The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-17

ceipt or large sums from UuIcago, anu II rs
said that his income from that city will reach
S., zoe year, one of his friends remarking
the other day that ''those fellows over there
would put up more than that rather than
have him go back to Chicago" All of which
may or may not be true.
JOHN c. EMO
John C. Emo, the New York bank cashier
who embezzled S4,OO0,OOO, is in Quebec.
He is the leader in the most exclusive so
ciety and fashion plate from which the
blooded young men of Quebec get their point
ers regarding the proper thing to wear.
Emo is a power socially, politically and
financially, a princely looking fellow, whose
crookedness has not caused him to lose that
hauteur his position in New York gave him,
and has rather served to elevate him socially.
His time is occupied like that of any other
person OF immense business affairs Almost
any afternoon, however, he may be seen in
the billiard room of the st. Louis, driving the
worries about in a dexterous manner, making
the most difficult shots with ease-either
alone practicing on a fancy shot or engaged
in beating one of his swell companions.
He is the central figure of all the great
boodlers, and even with them his word is law.
To keep up his end as full fedged Cana
dian he began to look about for profitable in
vestments for his capital These were soon
found He invested nearly 81, 600, 000in stock
of the Bank of Montreal and that of other
Canadian banks, bought up almost trunk
load of Canadian Pacific securities, and owns
almost a controlling interest in the Richelleu
and Ontario Navigation company.
His money soon gained him great political
influence with the Quebec government, his
word going long ways with that body.
Through this Emo acquired large grants of
provincial lands, and also stands in with
many of the big government contractors.
His present great fad is to obtain control of
the historic Montmorency falls for the pur-
pose of utilizing their power for manufactur-
ing and for electric lighting purposes.
In this venture much of his capital is in
vested-some think entirely too much for his
| good, financially. Always on the lookout for
new schemes, he has organized big syndi-
cate of New Workers and Bostonians for the
purpose of securing government lands to re-
| sell to wealthy Americans for summer villas.
Emo is kingly in his hospitality, giving
| many costly entertainments. His last ball,
! held in his town mansion, surpassed in SPLEEN
dor those of viceroyalty at Rideau hall, in
| Canada's capital When anything of event
| is on foot in Montreal Mr.. and Mrs. Emo, ac-
companied by Col and Mrs Montzzambert,
! HE themselves there, and, engaging fat at
| the Windsor hotel, their receptions and lat
! homes" are the most magnificent and the
gayest of all the American absconders.
| Emo is certainly the best satisfied of the
American boodlers with his lot
Toronto has been the home of the Ameri-
can boodler, particularly of those whose
stealings in the States were not sufficiently
| large to entitle them to be brought within
the king of >" or Prince Of" Boodlers class.
| It is estimated that there are in Toronto
today 700 persons who We're compelled to
! leave the States for stealing from some firm,
concern or other, or who, getting their hands
on a goodly sum, fled there to enjoy the i'll
/ gotten gains 1t was Toronto particularly,
that Sir John Macdonald had in view when
speaking of the Weldon extradition bill, he
said that should it be made retroactive it
would break up and scandalize many well-to-
do and prosperous families.
/ But few of the refugees there bear the
names by which they were known in the
States.
/ Almost all assumed different names, and
/ that in addition to DISCUSSES in the shape of
hirsute growth and changes caused by time
and worriment-for they all worry-would
render it possible for any one of them to meet
an old acquaintance with but little chance Of
/ detection.
FAIR TORONTO.
/ In Toronto, at one time or other, has loca-
ted almost every 0bsconder who has left the
States
In Toronto also it was that Joseph A
/ Moore located when he fed from Indianapo-
/ lis after embezzling about 100000 from the
| IIutual Insurance company. OF that i'm
| mense amount he had left when his shortage
was discovered about $4,000. That is the
sum he succeeded il scraping together, &s re
/ ported to the authorities, and with which he
escaped across the borders. Moore lived in
! the greatest retirement in Toronto, his daugh-
/ ter joining him shortly after his arrival
there. A few days ago he left that city as
quietly as he had come, and the best infor-
l.