The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-21
Crooked Americans Living in Canada
Over Ono Hundred and Fifty of
This Glass In Montreal.
The Various Manners in Which
They Have Lived in Exile.
Some Have Grown Vol TO DO in
tho Pursuit of Business.
The story and Career Of an Oh stagor
Who Skipped In 1864 MCGari.
vile n Weai-Bnced Ioll3w
Afraid of His Shadow.


and 200 American boodlcrs, big and little, |
in various parts Of Canada. This number !
includes the old stagers who came here |
during the war, aud who were mostly !
fraudulent army contractors Many OF
these started in business, have lived down
their evil regulations, and are rich. 9th
crs took to whisky and cards, and have
got down at the heel. Others, again, in
vested their plumber in Canadian sccuri-
ties or in real estate, and are livinga lite
Of ease, though not one Of contcntmcnt,
passed through the Niagara peninsula
the other day and met one ui these "rc-
tired Americans" man named jeffrey.
lie told me he hailed from Elmira lie
"got into u snarl" with the United States
government in 1864 over some army
blankets, and had to leave in hurry, hut
Of course lac was perfectly innocent No
one, he SAYS, can form any idea of the
wrctchcd life led 10y The boodlcr who is
doomed to spend the res, OF his days in
dull Canadian village. The best local
society such us il is, gives him the cold
shoulder, and he has 10 cousurt with "in-
fcrioI" people or else play ;hc hermit.
lie does not understand Canadian politics,
and not being British lj'rt, Is not al
lowed to vote or run for office. lie gets
the American newspapers, aud when lac
reads the doings oi old friends and ne.
qulintanccs, he would give all lac over
stole Ia be able 10 return 90 his old home
L.. G..
he comes across an American whom hc
knew in his palny days, hut finds there
IL now great gull between them, and the
iripid treatment lac receives makes him
sad. Then the loodlcr's viic aud family
are tahooCd by everybody, even 10 the
village postmaster. Ii be- sends the chill.
drcn Ia boarding school they are visited
with the SINS OF their parent and seat
home on one plea ar another. Two or
three American boodlcrs and u number ol
old bounty jumpers keen their hands IN
bv doing a littlc smuggling along the NJ.
ngnm frontier, but % Is O risky and, as my
blanket friend says, % mean occupation.
Tho work ha. Ia Ice done ut night. The
pools-ch chiefly coal oil, cotton, ladies' IN
drrwcur. boots aud shoes thread, photo
graphic plates patent medicines, iunry
soap. tweed cloth, oil cloth, sugar, watches,
rubber shoes and cnud u-- ar stored on
IA, American side OF Che Niagara river 10y
cnuipdrratcs in Buili'o Hul also here, lud
when il X dark enough ihr operators cfuss
la bnlis aud convey the -tuil tu thr tauldu
shore whore IL is distributed 10y teams
among the stores up an0 down thc pUniu-
suIn. On ihcs" frosty mornings YOU can
smell the coal oil along thu country roads
that have bptu tuNursgl Boo tHo night lN
the Smugrlrrs' wagons They sometimes
clear -luU 70 night over and above a..
pousrs. bat Mr.. Jeffrey declares that "li
isd-l loW down woi, ipr un American
gHuIJm1u.'
Tho Canadian detectives .y the Amcri-
eau uUldipIs, as a general rule, are easily
caught, because ol their CN.fym" nervous
ness Inspector stark, of Toronto, gives
an illustration ui the recent arr 70 10 that
riiy Ut man named lNu., q lpr-rr llpm
Detroit detective. who hal been fur
n. he'd with description ui Ives, hap
prnod 20 meet, late 90 night q man an
svDriug it la some particulars. The dc.
trrtiyr walked up, AMI holding out his
hand, said: "Why, Alr Ives, when dad
YOU leave D,iroI3'
Ives replied that hc hld been away from
Detroit iur nearly week. Then, seeing
hu had put his foot in n. Dec tried b. as.
plain that biz uamo wa NOT Ives, Hui THIS
would NOT do. lie BAL 'hIuIul' tIH
detective iu thr first In .lupH by refusing
tu answer tu bis name. lIu would have
escaped arrest Tor his r. HmHHurn ip tuu
description wIs bat slight uul iHn Cana.
dian police are rhIry about leaving thym.
selves open tu actions ~. II'.H ufn.Hl lu-
sp,r0r stark, speaking from long cNpDu.
,HeH. sy toe buOllpr appear ip leave
their nerve behind them when ihDy
cross the line, and that boo order tp obtain
ZOO artificial nerve, they frequently begin
drinking and attract attention by ihr rcrk.
ipHuu-s with which tHry throw their
money about
NcGau 1Ir. the former chief 1T police Boo
Chicago, Who b. now lHuf 900 Canadian
s1.l no laln Springs, 1Ol ur 800 miles west
of Winnipeg, b. % vDia.up lie WUIu
and cries, and breads his own shallow, ul.
/ though hls was not un uN'UIlIiINIH uiIruHn,
| Two of three Ui the NnW York bupIur
made thing lively ia Montreal ipr % time
with steam ylchts, I"r HORSES, garden
parties. etc, lut even boo re- lWf" city Ike
| this time hlna on their hands and ihuy
/ long 90 De- back home Lluryhu1y takes
/ advantage OF them.
The ctbmcn charge them fancy hras.
anl the leading hotels demand un oNurbi.
| iaut uto. OF course cu-H payments afH rr-
quIrpd oi them wherever iHuy Heal, and n
/ they produce American currency II b.
| closely scruiinizcd by thr french Canadian
| stprckccpcn who know them. II they
wan. 10 play faro or poker they have 10 go
to the regular gambling houses, Tor no
amateur will join them ipr fear their
bOolling propcnsitios may display itself In
| the form Of five aces OF brace game.
II Is related that when q Montreal mcr.
chant, who had lost some money at
"dmw" 10 DclAcy, cane 10 square up, ho
wrote ont check for he amount and
made II payable 10 Mr. BoOdlcr or
bearer" and Dclacy was ashamed 10 take
Il 10 the bank.
The Canadian government is willing 10
90 any reasonable length Ia the direction
of cnlarging the list Of cxiradiiablc Of.
lenses. One oi the CHIEF officers Ol the de-
partmcnt Of Justice at Ottawa says
"As matters stand IL J. probably astrong
temptation 10 dishonesty inclined persons
10 commit breaches Of trust and cognale
ohcnlos. both in the United states nhd
Canada, when they know they can secure