Evening star., 1886-07-03
REFUGEES IN CANADA.
New Y0rk's DefAnlters and AbscOnders
EnteyfnE Themselves Across the

from the Ottawa Free Press.
With view to hunting up American default.
ers who lave taken refuge on this side OF the
line forty-five q Free Press correspondent has
made the round trip. The police authorities
have been seen. and from them everything
learned which they considered 1t prudent to
tell. There is no disposition among Canadians
to exaggerate the defaulterx crimes. The REQ
pie appear to take their presence as q matter ol
course.
John G. Emo IL living at Quebec The house
ne rents Is large and the situation delightful.
/ is two miles aud half from the post ofiice.
The rent he pays-neariv 1000 q year-is, for
Quebec, enormous This means, proportion
York. Rents are very low in the Gold Rock
city, and Eno's house at Beauvoir is one OF the
finest In the suburbs. Financially he appears
70 pc 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. Emu
has never been asked to the garrison mess, and
does not belong to the only social organization
IN Quebec OF any pretensions-the Garrison
to their houses. The doors of the Langevins
the Taschereaus. the Rosses, the De Chaneys,
or the Duvals do not open to receive him. His
rooms. Some few society men have . nodding
acquaintance with him. Many people wonder
that Emo stopped at Quebec. Society Is exclu.
ries. When Emo gives "dinner parties
theyar only attended by his legal advisers or
spectators who may wish to use him. The
commercial club he belongs to Is a small place
where men of business meet 1t has no social
significance and does not pretend to any. Many
respectable men belong to it. These men meet
Emo In q business way. They do not ask him
TO their ho'nes. Some of them may drink with
him at the st. Louis hotel when they meet him
there; that is all. lie visits the houses Of two OR
three personal friends, but the stories about his
being received into society are, the reporter
!sI's, was assured, exaggerations: He paid many
Slsits last New Years day. Most of them were
not returned. He attends cooking MAINS and
billiard tournaments, and he is q constant Wis
ih os 70 81 Koch; This is the toughest suburb Of
pie will not receive her. This Is owing to her
husbands irregularities.
Hinckley, the cashier, is another New Yorker
Wnom the extraditlOn law would not reach.
be lived in Ottawa a while because, as it was
salo al the time, he wished to go to Manitoba
and Mfa could not get there. II be went BY land he
LIMOS, and Minnesota. Ii by the lake he mad
70 go through the American lock at SadIL Ste.
arrested. The completion OF the Canadian
Pacific railway through the wilderness north OF
Lake Superior lett the absconder free TO travel
from one end OF the Dominion to the other.
He left tor Winnipeg about six months ago
aud is now believed to be there under the alias
OF Henry Morgan, engaged in merchantile
operations.
Henry Leggett was another New York swim.
uier OF the more common Kind; more OF q vul-
gar tootpad than the genilemanly deiaulter
1uaC alone was sufficient to bring discredit
upon respectable" American absconders. He
had travelled all New England and swinded
farmers Dy representing himself as q wealthy
capitalist roaming money on real estate mort
cages. Some OF these mortgages were made, re-
corded and sold by him. In other instances he
obtained money which he represented WAS fol
legal expenses. Those who gave mortgages
never received any money on them. lie hied
himself TO Montreal, took q house on Sher
brooke, one ol the most fashionable streets and
hVed like lord. He made many acQuaInt
anceS, and gave them wine suppers, became q
member oI the different clubs, attended all din.
ners, responded 10 the toast to the President ol
the United states, and was known jolly
good fellow. After swindiing a large number O
people here he went west, aad is now living a,
Fort Arthur on his lll-gOtten gains.
Dick Cook, the abscUnding banker from Ha.
vana, n. Y, is in Toronto, wnere he has resided
for the last eighteen mouths. His deialcations
and became prominent member of the Bap
list church. A description OF him has been re.
celved by the police authorities here.
Then there is HUexter, the absconding New
YORK Snlrtmaker, who sh hIpped the country with
a cool 315U,OOO. He has ueen here now nearly
eighteen months, and has stayed at the ST.
Lawrence hall, Montreal. He pays hand.
soMely ior everything he gets, and gets every
thing that is going. he feels very much de-
pressed over his wrongdoings ia the past. aud
says he intends to 60 back and square up as
soon AS he can safely DO SO.
Then there are Tie DOodle statesmen, Charlie
Dempsey, Bob De Lacy, John keenan,, the BIS.
marck OF New York city hall, and Billy Mo-
loney. These men are ali staying ip Montreal,
whele they have the best the city affords. Their
movements are varied. All occupy rooms upon
the same floor aud are great cnulns, keenan,
and DE Lacy particularly. lhey walk, ride, eat
and drink together. Moioney and Dempsey,
however, seem 10 be engaged ln picket duty ana
throwing inquisitive people OF the scent. One
day the ex-reading clerk will make quite ashow
OF starting ou Oh a journey. he IGshes 10 the
railway station and UoarGs a train tor Quetec.
The next day or the day after lac reappes.rs in
Montreal again. Dempsey repeats the same
operation, only going III an opposite direction.
II may be, as keenan, once said in giving an
explanation of Moloneys absence, tnat Aiolo-
ney, when he becomes hilarious, boards a train,
for the lightning reader OF the Doodle board OF
1854 inuulges III frequent libations. 1t may De
Interesting TO note, however, that no maj ter
how lar keenanS associates 60, they soon re-
turn and keep in COMMUNICATION with him,
and II is possible that the former Bismarck is
furnishing the iunus to make the eXiles' ban
iShment enduraU!e.