New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-07
BOoDLERs RAISE A FUND.
SCARED BIZ. A BILL IN THE CANADIAN
PARLIAMENT.
sr,ascrrarSe ss7.ooo TO DEFEAT Law WHICH
WOULD HAND THEM ovEH TO TIE
UNITED STATES.
[pr ryIEaRAPn 10 THE raiDusE.J

ruv rrIEaRAPH TO THE TRIDusEl
Mnrt,eaI March 6.-The American Doodle
colony in Canada is greatly exercised over Pro-
fessor Weldou,s bill, introduced in the Canadian
Parliament last week, to provide for the return
- the United States upon demand, OF all criminals
N this country guilty of offences mentioned IN
the schedule attached to Weidon's pilL inaC
schedule had one important OMISSION when was
that IL did not provide Tor the return Oh men
guilty. of bribery of publios officers or Oh PUBLIC
st,,.ers guilty of accepting bribes. a request
sas hssn forwarded to Mr. Weldon, at Ottawa, to
ssaro him insert q provision in the bill
&sa...,nr those cases at an early day
-. sa,9 o,.., weldon introduced his bill John "
g. - orshec who is the leader Of the boodie'
- hero went to Ottawa, where
sa. 1o ;nouiries concerning the chances
As ~ ~ 49, hill becoming law. His inyesta-
.s.ns ,rovea 10 him that the chances were
rood There was q hurried interchange OIL 'e,o-
s s.ssas hst,v,.en Ottawa and Montreal with the
rssnIt that Emo came to Montreal and haa an
,nterviev with several American boodiers IN
Monsreal who. seeing the alarming character 10
them of this legislation, Immediately deciueu
mon a plan of action by means
:, xrb;ch weldon could be defeated.
Jobn Keenan,, the most prominent Oh
aboodlee colony in Montreal, left here on FED
ruarv % for the West He returned last tues
day. when there was meeting IN pronihene
lawyer's Office. A report was made, ana ways
and means discussed, and 1T was decldeu u'en !.
and there 10 raise q fund to be used at OTTAWA IL
possible, to kll the bill
Keenan, reported the results Of his trip west
He said that he had seen at least hsit dozen
American defanIters and thieves, whose addresses
.na location he had obtained from o
! detective IN this city. These fugltiVeS hau
s 1. no;nted out to them the way
In which this bill threatened tier nperS nm .,,n
how II passed nothing eoaia 9 saSt SsateS % except
s;sebt tn Europe. They evidently saw the polnt
al the Montreal ambassadors arguments, ior
one e he so.Sy ssg spSSa Stand to the
fund. Thomas Axworthy, ex-city tseasocer son -. "
Cleveland. Ohio promised $4,000 or sS,ovg' oen. peI
haps his friends could r'iSs ss.hose stesl.
ings amounted 70 nearly, million n doliafSs ?
promised $1,000; Mrs. Mandelbaum, VINO Is ls
badly wanted In Ncw-YorS, said that sne would snd
give So, 900 or $4,000 il she was left unm oes'en m
ia the business which she was carrying op ~, "a
Hamilton: H. pieckman, who has fecentN le.s
Missouri. said that al his money bed been spenS
vet he thought bis friends could raise si'oVV
or 81 600. il his liberty could be saved
In Toronto Stieney, the Boston defanlter. wnp$s
stealings amounted TO 81 was was Ss non,d give
$1,000. Sullivan, eS-County Clerk oI inalsn iasn
snolis now in Toronto. said he would give p, Vso
and 6. @. Nelson. Of Atlanta, ueoIs,os sa,os
wen w,Ir A'sC or eight boodiers' were see. seen,
and the amounts which they were wi'shs M
10 contribute toward an attempt 70 aeieap a tSas S
a. as sie proposed legislation wepld, doubt %
made reciprocal by the United States ~
id no more Than fir that Canadian la aelau,ssr, ~,
The ethss siass g ss ss ssse 3 ssis
liberty This propositon as waraei .e ba ,ijemenf.