New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-28
A CONFESSED DEFA Utter.
CASPAR SOER, OF THE NEWARK POST
OFFICE, IN JAIL AT TRENTON.
HE ESTIMATES HIS THEFTS FROM THE MONEY
ORDER DEPARTMENT AT s5.ooo-DEBTs
FROM LACK OF PREVIOUS EMPLOY
MENT LED TO HIS CRIME
my TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBUSE.l J

TRENTON April 27-A goodlooking young man
with black mustache and dark hair hurnedy
entered the Hotel Windsor in this city at 10 O'CLOCK
last night He neatly dressed IN dark buslh'@s
suit and carried gold watch and chain ana silver
handled umbrella. lie much agitated that
h noonI in the corridors turned to look at him. lie
wanted TO see Linsly Rowe the clerk Of the United
States District Court, who is also United states
Commissioners The met in the onicc OF ihe
hotel
Hello socr What are you doing hcrc?' exclaimed
Mr. Rowe The Young wa, Ca>par socr' 'hel NJ
the money order department In the trenton roSv"' e.
lie has been a frequent witness for the Government
- rod.-,r casc. and in that way he and Mr.. Rowe
became well acquainted looked dazed and dd not
~.plv AT once to Mr. Rowe's question. Then IN a
broken voice he said:
@oh, Mr. Rowe am defaulter came to Hou
10 surrender my ,elf. You will have to lock me up
The confession thus burted oat fairly took Mr.
Rowc's breath away. Ihe young man '"""'''
.hoved that he was not joking. but IN dead earnest
Mr. Rowe lives at the Windsor and he took the young
ma, into urivatc room whore he made clean breast
NJ his crime. lie said that lie obtained piaoe i'll
4he postofGce wien ex<Dngres'nian freole. Wa
postmaster lie has wife ana chin' an" "'' 'i"7
hccn ont ~ employment long time WAS In deDt Al
rho date Of his appointment. His salary was no'
80, ooryh ~ admit Of the saving Of much money, ana
h, r.as therefore unable to satisfy the demands ot
h creditors Last August. he said he began to steal.
\, chief clerk in the money-oder department ne
handled large sums Of money, but accordns " NJ
story he abstracted only small amounts ""''' |
aggregate was few hundred dollars lie "V'"0
70 pay the people he robbed some day. Inc n''",s
iron, into small business ventures, ont OF Whl'h NJ
I'D ~ Gain enough to settle his debts and restore
hi. .teaIinc- But none Of his undertakings pros
pcrcd lie lost money in every spe'ui"o'' o''
and notably while he was s"om0
mariner in an Essex County dairy. 10
| keen up his end. he Continued to steal an" d" ~
hi, belief that he had taken To,Ooo a''H''no',
il wa, that the Postoncc Inspectors from "d''S'o'
mayor detected him he was at loss TO say Ic n"'
a,,h 10 .oo,tor- his cashbool or neglect altogether
| -, ,,sLa cntries His accounts were frequently
r,.sed nv th.n, A. O. X" The time had come nYN
ever said seer when he could no longer i
mems lie was expecting visit from the hspe,itor i
6aiiy and no WAS certain that the next uspc' 'lVh
his r,,guerv would be discovered iie 'il'i'.'o' AND
termincd to give himself up tell the "ioe sso' @ h '
n,fnr thc punlshmen. that was in store f3r MN MN
hnninr only for such leniency a> criminal ~ WI" ,. %
fesscs his wrong doing aud manifests pen''c"'0 mag
N', You did right in giving yourself up r aIS Eawe ,
making clean breast OF TN, ana,r, n ss =" '''
W." "i didnT nave the face 10 do ii there 'onii ,,
not stand in town TnSr; ana an .Dcrted my BY them
knew You and tnoueht ! ~Snld ,niI ,2Ine 10 lre''o"
Does your wife know all about III tlIi' rouls brea,
"cr r ronur u,,,, was now pale with emotion and
,i lo n, IN. With the palsy Commissioner Rowe
aid that hi, trouble would be made p"h'' u" ro','
and he ought to inform his we ~ on,' d. IL nnGcr
carcd that he could force himself 1" 90 IL ulr'
any circumstance but he accompanies inc 'v',t III,
missioner to u telegraph office. where ne ., ,cn, III, M
,yife a di.patch saylng that he was IN trenton "i,
Government business and would be dctan,,n un,l' M
vnndnv Commis ,ioncr Rowe at the same tlhle Fir
rronbrd to Postmaster Conklin at Newark i"a'h L"
,end him to Jail at once. Commissioners h""" n"u 0sr
locked nm in "A room at hi- hOcl I"r inc hs''.
This forenoon Postmaster Conln arrived IN lI'l'"h
and Commissioner Rove in The po,tnaa ser t %
r,va his nrisoner "A formal examination. thc po>'
master took a ha,ty glance AT >oers books la't ni~A'
and saw at oncd that Socr was dcitulirr pu' 10
,b,t - >t,ut he could not say. ON inc Nlth'>' st'
Socr rcprated his confession. 'nninl, ,,loher low,
uxcd his hail al 10000. and I'm default commit a
hht', =, ma rountv iail The books IN the Newark
nostotfce will be thoroughly examined; alcr Nh,h
tncr ,,iu br arraigncd before Judge H. l. Green.
~ he allow. hi, story TO stand ana pleads giltS Ill
rourt Inc will receive his sentence at once