Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-11-25
AMERICAN BOODLERS.
why the self-Exiied Citizens of the United
States and Canada Can Not he Rea ched.

defaultcrs the people of the United
States have themselves to blame for
it, said c. P. Davidson, @. c.. Crown
Prosecutor Canada has on two oc-
casions endeavored to obtain an ex-
tradition treaty, while the failure on
the part of Congress to accept the last
treaty is matter of regret to
every well-thinking Canadian"
The Crown Prosecutor of the dis
trict of Montreal is as competent as
any authority in the country to speak
on this subject. He has been retained
in nearly all the large cases against
American defaulters who have fled to
this province, including the Emo, Nc
Mahon, Neeld and other cases, but,
owing to the inadequacy of the present
extradition laws, he has been unsuc-
cessful in sending back the scoundrels
to meet the punishment they so well
deserve. In the city of Montreal alone
at present there are upward OF thirty
refugees from across the line who dare
not set foot on American territory.
These embrace the four New York
"boodle' aldermen, Dempsey, De
Lacy, Sayles and Kirk; John Keenan,,
the "Bismarck" of New York politics,
who is known to have supplied the
.'boodle;" ex-Reading Clerk Moloney,
who placed the stuff Hoexter,
the notorious New York insolvent
who reached Canada in safety
with $150,000 of his creditors money,
which he has since lost in bucket-shops;
Charles Walters, the Baltimore bank
clerk, who is wanted for forgery; the
Mcmahon brothers, of Lynn, Mass,
the fraudulent debtors; Goldstein, the
runaway jeweler, of Albany, N. T.;
Bartholomew, the New England bank
president, but last, not least, John c.
Emo, who has been staying at the
Windsor for some weeks, evidently
having become bored with the "church-
yard silence" of his adopted home
(Qucbec), the ancient capital of this
province. None of these men make
any secret of their whereabouts, they
use no endeavor to conceal their iden-
tity and they may be seen daily sun
ming themselves on St. James street,
reading the ticker quotations on the
street or smoking cigar on the rotun-
da of the Windsor, the fashionable up
town hotel. Their stealings alone ag.
gregate millions of dollars, still they
walk our streets free as air, and when
the word "extradition" is mentioned
to them they jauntily reply that they
can not be "taken over" on INSIDE
meanor. Neeld had the cool effrontery
to seek an asylum here in the vicinity
where the headquarters of one of the
banks he had victimized to the extent
of $4,000 was situated, and in fact
was first seen in company with his wife
surveying the handsome building from
the street.
The New York boodlers continue to
live in princely style. Keenan, has a
suite of six rooms at the Windsor. He
drives a fast team which he keeps al
Morey's livery-stable near by, has a
| governess for his girls and McGill
college professor to coach his boys
every day. DeLacy lives at the same
house, and while not so grand in his
manner of living. spends not less than
$40 week. At the st. Lawrence hal
"Billy" Moloney, with his buxon wife
and pretty blonde daughter is quar-
tered. His two boys have entered
Jesuit College, while his youngest CIR
is boarder at Vile Marie Convent
one of the most expensive educational
institutions in the province. Demp
sey, Sayles and Kirk are also guests a
the "hall, i" and many is the bottle o.
wine they make way with. The sam,
house boards Hoexter and Goldstein
while at the Richelieu, in the French
quarter, perfect colony of smaller
"boodlers" are found keeping compan,
with the actresses of the second-clas
theaters.
But while Canada is full of Ameri
can refugees, it must not be supposed
that the United States is free from it
contingent of Canadian scoundrels
Boston possesses Hunter, the defaultin,
Montreal notary, who swindled hi
clients here out of 100000, Will
Chicago gives refuge to his son, VIII
aided and Allotted his fathers frauds
New York harbors Craig, the alb
sconding president of the Exchang
Bank of Canada, who ruined the in
stitution, and overdrew his account t
the tune of $500, 900, while his brother
the ex-treasurer of the Montreal Loal
and Mortgage Company, finds al
asylum in Detroit. Three defaultin
corporation officials from this city ar
now located in New York-O'Meara
the ex-city clerk; De Courcy Harnett
the ex-collection attorney, and Merrill
the eX-cashier. 1t also harbor
the abscondine Montreal lawyer
+. j. Keller, who is now
practicing attorney of Gotham; tw
defaulting notaries, Alfred Isaacsor
and j. B. Houle and numerous CON
mercial swindlers. Philadelphia hs
as guest Nathan lsaacs, who, a FEY
months ago, absconded from here afte
! swindling the banks and his creditors t
the tune of $40, 900 by means of falls
/ invoices. The above are but few c
: the many criminals who by reason {
, the absence of reciprocal criminal law.
, are enabled to carry on reciprocit
! of crime and enjoy safe harbor {
: refuge on either side of the lin,
I Seldom does week go by without a
exchange of criminals in one directio
, or another. and still all efforts [
bring about treaty which woul
, reach the fellows are unavailing. Sti
, the Dominion does not give up hope {
, ultimate success. and another treat
somewhat modified from the last in
. perial text viii again, at the request ,
. the Canadian Government, be laid b
, fore the Cabinet at Washington.
Q Montreal Cor. NJ T. World.