The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-03
THE PRODIGAL son
John G. Emo Will Return from
Canada to New York,
Fugitive from Justice Seven Years-His
Connection With the Skull and Bones
Society Said to Have Helped Him.

lSpecalto TIE HERALD-Examine DISPATCH.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2-It is understood in club
circles that John G. Emo, eX president of the
Fifth Natio nal bank, who has been q fugitive
from New York justice in Canada for seven
years, has arranged his affairs and will be able
to return to New York early in the winter or
not later than March. DR.. Eno's father. Amos
r. Emo, is the owner OF the Fifth Avenue hotel
property which was mortgaged in 1884 for
about s., 100000 to save the Fifth National bank
fr ON failure as a result of its fast young presi-
dents
MISAPPRoPRIATIoN OF SECURITIES.
After the sensational Grant & Ward and Ma
rine bank failures, it was found that the Fifth
National was about insolvent. Its president
johnny" who had been hail fellow well met
Tor years, was found to be practically a de-
faulter for nearly 100000. Though Eno's
| father and William Walter Phelps pledged
their fortunes to save the creditors from loss
Emo was obliged to go to Canada to escape ar
rest. New Workers travelling near Toronto
have since seen him living in luxurious exile
following every foI N of social pleasure and dis
spa slpatio1 co as OF old and as popular in a
be among New York club men. He has never
however, feared criminal processes of the
courts, but has always felt that if he could com
pound with his creditors he would be able to
escape criminal prosecution. 1t is reported
that Emo has recently visited New York sew
eral times IN the past nine months and met his
creditors or their representatives and made
compromises
HOW YOUNG EMO FORFEITED HIS BAIL
and managed to escape the vigilant detectives
who were watching has always been a mystery.
Those who know him best assert that it is due
| almost entirely to the fact that young Emo was
a member of the Skull and Bones society of
Yale college. This is an organization which
| has something of the strength of Free Masonry,
1t processes TO elect fifteen of the leading mon
OF the senior class to its membership every
year. Its influence in Yale college, though
| has ever brought scandal upon it until Emo was
| indicted for dishonesty. The membership of
| the society includes some of the most infiu-
entail men who have graduated from Yale col
| @. Emo was member of the class
| Of 1869 at Yale. He was the recipient
of the wooden spoon, which was given to
the man who by popular vote was regarded as
| the finest gentleman in his class. That honor
insured the election of its recipient to the Skull
| and Bones society. Whetherthe society eXerted
! its influence to save itself from the disgrace
which the prosecution and Imprisonment OF
Enc would have entalled is of course question
which only the members know, but 1t is certain
| that since Enos arrest and his jumping his bal
| and his residence in Canada, some influences
have been brought to bear which cannot be at
tributed entirely TO the wealth of his family. II
| Emo returns he will probably be arrested, al
though it is understood that it is his intention
to deliver himself to the district attorney.
BAIL WILL BE ASKED FOR HIM,
as it was in the cases of the Doodle aldermen
when they returned, and Mr. Eno'S friend.
think that this will be the end of the crimina
/ prosecution, because in seven years it is almos
impossible to get the evidence which was in tht
possession of the district attorneys office wher
Emo ESCAPED. Emo has made n good deal O
money since he has been in Quebec, and it i.
gossip at the Manhattan club that he is now
worth not far from 81, 10000.