The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-10-29
FISH'S PITEOUS STORY.
THE OLD MAN TELLS GATH OF HIS
TROUBLES.
"The Story of . Man Who Was Fool "
His Connection with the Marine
Bank and Work For It.
The Waid Trial,

CINCINNATI, Oct. 20 Gath dispatch to
The Enquirer says; Last Sunday morning
going out for a walk IL occurred to mo to
call on James d. Fish, at the Murray Hin
hotel whore he had been brought from the
Auburn penitentiary as witness in the
case of the state against Ferdinand Wurl.
Feeling some delicacy about calling upon
the unfortunate and aged man whose clio ing
years have suffered much trouble, /
merely sent up my name, saying that did
not mean to stay. Word came to bring me
upstairs. In a littls suit Of rooms |
found Mr.. Fish, his daughter in black
and her child. his son Paul, tho only
child of his second wife, and an old
gentleman, the brother of his secon wife.
who has, l understan ', care Of his baby.
saw a recent photograph of this baby, the
child of Salle r her, and it wns bright
eyed and growing finely Tho family re-
manned but little while, and no ore inter-
rupted us but SO min Fish, long the
cashier of the Marine bank and brother
of its resident.
"Said |: You do not max. as much i'm
preston as you might when You are II wit
ness In your own cass your testimony
might have been fu Ter and 81 .arer."
Said he: "They would not let me testify.
The judge who tried my cass stopped me. |
am willing to tell all | know about myself
=,
do anything to affnot pre- judcas / have
adopted the view exprs,sal in the ola saw
ing. that the mills of the god; crinI slowly.
hut th,y grind it ont at last Nv story.
after all, is story of IA man who was "A fool
and who therefore, lid not 500 greGt ,iori
that was goin, ON to hi. nwn in iurv ,rl
that of people associated with him. I was
ero,-ly AMI fully deceived.
"l'here was but one thin. felt like az
anrtbinr tn CIV ,yhv santan,a .Inn,J ,,t La
nrooouncad II mi hit have bean seid in
pra,itu 10 tn ms nnce.tors ont of whom
for 200 wears there was never one, | think,
who commttsl a deralcation. However
there ara timss whom silence is all that is
Iaft a m.nn
He than snoke of hi. first wife who diol
many years ago, adding: "IIowever, it is
lust a. we'll as to have her alive now, after
what has happsned. NV very life iusur-
ances hav, been given up which belonged
to her Children, but still people think
| have got a great deal of property
concealed somewhere. | had a life in
surance OF S5OOJJ all paid up several
years ago, but | let ir u through
though perhap, ought to have kent that
for thes, children. Bsfore thero was nny
sign of trouble in The house of Cirant ,S
Ward | divided among my chilIrsn $780,
DOD A man who askoi mo to mako him
my assignee out of pur, frisn lship brought
that suit to tax. away this property frou
nv sons on the ground of frau |: that |
knew | was transfsrrin. my property fc-
ii iously obtained. They may lose it; do
not know"
"Mr Fish what were YOU worth before
you ev saw FsrIinanl Wards"
81 must have ieen worth 5000 |
think would be able to say on oath that |
was wortn that much was twenty-three
years in tho Marine bank, and for several
years got no salary at all. In that tim, |
paid out Of my own pocket SloO, 900 for
losses incurred by the bank where there
might be q Question raised"
Said /: What was the nature of these
sums YOU mad, up to tho bank,"
"Weli. there was uetwseu SD 900 and $40
ONO in tbs cas-, of P.rin, tbo shin. .hni,der
He had contrnct from tbs GOV.
ernment to build two vessels for
ue in the war Whilo the con-
trac, was for n fix,d amonnt tb, povarp-
ment kent cLanrin., the snacifcatinns NO.
coriine to their ne .essitie, resultin~ fnoilv
in the cnmneto Lr,akino down of p.rin,
nv tb, war clo.ine, before tina shins ware hnilt
saw that tho dirsctors might ask tba
ouestion a, to whether that money was
mine or the bank. SO stspped nm and maid
it, though ! had incurred the responsibiIitv
fnr the hank. Auother casa was that of
Mills in Brooklxn who morrled n sistar of
A A Low, He rnt in with Delomater the
cashier and finally mulcted the bank for
s1 Ooo
~ mid that ,,,o,a,, n,,so,f consiaari,,
,,,,t H. l.,Ie haa 80 lei ;t,
80 la ,,ao,, a,air,s, " ~ ,