Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-09
Il RAFF OF BILLS.

Wallace, alias Washburn, Deluged by
Attachments Upon His Furniture-A
Regular Flood of ObIiGations-The State
ments of the Prisoner.
Horace E. Wallace, the man arrested
Thursday evening on the supposition that
he was managing lottery swindIe under
the firm name of E. NJ. Washburn
& Co., after resting in cell at the
city hall over night, was yester-
day morning turned over by the city
authorities to the United States mar
shall, by whom he was arraigned
before U. S. Commissioner Spencer, by
whom the hearing was postponed until =
o'clock this afternoon, Wallace in the
meantime being committed to the county
jail, The charge against Wallace, under
the United States statutes, is that he
knowingly deposited in the postoffice Cir
culars concerning q lottery, devised and
intended to defraud the public, to be con-
veyed to various parties, and aided as far
as in his power in the DISTRIBUTE n of said
circulars"
Shortly after his arrest, Thursday even
ing, the firm of Auerbach, Finch & Van
Slyck served an attachment ON the furni-
ture, ETC., of the rooms occupied by Wal
lace's wife as dress making, second floor
No. IS East Third street, the place where
Wallace was found when arrested, for
debt of $298, contracted for carpets, cur
tains, etc.,used in furnishing the room, and
Sheriff OGorman took possession of the
apartments. Upon this proce ling Mrs. Wal
lace went out and secured the services of
Messrs. Erwin & Ryan as attorneys. As a
first step Mr.. Erwin repaired to the city
hall, and few minutes before II p. n.
Wallace executed bill of sale to Erwin s
Ryan for all the effects in the rooms in
question and covered by the attachment of
AueIbach, Finch d Van Slyck.
Thus matters stood until yesterday,
when Auerbach, Finch & Van SIyck
followed up their attachment
by commencing replevin proceedings for
the recovery of the particular goods sold
Wallace. Still later the furniture firm of
Fernald & Wheeler, commenced suit in
replevin for the recovery of furniture sold
Wallace amounting to $1S7. Following
this the firm of Steenstra & Glenn, job
printers, inaugurated proceedings for
forclosing a chattel mortgage for $50,
covering an elegant mirror and fine
black walnut bedroom set,
given as security. The firm of Taylor d
| Craig, contractors, also came to the front
with bill of $1O7 for fixtures put into the
rooms, and it is understood several other
| firms have bills in smaller sums ranging
from $15 to $50, all contracted in the past
| few weeks.
In the meantime both Wallace and his
wife decline to talk beyond the mere state
ment that the charge is a put up job, and
that the dress establishment was le-
gitimate business, in conducting
which if left alone, they would
have been able to have promptly met all
obligations incurred as promised. That
this latter statement has some foundation
in fact, was evidenced by the fact that
some twenty young women appeared at
the rooms yesterday morning to go to
work, all of whom expressed the greatest
surprise when they found them in charge
of the sheriff, and at the arrest of Wallace
upon the charge made against him, de-
claring they had seen nothing to excite
the least suspicion of any crookedness.
1t is probable that the examination sci
for this afternoon will not go into the
merits of the case at all, but that Wallace
will be held in bail to some future date to
give the authorities time to hear from
some of the circulars alleged to have been
distributed by Wallace under the firm
name of Washburn & Co.