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Show THE SWINDLING BOSTON LAWYER. The diiu-luture of the disgraceful doiofra of Kiward S. Ii.u'.l, jr. ia one of liio Buddt-at revelationa that bave been made knoitn htro for several years. Mr. Kand, er. is one of our oldust and nioet rcopec-tci citizens, and tiftij been very prominent a? au active member of the Episcopalian church. With his son, he was in the conveyancing branch of tho iaal practice, and the firm did a very large nnd hicra'ive business. Mr. Iliud, the yotiryw, had a tarfle for literature, and at one tinio wrote pot-try Tor the rmsaz'tiM, nh;ch was gract-ful and rc-liued rather than oriyina! or forceful in character. Ho early developed an interest in horticulture horti-culture and landscape gardening; had one of the finest places in the country, which he had reclaimed and laid out in tbo moat artiiuic manner; and wag the author of seYer.il worts on flowers, and the method of their cultivation. He did an- immense amount of work, in and out ef his proie-aion. Tho lust time I conversed con-versed with him I bad the curiouaity to nak bim how ho ccL'om dished so much, and lie cava mo a very in teresting account of the manner in which his time was systematized. No man stood higher, professionally and tocially in Boston; yet in an inatant it is revealed that his we.itlh ia a fraud and hia integrity a sham. He testifies that, though spending some JJO.OUO a year, and the nominal possessor of hundreds of thousands, he is not worth more than the clothes on his back, and confesses that he lias equanderud trust property intrusted in-trusted to his hands. He is in jail as I write, (o prevent his leaving the country, his father having surrcn dered him on a bond exacted by the courts. St is hoped that nothing more than the extravagance displayed in tho ornamentation of Ins house and grounds is at the bottom of this, (hough there aro already charges ot the inevitable womau in the ca-:c. He is a man not much, if any, over forty years of age, and lias a young and interesting family. 1 have known bim from boyhood, and never , befora heard the breath of fuspicion I joined against hiB good name. "Tern pie ton's" Boston Letter. |