Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Wushin0ton, Dec. 8.

Washington, Dec. 3.
The motherly arms of Canada have
JUST followed to her loving breast
another absconding cashier in the
person of Silcott, cashier for Mr..
Leedom. the retiring rgeant-at-arms
of the House, who made away last
week with a sum estimated $50, 900.
AS the House committee of investi-
CATION has not yet concluded it's la
bors, full particulars of the amount
of the loss cannot be obtained. Ger
tain it is however, that the loss will
not be covered by the bond. Some
of Silcott's preparations for flight
were made with foresight that
showed the man to be no fool SO far
as cunning is concerned. The devel-
opments of Saturday show that he is
likely forger as well as defaulter.
Just before leaving the city he took
up notes at the National Metropolitan
Bank to the extent of $14, 800. These
notes are believed to have been forged
with the names of about thirty men,
bers of Congress and other persons.
In taking these notes up Silcott in all
probability destroyed them. Mr..
Leedom's followers are talking very
bravely of bringing Silcott back on
charge of forging these notes. A
child should know that no extradition
on a charge of forgery would be al
lowed until the document alleged to
have been forged could be produced
in court. Silcott has covered his
tracks we'll.
A slow-moving. middle aged man,
with back inclined to be in the style
made obnoxious by Rrichard III and
other crooked back people, a man
with a wife and family and we'll con-
nected withal, does not cut all ties
and sail away from home and friends
and family into the black depths of
disgrace and danger, without some
strong reasons for his action. Silcott
lived a double life. He had his office
and his family and his friends at the
House of Representative and came
and went for six years, honored and
respected. Behind this was another
life. He had a mistress, French
Canadian young woman, whose life
sin for years. She was no fascinating
Camille, only an ignorant, lazy,
drinking shrew, but she set the heart
of this aged victim on fire. She is
supposed to be with him now in Can
ada.
Silcott had another love, and that
was gambling on horse races. He
was we'll known by the habitues of
pool-rooms as a heavy better, and
was at these rooms nearly every day,
making his bets and losing most of
them. His salary, like the Irish
mans blanket, was too short at both
ends, and the only thing that sur
prises one is that it lasted so long.
The death of Jefferson Davis caused
no stir in Washington. Nothing that
is not officially recognized ever does,
and so jefferson Davis going to high
er judgment occasioned sorrow only
to such of his personal adherents and
friends as now reside here. The
death of an EX-Secretary of War is
by custom observed by draping the
pillars of the Department and his
picture in mourning. But Mr.. Davis's
portrait remains undraped, and the
War Department ignored the devise
of one of its ablest secretaries of the
past. SO far as government recogni-
ton is concerned, jefferson Davis
died the day he walked out of the
Senate, asking pardon of such as he
had offended, to take up the cause of
the confederacy.