, 1873-08-29
Rodman, the Secretary Of the Trust
Company, Charged with a De-
taIcation Of $248, 900.
A Number Of City 0fioials Believed
to Be Implicated
Efforts Being Mode to Indemnify tho
City and Hush tho Matter Up.

Mills In tho Brooklyn Trust Company, of which
advised you month ago, have just boon
made public, and are Hont by regular proHB dia-
patch but It appears further tonight that tho
City Treasurer spraguo knew Of nodman's do
ta1cation q year ago, when ho detected him In
stealing 1000, but haB continaod him IN Office
Dvor since. His to.al thefts amount to e2o7, ,00O
and moro aro expected to bo developed. Bpraguo
Is strongly condemned by his own paper, tho
Brooklyn Eagle. Judge 1lcCuo, who was tho
patron Of Sprague aud Rodman, il believed to
Eayo known about 1t. No arrest ID likely to fol-
low, rs Rodman threatonB influential men whose
socrora he knowa.
(T0 the Assoeiated PrcssJ
New YonK, Aug 2S.-It la known that tho
Brooklyn City Troasury Ia involved In d common
with tho Brooklyn Truat Company.
Lato lust night 1t wns ascertainod that tho City
Treasury had heon robbed Of d large amount,
and that nodman, tho late ABalstaut City Troap-
uror md Secretary Of tho Trust Company, WIS
tho guilty party. Rolnan, acting in his double |
capacity. was enabod to cover up tho deficiency |
by making falso statements concerning the |
amount Of the city money on deposit in tho |
Trust Company. Looking over the accounts OF
tho Trust Company and books Of tho City |
Treasury, A1r. Warren, tho expert, who IL |
GuhHbEu Ill HIHlu!nlIb LAuul lluuB Iu6 0t1AlEts- |
tlons Of Rodman to be Us fol!owBs From tho
City TREASURY, $3.50 general fund, sos, 900; |
Board Of Education OH deposit with Troasuror,
S5D,o00. Total, s203,upo. OF this amount tho |
City Iroasuror, spla*uo, maelo good 555, ,0og BY
Balo Of his Ht0ok In tho Brooklyn Eagle to Will
lam VanAndon. Iho bondHmou Of Sprague aro
Henry Sanger, R,liort L. 0lulrosd James OIo-
well, John Patton, and W: g. Kinggley. Thoy
arc fully roaponslls, and tho city will not DO
tho loser. Tho Laild Of Rodman calls for
$4,000, and iH beloved to 10 we'll secured.
1t Wan said at the Luli TINT nodman wo111'l be
secured before shutdown, ant! lodged in tic tay"
lnond Street Jail. Tho arrest, il was under
Treasurer sprago, but i ho faiiod 70 do q 80 Tho tho
Comptroller, acting under advice Of the Corpora
tion CouusEl. would gotta warrant ont for the
arrest Of nodnai., On tho other hand. promi-
nent ol1lcial s4ys that they don't dare to lny
them, mud thoy arc afraid ho will toll all II thoy
threaten to mako him o Hcapogout It ls aso
alleged tla, III order to eliold this alleged ring
Of Bpeoulato,d, the deficiency will 10 quietly
mot by parties who ars directly responsible for
tho safe custody OF tho city funds.
A. al early hour thla morning, Mr. sprague
denied that there had l,aoo nuy defalcation, ind
Comptroller SCHROEDER, although we'll aware there
had been defatcation, would not ndnit it. Two
hours later, however, it was admitted by both
those officials, who stated It vas necessary for
them to Accp tho matter quiet froln tho fact
Tint they Fero onsngod in rai3iilS nm amount to
uH6G bpQu tlC loSht bn tuG CITY suOllQ nOt HQnQr.
It's nor understood that sprnst,ea bontlsmon
hnyo Pledged themselves to nuke good any do-
lcionoy, and that Eprayuo has mudo assignments
Of al luis property to tho eity even to his houso-
hold goods
Tloro are those who aseort TINT 1filB, Of tho
Brooklyn Trust Company, who WIS drowned al
Conoy Island, WAS implicated with Nodman In
this deficiency.
Among other rtnors which woro rifo was one
that certain city department waB also involved
In trouble, but tho nature Of tho trouble was not
defined. Inquiry from ol1calH failed to develop
anything satisfactory.
Mr.. Warren haa completed LIS examination of
the books Of the Trust Company, aud hus lng re-
a!ready known to the public have boon discover
cd.
Tho Brooklyn Eagle says: Tho s11m and sub-
stance Of all tho statements mado Is, that Rodman
is to-day defallter to tho e1tont Of 5'248, 600
that nearly three yonrs ago ho, with tho assist
ance Of Mr. Mills, Btolo 800 200, and moro 70.
contly took the suns brought up against him to-
day. Tho $4,000 first tekon wore discovered by
made good by him without my publicity ue
did not, however, remove Rodmau, as he should
hayo done, but allowed him to continue his
robberieB. In other words, for Homo
robbed the city, ho permitted him to reulnin in
aiuco tho City Treasury learned Of the theft
which caused the excitement Of this mot4ing
laa ydE 10 ue 4oHILeu Ab W tue uEht opeIALlOu OF
Rodman's, 1t Ia morally certain that ho was
seconded in 1t by Mills, for, besides finding their
bank accounts increased exactly that amount, 1t
il now also loarned that in three days after that
| they loaned in privnto way 100000 to tho Cen
tral Bank. Mills and Rodman simply took $4,000
| out Of tho City Treasury mud dlvldol it botwoon
| them. Whether they divided the amount found
deficient yesterday or pot romans for inquiry
Tie bclief il that tlley DID, aud that tho city was
/ ut their hands systematically viotimiZoa.
| NEW YonK, Aug. 2s.-City Treasurer spraguo
| Of Brootlyn, mat[o 4 formal complaint against
ox-DeputY City Treasuror NJ. r. Rolman, Of cn-
bozzling s2o3.000 Of tho funds of tho City Ireaa-
/ ury. Roln,au was Tonight placed under arrest,
md two doLcctiyea detailed to watch him ut his
residence. 1Ir. Spraguo will make q complete
statement Of tho amount Of dofalcatlon to-mor-
row. Financially, Mr. spraguo is said to be COM
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