Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-01
WHO GOT THE MONEY.
Ferdinand Wards Recent Statements.

4 Eoiufuduu w ara salu SATURDAY 10 reporter Oh
| the New York SIM: "After the failure Of Grant
q Ward the liabilities were said to be $40, OOO,.
600 and the assets $11 600, OOO-a deficit OF
| 100000 900. ] went to work and prepared
| schedules showing where their money had gone
to and who benefited by it. These schedules
| were given to Receiver Davies, and he has been
| In a position right along to make public the
| names Of the persons who received this money.
A large part of it found It's way into the pockets
| of Warner and Fish. The former received
| 81 1000 and the latter $780, 600, as was
| shown on his trial.
Tuesday night Ward gave to the press the
| following statement: II prepared schedules
stone, which show what disposition was made
| of the money of Grant Ward and the names
| of the parties who received 1t, and the amounts
| received by each. One OF these statements
| showed that / paid out from 1880 to 1884
S633, 900 for my personal account II also
in real estate and personal property, all Of
1 which conveyed to Mr.. Warner the morning
after our failure, and which property the as
| signee Is seeking to recover from Mr.. Warner
for the benefit Of my creditors: This leaves a
| balance of $1,000 as expended by me in liv-
this sum is 500 ooo received by me as profits
on my individual investments-such as diyi-
dends $500 on Evening star mining stock
the money of Grant & Ward has been appro-
priated by me for my personal use in any way.
transaction of the business OF that firm has in
ured to the benefit Of other people and not my.
SELF but, pending my trial, which is expected
my volunteering any statement OF the parties
who have received this money beyond what /
against Mr. OF Mr.
however, no objection to either Mr. Davies or
Mr. tombstone making any or all the state
Davies and tombstone decline to make the
schedules public at this time, because the
thing to do with the fraudulent contracts but
merely persons who had discounted the paper
of Grant & Ward, and In most cases had lost
A New York special to the Philadelphia Press
says: "In regard to what was paid the Grants
1t can be said without fear Of contradiction that
they lost more money in actual cash than they
ever took out, and were bankrupted absolutely
by the matter. The attempt of Ward and his
brother to mislead the public into the belief
that the Grants got more money out than they
and is attributed to Wards desire to distract
public attention from himself and to prevent
search for the actual money which he and his
fellow conspirators have undoubtedly slowed
away somewhere.
WARMERS SHARE.
"But the most extraordinary payments in
this schedule are those made to one w. s.
Warner, and 1t is this particular branch of the
s ;a, stealings Of Ferdinand Ward that
receiver Of Grant Ward Is Mr. ]. T. Davies,
who belongs to the law firm of Davies, Work &
in-law of ]. H. Work, and there are people here
VINO openly charge that the judge who APP
pointed Davies receiver was himself either q
In the fraudulent contracts However this may
be, member of the law firm who now have the
to the man who received alone 81 $780, 900 of
the fraudulent profits"
In the meantime Warner, Of whom but little
Is known, cannot be found.
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Butler MahOne's Latest Escapade.
TAKING A PoLICEMANs PISTOL AWAY FROM
HIM AND ATTEMPTING TO SHOOT HIM WITH
A special from Petersburg, Va, to the Balti-
more american says: Officer Edwards, of the
police force, in attempting at a late hour Tues
day night to arrest Butler Malone, q son of
Senator Malone, and John Williamson and
Charles Belcher, for using as the officer alleges
profane and obscene language ON Lombard
street, was attacked and Overpowered by the
three men. Edwards states that while held by
Malone and Belcier, Williamson took the OFF,
GERS club; that Williamson then held the officer
pocket and discharged the weapon at him, but
missed. The parties then made their escape
but were subsequently arrested. Wednesday
was postponed until Saturday. Malone was
admitted to bail In the sum of 5000, and Bel
cher and Williamson s1oO each.
Mrs. Van Auken's Sudden Death.
A Port Jervis, NY, dispatch to the NewYork
Times, September %, says: Mrs. Marcia Var
Auken, wife Of ex-Congressman D. NJ. Van Au-
ken, of Milford, Pa, retired to her room about
IL o'clock Friday night last. Her husband fin
ished letter he was writing and followed Mrs.
Van Auken up stairs. When he entered their
bedroom he found his wife lying dead on the
floor, partially undressed. DIR. Emerson was
summoned. He said the death was the result
OF heart disease. Mrs. Van Auken was sup
posed to be in excellent health. She was about
SO years old and the daughter of the late HON..
was a sister Of the wife Of United States Senator
Z: H. Van Wyck, of Nebraska, and Of the wife
or the Rev Hugh Smith Carpenter. of Brook
lyn. Her eldest daughter, Grace, was to have
been married on the Sth of October to Henry s.
Mott, In Milford, and preparations were being
affair FASTENED Mrs. Van Auken's death.
HORRIBLE MURDER AT MANSFIELD. OHIO.
The dead body Of Miss Clara HUFF, aged %, was
found last Wednesday In a ravine, half mile
field, Ohio. with a bullet wound in her right
temple. Her wrists were chafed and bruised,
as though she had struggled with a powerful
years old, arrested in connection with the
murder, state that the murderer was q COM
made a criminal assault on Miss HUFF; that she
resisted, and he shot her. The boys say they
Were fully half mile from the scene but heard
the pistol shot and the girl scream. The name
OF the young murderer is withheld by the
police who have not yet arrested him.
Ex-Gov. MOSES AS A SwINDLER.-In the SUI
preme court ct Boston last week, Franklin y.
Moses, ex-governor OF South Carolina, pleaded
guilty to an indictment charging him with OBJ
tanning money by false pretences from ex-
Mayor Cobb and others in February, 1884. He
will be sentenced on Thursday next. He has
recently served out a sentence in Middlesex
county, Mass, for similar offense.
FLOODS IN SwTrZERLAND.-Heavy floods are
reported throughout eastern part Of Switzer-
land. The TOmba bridge, q town in the
canton OF GrisOns, has been destroyed and the
Tardis bridge Is badly damaged. The whole of
the upper Rhine valley has been inundated.
Houses, cattle and other live stock have been
swept away, and the harvest destroyed by the
floods. The Splugen Pass, a route across the
Rhoetan alps, between the Grisnns and Lom-
Dardy, Is blocked by heavy snow storms.
FIFrY-NINE ROUNDS IN Two HoURs-A des-
perate bare-kpuckle priZe-fght between F. MUIR
Phy, OF SlcCiure's station, Pa. and Wm Norris
sey, OF Dunbar, for $500 q side, took place near
Scottdale, Pa, Tuesday morning. The contest
was under the London prize ring rules, and
lasted two hours, SO rounds being fought Nor
rissey was badly punished. and in the last few
rounds, to avoid further punishment dropped
on his knees. This angered Murphy who
finally struck MIN while down. and the fpht
was given TO Morrissey on a claim of foul
JUMPED FROM A THIRD-sroRY WINDOW
Miss Jennie Towson, a Baltimore school teach
er, who has been In bad health for years
jumped from the third-stOry window OF her
boarding house, No. 1873 North Exeter street
Tuesday morning, during moment of tenn.