| Show CANADIAN EXILES I They are Stirred Up by the Weigh Extradition Bill MUCII ALARM AMONG BOODLERS The Celebrated AldermenThe War Frauds Tho Tweed King The Whisky RingA Curious StoryThe Mugs Shall Canada continue a harbor of rcfu o for the big embezzlers and genteel thieves of tho United States Tho fugitive criminals have apparently felt safe in the conviction that it was so to be but now that Canada has had her laugh at the Yankees and taken tho sober second thought she realizes that it is not to her interest in-terest to furnish her neighbor country all tho advantages of a convict colony with tho great additional disadvantage that tho convicts are free Hence tho Weldon bill lately intro L I r ie i I w es UANDEUJAUM DE LACT DIKCKSIAN MGARIUGLE duccd into the parliament at Ottawa by the eminent Professor Weldon providing for general extradition Henco the wild fluttering flutter-ing in tho boodlers colony and hence too the alleged combine among the boodlers raise 100000 to defeat the bill The idea that all legislators havo their price Is so rooted and grounded in the debased intellect in-tellect of a Now York lobbyist that it is no surprise to find John Keenan working with confidence against the Welden bill but tho fugitives from other sections of the United States do not place much confidence in Mr Koonans scheme and what is worse in their estimation most of them have not the money to put up Indeed it now appears that some of tho exiles aro in actual want as they wasted the stolen money before leaving home and this is particularly the case with those from Indiana Tho greatest public interest of course is felt in tho fugitive aldermen from Now York as that city is in easy reach of Montreal but equally pathetic cases hail from Indiana and Chicago and theso may well bo noted first THE EBB AND FLOW OF CRIME It has long been noted that crimes of tho nature hero considered have their regular periods of ebb and flow in tho United States A revelation of fraud and bribery is followed by tho conviction of a few and tho flight of many then thero is an interval of a few years of apparent honesty till tho lesson is forgotten and tho corruption breaks out in another quarter Tho great civil war of course was tho cause of a carnival of corruption corrup-tion scarcely paralleled in modern times and after a brief interval tho great frauds of tho Tweed ring in Now York city culminated in 18TL Tweed himself died in prison and nearly all his coworkers in iniquity have cither died in disgrace or ore living in poverty pov-erty and obscurity The local moral atmosphere atmos-phere was so purified that eleven years passed beforo there was another really great Kandal in New York city but in the meant mean-t wie tho great Credit Mobilier and whisky ring frauds agitated tho west and south and wrought havoc with some of tho greatest reputations rep-utations in Washington city Thero was an interval of honesty for a few Tsars and then an entirely now variety of fraud was unearthed in Indiana involving rchool trustees and their coadjutors Most rl these frauds were of such a petty nature that tho guilty themselves often tho victims of Chicago firms dealing in school supplies escaped with light punishment but several big scamps fled to Canada Chief among theso was tho notorious Pollard organizer of fee whole scheme who is living very quietly in tho Dominion but is mightily interested in the Weldon bill Another interested Hoosier as Eastern people call Indiana men is of late date viz Joseph A Moore who got away with the funds of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company of which ho was agent Ho is indicted for embezzlement and forgery and is supposed to havo some cash with him so tho policy holders want him bad The latest fugitive from Indiana is John E Sullivan county clerk at Indianapolis who is indicted for several crimes in tie lino of fraud und embezzlement INDIANA KASCALS From Indiana tho fraudulent connection was traced to Chicago involving dealers in school stOplies but tho most noted fugitive from that city is William J McGarrigle with whom are closely associated Ed McDonald Mc-Donald Harry Vornell and several others in prison in exile or out on baiL These gentlemen gen-tlemen had an ingenious little ring of their own in which McGarrigle warden of the county hospital stood in with tho engi lOCI contractors and furnishers of supplies and by bribing certain bookkeepers having close friends among tho inspectors a combine with men of both political parties and a pull with authorities directly in charge swindled Cook county out of many thousand dollars Their failure like that of Tweed vas duo to tho fact that there were too many in tho combine there was not plunder enough to go around and so the principals had to flee fleeTOE TOE PROPOSED BILL Thero may bs on aristocracy of crime in tho United States but in Canada the exiles aro on a level so the Canadians see nothing surprising in the fact that Mother Mandel baum the notorious New York fence is in with the most stylish bankers in laboring to r defeat tho Weldon bill Among tho noted criminal exiles is Thomas Axworthy of I Cleveland 0 who owns to having made way I with 450000 of the citys money but ho takes no interest in tho proposed bill which II adds color to tho report that his friends and v bondsmen havo made it safe for him f Scarcely less notorious is Henry Dieckman of St Louis but as tho money ho stole was r that of his wife her mother and other heirs of his fatherinlaws estate his case is not of L such public interest Still another noted ex fie is George M Bartholomew who stole over 200000 from the Charter Oak Life Insurance Insur-ance company and other institutions at Hartford t Hart-ford He is intensely interested in the Welt Wel-t don bill as the Hertford official are only waiting for its passage to go for him Equally interested perhaps is Harry D Scholl who robbed tho Surety company of L i Chicago and is waiting in Toronto with his I l logs crooked for another jump if tho bill I 4 passes John C Eno the fugitivo banker of I V Ifew York is perhaps not so intensely interested inter-ested as his father has made good his defalcations i defal-cations TIm CELEBRATED BOODLE ALDERMEN n 7 All otbercases however yield in interest in-terest to those of the two celebrated boodle aldermen al-dermen of New York citywho sold the Broadway f Broad-way street railway franchise to Jacob Sharp in 1881 and vrhpsa trials and tribulations are I Still nesn in tUopttDiic memory inaeea they are still in progress In their cases it is hard to find ono redeeming feature they wero for tho most part coarse and thick skinned politicians of tho Now York city type men to whom the disgrace is but a trifle And still their story is saddening Of the guilty aldermen Arthur J McQunde Henry W Jaehno and John J ONeill aro in Sing Sing prison for long terms Charles Dempsey Sayles Do Lacy and Rothman aro exiles Ludolph A Fullgrafl1 Michael Duffy and Waite informers are in very private life Francis McCabe in a lunatic asylum Kenney Ken-ney and McLoughlin aro dead while Cleary Farley Finck Kirk Miller Pearson Reilly Sheils and Wendell are waiting on the slow processes of tho courts with increasing chances of joining their threo colleagues in Sing Sing And Jacob Sharp their original Mephistopheles is dead Tho list reads like ono of the rolls of Nemesis an extract from tho records of Tartarus A CURIOUS STORY The story is from beginning to end a very curious ono and though told by bits in the papers will bear repetition on a few points Tho value of a franchise to lay a railway on Broadway was so evident that many schemes have been proposed for many years A T Stewart offered to pay a round million for tho privilege An elevated iron street and promenade was suggested and a company formed to construct it tho object being to run steam cars on tho street below Still another an-other conpany conceived the plan of an underground or arcade railroad A portion of the tunnel for this was excavated under Broadway at Worth street This tunnel somo three hundred feet long is still thero It is used for storage purposes and at onetime one-time served very well an inventor who day after day tested a patent gun of marvelous destructive power But with all the cunning that men possess ao practical scheme that ended successfully as to execution was devised until a few men by means of alleged bribery secured the passage of what is generally termed the Broadway railway bill Governor Cleveland vetoed tho first bill the marks of fraud being apparent then the projectors tried a scheme very common in the United States by which general bills very innocent In appearance conceal clauses npplicablo to the city to plucked This bill passed tho Now York legislature April 18 18S4 and was signed by Governor Cleveland its title reading innocently enough as follows fol-lows An act to provido for tho construction extension maintenance and operation of street surface railroads and branches thereof in cities towns and villages Jacob Sharp Co were already at work on the aldermen and as tho bill was of no use to the conspirators till tho common council coun-cil of tho city had granted tho franchise tho former could not afford to pay anybody for work done at tho state capital so tho boodle manipulators at Albany immediately took a hand in making boodle aldermen in New York city and many queer stories ore told of their conclaves at tho Astor house and elsewhere The two sets of boodlers pooled their issues and the measure went through New York city practically gave away a franchise fran-chise for which responsible men would have paid millions now THE TRUTH WAS DUG OUT It is needless to detail tho tedious processes by which the truth was finally dug out from under a mountain of lies One dramatic incident in-cident excited great interest It was shown that tho conspirators first met at the Astor house and arranged for more private meetings meet-ings for the aldermen at tho houso of one of their number The conviction of Arthur J ifcQuado upon his second trial turned upon tho evidence that he and other aldermen had been seen to enter that house at a late hour and to this fact the witness was a most un dR = V IW BARTHOLOHEW SAYLES DEJITSEY ENO sophisticated looking German servant Katie Metz As more than two years had elapsed it seemed the easiest thing in the world to discredit tho girls memory and break her down on cross examination But sho proved a jewel of a witness She picked out tho aldermen in question from a crowd in court completely baffled every attempt to break her down and told straight a story with such clearness and promptness as to banish all doubt from the bearers minds The jury c ivictcd ilcQsidc = tha fi r = t ballot It is too soon to forecast tho final result nor would it be appropriate to give account of tho legal squabbles The encouraging facts in tho whole business aro that the courts of tho United States are growing more vigilant vig-ilant in such cases that the popular mind is set in tho direction of rigid justice and that Canada is getting very tired of her reputation reputa-tion as an asylum for scamps from the other side A long ern of honesty may therefore bo expected |
