The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-09-01

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DEFALcATIoN OF THE STATE TREASURER
--Josephus Sooy, Jr., Treasurer of this State,
has been proved to be a defaulter. The facts
were made public on Saturday morning.
The State Gasette of Monday says:
The amount is somewhere between $50, 600
and 100000. Mr.. Sooy admitted to Com
ptroller Runyon that he had received $50, 900
from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
but of this amount there is $50, 900 deposited
in the Mount Holly Bank to the credit of the
bank. He represented that he had some
$4,000 in Camden Savings Bank, which
turns out not to be true.
The question Is repeatedly asked how !.
was possible for Mr.. Sooy to get this amount
from the Pennsylvania Railroad by his simple
receipt, when the law requires the receipts to
be couutersigned by the Comptroller. That
is a question that could be better answered by
the railroad company. 1t is well known that
Mr.. Sooy frequel.tly called upon the officers
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
funds, which he stated at the time he wanted
to use to pay some immediate demands made
upon the State. The company inva iably ac-
commodated him, simply taking his receipt
as Treasurer OF New Jersey. In some cases
these moneys have been paid by the company
III duVaiCe, uuuli tie WHOit dtuOuuJ pdluy anu
for which the company has no voucher except
that of the Treasurer, is eighty thousand dol
lars.
The following sureties are on Treasurer
Sooy's bond Josephus Sooy, Jr, John s.
Trick, James M. Durand, VIM. A. Ripley,
Samuel A. Dobbins, John b. Parker, VIM.
Sooy, Nicholas w. Sooy, Edward +. Thomp-
son.
The street corners were monopolized on
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unfortunate affair with the State Treasurer.
The prompt manner In which the matter was
put into the hands of justice was extolled.
The great question was what has he done
with the money? 1t would take but a short
time TO tell the whole secret. The manner of
life which it is said the Treasurer although
an old man, has been leading for some time
past has been such as to lead him directly
away from the paths of rectitude into the
company and the practice that would take q
mint Of money to keep up. II is unnecessary
to refer to them more specifically. They are
well known to his more intimate friends. He
was generous and affable, and highly esteemed
by large circle of friends Notwithstanding
his faults but the melancholy instances of
departure from what Is right and virtuous in
one who is supposed to have gathered in a
long life some useful lessons by experience
with the world, admonish us that there is no
time of life, apparently, when we may be said
to be safe from the coils Of the tempter.
LATER--THE ARREST OF JosEPHUs sooY.
Last evening, about half past eight o'clock,
Constable Thorn and assistants who had been
appointed by the Governor to aid in the ar
rest, arrived with Mr.. Josephus Sooy, Jr.,
Treasurer of the State Of New Jersey. He
was found after the most dligent search by
the persons dispatched by Governor, aided by
Detective Brown of Philadelphia. He was
quietly taken to the State House, where he
came before Justice Mills, and waving an ex-
animation for the present, he was committed
in default of seventy-five thousand dollars
bail
As soon as Mr.. Sooy can get his counsel and
friends together, and the State can bring the
witnesses together, q re-examnation will take
place.
Mr.. Sooy says he can make all things right
II he only has an opportunity of course every
opportunity will be afforded to him.
As to the manner of his arrest it is not inn
portant. THE search was an arduous and in
defatigable one, and comprised many houses
of doubtful character. He was found seven
miles from the State House, IN the city limits.
The persons who represented to us as hav-
ing beea m iinly Instrumental in ferreting out
the whe eabouts OF the defaulting treasurer
were ex- Mayo Biiest and Walter p. Wells.
They were several times in his wake, but We're
thrown off. They persevered, however until
they finally found him at house in what is
called "The Neck" The story Of the travels
of these parties is full of romance and full Of
melancholy incidents connected with the life
of the Treasurer.
At the State House were assembled the
Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of
State, Col. e. j. Anderson and Justice Mills.
The Attorney General prepared an elaborate
statement of facts, which were sworn to by
MI A. l.. Runyon and Cols Il. j.. Anderson.
nf>.1e - Al.
Comptroller, after setting out the facts that
Mr.. 6ooy has been Treasurer of the State for
three years and more, goes ON to recite the
fact that there is yearly and every year
large sum of money in the nature of o tax,
payable to the State by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, to wit, the sum of two
hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars in
equal quarterly payments of $75, 53224, which
quarters end on the last days of March, June,
September and December. Besides this sum
there are dividends Of ten per cent. paid on
1887 shares of capital stock of the value of
one hundred dollars per share.
The duties of the Treasurer are then recit-
ed.
The paper then states that the Treasurer
has reported to the Comptroller of the State,
as received by him the sum of $19.2110 and
no more. That on account of the moneys for
taxes and dividends which have accrued since
the last day Of March last, nothing has been
reported by said Sooy, except the said sum of
$19,211.04, whereas there should have been
reported to the Comptroller for the quarter
ending June 90, 1876, $S1, 749.74.
That on the 21st day Of August A. d. 1876
tie Comptroller went to the Office of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, in Philadelphia and
learned that said company bad paid all of
said moneys to said Sooy, and besides and
over End above that for the tax Of the month
Of July last. the sum of $24, S44.0S, for which
receipts were given by said Sooy, as Treas
urer of the State Of New Jersey.
That on Monday, the Esd day Of August
the compti oller had an interview with Mr.
Sooy, in Trenton, and then told him that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company claimed to
Rave paid him, the said Sooy, the sums as