The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-08-10

mouse and Mrs. huIJb going 10 nOJel,
then she came to New York and estab-
lisbed herself in fashionable fat up town
and It was not long before her prize
fighting brother-in-law and her unfortunate
sister came to live with her. Rows were
common and demands for money incessant
by the drunken brute who now had the
wretched Mrs. HURT completely in his
power. At last, in her absence, Burgess
and his wife made grand sweep of every
thing portable in Mrs. Hurtt's rooms and
fed. Among the plunder were costly silk
dresses, rich furs, bric-a-brac and about
three thousand dollars worth of diamonds.
The goods were pawned and the tickets
sent back TO Mrs. Hultt. Last week Bur
CESS and his wife were arrested for the
theft and are now -safely locked up in Jail
with good prospect of States prison.
The funeral of Johnny Murphy, the
celebrated driver and horse-trainer, took
place last week and attracted a strange
multitude. Mr.. Murphy was known on
the turf as Honest John, and well he de-
served that name. Few men in this world
are exposed:ito greater temptations than
jockeys and drivers. They live in an at
mosphere Of gamblers, thieves and harlots,
and the man who withstands these sore
temptations is deserving of uncommon
credit Besides this, the stakes depending
on their honesty are enormous; two or
three successful mounts being sufficient, if
dishonesty used, to make them independ-
ent for life. They grow up around stables,
where loose morals and lax principles are
the rule, and in such school what wonder
that many fall, John Murphy, with
these surroundings and under these disad-
vantages, lived as he died, an honest man.
Hundreds of thousands, and perhaps it is
quite safe to say millions, of dollars were
staked on the honesty of his driving, and
though frequently beaten the losers felt
that they had honestly lost their money
and no blame was ever laid to his door.
This it was that made him fast friends
among our very best citizens, and which
caused the mayor of this great city to leaYe
his pressing business on Monday last and
spend couple of hours at the bedside of
the dying driver. On the day of the
funeral the services were conducted by
one of the most eminent Catholic clergy
men in the city, Near the coffin stood the
mayor, just behind him Joe Coburn, the
prison; not far off, with handkerchief to
his eyes, was bluff Harry Hill the keeper
of the notorious Houston street dye;
among the group was The. Allen, who
kept the dive on Bleecker street which was
closed by the police, and the brother of
Mart and Wesley Allen, two of the most
notorious crooks and pickpockets in the
city. All the prominent horsemen in
New York were also present, mingled with
bankers, brokers, doctors, lawyers, journ.
alists and men eminent in literature and
art. There were between seventy-fiYe and
hundred carriages in the procession,
which, in its make up, was one of the most
remarkable that New York has seen for
years. John L. Sullivan, fresh from his
great victory over Kilrain and with a check
for twenty thousand hard dollars in his
pocket, was among the mourners, and at
his side, Jack Barnett, Fan Murphy, Mike
Sullivan, the champions brother, and
Charley johnson, Sulliyan's backer who
made the great slugger present of five
thousand dollars. 1t was genuine and
spontaneous tribute of various classes of
men to one who, though occupying COM
paratively an humble position, bore him
self in life so squarely and uprightly that
his friends can, without blush, inscribe
on the stone that marks his last resting
place, "Honest John Murphy"
had almost forgotten the thieying law
yer John II. Dunn till stepped into Court
on Friday and heard him sentenced to nine
years and six months in States prison for
completely with cashier Scott in the Man
haitian Bank robbery Scott was brought
up from a boy in the bank and had been in
its employ for twenty years, rising from a
common clerkship to the office of cashier
with prospect for the presidency and
comfortable billet for life. In an evil hour
be became entangled with designing wo-
man, although he had beautiful and de-
voted wife, and he began robbing the bank
to supply her extravaganza. At last he
reached point where discovery seemed
inevitable, and then he consulted lawyer
Dunn who was related by marriage to his
wife. Dunn was natural schemer and
thief, and he advised Scott to steal half
million of dollars and put the money in his
care and leave the settlement to him. Scott
actually took that sum out of the bank
vaults, kept it all over night and then be-
coming frightened put it all back but one
hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars.
Twelve thousand dollars of this he took
and fled to Canada, leaving the great bulk
of the money with Dunn and twenty five
thousand with the woman who was the
cause of his downfall He finally escaped
to England and in few months he was
starving tramp in the streets of London
He wrote to Dunn for aid, but Dunn sent
him word that he had lost all the money in
a wheat deal and had not cent in the
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went to Consul Waller in London and told
his terrible story. Dunn was arrested oyer
a year ago, but he tried to brazen it out,
but Nemesis was after him and on no
promise of settlement would the bank let
up. He carried his case to the Court of
Appeals, which last week affirmed the
finding of the jury in the lower court and
this week he starts on his sentence of nine
years and six months. 1 don't think that
am naturally YindictiYe, but l confess
that the sentence of this unmitigated
seoundrel gave me a thrill of exquisite sat
isfaction; his act was one of the meanest
aud most dastardly known to the criminal
calendar, ana l am glad to know that the
villain at last has got his deserts.