“He resided in Ohio; some eighteen months previous a friend had been induced to purchase a large drove of hogs for the market; he made the purchase on credit, with a promise to pay when he returned.  While he was preparing to start, Daniel and James Brown bargained and contracted for them, to be delivered at a certain landing on Lake Erie, at a certain day, at which place and time they promised to meet and pay him.  He gathered his drove, and proceeded to the landing, where he arrived several days before the time appointed.  He was there met by some men, who told him that Brown had been there, and left word for him to drive the hogs to a landing two or three days’ journey further on, where he had made arrangements to butcher and pack them.  He went as directed; he found neither of the Browns there, but found the men who had directed him before; they informed him that they had orders to commence killing and packing the hogs, and that Mr. Brown would be there that day, or the next.  He consented, and the hogs were killed and packed.  A merchant at the landing advanced money to pay the man, and also furnished salt, and barrels on credit.  On the day that all was finished, the two Browns arrived, bringing with them another large drove.  They pretended to be very much surprised to find our friend there, and much more so to find the hogs butchered.  They declared that they had not bargained for the slaughter of the hogs, and that they contracted for them in another place, and would have nothing to do with them here; that he had broken his contract, and they should demand heavy damages.  He sought for the men who had directed him hither, but they had dispersed as soon as paid, and no trace of them was to be found.  He told the Browns how he had been deceived, but they denied all knowledge of the affair, and again talked of damages.  The merchant then presented his bill for supplies, and money advanced to butchers and packers.  Our friend not having the money, he seized on the pork.  What could he do?  The case was desperate.  He had bought on credit; would his pitiful story satisfy his creditors?  His character was ruined.  You may imagine the state of his mind.  At this crisis, the Messrs. Brown took him aside, and told him that since he was in difficulty, they were willing to befriend him, and to show him how he could soon make money enough to pay off his creditors.  An oath of secrecy was required and given.  They then offered to settle the merchant’s bills, which were very extravagant, and pay him for the pork in counterfeit money, at twenty per cent., with which he was to buy stock through the country.  In his despair, he consented; a few days after he was detected, arrested, and tried, under a false name, and condemned to the Ohio penitentiary.  His friends, remaining entirely ignorant of his fate, began to suspect foul play.  The Messrs. Brown effected his pardon, and hurried him away; but not before he had contrived to make known his story, and the fact that he was under restraint among a band of bad men, and that he could not escape without assistance.  He was never heard of more.