Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-11-13
The Splend0r Of Crime.

The Splendor Of Crime.
We find in New York paper the follow
ING sketch of the fashionable life of Hun
tingIon, before his arrest: 1l
And now Huntington is in the tombs.
His trial will make work for the lawyers.
and attract good deal of public attention.
1t will be nice legal point whether the
lodging these notes as collateral security
is tantamount TO uttering them. The
penalty for each offence may be seven
years in the State prison, and if convicted
on all, he would require to live as long as
old Pan to serve out his term. In the
meantime he seems to be quite Indifferent
to his situation. When Officer Bowyer
informed him that he came to arrest him,
he coolly walked up to the mantelpiece,
took up a match, lit the cigar which he
had in his mouth, and walked out with the
officer-in apparent unconcern. His cell at
the Toombs is richly carpeted and furnish
ed. His wife's carriage drives down dai-
ly, and her care supplies him with sump-
tuous fare. He has his champagne and
his Havanas, and don't seem to let the de-
gredation Of his position weigh down his
spirits. As an instance of his extravaganza
even now, it is said that after dining day
or two ago he sent up to Tompson's for
fruit, and paid as high as IS for five pears.
II will be asked what has become of
the proceeds of these extensive forgeries
We have given an inkling of the extrava-
gance of this man, which sufficiently indi-
Gates his character in that respect, and we
have no doubt that within the last two
years he has been able to squander all the
money that he raised by the means We
have described. He owned two houses IN
Twenty-second street, costing ProDaoiy
some $4,000. These we're furnished re-
pardless of expense. In one of these he
r resided with his family; in the other, not
a block distance, he maintained in grand
style a lady of beauty and accomplish
ments, who was not his welded wife.
He was fond of snowy equipages and fine
horses, outshone all his competitors in that
line. l
1t was usual to see his lady driving two
in hand, and himself driving simular
team, side by side. He kept open house
for all his friends, and gave them the use
Of his whole establishment. He rarely
dined at home, but generally at some of
the fashionable restaurants, with some
fashionable ladies', At the watering-pla-
ces his lady outshone all others in the
splendor Of her diamonds. 1t is said that
on the very day of his arrest she had sent
to his office, from Niagara or Saratoga, a
box containing $4,000 worth of jewelry.
Her brother took it in charge, and the
officers have not since been able to get at
it. We received the other day commu-
nication that he had recently bought, at
Tiffany q Co.'s, piece of jewelry, price
$1,000, for presentation to lady. Mr..
Tiffany, however, says that this and other
simular statements are exaggerated.
With such lavish expenditure as these
extravagant tastes and habits imply it need
not be wondered what became of the pro-
ceeds of the forgeries.
Huntington, like many other people in
New York, was determined to live like a
prince-no matter who should eventually
have to foot the bill. Even now, when
the crash that was to be expected has
come, and when he can reasonably look
for no other fate than that of a felon, he
he does not lose his recklessness, his indif-
ference. He eats his fine dinners and
drinks his costly wines in his little cell in
the Tombs with as much gusto as when
he played the part Of grand seigneur in
Twenty second street. And even there
the calamity that has befallen the house
hold does not seem to press heavily upon
them. There is the same ''so und of revel-
ry by night" as in times when he was
t1ourishing in Wall street. But the re-ac-
ton cannot fail to come after the giddy ex-
citement Of such life. It is sad to con-
template the end of such a life. 1t is sad
to contemplate the end of such brief ca
reer of dissipation. The wealth which his
wife supposed, perhaps to be inexhausti-
BILE, will not save him from the degreda-
ton of convict's life. A young man, of
good address and pleasing manners, he
might have lived life Of usefulness, and
honesty became wealthy, as he desired; !;
but he could not resist the temptation Of
getting rich IN hurry, and the end will
be miserable existence in Sing Sing
Prison. There is moral in Huntington's
career for all classes of our citizens.