detectives-and-the-worlds-greatest-impostor-published-may-20-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/the-detectives-and-the-worlds-greatest-impostor-published-may-20-1883\/","title":{"rendered":"The Detectives and the World&#8217;s Greatest Impostor  [published May 20, 1883]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/delmonicos14th.png?resize=590%2C557&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1805\" style=\"width:116px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/delmonicos14th.png?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/delmonicos14th.png?resize=300%2C283&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Delmonico&#8217;s first 14th Street location<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A lawyer of this city, residin\u2019 on an uptown cross street near Fifth avenue, had a very pretty daughter. She is married and settled now. The young lady was highly educated, spoke several languages and was very clever at music and paintin\u2019. But she was a little inclined to romantic adventures, and liked anythin\u2019 out of the ordinary routine of everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One mornin\u2019 while shoppin\u2019 on Broadway she met a fine-lookin\u2019 young man, attired as an English swell in the height of fashion. He looked admirin\u2019ly at her and she, it must be confessed, looked rather smilin\u2019ly at him. Nothin\u2019 transpired just then, however. But that very afternoon the lady and the English swell met again on Broadway, and the swell raised his hat and bowed most politely and elegantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Very foolishly the lady suffered herself slightly to return the bow, and, emboldened by this encouragement, the swell joined the lady in a promenade, and formed her acquaintance in what is called \u201cthe curbstone fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The lady was rather frightened at her own imprudence at first, but findin\u2019 the swell to be a true gentleman, as she thought, she allowed herself to listen to his flatteries; and although she had the savin\u2019 grace to conceal from him her real name and address, yet she was silly enough to meet him several times by appointment at stores and restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The swell gave her to understand that he was of a noble English family, travelin\u2019 incog. for pleasure and observation; and he was such a splendid talker, and really good-lookin\u2019, that the romantic young lady&#8217;s head was beginnin\u2019 to get turned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/capture3.jpg?resize=450%2C572&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1807\" style=\"width:184px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/capture3.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/capture3.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Beresford\/Clinton\/Lascelles\/Courtenay, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One afternoon, when the lawyer&#8217;s daughter and the English swell were strollin\u2019 together along Fourteenth street, Detectives Dusenberry and Radford happened to be strollin\u2019 along Fourteenth street, too, and the two detectives and the two lovers (for such they almost were by this time) happened to meet face to face. The two lovers didn&#8217;t know or notice the two detectives, but one of the two detectives, Dusenberry, noticed one of the lovers, the English swell particularly. Dusenberry called Radford&#8217;s attention to the swell also, and the two men turned and followed the man and woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Delmonico&#8217;s was then at the corner of Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue, and the swell escorted his lady there and, enterin\u2019, ordered a luncheon for the pair. Seein\u2019 this and calculating that they would be there a half an hour or more, Dusenberry sent Radford at once down to Police Headquarters in Mulberry street, while he remained in the vicinity of Delmonico&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On Redford&#8217;s return he found Dusenberry patiently awaitin\u2019 him. He handed Dusenberry a certain somethin\u2019, and Dusenberry lookin\u2019 at it smiled. \u201cI knew I was right,\u201d he said. \u201cI am never mistaken in a face.\u201d Then he put the certain somethin\u2019 into his pocket, and then the two detectives waited until the two lovers finished their lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The detectives had a good long wait, but they felt a pride in findin\u2019 their suspicions turned out correct, and were content. Presently out walks the swell in high feather, with the lady smilin\u2019 sweetly at his side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With a smile on his part, too, but a grim one, Dusenberry stepped up to the swell and tapped him on the arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Imagine the feelings of a high-toned English swell, in the company of a fashionable young lady, when tapped on the arm by an ordinary lookin\u2019 stranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cA word with you, sir,\u201d said Dusenberry to the swell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhat on Earth do you mean, sir? Are you drunk?\u201d said the swell to Dusenberry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cYou will find it in to your own interest to let me have a word with you in private,\u201d persisted Dusenberry, restrainin\u2019 his temper out of respect to the lady, who was amazed and agitated at this most unexpected interruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cIf you annoy me a moment longer, or this lady,\u201d said the swell, \u201cI will hand you over to the police.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cI,\u201d said Dusenberry, quietly,&nbsp; \u201cwill save you that trouble, for I am one of the force myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The lady looked more astonished and grew more agitated still, and they swell evidently had not been at all prepared for this announcement. But it was too late to recede now. He must go on as he had commenced. In fact, he blustered worse than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But Dusenberry\u2019s mad was up now. He wanted to get even for his long wait out in the cold, besides he wanted to expose a swindler, nip his plans, and save a woman. So he told the swell right to his face, and right before the lady&#8217;s face, that he, the swell, was really the notorious beat and imposter, the so-called Lord Beresford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The so-called Lord Beresford got blue in the face with rage. He vehemently vowed to the mortified young lady that this was all a huge mistake, an insult, a conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhat is this, then?\u201d cried Dusenberry, pullin\u2019 out of his pocket \u201cthe certain somethin\u2019\u201d which Radford had gone and got for him from Police Headquarters while the swell and the young lady had been \u201clunchin\u2019,\u201d and which turned out to be a photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The lady looked at the photograph in the detective&#8217;s hands and recognized it at once as the picture of the man with whom she had been lunchin\u2019 and whom she had been almost lovin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhere did you get this?\u201d asked the lady in a faint voice of the detective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI am sorry to say,\u201d answered the detective respectfully, \u201cthat this is a photograph from the Rogue\u2019s Gallery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Capture.jpg?resize=362%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1808\" style=\"width:264px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Capture.jpg?w=362&amp;ssl=1 362w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Capture.jpg?resize=234%2C300&amp;ssl=1 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThen this man is\u2013\u201d she could not finish the sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cA rogue,\u201d said Dusenberry, finishin\u2019 it for her. \u201cYou see, miss,\u201d continued Dusenberry, sympathizin\u2019 with the lady&#8217;s feelin\u2019s, \u201cthis man&#8217;s portrait has been sent to Police Headquarters from England, and I knew him by it at once and I sent for it, and have been waitin\u2019 out here in the cold these blessed two hours just to block his little game, and to show you, miss, his true character. Shall I call a cab?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cIf you please,\u201d said the young lady, faintly, and lookin\u2019 as if she was goin\u2019 to faint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A cab was called and the lady was driven at once home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This was her last \u201cromance,\u201d her final \u201cadventure,\u201d the \u201cwind up\u201d of her street flirtations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Editor&#8217;s notes: This column appeared in 1883, describing the arrest of Courtenay\/Clinton\/Beresford, etc. in 1881. However the circumstances were a bit different than those described above:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The_New_York_Times_1880_12_01_Page_2.jpg?resize=601%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The_New_York_Times_1880_12_01_Page_2.jpg?resize=601%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 601w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The_New_York_Times_1880_12_01_Page_2.jpg?resize=176%2C300&amp;ssl=1 176w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The_New_York_Times_1880_12_01_Page_2.jpg?resize=768%2C1308&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The_New_York_Times_1880_12_01_Page_2.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time this column appeared, the great impostor was only a third of the way through his notorious career. <a href=\"https:\/\/criminalsrevised.org\/58-hugh-l-courtenay\/\">I have written about him earlier, in my annotations to Thomas Byrnes&#8217;s <em>Professional Criminals of America<\/em>. <\/a>Lascelles\/Clinton\/Courtenay\/Beresford was such a chameleon that Inspector Byrnes profiled him twice&#8211;one in his 1886 edition, and again in 1895&#8211;without realizing that the two profiles were the same man.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A lawyer of this city, residin\u2019 on an uptown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminals","category-detectives","category-impostors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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