Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-08-12
"FRAUD HASKELL"

FRAUD HASKELL"
A FayOrite Name Given the General of the
Salvation Army, Who Formerly ran a
Gospel Mill" in Mexico--The Relations
of Life Under the Canvass by IA High Pri-
waite.
From the st. Louis Times.
Yesterday one of General Haskell's
ex-captains whose special line of war
fare was to patrol around the tent
and keep small boys outside the
ropes, climbed the stairs of the Times
building in search of a reporter.
When he found one, he took a bum
die of manuscript out of his pocket
and without a word placed it on the
desk. 1t was drawn up in form of
an indictment, with eight counts IN
der the general heading of
"Where is the victims money!"
"Answer-all gone in Mrs. Has,
kell's trunk"
The body of the manuscript called
General Haskell to account for eight
victims seriated. 1t ran thus:
''Victim No. Haskell adver-
tlses for special Waterman who has a
small amount of money. The first
man applies for situation; Haskell
asked $35 down. The man had only
$40 to give he went back after $25
more, and if the man didn't come
back Haskell was TO forfeit S. out of
$40. He came back and concluded
not to take the situation and Haskell
f~orfeits S..
"Victim No. 2-In same fix, Mon
day morning, August 2, the other
young mar to Haskell with $40; we'll
dressed. Colonel Snow advised No.
2 not to accept. Haskell counted
out IS, and that he counted in the
other mans hat was seven cents
short.
"Victim No. 3-A man, Kelser by
name, now in Fraud Haskell's EN-
ploy, deposits $35 on July Is for Sc
curity, while acting in the capacity as
a %watchman. He told the writer that
he was afraid he would not receive
his pay and lose $35 besides.
mo. Mr.. Aberson deposited
$50 for faithful discharge of duty as
Waterman. Same fix Kaiser is in.
"Victim No.5-Unknown young man
comes to Haskell on a Friday even
ing last after he had appealed to bis
audience for clothing for the deserv-
icg poor. The writer of this goes
with victim No. ) to dwelling on
Washington avenue and collected
clothing from houses, which was dis
tributed among his employees, instead
of the deserving poor.
"Victim No. g. Unknown mar
tending lemonade and peach stand
for Fraud Haskell deposit, S25, and
feels a little shaky about his pay.
Haskell said he needn't be afraud.
"Victim No. Poor old colored
woman has a lot of Haskell's cloth
ing in her possession awaiting pay Of
$3.50. Haskell wanted to pay 80
cents.
"Victim No. S-The writer-two
weeks from last Thursday. FRS,
four nights paid him up regular.
The following week let it run the
whole week. Pay July 81. Asked
for his pay and received only fifty
cents said he was too poor to pay
any more-played vagrant act.
"Haskell as spiritual adviser chas'
ing boys across lots and using indie.
cent language. lSignedl WRITER
The reporter looked up when hi
had finished the document and asked
the captains name.
"Wright w. Merrill, and l work
cd for Haskell two weeks"
"And Writer is your nomme d,
plume?"
: "My WHAT"
81 mea you jotted down thes,
: memoranda yourself with the desigl
of showing up the'genefal."
81 did just that, and I'll swear t,
all of it,"
! ''Are you still working for him.
, mo, l quit last night. He callet
on me in the meeting to get up an.
say somethin.' Come up here, cap
, pen,' says he Che always called m
: cappen), 'and tell these people abou
how you was converted Now,
, amt no converted man, and dom
ipurfess to be it, and Haskell know
ed it.
~ amt converted yet,' says l
"'Oh, come along, cappen,' say
he. Here you've been eatin' offel
: US for two weeks, and you oughte
be able to say something Then
!. stood up and says l amt been con
. verted and amt got nothin' to say
= Then 1 went into the tent and toll
I Mrs. Haskell that if l had been eati
offer 'em it was accordin' to specj6
G cations which mentioned a salar
also which l hadn't drawed. The
L l quit"
! without your money!"
mo; he's paid me-" said the ex
captain somewhat reluctantly. "Bu
there's others as he hasn't"
GLOW about victim No. /? Di
+ he forfeit S. to Haskell or did Has
n kell forfeit it to him?"
1 "Haskell kept SIS of his none
and S. of victim No. 2's too. That
his game"
"And the washerwonan? Di
t she get her money!
. "Yes, she's got it now but Frau
Haskell tried to bully her with {. pc
/, liceman. 1 wants to know abol
s them policemen. Are they doir
their duty when they goes IN thu
tent and eats with Mrs. Haskell?"
y The reporter was not clear on thu
point-''But what is this about cha
k ing small boys and using indecel
~language?"
"Why he runs 'em; throws ii
l pans and things at 'ena when the
n bother him, and calls 'em -
o , and all the other cuss words |
}. can think Of. When he catches e
er he holds 'em by the neck and shak'
d. EN- like a rat"
f. $50 you have come to the concl'
le sion that Haskell is a fraud, ha'
1r your"
eyes; I calls him Fraud Raskt