Orange County NyArchives News.....CRESTON, TUTHELL, WALSHINGHAM August 3, 1810
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Farmer's Repository August 3, 1810
August 3, 1810 edition -
 
"300 DOLLARS REWARD.
The Public are earnestly requested to apprehend a finished Villain!
Some time since, a person who calls himself John Creston, but from some 
circumstances, it is supposed his real name is Charles D. Walshingham, and it 
is more than probable he has a number of names, came to the (public) house of 
Edward B. Tuthell, in the character of a gentleman.  He appears to be about 35 
years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches high, thick set, and clumsy appearance, 
dark complexion and dark hair, cut short behind, but long on the top of his 
head, dark eyes, his hands tanned very black, with two scars, one across the 
back of his hand, and a scar on one of his legs near the ankle; a good set of 
teeth, which appear to be a little indented.  From his conversation, he appears 
to be a captain of a vessel, or a British officer.  He wears a dirk and pocket 
pistols; drove a bay horse about 15 hands high, stout made, about 8 years old, 
with bushy mane and tail; his legs and feet very large; has a small white spot 
on his back;  the carriage and wheels a green with small yellow spots; the left 
side of the box a little injured; the harness very plain.  He had a yellow 
canvas case which he sometimes wore on his chair box, with a spread eagle 
behind, and a red lion mounted on a gun and wheels on each side of the box. He 
had a square traveling trunk on behind, and a small new one on before; he has a 
two-barrel gun, which he generally carries with him.  He has several thousand 
dollars, most of it in doubloons. 
The unprincipled wretch, on the 3d of July inst., absconded with the wife & 
child of Edward B. Tuthell.  She is slender, delicate made woman, about 20 
years of age, about 5 feet 5 inches high, fair complexion, and a little 
freckled; light brown hair, dark grey eyes, short face and prominent cheek 
bones, her teeth fair and good, and shows them much when she laughs; her name 
is Frances.  The child a female, about 7 months old, the hair brown, and dark 
blue eyes; her name Susan but they changed it the second day to Mary.  They may 
change their clothes as they took but very few with them.  They started with an 
intention (as they said) of visiting Mrs. Tuthell's friends about 8 miles off, 
but they took the direct road to Easton, in Pennsylvania, where they were seen 
on the 4th of July; and from there they took a south west direction.
The disconsolate husband offers a reward of 200 dollars to have the villain 
detected, and will give 100 dollars and all reasonable charges to recover the 
lost infant. The distressed parents of the deluded woman would be glad to 
receive any information concerning her, and will at any time be happy to 
receive their humble and penitent child to their distressed dwelling.  All 
humane people are desired to give all the information they may get of either of 
them, to EDWARD B. TUTHELL, Postmaster, in the town of Monroe, Orange county, 
and the state of New York. 
The printers of Newspapers in the southern states, are requested to give the 
above a few insertions in their papers, and they will much oblige the 
distressed connexions, and assist to detect a monster running at large.
July 31, 1810."


Additional Comments:
The article appeared in the "Farmer's Repository" was a weekly newspaper in 
Charles Town, Jefferson Co, VA, now known as Jefferson Co, WV.  


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