The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-12-13
Washington Letter.
From our regular corrcspondent.)

Warrington Letter.
from our regular correspondence
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Dec. 0, 1899.
The delegates to the Pan-American Con-
gress spend a good deal of their spare time
putting their individualmuseumsto rights.
The souvenirs that were not collected but
simply accumulated during the trip as
each mans share, are bewildering in num-
Der and variety. There are first about 200
menu cards for half as many cities. There
are all sorts of designs, good, bad and ter
rible. Then there are scores of mementos
given by manufacturers, and medals and
badges given by cities and corporations.
elegant. Pittsburg makes the biggest
showing. There are W large books
bound in morocco, the 400 large pages of
one being filled with photographs of
places Of interest in the Smoky City, while
the other volumes devote 800 pages to the
business interests Of the city. The Penn
s~ylvauia Railroads souvenir book con-
tains date of trip, with especially beautiful
ILLUSTRATIONS anu All CAlIdCb HUH aNtCit-
tary Blaine's address of welcome to the
guests.
The motherly arms of Canada have just
folded to her loving breast another alb
sconding cashier in the person of Silcott,
cashier for Mr.. Leedorn, the retiring Ser
| geant-at-A Arms of the House, who made
away last week with a sum estimated at
$50, 900. As the House Committee of in
vestigation has not yet concluded its
labors. full particulars Of the mount OF
the loss annot be obtained. Certain it is,
however, that the loss will not be covered
by the bond. Some of SiIcott's prepare.
tions for flight were made with a fore
sight that showed the man to be no fool
so far as cunning is concerned. The de
velopments of Saturday show that he is
likely a forger as well as a defaulter.
| Just before leaving the city he took NJ
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 members of Con
| gress and other persons. In taking these
notes up Silcott in all probability destroy
ed them. Mr.. L.eedom's followers arc
talking very bravely of bringing Silcott
back on a charge 0. forging these notes,
A child should know that no e~xtTadition
on a charge of forgery would be allowed
until the document alleged to have been
forged could be produced in court. Sill
| colt has covered his tracks well. A slow.
moving, middle-aged man, with n back in
| clined to be in the style make obnoxious
by Richard III and other crooked back
people, a man with a wife and family and
we'll connected withal, does not cut al
ties and sail away from home and friends
and family into the black depths Of dis
grace 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
Representatives and came and went for six
| years, honored and respected. Behind this
was another life. He had a mistress, a
French Canadian young woman, whose
| life had been one of the most wretched 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 10 be with him