St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
the announcement that several we'll known
HAVE BEEN PEpDLINe. pARpoNs

HAVE BEEN PEDDLING' PARDONS
for felons In the penitentiary at prices rang
ing from $4,000 to few hundreds. The
person chiefly imp pieated in this affair Is Mr..
Joseph McEntire, the state coal oil inspector,
and a warm personal and political friend Of
ex-Gov. Crittenden, whose term of office has
just expired. 1t seems that McEntr told
an attorney here that he could get pardons
from his TREND, the governor, and advised
the attorney to go ahead and get as
many penitentiary clients as he could.
This the attorney did, and a tremendous
scandal is tue result A great many people
who had friends in the penitentiary were ap-
proached and openly asked for fees for par
duns. The next grand jury will examine the
case. and a com mittee of the legislature will
be appointed to investigate the matter. Il is
believed, but not known, that the investiga
tion will disclose the fact that certain state
officials in the late administration were forced
to divide their salaries with the men whose
''infuence' had secured their appointments,
and that it was in an effort to recoup the
amounts thus expended that this pardon
brokerage business was got up. Expectation
throughout the city is on tiptoe as to the re-
suits which the com mittee will develop.
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"Another good man gone wrong,' is
matter of regular occurrence in large com
munities. This time it is an official Will
lam Fl. Bender, clerk of the st. Louis
probate court was sent to the German Saw
ings bank to cash the salary checks for the
employees of the Office. An hour later he
was found PROSTATE in the rotunda of the
court house, apparently insensible. After
many efforts to revive him he related how he
had been assaulted and robbed. His torn gar.
ments and freshly scratched face were taken
as corroborative of the story that he had
been robbed of nearly $1,000. When De-
tective Tracy took the case in hand an hour
after the supposed robbing. lie discov-
cred a great difference between the
rents in the victims clothes and those in
his face. On this and hurrid examination of
the private affairs of the victim, Mr.. Bender
was placed under arrest himself, and at
police headquarters acknowledged that he
had robbed himself, and scratched his face
| and torn his clothes to confirm his lie. He
refunded the money, received his discharge
and went home to his residence on West
Morgan street, where Q bride of three weeks
awaited him; very pretty and estimable
girl, whose father was years ago the senior
partner in the dry goods house of Siedrkum
IL Buchanan, in its time one of the largest
firms in this city.
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Another death took place a. the "Faith
Home on Poplar street this week, and the
usual inquest developed the usual facts. The
place has been run by crank named Ash
baugh, who is a believer in the faith cure,
| and who has now permitted two children 10
die without medical attendance because he
T, believed that the taking of medical advice or
the giving of medicine is a proof Of want of
confidence in the Lord, and an interference
With His designs. Ashbaugh is to be prose-
cuted aud his institution has already been
broken up. Outside his fanstical and dan
gerous creed he is said tu be charitable and
good man. The dead children were orphans
that be housed and fed. There are great
many believers in the faith cure in st. Louis,
and could take up columns with the fairy
stories which some of these persons tell OF
miraculous cures. AsMoDEus.