The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1857-08-07
PRECISE AMOUNT or THE DtFAlCATlON.
GIBsON,s TESTIMONY.
sREsLIN IN WINDSOR, CANADA
HIS PRECAUTIONS AGAINST ARREST.
GIBSON'S APOLOGY.
WHERE THE MONEY WENT.
How Much was Wasted Mt the Cincinnati
Convention aud OF senator Pugh's
Election.
COLUMBUS, O., August 1. .

ior persoilS anu papers, expect en-
ployces Of the Treasury office, and
of the Depositories ofthe State, the
examination proceeds slowly Report
will net be made, perhaps, for ten
days. Mr.. Breslin has covered up
his tracks so .hat it will be difficult
to trace whereabouts is the peoples s
money. Mr.. Thomas Sparrow, well
known as leading member of the
Democratic party OF Franklin coun-
ty, recently Post Master of Colum-
bus, and member of tho Investiga-
ting Committee which examined the
Treasury in 1917, is a lawyer
of industry and ability, and is
devoted to a thorough search, as
far az is in the power of the Commit.
tee, of tho complicated details OF Of.
fetal mismanagement and mvstiica
ton Of the two late Treasures.
A thorough overhauling of the
Auditors and Treasurer's books has
been made, and u statement of the
account of theTreasury fromJanuary
18th, 1852, to June 18th, 1857, has
been prepared, showing that the de-
falcatiou at the latter date amount.
ed to SI2S,601 OF.
The Committee have devoted the
investigation to those two points,
How much has been the deialcationl
BY whom has been the deiaultl Aud
! assure the people they have
worked with an industry and abil.
ity which is to their credit. | be
lieve they are satisfied, that they
have determined the amount wrong
fully withheld from the State, to be
the sum noted above. To decide
the question, by whom has been the
default. learn that extensive testi.
mony have been taken.
A number Of parties have been
questioned as to the bushes relations
Of both the Treasures implicated
and after close examination Of Mr..
Gibson, whose testimony is compris
ed III 40 Mss pages. with all papers
and accounts in their reach. Mr.
Gibson's former statements to the
contrary, only $353, 900 have been
returned Of sum of more than one
million dollars, taken from the Treas
ury by Mr.. Bresln, of which he
alone was in default, making John
G.. Breslina Il dcfaulter for S72S, COL.
OIL!
OF this sum he furnished dcpre
ciatcd paper amounting to Sl5f,
63G SO, making the State a loser
outri ght and unaccounted for OF
S574 Ssh G5. Mr.. Gibson claims that
not one dollar OF the public money
has stuck to his hands or been lost
by him and presents an account u!
a balance due to him by the State
OF SIG. 900.
The developments ofthe commit.
tee will show up some gentlemen
who have affected to be very indig
nant at the official conduct in this
transaction OF the present Executive.
AT the tine Mr.. Brcslin was making
his annual statements, in October,
1850, which showed that over 500,
600 was then in the Treasury, it will
appear from the testimony of Mr..
Desheler, Cashier of the Clinton
Bank of this city, that Mr.. Breslin's
draft for $4,000 was protested in
New York, and not paid for weeks
after its return here, and then in
driblets, which facts were known to
the Fund Commissioners and Cover
nor Medill. Mr.. Auditor Morgan,
whose books called for the Treasurer
to have on hand the large sum OF
money reported, knew OF this drag
ging the honor of the State in the
dust, and no Governor then called
on the dciaulting Treasurer to esign
as did Governor Chase when Mr..
Gibson's revelations were made
known to him.
Mr.. Breslin lost the confidence of
his own political friends here, when
he left his own country and fled to
the dominions OF Queen Vic--the
refuge OF fugitive slaves. Testimo.
ny has been given that he has sig.
niied his intention not to retarn, and
a few days since his family repaired
to Windsor, his present place of So
journ.
One of my former articles spoke
Of the possibility ofa celebrated Gin.
cinnati Police officer being able to
secure the return of Mr.. B. Fore
warned, the gentleman in Canada
loaded himself with deadly weap-
ons, prepared to defend himself
from illegal arrest, being satisfied
no treaty stipulations warranted his
extradition.
Mr.. Gibson, under $l10 900 bonds
for his appearance at the Franklin
county Court in October, has been
here for several days and returns
this morning to Tifhn.
lie declares that no human SOU
was knowing of the fatal step taken
by him Of concealing Breslin's de-
falcation. His motives, he declares
were two-fold. To protect his owr
interests, and those Of the State. HI
was personally liable on his bono
for $3.50, his dearest friends
in Seneca county, many Of them in
duced to become so by him, were
also Breslin's securities. On learn
ing of his predecessors defalcation
he deemed il to his and their interes
to save him and them from loss. Fol
the interest of the State, he deemed
ii best TO conceal it and obtain al
much ofthe money back as he could
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