, 1880-12-29
The Clerks All Cognizant Of the
Crime in Course Of COM
mission.
Offers Of The Scoundrel to Apportion
the Responsibility and Divide
the Plunder.
Harwood and Ills Wife Believed 10 HaTe
St50,O00 In CASH Stolen from
tic Business.
Statement o! Ingram, a New York Preferred
Creditor, Said 10 Be In oett 10
Tho House.


Special D:spdteh 10 The Chicago Tribune. II
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. :S-Nothing has
been heard OF y. B. uarwood, tie Afnncap~
oils bankrupt, s{nco lis disappearance last
Friday. The belief that he will not return
Is growing, and the generally accepted theory
Is that lie will join Mrs. f1nrwood. who went
to New Orleans some ttnlc ngo,-attcr tlle
payment Of her preferred claim Of 100000.
-and TINT they will sail for Europe together.
1t is believed they will curry of S150,o0o be-
tween them. 1iarwool left note 10 Ills
counsel promising to return In ttlno for the
sale next Monday, with certificate tro,n his
medical adviser declaring that rest WIS 1lec-
essury to his health. At the sa1Ee timo l,e
wrote request to Judge Nelson TINT tho
sale should DO put off Fifteen days..
REMARKABLE CONFESSION.
Since tho flight, a. T. Morse, resident buy
CT for 1Iarwood, has made statement
throwing mucll important light upon 1lar-
woods methods. lie says: n Ind chargo
Of buying or ordering NIL of tie goods for the
furnishing ar wllite-gools department..
will say OIL tho start TINT l do not believe
there was man or buyer Ill TIC house that
knew Just whnt was going OIL when the
ENORMOUS QUANTITIES or GOODS. wEnE
BOUGHT.
They thought tho goods were q necessity,
yet 1t is ccrtaIn that S100, GOO worth Of goosls
were ordered by some one without any very
detinit authority, All through tllo month OF
| September Mr. lIarwood came to me and
satd tllat Alr. 1ngrunl. tho New. York buyer,
| was coming home by Oct. /, and to order all
tho goods we needed In any department to
lust till Jan, l.. When the 1st of October
cAlne
ORDERS TO PURCHASE 1tEAv1Ir
| were again positively Issued. and often re-
pcated. AEatnst this / protested, telling
| Mr.. llarwootl that NY department was already
oycrstocked. lie replied by saying ho
thought prices would advance, and that
freight pools world be matie, md that l,e
| would bo responsible for tho overstock.
About this time goods begun to arrIvc for my
| department which had not ordered, alll I
| felt injured, n,.tl asked Mr. 1larwoot. III tho
| presence Of Il number Of clerks, II llc l,ad
taken tho purchasing power away from INC.
ItE CALLED ME ASIDE,
and said not to speak Of TINT IN tic presence
| of tic clerks, Us 1t would create suspicion,
and nEaIn gave orders to buy fargcly. This
went OIL until three days before tho failure,
when one Of tho mcn in TIC storu told mo
what was going to happen, alll then tho
meaning Of previous proceedings suddenly
flashed over u,e.''
1lr. Morse hero gives several Instances OF
purchases of goods not needed III tho lsua!
course OF business fur years 10 come. nlnt
says: "Goods came pounclnE iii until my
rotnn was filled to the very ceiling. There
| WIS
NOTHING 70 SHOW WHO ORDERED THEM,
! or where they came FROM. have. 6tntU tho
future, received letters frnm dealers Which
! showed tllat there wcru thousands Upon
thousands OF doliars' worth Of goods ordered,
which, fortunately for tho dealers, they were
unable to Immediately furnish. III tho mat.
ter 1T shirts Mr. liarwood repeatedly fn,la&r-
tuned mo to order largruuantltics. Thought
1t ut first whiIn, and did not obey nrdcrs. l
t!lally yielded, and ordered soyonty-1lve
tloxo,l,-N,loagll to last until Juno. This or
dor Mr.. llarwood q. K.'d,' ~ l1o did MI or
tlers. III copying it came across an order
1naslo BY Mr.. llarwood
ron THE PURCHASE or 800 DOZEN MoilE,
which had known nothing about. This
WIS only thirty days hefora the future. Thu
shirts were shipped. Wttcn learned OF tic
coming fa1lute, / supposed ho would annke
MT assignment in tho usual lnallner fur tile
benefit of nj! Ills creditors equally. After
learning 0f ti,e plan. wont tn Mr. llarwootl
md told lin it would not w0rk,-tliat he
was standing ol, q volcano, aild everything
would 10 to pieces. lle said ho
lIAn Ills PLAN Alb AlsltASdRp,-
that l!e couldn't ask un extension Ut tlnlo OF
his Now York creditors, Us they wou'l then
rome down on him ali ut once. On the
Wednesday, after tho failure / t0hl him II ho
did not cl,nngo Ills pta,s should lcayc h!n',
and tlcn did 50.
/ ArTEn THE FA1Lul.E' -:
certain party IN the house, whose uamo /
rofttse to give, demanded; tint the buyers
share tn tho responsibility Of tho heayy Dur
ciiases. In order to shield 1lr. llarxood." !
III conclusion, Sir. Morse 'stated that ne
had,gootl rcaaons for not b6ln& atst ill ,8,ir,
'pslscd ut III, llarwood's sudden departure
fron, tho city on Friday nlghl and hUltuyed
That l,e might not return. IT. Ii. stated, too
tl,at llarwooa proposell 10 oile Or two OF lt!s
eu1poyts, who do .not:: tgusc III his list OF
creditors, that t11 .:-i'.~: - ..'.'. 49,.
sltpuLD c0SFEas JsIp0NRNr 1STHElH R.Avot'
fur seyvra! thousand dollars. atd divide thu
prot!ta wlleh tho, thing ::llau blown .oser, II
IL also stated by ona wlio ought tu kIow that
tho books of the concern Will show TINT hr.
lugrans. the: Now York buyer tn; wlpse
favor llarwootl' confessed Judgment tor S.
s0t, 20 aetnaily owetl tAe 0use $500 at tho tIla
| That Judgment. syna gntlirtu uu nIlil It Il