Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-27
!. II..iTY I).5FALGAI'I0Il.
treasurer hxworthy, OF Cleve-
land alls5illg. With $500, 600.
:.'';s'y..a 20 Have Fled to EuroDc-No
h!Dt!vc .:nnwn Cor the Crime-All
Ills Property Attached

CLEVELAND, Ohio -.'rhe ono topic Of con
o. as ui n thi, city is The tleracation AMI
is p,eara..ce Of Treasurer 1'hos. Axworthy.
% las eel the Ollie about five years and
mayed tie highest confidence of his friends,
,,a,l would in all probability have been nomi-
,aird for Congress had no not positively do
sired TO nllow his name to go before the:
convention As City Treasurer, DO was ell
trusted with all the funds of tho city and
the Board of Education, and was under bonds
-!or about s7OD,OOO No salary was attached
to tho Office, but lie was allowed to place the
money in banks ana take th. interest rs COM
pensation At the lust session of tho Legis
laturc u depositors bill was passed, By tho
provisions of which The City Treasurer was
10 receive salary and the interest on tho
money was to revert TO the city. Bills were
solicited from the banks for the deposit, and
were opened on October -.
Mr. Axwolthy Mas not present ut the time,
ID his nbsenc, caused some comment;
but as lie owned large interests here, it was
supposed lie had merely gone to New York
not return, however, and his bondsmen,
Senator II. B. Payne and j. I'll. Wade, Jr,,
became nervous They were closeted with
Attorneys Estip, Dckey md Squire, result
ing in n suit being entered against AXworthy
in the Common Pleas Court for 500, 900, and
attachments were placed III tho hands OF tile
the sheriff. i suit was also begun 10y the
National Bank of Commerce for 81, O0O on
n note discounted for the missing Treasurer
r Fla ,1n,,. nd md
Cattle Company.
Attachments in these suits were made OF
AIR. Axworthys stock in the Cleveland and
Colorado Cattle Company, the Chamberlain
Cartridge Company, the Cleveland Driving
Park Company, the Cleveland Storage Com
pany, the Cottage Grove Lake Company, the
Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal Company, tho
Mercantile National Bank, the Citizens Ma
tionll Gas Company and the Wheat Mining
Company Funds in the Mercantile National
Bank, the National Bank of Commerce, the
National City Il nix, the First National Bank,
the Cleveland National Bank, the Ohio Ma
tional Bank and thc Euclid National Bank
were also attached. Most of the m ncy tle-
posetcd in these banks in Mr.. Axworthy's
name belonged to the city. The sheriff also
levied on about so 900 worth OF real estate
and vessel property.
Til. Council AID Aldcrmnnic committees
met in the City Treasarers office, with l'resl-
dent Ho art, of the City Council. City SO
lctor Brinsmade and Bank Examin r. G.
Parsons Tho committee found That there
should be $50, SS1 I'll cash on hand; t'l II
there was in Bank $li7.;i1 05; leaving the
amount of shortage Sl2!',i;ii -.
Mr.. Axworihy's present place of abode is
unknown. He went 10 New York, anl Mrs.
Axworthy says she received telegram from
him there y dispatch was sent to the W md
sor Hotel, and it was learned that he had left
that hous. for Montreal. 1t is the general
impression among the Treasnrers friends
that he has gone to Europe. This is con-
! irmcd hy telegram r, ceived by his
daughter last Saturday from Liverpool, say
lug: "Papn is in Canada. Tell Mamma
| don't worry. Will wrie mania and Bab-
| cock There was no signature TO the des-
patch. The word Canada was interpreted
to mean tba: Axworthy had fled. The word
'.BabcocIl probably means Mayor Babcock.
The Board of Education had $lG!OOO in
the han of the Treasurer. The bondsnen
Fur the hoard are Il. 7. Handy and Selah
| Chamberlain. They have rs yet taken no
legal action against the Treasurer 10 irdem-
nify themselves There was also i'll his hands
81. $50 belonging to Tn. Police Pension
| Fund.
Tie news of the dcfalcation created intense
excitem Mt People Mt first regarded the
rum as only political scheme. but when
the hondsnen entered the suits, it began to
look serious The deputy city treasurer i'm
mcdiatcy stopped pnymcn of a ! claims.
Th,rc are many surnlise as to what led TO
the Iiefalcation 1t is stated chat AxwortIly
WIS nipps,. in the Chicago wheat deal, but,
OIL the other hand local brokers say he
n.ycr specul led in wheat or stocks, md
never visit d their offices. IL is tho OPT ion
! that il is nc can steal of the citys money.
| .Ir Axworthy is fifty two years old, ana
las al avs lleen considered Ivy all III Tie COM
r.unitY rs one Of thCir best pIen.