Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-11-25
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

wv" AONHAs ANVFs AOS AOt
1t is now almost year since Owen
Murphy, one of our Excise Commission
ers, quietly pocketed some $4,000 of
moneys paid in for licenses by liquor
sellers and left for parts unknown. 1t
is needless to say that neither man nor
money was ever found, and the occur
renee would have been forgotten by this
time but for suit just begun by about
1000 of the victimized saloonists to get
back what they can of their money from
the city, which, however refuses to hold
itself responsible for their loss. So
much for the Excise Department. Now
comes forward the Dock Department,
and to show that it is not put out of the
fashion, points with pride to its pet
cashier and bookerkeeper who is just
discovered to be an embezzler of $751;
9 Ss eh a. ls ssRs As sH ths that
amount and get away safe distance
from which to negotiate with the officials
for return of part of the money on
condition of his own immunity from
prosecution, he is to be severely dealt
with.
The discovery of this embezzlement
bungling as 1t was, is however relief
to us for we hadn't had real square
| defalcation before in several months.
To be sure there were the Manhattan
Bank and Stewart grave robberies to as
sure us that the millennium was not
close at hand, but New York has,
through long habit, become so addicted
to defalcations that nothing else can
serve as full substitute, and she be-
comes very uneasy if she can't have one
about once in so often.
Speaking of the Manhattan and Stew.
art affairs reminds me to say that in the
former of these matters, which it will
be remembered. was the carrying off &c..
100000 from bank in broad day.
light, very little seems to be doing. the
officers of the institution showing g
remarkable apathy on the subject. Ii
both these cases, as indeed, in all SINH
lar ones, the newspapers seem to b.
straining every nerve to aid the crimi
mails. They pry around the various
scenes of action, worm out every secret
lay hold Of every obtainable scrap Of
! information as to the plans and move
ments of the police, and then publish
promptly every particular SO that tn
rascals involved may be warned of ever,
step that is being taken toward thei
arrest, and act accordingly.
In the Stewart matter success is pref
: ty certain to crown the efforts of Judg
Hilton and the police, in spite of til
papers, the announcement being author
s tatively made that all the grave robber
t have been "spotted" and the where
, abouts of the body discovered. If thi
= be true the arrests will doubtless b
Q made before this reaches your readers
One curious thing connected with thi
e affair is the widespread, morbid interes
n which it has excited, as evidenced b
e the enormous volume of letters whic
y have poured in on Judge Hilton an
e Mrs. Stewart ever since the robber
e was made known. A great number {
# these communications coming fro
l. widely scattered points, all purport
n be confessions of the crime and sta
l. that the writer's either have the body
It know just where it is. A still larg
D. number are from clairvoyants, dreame
s, spiritual mediums, each of which is SUI
h that he of she has had a special visit
to revealing the position Of the object
Or search One of these says the body
re buried in one corner of the graveyal
d. in which the tomb is. located; anoth
IT, says it in sub-cellar on Eleven
IS. avenue: another says the hiding pla
20 is over on Long Island, and still anothe
m that the remains we're placed in a b.
be and sunk in the North River. A SIT