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Show DhlDLK 0 Lilt Remorse Prove Him loan lo-an Asylum. Bright Career of Young Pennsylvanian Closes With Tragedy. Played Part of Go-Between in Buying Up Boodlers Until Eposure Came. SCRANTON Pa.. Nov. S.-Ground bc-tweon bc-tweon tho millstones of conscience nnd loyalty to brlbc-glvlng employers, Edward J. Malonoy's promising life, checkered with black remorse and Insanity, ended in suicide. Tho end of this tragedy. of graft came with tho absolute Identification of tho body picked up In Long Island sound as that of Maloney. Capt. Gllbcrt(HutchIn-son Gllbcrt(HutchIn-son of tho schoonor Ella R. Simpson found tho body ilontlng near Centre Island. Isl-and. It Is now cortnlu that tho desperate man leaped from tho deck of the Joy Lino steamship Edgcmont in tho course of its trip from New York to Provldcnco lost Tuesday nlghL Since his discharge from the insane department de-partment of tho Hillside home, near hero, about a year ago, Malonoy had been a contract agent for the New York and New Jersey Telephone company, and had been connected with the Newark ofllco of that concern moat of tho time. Example of Ruined Life No sormon against bribery and municipal munici-pal corruption can equal in forco the ex-amplo ex-amplo of this ruined life and disgraceful death. It carries a leason that will servo for generations In all northenstern Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Burleil In tho suicide's grave will be Bocrets that would havo wrecked tho reputations repu-tations of somo of Scrnnton's wealthiest and most prominent men nnd would. have driven them in disgraco from tho city. These aro tho brlbors who were served by tho young suicide In tho light of tho Lackawanna Telephone company to obtain ob-tain a Scranton franchise In 1S99. Malonoy was one of tho managers of the Central Pennsylvania Telephone and Supply company, a part of the Bello Tolo-phono Tolo-phono syBtom at that time. He had gono Into the service of the compnny ns an operator at a salary of a few dollars a week, and by enthusiastic devotion to the company's Interests and unquestioning loyalty to ila superiors, had advanced rapidly along tho avenues of wealth and responsibility. Ills wholo time was spent In tho service of his employers, and he took no time for recreation of any kind. could Trust Him to Bribe. This absoluto devotion and trustworthiness trustworthi-ness caused his selection for tho position of go-between when the light for the tclo-Phonc tclo-Phonc franchise was on. The men who sot out to block the franchise by brlbory felt that, of all men, he was the ono who cculd bo trusted with knowledge of their crime They furnished the money with which tr.clr tool went Into tho cagor Councllman-Ic Councllman-Ic markot and bought tho votes of boo-dllng boo-dllng mombera. Not a scrap of paper, not nn open action by which their complicity com-plicity could bo traced, was known to any cno but the young man, who, everybody believes, did not realize a penny from the corrupt transactions. On ono Bldo wore tho Invested money and tho future profits of the men who had been his friends. On the other sldo was his conscience. He had been deeply religious and his llfo had bean one of hard work and right living. Gratitude and loyalty were served and tho work of moral and mental disintegration was com-. com-. menced. - Laughed at Offers of Immunity. Tho franchlso war was followed by revelations of tho bribery mado by detectives de-tectives of the Municipal lcaguo. Council-men Council-men who had been bought by Malonoy turned State's ovldenco and he, with several sev-eral Councllmon. wer'i Indicted. Prominent men of tho Municipal loaguo. knowing thnt Malonoy was merely a tool, urged him to reveal tho names of the real bribers. They promised him Immunity from Il.lrt,,er disgrace. This he laughed at. Thoy urged that ho confess in the Interests of justice and civic morality They pointed out that this would bo some measure of atonement for the damage he had done tho communltv. This argument moved him so that he promised to npmo the criminals within twenty-four hours The bribers learned of the promise and made a frantic appeal to their victim. As tho rosult of that plea he disappeared tho night It was made. Couldn't Escape Curse of Community. Hiding In slums, skulking through villages, vil-lages, he wandered with tho weight of his guilt and tho guilt of others upon his sensitive and remorse-tortured soul Ho was a modern "Wandering Jew." with the curso of a community ringing always In his cars. Ono day the police of Chicago picked up a man who was shrieking oxhortatlona to a gaping crowd on a street corner His eyes blazed. His clothing was dirty and n ragsj. Ho wept hysterically aild he laughed tho vacant laugh of tho maniac "Keep away from tho briber1" ho shrieked. "Look at me. See whoro the briber hns marked me. He la burning out my heart. Ho Is soaring my brain with rod-hot Irons. Ho has bought mo. body heart and soul. I am his! Look at me Beware! Could Not Reconstruct Wreck. It was Edward J. Malonev. His heartbroken heart-broken family had him brought to Scran-;m, Scran-;m, ln,a Plnced w"n other maniacs In the Hlllsldo home. Another Inmntu of tho home at that time was former Mayor James O. Bailey, whoso connection with bribery scandals had ruined his llfo and wrecked his mind. nU After n 'onir course of trMimnni in n, asylum Maloney was sent out as virtually virtual-ly cured. Ho was narmuss, diu so melancholy mel-ancholy and spiritless that his old friends scarcely rccognlzod him. ".nus( Tho men who were responsible for his downfall got him out of Scranton Tl ov could not reconstruct tho wreck that hnd beon a man, Tho memory of his crlmo abodo with him always It mado him unfit for tho duties of life Jt drove hlm-to his lonoiy and disgraceful death. wy |