The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-20

months Graft sold to III. B. Clafiin & Co.
nearly $500, 900 worth of silks. They were
bought by Mr.. Tslcott, the silk buyer OF tnat
firm. but neither Mr.. Claflin nor his partners
are charged with having any knowledge that
they were smuggled. The first person ar
rested in the case was Gustavus w. Bail, q
clerk for Graf, who had charge OF tne cart
ing of the goods from the steamship stores 20
the auction rooms. He was lodged In Lud
low street Jail for some time. Gran escaped
to Canada, leaving with the Safe Deposlt
Company some trunks believed TO contain
valuable property and papers relating 10 the
smuggling. These were attached Dy DlstrIc1
Attorney Bliss, and subsequently Gran's
of attorney from her husband.
The property was reattached IN
the state court. The new attachment had
been issued only few minutes when Graffs
attorney sought to attach the trunks In ms
favor, on the ground that his client was in
debted to him. He fonnd that he was too
late, and he then he made motion to dis
solve the other attachment. The trunks re-
mained unopened pending decision OF the
court. After the arrest OF Ball and Des
Anges, and the investigation into CRAFTS af-
fairs, Lawrence fled from the city on the
very night of Il @ day an indictment was
found against him for defrauding the Uni
ted States. His house in Twenty-third
street was watched for three days, and all
letters addressed TO him were intercepted.
that he was in Montreal, living at the prir-
cipal hotel under his own name. To &C.
complish his extradition
HEwAs REINDICTED FOR FORGERY,
and Detective John Boland was sent to ar
rest him. Lawrence was warned from this
{ t. Of the detectives coming, and he disap-
peared from Montreal on the morning that
| the officer arrived. Lawrence left the most
Of his baggage behind, and John p. Morris,
OF this city, occupied his room in the hotel,
so that the detective was led for a few hours
to suppose that Lawrence was still in the
hotel. Detective Boland consulted with the
Green's counsel. in Montreal, who gener-
ally acts for the United States in extradi-
tion cases, and was surprised TO learn that
Lawrence had retained him, and that
| he could not unite in his capture. The
lawyer pledged his professional honor not
TO communicative to Lawrence what he had
heard from the detective. The next
day letter was sent by an
other lawyer addressed to Lawrence at Hall
fax under an assumed name, which warned
| the snuggler of his danger, in the follow
ing: 1.-The doctors in consultation advised
the air of Bermuda or the south of France
| Tor Mr.. Gush; he would possibly find the
| English climate too severe" This letter
was found on Lawrence when he was taken.
Two days after Lawrence left Montreal the
/
that the fugitive had gone to the Rivere du
Loup, small place on the st. Lawrence,
200 miles from Montreal. The detective
tracked him there by gray over
coat, trimmed with Astrakhsn, which
he wore in his flight. From Rivere
du Loup the fugitive crossed Upper Canada
and Nova Scotia to st. Johns and Halifax.
| He jouKneyed the whole distance-about
three hundred miles, in sleighs,-
With the Thermometer at thirty
five and forty degrees below zero.
The detective kept up the pursuit by means
of the tell-tale great coat, and reached Hall
fax in the middle of February. He there
learned that "Georgs G. Gordon" had sailed
three Gays previous for Great Britain, and
Gordon and Lawrence were identified as
one, by means of the Astrakhan trimmed
coat. The telegraph was at once employed
between Canada and New York and here
and Washington, and an order was tele.
graphed to the American ambassador tC
have Lawrence
INTERCEPTED AND HELD FOR EXTRADITION
On the next steamer from this port were sem
detective James Mooney, and Messrs- Rlct
and Brooks Of the custom house, with proc
of the forgeries. The friends of Lawrence
! learned OF the steps taken for his capture
and telegraphed to his accompllces in Lon
don. Lawrence was arrested in the steamer
off Queenstown by officers from London
After Lawrence was held for extradition
( Abraham Honuffing, one of the Liver
pool members of the smugglers' gang
, offered Detective Mooney five thousand dol
lars gold to let Lawrence escape or be rescued
and subsequently, Aaron Wolf, another
: of the silk conspirators, increased the offer Il
$4,000, and when that was refused, h
J. wanted to know how much would accom-
a plish the result. Officers from London &C
9 companied the prisoner to the steame
Scythia at Queenstown TO prevent any at
q tempt at rescue. Lawrence was born ii
Q England, of jewish parentage, and is abou
, 40 years old. He came 10 this country whel
I he was quite young. About twenty year
: ago he married the daughter of the lat
: Hon Mordecai NJ. Noah, founder of the Sun
a day Messenger and Times, and at dlfferen
: times district attorney, surveyor ofthe port
4 grand sachem OF Tammany, and congress
y man. The Noah family were opposed
IS the marriage, and the youn
,t couple eloped. Lawrence was a
! inspector of customs under tn
, Buchanan administration, but was remove
" tor dishonesty when Surveyor Cornell too
n Office. He was arrested tor smuggling wit
/ John Ii. McCrum, the brother-in-lsw of al
" ex-surveyor of the port, and then an in
t spector. McCrum was convicted in tn
"A northern district OF New York, but Law
a. renee was saved by the influence of hi
"a friends, among whom was deputy SUI
N veyOr. During the last ten years LawrenC
d has spent money lavishly, and has been
IS favorite in the clubs, and a popular ma
IS about town. Hs was member of tn
= Americus, Blossom and Jockey clubs. II
Al was the last secretary OF the famous Amer
"a Gus Club, and his photograph, taken wit
m that of Tweed and other prominent men
le bers,
es HUNG ON THE WALLS
So of several city clubs. Lawrence went
Il Europe in 1870 to buy carpets and furnitu
or for the Americus house at Greenwich, ar
'd brought back with him the big gold bsdl
o which Tweed afterward wore at the Aca
20 emy balls of the "Tigers" and Greenwich I
III ceptions. The badge was got through ii
90 custom house free. On the collapse of 81
al ring .he club house at Green wich was tran
a ferred to Lawrence by Tweed. Lawrence
raol mama rvoa hrrt ha had