, 1889-09-19
STOLEN SUPPLIES
Startling Disclosures in Conneo-
ton with the Relief
Stealing.
Arrest of Two Councilmen and a
Policeman Charged with
Larceny.
leading Citizens Unite with the
Committee in the Pros
ecution.
Additional Counsel Employed and
q Fund Raised for That
Purpose.
tnglis Fails to Put in an Appear
anoe for Preliminary Ex-
animation.
He Was Last Seen in Company
with Major Waters Sat-
urday Night.
4 Citizens Committee Formed to
Protect the City Against
RnOdIoro
Additional Counsel Employed and
q Fund Raised for That
Purpose.
lnglis Fails to Put in an Appear
anoe for Preliminary Ex-
animation.
He Was Last Seen in Company
with Major Waters Sat-
urday Night.
4 Citizens Committee Formed to
Protect the City Against
Boodlers.

The sensation of the hour, tho dis
graceful, scandalous and wholesale mis-
appropriation, by an organized band of
thieves and boodlers, of supplies donated
BY generous people to alleviate the dis.
tsess Of sufferers by the devastating fire
In Spokane Falls on August 4, has
rsached crisis.
Robert 1nglis, who was brought back
from California and placed under bonds
to appear on September Is and answer
to the charges preferred against him for
the part he played in the disgraceful
proceedings, has fed, but thanks to the
nntiring efforts of the honorable and up
right members of the citizens relief
committee, enough evidence has been
gathered to warrant the arrest of several
Dther members of the gang and no effort
will be spared to send them to the place
where all boodlers ought to go.
INoLIs' FAREWELL.
About o'clock Saturday evening a
REVIEW reporter who was passing the
Windsor saloon ON East Riverside avenue
saw Inglis seated inside near the door
engaged in conversation with friend.
Inglis beckoned to the reporter, who
stepped to his side. Inglis was some
what under the influence of liquor.
81 wish you would make statement
for me in the REVIEW in the morning."
he said. T'm not getting fair treatment
In this investigation and l want the
people to know just how the thing
stands. In the first place the
committee are now allowing parties to
pay for goods sold by me while | was
employed at the relief tent. This is GER
tainly an injustice to me. Those parties
purchased the goods and never would
have paid for them had / not been ar.
rested. But just as soon as I'm arrested
and brought back and there is 81 pros-
pect for a thorough investigation they
rush to the committee and tender the
money, which the committee accepts.
This, ! say, is u great injustice to me
ns,is ns Us ri enS SSr0"s got At thls ap paint snd
said that he had an engagement
and could stay no longer. He in
formed mglis that he desired very par
ticularly to see him on Sunday or Mon
day, and ut Inglis' suggestion they ar
ranged meeting for 8 o'clock
Monday morning. Inglis and
the reporter then walked up
Riverside avenue together, and Inglis
continued "Yes, l want to make a
statement in the REVIEW of tomorrow
morning, and will make it over my
own signature il you wish. | want the
people of Spokane Falls to know that
did not come back here for nothing. |
am going to see this thing to the bot
tom. These thieves and scoundrels who
tore me away from my sick wife and
disgrace shall suffer for 1t. / can get
: out Of it'll can turn states evidence II
want to-but the little part l played is
as nothing compared with some of the
ethers. Twill serve my term in the
penitentiary u that is necessary to secure
the conviction Of the rest of
RI gang waa Snd Waa tS you M sKht aEs pow that
three councilmen and several Others
along with me. Pm disgraced already,
and I'm willing to go to the pen just for
the satisfaction OF seeing the rest OF
them go.
~ have been approached ON the street
repeatedly, and offered money to leave.
But they can't buy me-the contempti-
Bile thieves and scoundrels can't rake up
money enough, with all their ill-gotten
gains, to hire me to leave. The very
next morning after my arrival here,
certain man, whom everybody knows,
said he was my friend and
rendered me money and offered to go
my bail. told him did not ask his
friendship or his money. All this oc-
Cured in the presence of Officer Jerry
Dunn.
81 had always lived an honest life un-
til / came here. know have been a
little crooked, but there are others who
have been ten times worse. | will tell
you just how the whole thing com
menced. Major Waters ordered load
OF provisions sent TO militia headquar-
ters,, and as ! suspicioned that he was
crooked resolved to investigate. When
the expressman who hauled this particu.
lar load was ready to start Waters
told him in my presence to
deliver the goods at the American Re
sort. When the exprcssman returned
asked him where he took the load. He
said to Major Waters house; that
Waters explained to him that he told
litia headquarters, as he did not want
me to know they were going to his
house. | afterward came right out and
told Waters that 1t was wrong for him
to appropriate the goods to his own use
and he said: We'll, lnglis, every body Is
getting IN OH this thing and propose to
make what | can out of 1t, and you're u
d----n fool If you don't do the same.
studied the matter all over. For four
hours l battled with my conscience
and my better nature finally con-
quered and went and told Harry Hay
ward. MIR. Hayward replied that
Waters was his superior as well as mine,
and that we could not very well ques-
lion his authority.
"As Is well known, came back here
OF my own accord. ! received tele-
gram warming me that the officers were
after me, but ] refused to try to get out
Of the way. have declared that |
would see this thing out and will. I'm
not going to run away, and ] want you
10 toll the public my story in to-mor-
rows paper
The reporter asked Inglis to accom-
pany him to the REVIEW office and fin
Ish his statement aud have 1t
read to him after II had
been written out, to which he replied:
THAT Is Just what | want. l will call
around after awhile and tell You the
whole story, and after you have written
II out YOU can read IL TO me and if II is
not right we will keep at II until II is
right will be down to the office at .
O'Clock sharp, without fitil."
inglis looked at his watch aud started
for the Omaha oyster house. He failed
70 keep his appointment and the re-
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