New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-17
looks very favorable for scheler but his friends
fear the effect OF Somerss speech
HOW CARROLL SPENT HIS STOLEN MONEY.
LAvIsHING JEWELS ON YOUNG WOMAN AND LOSING
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN GAMBLING HOUSES.

LAvIsHING JEWELS ON YOUNG WOMAN AND LOSING
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN GAMBLING HOUSES.
wel-known man about town is authority for
the following statement: In 1875 William b. Car
roll, the dead clerk who is supposed to have
stolen the money in tho Controllers
office, formed the acquaintance of q
young woman named Minnie Hudson. He
lavshed diamonds and costly apparel upon her.
She was then living In the house Of woman named
Howard. He was extravagant in buying wine.
often spending 800 in an evening. About
this time, too, he began playing roulette.
He started playing in the gaming house in Twenty
sighthst near ear Broadway kept by Gndgs Muir
night he lost ~. 800 The proprietors OF the place
finding that he was employed In the Finance De-
partment, became alarmed and refused to allow
him to play any more in their rooms.
The man who rolled tle ball on the m
opened gaming place at No. II Bare ay-st:, and
induced Carroll to come there and play. In the
caurse of thirty days Carroll lost $35,O00 This
was day game, where merchants, brokers and
$50, 900 won from Carroll, DAVIS opened gaming
way. way Carroll lost additional D'sn sums there
Then Carroll began PLAYING IN various places III
Ann-st., kept by Kirby. Doyle and Others.
A fiat in sixth-aye was hired by Carroll, and
here he established M,nnie Hudson. 1t was fur
nished in the most elegant manner. Last
summer he was at Saratoga, and played con-
siderably at Reed & Spencer's club bOuse,
fomerlyIkept by John MoTissey. He is said to have
won there. He SAID to friends that he proposed
going to Monaco, France, where there is no limit TO
the game. and where he believed he could win
$l,000000 in season. Ho was often seen with
Allnnie Hudson in the Cremorne, Hay market and
other low resorts in Sixthave This 1t was asserted,
the manner in which the proceeds OF his frauds
were squandered aud explains why he left c0mpara-
lively nothing of the large amount that he is known
70 have taken.
Mr.. Allen, of the District Attorneys Office. was
engaged yesterday in taking the aiidavts of yari-
GUS officials and employees ~ the Finance Depart
lnent The names OF those making the atnda-
Wits and their purport were not made public.
That these, however, were IN connection with the
embeZzlament in the Controllers olice was, OF
course well understood What has not yet been
made clear IS how the frauds went on long with
out being discovered. The interest account for GER
tam classes of bonds should have shown at every
six months payment, that il was overdrawn. Yet
it is declared that the frauds were discovered
almost by accident, aud more than three years after
they were begun, and after total of $14S. 600 had
been obtained That Carroll, the dead clerk, had
confederates either inside or outside the Finance
Department is certain, aud yet, after the lapse Of
four months investigation, the evidence Is not
clear against any one but the dead man. and IN his
only by the testimony of his books.
There are two or three cews which are being toll
lowed. but it is asserted by those who are in posi-
iOn TO know that the evidence IS not yet su tcient
To warrant an arrest.