The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-18
rHE pEFAunrER,s REruGE.
| Some Criminals from the United States
Who Now Live in Canada.

Correspondence st. Louis POST Dispatch.
John c. Emo heads the list He is living at
Quebec. The house he rents is large and the
situation delightful. 1t is two miles and half
from the pcstoffice The rent he pays-nearly
5000 years. for Quebec, enormous This
means proportionately about S. 900 $4,000
per year in New York. Rents are very low in
old Rock City, and Eno's house at Beauvoir is
one OF the finest in the suburbs Financially he
appears ~ be at ease. He drives good horses
and is liberai with his money. but socially he is
not known. Neither he nor his wife is ever in
vited out, nor are they visited by society people.
Emo has never been asked to the garrison mess,
ana does not belong to the only social organiza-
tion In Quebec of any pretensions-the Garrison
club. The old French families do not ask him to
their houses. The doors of the Langevins the
Iaschereaus, the Bosses, the DuChaneys or the
DuVals do not open to receive him. His ac-
qualntances are principally made at bar rooms.
Dome Few society men have a nodding acquaint
ance with him. found people wondering that
Emo stopped at Quebec. Society is exclusive,
ana the nobesse have long memories. When
Emo gives dinner parties" they are only at
tended by his legal advisors or spectators who
may wish to use him. The commercial club he
belongs to Is a small place where men of bust
ness meet. 1t has no social significance and
does not pretend to it. These men meet Emo in
a business way. They do not ask him to their
the st. Louis Hotel when they Ii { him there,
but that is all. He visits the hou $ of two or
three personal friends. but these stories about
his being received into society are, was assured,
exaSgerations. He paid many visits ON New
Years Day. Most of them were not retured.
He attends cooking mains and billiard teurna-
ments, and he is a constant visitor to ST. Roch.
ms is the toughest suburb in the city Mrs.
Emo is admired, but society will not receive her
owing to her husbands Irregularities.
1t is rumored that he intends to build a large
hotel on the Island of Orleans, few miles
down the river from Quebec. 1t is a summer
resort and much frequented by the people of the
ancient capital during July and August. 1t is
SAID ne is to have partner in his legal adviser.
The place proposed for the new hotel is delight
Iul. Inc falls OF the Montmorenci and the great
Laurentlan range of mountains, said to be the
Oldest In the world, will be in view on one side.
On the other there will be old Stadacona. with
Its Indian and pioneer traditions. People say
that John G. Emo has shown good taste in Sc
lectlng such spot for his proposed speculation,
but found public opinionin Quebec unfavorabie
to Emo
Men say that Tom Fields acted more pru-
IDENTIFY than Emo did. Fields was, you may re-
member, the counsel for New York city during
the Tweed regime. All middle-aged and many
young New Workers will remember Tom Fields
magnifcence during those days. He was looked
on as one of the worlds favorites. His fiat
terers trooped after him in battalions. At last
the crash came The Tweed ring was broken
and Fields made for Canada. / am told here
that it is thought he brought So 000 900 into this
country with him. My informants do not say
that he had this much in hard cash, but they
tnink ne was worth that much secured privately
one way or another His fight caused a great
hutter in financial and social circles in New
York at the time. The people here tell me
that the Canadians treated him like man who
was more unfortunate than criminal. He was,
they say, trolling in riches" He was magnif-
cent even in disaster He speculated in real es-
tate and lost heavily. Some people thought he
was ruined. Then he left suddenly Many of his
most intimate friends did not know
where he had gone to- New Workers. viii
that he had committed suicide. Other
rumors fixed him as living in Europe. He
had been 'seen" in many places in France and
Germany And all this time he was living on
the banks of the Ottawa! He had purchased
farm from the Hon. John c. Abbott, the member
for Lachute, in this province, and now the attor-
ney for the Canadian Pacific railway. For ff-
teen years Fields lived life of strict retirement
He spent his time in improving land and raising
cattle He very seldom left his seclusion He
was forgotten by the world. His friends and as
sociates were the simple inhabitants around
him. There very few English people where
he made his home, and he was not bothered by
newsgatherers But of late he is new man.
He has come out into the active world again
Now l am told by detectives that Fields is talk
ing about going back to New York Since the
death of his old enemy, OConnor, Fields is try
ing TO sell his property. AS soon as he succeeds
ne says ne Will return 10 the I nlCeQ States But
he has up to the present failed to secure a
purchaser, and ne is still at his home on the OF
tawa He comes to Montreal but seldom, and
when he does he is not known except to few
Those few now say that Fields has nothing to
fear by returning to New York One of them
told me that Fields would assuredly return
Another said he did not think he would. Time
will tell.
You remember Hinckley He was Eno's con-
frere. He was arrested by Montreal detectives
Oh L. =
New Yorker. One of Pinkerton's men was on
his track lately. The detectives traced him to
Ottawa. Hinckley appeared to be in fair cir
cumstances. He had grown stout and healthy
looking. He was wary of strangers, and the de-
tective could make nothing out of him. He is
now, it is said, in Manitoba. How did he get
there? If he went by land he had to pass
through Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota. If
he went by the lakes he had to go through the
American at Sault Ste Marie If he was de-
tected he could have been arrested at the latter
place. Next year American absconders on this
side Of the line will be free to travel from nearly
one end of the Dominion to the other without
fear of arrest. The Canadian Pacific railway
will then be running through the wilderness
north of Lake Superior and the absconders will
rejoice.
Scoville, the stenographer and confidential
clerk from New York, was for several weeks in
Montreal some time ago. He has now been To-
Gated by the detectives in small French Cana
dian village on the ST. Lawrence. Inc place is
only few miles from Montreal During his
stay here he transacted business with a firm of
brokers in st. James street. 1t is generally be-
leved here that these brokers made some heavy
investments for Scovile in New York securities.
Among the rest, it is said that they put some of
the money he gave them into Western Union
and Wabash. Scovile had the appearance of
man well supplied with money. Like nearly all
the other absconders who come here, he invested
heavily in furs.- Legget another swindler who
hailed from New York, did his business in
less extensive and, consequently. less ''respecta
BILE" way. He was a swindler of the common
kind" He put up 'jobs" like any vulgar foot
pad. To begin with, he was man of several
aliases. That alone enough to bring dis
credit upon respectable American absconders
He had travelled New England, and swindled
farmers by representing himself as large New
York capitalist having money to lend on mort
gage He succeeded in obtaining money as ad-
vances for legal expenses from number of peo-
ple and then he quietly crossed to this side of