The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-03

DIECKMAN. M'GARRIGLE.
duced into the parliament at Ottawa by the
eminent Professor Weldon, providing for
general extradition. Hence the wild futter-
ing in the 'boodlers colony" and hence, too,
the alleged combine among the boodlers to
raise Sl000O0 to defeat the bill
The idea that all legislators have their price
Is so rooted and grounded in the debased in
tellect of a New York lobbyist that it is no
surprise to find John keenan, working with
confidence against the Weldon bill; but the
fugitives from other sections of the United
States do not place much confidence in Mr..
Keenan's scheme, and, what is worse in their
estimation, most of them have not the money
to put up. Indeed, it now appears that some
Of the exleS are in actual want, as they
wasted the stolen money before leaving home,
and this is particularly the case with those
from Indiana. The greatest public interest,
of course, is felt in the fugitive aldermen
from New York, as that city is in easy reach
of Montreal; but equally pathetic cases hail
from Indiana and Chicago, and these may
well be noted first.
THE EBB AND FLOW OF CRIME
1t has long been noted that crimes of the
nature here considered have their regular
periods of ebb and flow in the United States.
A revelation of fraud and bribery is followed
by the conviction of few and the fight of
many; then there is an interval of few
years of apparent honesty till the lesson is
forgotten and the corruption breaks out in
another quarter. The great civil war, of
course, was the cause of a carnival of corrup-
ton scarcely paralleled in modern times; and
after a brief interval the great frauds Of the
Tweed ring in New York city eliminated in
1871. Tweed himself died in prison, and
nearly all his co-workers in iniquity have
either died in disgrace or are living in pow
erty and obscurity. The local moral atmos-
phere was so purified that eleven years
passed before there was another really great
scandal in New York city, but in the mean
lime the great Credit Mobilier and whisky
ring" frauds agitated the west and south, and
wrought havoc with some of the greatest rep
. ytations in Washington city,
There was an interval of honesty for a few
wears and then an entirely new variety Of
fraud was unearthed in Indiana, involving
rchool trustees and their coadjutors. Most
Of these frauds were Of such petty nature
that the guilty themselves often the victims
of Chicago firms dealing in school supplies
escaped with light punishment; but several
big scamps fed to Canada. Chief among
these was the notorious Pollard, organizer Of
fne whole scheme, who is living very quietly
in the Dominion, but is nightly interested in
she Weldon bill Another interested Hoosier
{as Eastern people call Indiana mem is Of late
date, viz, Joseph A. Moore, who got away
with the funds of the Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance company, of which he was
agent. He is indicted for embezzlement and
forgery and is supposed to have some cash
with him, so the policy holders want him bad.
The latest fugitive from Indiana is John E.
Sullivan, county clerk at Indianapolis, who is
indicted for several crimes in the line Of fraud
and embezzlement.
INDIANA RASCALS.
From Indiana the fraudulent connection
was traced to Chicago involving dealers in
school $40 plies; but the most noted fugitive
from that city is William ]. McGarrigle,
with whom are closely associated Ed Nc
Donald, Harry Varnen and several Others,
in prison, in exile, or out on bail. These gen.
tlemen had an ingenious little ring of their
own, in which McGarTigle, warden of the
county hospital, stood inn with the engi-
neer, contractors and furnishers Of supplies,
and by bribing certain bookkespers, having
close friends among the inspectors, a combine
with men of both political parties and a
"pulln with the authorities directly in charge,
swindled Cook county out of many thousand
dollars. Their failure like that of Tweed,
was due to the fact that there were too many
in the combine; there was not plumber
enough TO go around, and so the principals
had to fee.
THE PROPOSED BILL.
There may be an aristocracy of crime in
the United States, but in Canada the exiles
are on a level; so the Canadians see nothing
surprising in the fact that Mother" Mandel
baum, the notorious New York ''fence,n is in
with the most stylish bankers in iaboring to
defeat the Weldon bill Among the noted
criminal exiles is Thomas Axworthy, of
Cleveland, o., who owns to having made way
with $3.50 900 of the city's money; but he
takes no interest in the proposed bill, which
adds color to the report that his friends and
bondsmen have made it safe for him.
Scarcely less notorious is Henry Dieckman,
of ST. Louis; but as the money he stole was
that of his wife, her mother and other heirs
of his father-in-law's estate, his case is not of
such public interest. Still another noted ex-
lie is George NJ. Bartholomew, who stole over
500. 900 from the Charter Oak Life nsur-
ance company and other institutions at Hart
ford. He is intensely interested in the Wei
don bill, as the Hartford official are only
waiting for its passage to go for him.
Equally interested, perhaps, is Harry D.
Scholl, who robbed the Surety company of
Chicago, and is waiting in Toronto with his
legs crooked for another jump If the bill
passes. John c. Emo, the fugitive banker Of
sEew York, is perhaps not SO intensely inter
.sted, as his father has made good his detal-
cations.
TIE CELEBRATED DOODLE ALDERMEN"
An other cases, however, yieldin popular IN
terest to those of the two celebrated doodle al
derrnen" of New York city, who sold the Broad