Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-02
IN CANADA.
New Works. DefauIterS and AbseOnd-
erS Enjoying Themselves Across the
glHEM Free Press

err EhJoy ih-
Line.
OHUrd Free PrcS&
With a view to hunting up American de-
flulters who have taken refuge on this sid
OF the line forty-tiye q Free Press CORE
spondent has made the round trip. The
police authorities have been seen, and from
them everything learned which they con-
sid,rcd il prudent to tell. There is no dis
position among Canadians to eXa%gerate
the defaulterS' crimes. The people appear
10 take their presence rs Il matter OF course.
John G. Emo is living at Quebec. The
house he rents is large and the situation
delightful. 1t is two miles and Il halt rom
the postoflice. The rent he pays
nearly s., 900 a years., for Quebec, enor-
nous. This means proportionately about
Sc O0O or 5000 u year in New York.
Rents are very low in the Gold Rock City,
and EnO's house ut BeauvOir is one OF the
finest in the suburbs. Financially he APP
pears 10 be at ease. He drives good horses,
and is liberal with his money, but socially
he is not known. Neither he nor his wife
is ever invited out. nor are they visited by
society people. Emo has never been asked
IN the garrison mess, and does not belong
TO the only social organization IN Quebec
of any pretenSiOns-the Garrison CLUB.
The old French families do not ask HIM To
/ their houses. The doors of the Langevms,
The Taschercaus, the Roses, the De
Chaneys, or the DuvalS do not open TO re-
ceive him. His acquaintance are princl-
ualIy made at barrOOms. Some few society
men have a nOdding acquaintance with
him. Many people wonder that Emo stop
ned M Quebec. Society is exclusive, and
the old noblcsSc have long memories.
/ When Emo gives dinner parties, they
arc only attended by his legal ad-
yisers of the spectators who may wish TO
I Use him. The commercial club he belongs
| IN is n small place where men OF business
meet. 1t has no social significance and
does not pretend to any, Many respect
able men belong to it. These men meet
/ Emo in n business way. They do not ask
/ him IN their homes. Some of them may
| drink with him ut the st. LOUIS liotel
when they meet him there; that IS all. lie
visits the houses of two or three personal
friends, but the stories about hIs being re-
ceiyed into society are, the reporter was
assured. CONGREGATIONS. He paid many
| visits last New Years Day. Most OF them
were not returned. He attends cooking
mains and billiard tournaments, and he Is
a constant visitor to st. Roch. This Is the
rouohqst suburb of the city. Mrs. n lt
admired. but society people will not receive
her. This is owing to her husbands IRE
gularities.
Uincklcy, the cashier, is another New
Yorker whom the ExtraditiOn law would
not reach. Heliyed in Ottawa n while DC,
clusc. rs il was said at the time, he wished
In 90 To Manitoba and could not get there
Ifhe went by land he would have to pas
through Michigan, Illinois, N Minnesota
fly the lake ne had to 20 through th'
American lock at Sault Ste. Marie. III ue-
tected he could have been arrested. Ih'
comnletion of the Canadian Pacific Raul
way through the wilderness north OF a
Sunerinr left the abScoudcr free to traEel
from one end of the Dominion othe other
lie left for Winnipeg about SIX months
aoo. and is now believed to he there undel
the alias of Henry Morgan, engaged II
mercantile operations.
Henry Leggctt was another New lorb
sWindler of the more common klndi mort
of the vulgar foOtpad than the gentiemahil
: J,f,uIter. That alone waS sufficient Il
Z bring diScredit upon respectable Ameri
I,n ahsronders. He had travelled all Ne"
England and Swindled farmers by repre-
senting himself as n wealthy capltaiiS'
loaning money ON real estate MORTGAGES
! Some OF these mortgages were made, To
corded and sold by him. In other mstan
rcs he obtained money which he represent
al MIS- for LEGAL expenses. Those who gave
wort,,ues never received any money OIL
them He HE'D himself 10 Montreal, tool
d, house ON SherbrOOke, one of the mos
fashionable streets, and lived like q lord
He made many acquaintance, anu CAV
them wine suppcrS, became 4 mem0e o
the different clubs. attended all DINNERS
responded TO the toast to the President o
the United States, and was known rs
Jolly good fellow. After swlndhnga iarS'
number of people here he went West, anS
is now living ut Port Arthur on ms III
Dick Cook. the Ascending banker tron
Havana, n. Y, is in Toronto, where he M
resided for the last eighteen month. In
deE,lcations amount TO about S15,OO. III
i affected piety and became a promineh
: member of the Baptist Church. ae
| scrintion of him has been received by IN
|, police authorities here,
Then there is HOoxter, the ahSeondln
New York shirtmaker, who skipped IN
country with Q cool s15O,OOo. He ha
been here now nearly eighteen months, am
has STAYED at the st. Lawrence Hall, Mon
treal. He pays handsomely Tor every
thing he gets, and gets everything hat !
: going. He feels very much depressed owe
his wrong doings in the past, and says h
intends to go back and square up as 500
rs he can safely do so.
Then there are the Doodle statesmen
Charlie Dempsey, Bob De Lacy, John he
nan. the Bismarck of New York City Hall
and Billy Moloney, These men are a
/, STAYING in Montreal, where they have tn
? hest the city affords. Their movement
are varied. All occupy rooms upon u
same floor and are great chumss keena
and De Lacy particularly. They walk, rld'