, 1865-02-12

which he paid them tw Thousand dollars il
Esrenbaeks H. then told them he wantes
| one hundred and 'weuty-si1 sets more. aho
Il they would furnish the men he would paJ
five hundred and twenty-five dol!ass apiece
for them. They promised to do so, ana
would have them the next day. The next
day they came again, but said they had been
able to get but ninety two, yet would pro.
cure the remainder in day. Col. Baker toos
the papers and gnve thin check On the
Hanover Bank for sixteen Of them, amount
ing to over s., Geo, saying he would go with
tltm to the bunk and get the money for the
rest. 4 receipt for the money paid was asked
for By Col. Baker, which was signed BY the
two men-one as James Cole, the other as
ing the signature Of James Higgins,
which appeared In one Of the
four sets previously bought as recruit en-
listed and sworn in hy John Dcvlin, the no
tary, os a soldier, Colonel Baker knew hc had
the right men. Hc then told them who be
their game was uF, and at once arrested
| them. as coon as they found they wera
| trapped, they owned up the whole affiir, told
WHO were sbeir accomplices, how the work
was done, and gave such information US has
led to the arrest Of twenty. seven Of the prin-
/
ever attempted. They confessed the papers
! were forger1es In every case.
From this beginning Col. Baker went on
| and found that the Practice Of bounty jump
ing Ens car led to an alarming extent, almost
passing helie', and that these brokers had D
regularly Organized plan by which they would
enlist the ''irmper,' help him to 'sju,np,"
enlist him agaln, pocketfng the city nnd
county bounty in oil eases, carrying the same
process On until the man had been put through
taeenty-seren tiucs.
His OWE detectives hare In several in
stances allowed themselves to be enlisted By
the brokers. for the purpose OF discovering
them and getting proofs against them, ami
once Col. Baker went through the mill hiu1-
self, was detailed as clerk, md quietly
wnlked away.
Arthur Carron, living ut Sc White street, d
French Canadian. and deserter from the
army, has been In the substitute business
months, hns a1nassed q large fortune, but has
made tic most Of 1t By getting men out of
| the service after they have enlisted and gone
vance Of Sergeant Malherne, Of the Goth New
York battery, who is in charge Of the rendez-
vous on the island, and who has power to give
passes TO tho men to visit the city, Carron
has been able 10 get several hundred men out
Of the service, By his own confession. Ser
passed out, as also did Sergeant Brown. al
three Of these men have been arrested, and
are now at the Old Capitol Prison. The
proofs Of Carron's rascality were procured By
two Of the detectives enlistins, Col. Baker
agreeing to buy them off. They enlisted one
day, were sent to the island, and the next day
Col. Baker garc Carron 500 to get them of;
md by four o'clock in the afternoon thew
were in New York. As soon as they landed
the detectives arrested him and brought him
to the Astor House, where he made confes-
sion duplicating the Others.
tn show IN what eyfpuf 4hnaa fnrnorfao
have been committed and bounty jumping
pratticed, It Is only necessary to show the
difference between the number OF these
forged pape.s and cnlistments, and the num-
proce eded to tho frunt. Sergeant Maihernc
calculates that bEt one tn len reaches the front,
while Col, Baker thinks that one In six Is q
tair estimate. He is making all efforts to ar
| live at tho exact number, having system
working 1t present which would not be poll
I tic to disclose.
The following items will give very good
idea Of the extent Of these crimes: John
| Fay, substitute broker, corner of Hndson
| avenue aud York street, Brooklyn, was Mt
one time hack driver in this city, and eight
/ months ago had not dollar In the world,
ard was an ignorant, iliterate Irishman. He
went into the substitute business, and when
arrested he Lad large drinking saloon in
| operation, and owned over S25o, go worth Of
real estate in Brooklyn, purchased from the
sale Of these false enlistment papers. He had
| so completely got control Of the naval rem
devious, that 1t was common remark around
there thai he nm the institution. Policemen
were stationed ut the entrance, and nobody
but Fay and Devlin could get In. Capt.
Young, an old, crippled officer, was in charge
Of the Office hut it does not appear that lie
vas coguizant Of The frauds .pe,petrnted IN:
der LIS nose, MI his business being conducted
In a small back room md consisted OF sign
inE the descriptive lists and certificates for
the recruit who had no existence except on
paper His chief clerk, wGoae name Is with
every name he furnished the brokers, and has
made large sum by his villotny. He Is
married man, and feels the greatest anguish
for the part lie took says the money Nus
curse to him, and that he never had Il mo-
ment's peace of mind since he took the first
TUNER, is also implicated, md was arrested
in company with John Deviin, the notary
public who prostituted his position and oath
Of office to such base uses.
James Lee, Tammany Hall substitute
broker, WIS also arrested. But snort time
0,cOo deposited in the Broadway bank to
his credit. he was once before arrested on
the same Charge by Gen. Dig, but escaped to
Canada, where he remained by the advice Of
his friends until the affair hlew over, when he
rctu1 ned and entered into business again.
large brokers, were also arrested. After Ar
thur Carron's arrest he boosted that, In con-
nivance with the officers on Governors
1s1atd, he had put Tom Patterson, d uotori-
Gus rough nbout the city, through seven
times.
From the experience Col. Baker has had in
the matter he Is a good authority to speak
by, and he asserts that two thirds Of the men
enlisted haye either been enlisted on forged
papers, OF never hare been In the service, and
that there are hundreds Of men walking the
streets to-day who have enlisted, been ia and
cut Of the service a dozen lines.
A report like this will undoubtedly startle
the community, but were We permitted to pub
llsh the names Of all who have been nrle5ted,
we might well ask, to what are We coming?
Not alone the ignorant substitute broker but
others high in position md trust are crimi-
mated, and will before long follow in the foot
steps Of the twenty y-seven already arrested.
Our citizens can see from this and Judge for
themselves why our quota has been increased
from O little over 4, coo 10 over 81 900. It Is
bccausethe government wants tile men now
that should hare been furnished on back
quotas, and we have now got to raise In u
lump the men that VIC understood had been
raised 10 fill every quota, but which the fore
going facts prove tO have been only on paper,
aud not men In boots.