The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-16
The Great Boodler Said to Have
Divided the Spoils.
TELL-TALE MEMORANDA FOUND.
Auditor and ex-Auditor of Pennsyl-
yania Partners in Profits.
Tne Philadelphia "Item" Subsidized
How the City and State Money Was
acknowledgements Losses-In-

appointed 70 investigate the accounts Of
the late City Treasurer Bardsley made =
detailed report to the mayor today. Il
shows that the total balance due the state
and city Is g 594 sol Against this are
credited deposits IN various banks TO May
80 last, $9l6,67S: keystone deposits.
sSZ5,oOO, and Keystone bank checks
paid by Bardsiey IN excess of
the city fund account, lss,o43;
leaving total net deficiency in
Bardsley's accounts OF $55. SIS. To this
deficiency the interest which Bardsley re-
eeived from various banks, firms and indi-
viduals. together with dividends on stock
and securities IN which he invested with
public money, amounting 10 at least s225,-
90, should be added. making a grand to
tai of s925, go represented by Keystone
due bills The experts find more or less ey-
idence Of payments made from tine 10
time by Bardsley to the president of the
bank, which may make up this amount
The due bills are irregularlv numbered and
dated, and this, IN connection with the
fact tha. the experts found four blank due
bills in Bardsley's desk. created suspic-
ion as 10 their genuineness. Whether
they are genuine or not cannot be deter
mined until the experts gain free access 70
the books Of the bank Even assuming
them TO be genuine. they do not represent
deposits in good faith by Bardsley as q
public official.
The public money 10 which he had title
was taken by him and handed over 10 the
keystone bank or its president for no le-
climate reason, but apparently for per-
sonal advantage and TO obtain higher
rate of interest than he received at other
repositories. Bardsley's private memo
randuua books show that he was paid by
the Keystone bank 81 900 each month. COM
mencing January, 1sSa. and continuing
regularly 10 September, 1880, making
q total of $1,000. This sum was
regularly paid in addition 10 the
interest which he received on state money,
and appears TO represent 3 per cent. on the
limit Of 500. 000 OF city deposit One entry
shows receipt Of $500, s.for use Of $4,000
from December L. TO December 81 at
SIS per day The total amount
of interest paid 10 Bardsley in
1889 and 1890 by this bank alone
was sc, ,s27. Thus these due bills repre-
sent loans personally made TO the hank of
public money IN violation Of law. The ex-
perts say 3 number of stubs IN the check
book Of Bardsley's account in the Key
stone bank have been torn out They
have. however. found the checks bearing
the corresponding numbers. all except one
being drawn by Bardsley TO bearer or
s.to the order of myself"
On the stub of one cheek is an entry in
Bardsley's writing: William Livsey.
state treasurer, for his kindness TO me
during the year, $500. ~
On page showing rebates received from
newspapers in which advertising was done
in 1889, amounting 10 SIC, ,2se. appears these
entries:
Less amount paid to a. n Crifsn. 1900: one
half 10 Thomas NcCanant, s7,l445o; one-h2lf
to ]. B., Ai4A5a
In 1890 and 1891 the newspaper rebates
were deposited to the credit of Bardsiev.
The interest received by Bardsley from
bonds and By him converted TO his own
private use during 1859 and 1850 aggre-
gated 500, ,4s
Thoma. McCamant, mentioned in Bards-
ley's check-book, is auditor general Of
Pennsylvania A further statement of
Bardsley's speculations shows that ne in
vested $1.1i6693 in the stock market
Upon this total of speculations he made
losses aggregating $I7U, 769. and gains Of
Sis, ,6S4, net loss of s5l. .9S5. which might
as well be increased by sl0o, 900 Of Balti-
more Transfer bonds which Bardsley gave
Marsh TO help the Keystone bank out Of
one of its temporary predieaments.
That part of the report showing the d.
vision OF spoils with ex-SIate Auditor
Linsev and Auditor-General McCamsnf,
as noted above, created much interest
In the same connection there IS another
remarkable item, a. follows:
NAY s, Isea, H Fitzgerald. Itess, IN place OF
getting mercantile appraisers lss 10 publish,