St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-09-03
Letter from New York.
New York, August II, 1851.

Editorial Correspondence Of the Iutelligcncer.
Letter from New York.
New York, August IL. 1851.
In my last letter from Gotham
gave you a fcw items" of crime as
they daily, and almost hourly, "turn
up" in this modern Sodom. Here is
another ofperhaps equal interest with
the former ones: A young man nam
ed Stewart b. Adams, who has been
for the past seven Or eight years en-
ployed as bar-keeper of the Howard
Hotel, corner of Broadway and Maid
en- Lane, has been arrested, charged
with cmbezzling from his employer,
at various times, of different sums of
money, amounting in the aggregate to
many thousand dollars. During the
time mentioned, a large business was
done at the bar, but yet the receipts
were comparatively small. Mr. Lamb,
the proprietor, wondered much at this,
but could not bring himself to believe
that his bartender was playing him
false. At length he employed per-
son to remain one day in the bar-room
and keep record of the number of
glasses sold. The result was that
discrepancy of $50 was discovered
between the number Of drinks sold
and the receipts accounted for. Fur
thcr Investigations were made, when
it was found that Adams associated
with sporting men and fast wo-
men, and that one of his female favor
ties had recently purchased house,
in whicl, she lived, ana probably paid
for it with money which Adams had
piIfered from his employer He was
therefore arrested and now awaits his
trial. His age is twenty-threc years
But the most singular part of the sto-
ry is, that this last case of defalca-
tion TO use the modern term for
" stealing,"-is assuming a respccta-
bility, in keeping with the amount
stolen Had it been $40 bill, and
the youth with mother to support.
on salary of one dollar a day, the
probability is he would have been
sent to the " lookup" in couple of
hours, without friend to have looked
to for assistance or or succor, and
some ten lines in the newspapers
would have told the story, which in a
week would have been forgotten.
Such is not his case, however the
scamp had half a dozen mistresses, and
was quite toad in the puddle Of ras
cally notoriety in which his miserable
life has been spent. He had no moth,
er to provide for, but with women and
horschesh, his display of personal fin
cry, and the general appearance "his
position obliged him to keep up, he
was too important parsonage not to
have made his mark in society and
now his friends arc ready to back him
up with any amount of bail.
His friends are the merchants and
others, the journals say, who have
been in the habit of taking their dali
ly "toas," to borrow the elegant phra-
seology of morning paper, g: t."
Howard Hotel bar. This is great
world every day only seems to make
the conviction stronger that no error
has been committed in coming to that
conclusion.
The poor devil struggling TO keep
soul and body together on a pitiful
salary of a few dollars a week, uuder
the most pressing necessity, literally
in need of the necessaries of life,
takes from the money he is handling
a $5 dollar bill he is toted off to Jail
in the twinkling Of a bed-post, and
nobody steps forward to save him, but
the born scoundrel, who while you are
fiattering him to his face, and perhaps
at the very moment doing him a kind
ness, puts his hand into your pocket
and clean You out entirely, he finds
lots of friends, as in the present case,
to save him from justice.
Judge Davidson gave a decision
yesterday committing Mrs. Cunning
ham to the tombs, and refusing bail
1t is quite difficult to see how bail
could be refused, though it was cx-
pected that it would be SO high that
Mrs Cunningham could not reach it.
Immediately on the decision being
given, an application was made to
Judge Peabody of the Supreme Court
for a writ Of ceytiorari, and it was
granted So the decision of the lower
Court will be revised and the question
of bail decided, ! have no doubt but
Judge Peabody will admit the wo-
man to bail But bail or no bail, the
time Of this deluded family at 81
Bond street, will end. But the house,