Morris tribune., 1886-09-29
WHERE DID THE CASH GO?
BARTHOLOMEW, THE DEFAULTER,
SAID TO BE PENN:LESS.

Excrtions Made to Protect Those Whom
He Had Robbod-Consternation Among
the Employees of the Hartford Silk
Company's Mill Nearly Months
Wages Due Thorn But inaccessible.
HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 27.-The creditors
OF the Schuy Ter Electric Light company held
o meeting Friday and, after hearing a state
ment Of the oompanys condition and bust
ness, they decided to use every effort to keep
1t going.
Ono of the sadest phases of the Plunkett
and Bartholomew defalcations Is the distress
and hardship it has involved upon the per-
sons who are employed In the Hartford Silk
company's minis at Tariffville. There were
about $50 working people employed in the
mills, and most of them had nearly months
wages due them. When the order came to
shut down the works CONSERVATION seized
upon them. The wages they had been re-
ceiving was not large, and there was hardly
one who was fortunate emo Ugh to have any
thing ahead Many of the men had large
families, and the loss of a days work, even,
meant a good deal to them, but when they
began to realize that even if they ever re-
ceived their months earnings it would not be
for weeks, and also that they must seek en-
ployment in other places, they were we'll
nigh frantic.
What Mr.. Bartholomew did with tho
money which he obtained is puzzle. His in
come was over SIS, 900 a year. He probably
specialized heavily and lost, and it is known
that Plunkett claimed to have lost $50, 900 by
his stock dealings with him. But what be-
come of the great sums of money which Bar
tholomew obtained is hard to tell. 1t is the
general belief that he took plenty Of money
with him to Canada, but some Of the bank
officers do not believe it. bartholomew
hasn't enough money with him to buy his
meals said one of the bank officers Friday.
1t has come to light that the one redeeming
thing believed to he in Bartholomew favor
is one of his worst He held for Mrs Bar
tholomew, as president of the Hartford
orphan asylum, $4,000 in clear securities,
and he turned like amount over to the
treasurer, Mrs. E. H. Howe. He also offered
$400 in cash, but Mrs Howe did not care to
have charge Of the money over Sunday. 1t
is now found that the securities given to
Mrs Howe are Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West bonds, with no market value, and
worthless.
Friends of bartholomew say that, under
the great pressure that was on him at the
time of his flight, he would have died had he
remained here. He made the utmost exer-
tons to protect those whose funds he had
taken. As the matter is studied over, it is
found that he gave the Charter Oak Life In
surance company $l50,OO0 bonds, which he
said were worth 20 cents on S1.0O, and gave
the Holyoke Water Power company security
for all the money he had received from it,
and also secured other creditors as far as he
could, where he had wrongfully appropriated
funds, although the securities were not really
negotiable. The condition of the Union Man
ufacturing company has not yet been fully
ascertained, but it is believed the concern
owes about $500, 900, which would wipe out
the stock, but leave notes worth large part
Of their face value