Show of mm urn MAYOR or amm STORY OF A WRONG DEED AND OF SORROW wm belcher recounts the suffering he endured after embezzling money new york july officials were mercifully disposed yesterday toward former mayor wm win H belcher who returning after months of wandering pulled the massive brass announcer on the door of the county jail early yesterday and said to th the jail keeper you know meMo me morrison Trison I 1 want to come in ws we W I He wilbe all be arraigned arrall n led on friday next nex t to six for fo embezzlement bezz lement in the papers the amounts are arc not declared sobbing in his cell lat last m belcher according to herald said q 1 I did not take or anything like that amount when I 1 left pater son I 1 had exactly with this i j yent went to minnesota and in fustice to my wife I 1 want to say that at no time has she known my whereabouts it was my intention to disappear as a 9 if L I 1 was dead andge and go to some foreign country but bat I 1 made the fatal mistake of procrastination it if I 1 had had more mo money ney I 1 would hava gone to now new Y york and stayed there the best hiding place in the world but a man cant work there and hide too and I 1 had to work so I 1 went west I 1 dropped oft off in chicago but I 1 remained there only a week it was exciting to walk around the streets anji add pass by policemen who you knew were on the lookout for you ai 1 had bad my moustache shaved oft off and did not tear fear capture much then I 1 made a fatal mi mistake I 1 wont went to minnesota I 1 wont say what towns I 1 visited except that st paul w was one but I 1 had left and I 1 lin around looking for something to do I 1 lost my wallet one night on the streets I 1 was afraid to go to the police about it and there I 1 was 2000 miles from friends from everybody penniless and a fugitive I 1 went to a railroad office and asked for work but they could not give me any I 1 was desperate and pleaded for atty anything thin g we can give you a job digging said the man to whom I 1 applied I 1 jumped at it that morning I 1 took my place in a trench with a pick and shovel and for three horrible weeks I 1 stayed there I 1 received a day then they made me assI assistant slant fore foreman m an my pay was raised to a d day ay and things looked brighter 1 I stayed there until last january 11 W working all the winter in the snow and rain until rheumatism seized me I 1 managed to save and with it I 1 went to london canada I 1 worked at anything I 1 could get but my lania lame knee was against me and I 1 could not hold any position very long atone time I 1 sold newspapers but I 1 always kept enough money saved so that I 1 could get back east if I 1 wanted to it until june came that I 1 made up my mind to return my knee was getting worse and worse and I 1 could hardly hobble around I 1 could not pay for proper medical treatment and so sd I 1 mado made up my milid to como come bael back 1 I landed in now new york on july and the next day I 1 wrote prosecutor emley I 1 him I 1 was ready to surrender and that I 1 would of my own voli volition will Wili lyou ayou plead guilty aaen when you are arraigned on friday he was asked what are the specific charges was the reply Is it theft or what Is it I 1 I 1 embezzlement and forgery ho was told 1 forgery exclaimed belcher 1 I never committed forgery for gory a lie 0 ill not plead guilty to that it was said that your confluence in friends was primarily the cause of the t lie trouble it was suggested Iri friends ends friends belcher mutt muttered gred as to himself 1 I friends I 1 never had any I 1 detroit july 31 tho the republican state convention finished nom nominating Us state ticket adopted a platform which contained a compromise on an con coil I 1 ar ressman ross man smiths resolution pl pledging edging the 1 c party to the direct nomination of 91 united 1 cited states senators andaI jou it d ata f 30 0 V 1 I 1 X 0 O I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 |