Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-23

rne punuc. It is wei known that be is In re
ceiptof large sums from Chicago, and it is
said that his income from that city viii reach
5000 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 @ EMO.
John c. Emo, the New York bank cashier
who embezzled =, OO0, 900, 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 power socially, politically and
financially, princely looking fellow, whose
crookedness has not caused him 10 lose that
hauteur his position IN New York gave him,
and has rather served to elevate him socially.
His time is occupied ike that of any other
person OF immsnse business affairs. Almost
any afternoon, however, he may be seen in
the billiard room of the St. Louis, driving the
worries about in dexterous manner, making
the most difficult shots with ease-either
alone practicing on o fancy shot or engaged
in beating one of his swell companions.
He is the central figure of all the great
booalers. and even with them his word is law.
To keep up his end as full hedged Cana
dian he began 70 look about for profitable in
vestments for his capital These were soon
found He invested nearly 81 900 coo In stock
of the Bank Of Montreal and that Of other
Canadian banks, bought up almost trunk
load of Canadian Pacific securities, and owns
almost controlling interest in the Richeheu
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 PER
pose of utilizing their power for manufacture
ing and for electric lighting purposes.
In this venture much of his capital Is in
vested-some think entirely too muchfor his
good, financially. Always on the lookout for
new schemes, he has organized a 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 kingiy in his hospitality, giving
many costly enter tainnents. His last ball,
held in his town mansion, surpassed in SPLEEN
dor those of viceroyalty at Rdeau hail, in
Canadas 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 a fat at
the Windsor hotel, their receptions and ''at
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
1t is estimated that there are in Toronto
today 700 persons who were compelled to
leave the States for stealing from some firm,
concern or other, or who getting their hands
on goodly sum, fed 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 tho
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 absconder who has left the
States.
In Toronto also it was that Joseph A
Moore located when he fled from Indianapo-
lis after embezzling about $500, 900 from the
Mutual 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 in scraping together, as 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-
nation is, that with his daughter he has