Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-05

| Less than year ago Governor Scott, o.
! South Carolina, was tried in Ohio for murder
and 1t took every dollar Of his dishonest
! gains 10 save the gallows of its victim. Fol
years Ex Governor Franklin J. Moses, o.
| South Carolina, has been engaged in series
OF swindles in New York. Pfesuming upon
| the impunity with which he robbed while
governor Of South Carolina be has be-
come a bold professional swindler. We re-
peat the story OF his crimes which has al
ready been published in the APPEAL. On
Thursday last he was at the New York police
headquarters on the charge of swindling Free
born J. Smith, the Brooklyn piano manufac-
turer, out of Sl75. There are quite a num-
Der of similar charges against him, and dur
ing the day he was identified by a number of
his victims, who appeared against him
Friday at the Tombs Police Court. He was
arrested at Broadway and Twenty-second
street by detectives, who had been search
ing for him for. two weeks. On March
I1th Moses called on Mr. Smith, and repre-
senting himself as Richard H. Colquitt, of
Georgia, succeeded in inducing Smith to
cash a check for S175. The check, which
was drawn on a Southern bank, was re-
turned protested. w. Crowell, of the
Phoenix Insurance Company, also enter
tanned Moses under the name of Anthony
White, of Greenville, S. c., and cashed his
check for $50. Howard II. Stewart, of 81
Wall street, also cashed two $50 checks for
Moses, who represented himself to be General
Cnrfis State commissioner IF North Caro-.
lima, accidentally. left without money in that
city after banking hours. Stewart also in
formed the police that a number of bust
ness men had been similarly victimized
by the ex-governor. Mr.. B. H. HAZEL,
of the Charleston Steamship Company, of
Boston, also writes that he lost $500 BY
check operations of the prisoner. Charles
r. Flint, partner of Mayor Grace, wisely
declined to cash a check presented. One
by one the roses fall. While Moses was rob-
bling and pulundering the tax-payiDg people
Of South Carolina it was considered disloyal
to protest against his crimes. He was per-
mitted to rob the taxpayers of South Caro-
lima with impunity. but so soon as he under
takes to practice his knavery in New York
ne Is nubtleu Oh 10 prison.. w nllt MOSES |
lad his grip upon the throat of the
people of South Carolina there was no lack |
Of exposure, protest and denunciation by
hose who opposed the vile system which
made his robbery possible. He made no
attempt to conceal his rascslly intentions, and |
lis thieving was as open as his proaigacy. |
He issued 100000 in "pay certificates" for
private use, while Speaker of the House of |
OF South Carolina, and levied |
on every public and private legis-
alive measure that had money in it. Yet, |
after all this villainy, he was chosen governor |
If the State by the carpetbaggers and ne
.roes, and upheld by the whole power of the |
federal government and the Republican |
,arty. Moses was no carpetbagger. He was
southern born and bred, of excellent family,
md served the Confederacy on the field |
throughout the war. When he turned his
Jack upon his friends and defed public
pinion, he became most malignant of all
he oppressors of the South. The South
IN people were called disloyal becaus, they
rotested against the rule of such villains as
lines, Dorsey, Scott, Lewis and Moses; but
ime has its revenges.