The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-02-09
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Connecticut Mutual Company that
his embezzlemen:s had been made
from a sense of duty, and that
through it all he had preserved his
integrity, he thought best to seek
that haven of defaulters lover the
border" But one of the strangest
things about the whole affair is the
fact that not only was Moore per-
mitted to run the business of the
Company at his end of the line in
indianapolis, without investigation
long after limitations had been
forwarded to Hartford that there
was something crooked in his man.
agement, but when the disclosures
finally came, showing him to be
one Of the most colossal embezzlers
on record, no steps seem to have
been taken to bring him to justice,
or to prevent his escape from it.
He left Indianapolis quietly last
Sunday. Some queer incidents
have come to light about Moore
ways and methods. For. instance,
he owed a good many small store
debts, ranging from $40 to 500.
All of which have been paid to the
last cent. A woman, unknown at
the several stores, went around and
paid them all the day after Moore
left. The tax lists Of the Connec-
ticut Mutual are larger than any
other company or individual lists
in the county, the annual taxes be-
ing about $4,000. When the date
of payment came, he would pay a
portion Of the amount and then
pay eight per cent interest on the
remainder, taking it up by Install
ments until all was paid. When
the exposure came there were de-
linquent taxes due from Moore
amounting to $1,000. The next
day, much to the surprise of the
treasurer, one of Moore's subordin-
ates appeared and paid the entire
sum. It has also been discovered
that when the late Eugene Wether-
ell, the husband of Emma Abbot,
the prima donna, bought business
block in Indianapolis last year, he
paid $4,000 in cash for it. The
Connecticut Mutual held mort
guage of $4,000 on the property
which Wetherell paid to Moore out
of the purchase money and OBJ
tanned a valid release from the
Company, but it seems Moore never
turned a dollar Of the money over
to the Company, and thus pocketed
a clean $4,000 out Of the song
stress purchase.
Moore's family are preparing to
break up housekeeping; no doubt
they intend soon to follow the head
of the household to Canada. The
whole thing has been as deliberate
ly planned and executed as if Moore
was only going to take his family
for pleasure excursion. He has
quietly gone over to Her Majesty's
domains, leaving the great corpora
ton which he so ably misrepre-
sented, to make what it could out
Of the uncertain assets that he
couldn't take with him.
1t is inconceiyable that a finan-
cial institution like the Connecticut
Mutual should in the first place so
manage it's affairs as to render such
an embezzlement possible, and in
the second place, still more incom-
prehensible that, the embezzlement
being discovered, it should inter-
pose no hindrances to the escape of
the perpetrator.
Moore is now a fugitive-dis-
graced, dishonored-but safe from
the retribution that he so richly de-
serves. Justice was not invoked to
stay his departing footsteps. The
interests not only of the Connect
cut Mutual, but Of all great fnan-
cial institutions are placed more
or less in jeopardy by the laxity
that seems to have characterized
the history of this great defalcation
from first to last.
HON. JOHN NJ. CLAYTON,
The republican candidate for Con-
gress against C. B. Breckenridge in
the second Arkansas district at the
last election, was shot and literally
riddled with bullets at his boarding
house in Little Rock, Arkansas, on
the evening Of the Goth ult. His
slayer fred the fatal shot through a
window and succeeded in making
his escape. There is no clue to the
perpetrator of the outrage but a
pistol which was found under the
window, and which may lead to the
discovery of the assassin. The Gov
ernor of Arkansas has been author
lied by the Senate to offer a reward
of $4,000 for the arrest of the muir
derer. a
Mr. Clayton was engaged in col
lecting testimony upon which to
make contest before the next Con
gress. Unfortunately for Mr.. Brock
enridge and the party in Arkansas
which he represents, it will be hard
to make the country atlarge believe
that tho Eillinr &c M Clovtoc