The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-17
MARSH Is IN BRAZIL.
The Keystone President Fled in
Breathless Haste.
uNcovERlnc sARDsLsys CRIME
Congressman Dunham, OF Chicago. said
20 Be Insoivent and Trying to
Defrsud His Creditors.

PHILADELPHIA, June i8.--From facts dis
sloyed today It is believed that President
Marsh Is in Brazil. Bardsley today told a
friend that after Marsh was released on
bail he called on Bardsley and urged that
they both go to Brazil Marsh's argu-
ments we're 50 strong that Bardsley seri-
otisly considered the matter Marsh asked
for $500, which Bardsley promised him the
next day. Things got so hot for Marsh,
however, that he left without getting this
money. It is believed that he has very
little money.
The report of expert accountants show
ing what Bardsley did with the $435. 600 he
embezzled from the school fund was sub
United 10 the council today. II shows
that on May |, 1890, his individual account
in the Keystone bank was overdrawn
$4,000. The next day he deposited in the
bank check from the school fund balance
from the previous year of $4,000.
canceling his overdraft and leav-
ing q credit, against which he
subsequently drew checks. OF the item Of
10000 for the appropriation for the pres
ent school year, accountants trace various
checks which he deposited in different
banks, sometimes to cover moneys bor-
rowed from other accounts and nearly
always to the credit of his private account.
The law department of the city is on the
track Of some Of his steaIings. The city
solicitor learned today of 800 600 which
Bardsley had in one of the banks of the
city in the shape of 80 shares Of Chicago
West Side Railway stock. The solicitor
has fled bill in equity to recover this
stock
The Penn Safe Deposit and Trust Com
pany's books have been put in the hands
of experts, and some startling revelations
of the methods of the hooters who wrecked
II, along with the Spring Garden bank. are
shortly expected.
NEW York, June i6.--George 3. Newall,
~ referee of the New York Equitable Life
Insurance Company, has fled report
recommending dissolution and the ap-
pointment of President Miller as receiver.
CHICAGO, June 16-Certain stockholders
Of the Haymarket Theater Company today
began chancery proceedings against W. T.
Dwight. the president. and Others, charg-
Ing general mismanagement Of the affairs
Of the company. An injunction and an
accounting are asked. The Haymarket is
one Of the largest uptown theaters in
Chicago.
The commission firm Of Z. W. Durham
& Co.. Of which Congressman Durham is
the senior partner, gave notice on the
Board Of Trade this morning that their
trades would be cleared through the firm
of Norton It Worthington. Durham says
1t means that lie is going TO retire from the
commission business and that he took
this means IS the shortest and simplest
way out, and that ii is in no sense fail.
ure, as all of his trades are protected.
The firm was sued in the circuit court this
afternoon for $50 600 damages by Moses
Barn, and at the same time attachment
proceedings were taken out. This action
IL because. il is alleged, il was discovered
that Durham had conveyed away ali his
real estate. Later in the day Barn, by his
attorney, filed petition in the
county court under the terms of
the voluntary assignment act, setting
forth that on June IA Durham was abso-
lufeiy insolvent and knew himself to be
30; that he transferred to John F. Aherns.
his attorney, real estate worth $4,000, the
transfer being as in trust for the bsnefit of
Dunham's creditors. The Indebtedness of
the firm is alleged 70 exceed 500. 900 over
their assets, and the court is asked 10 take
advantage of its jurisdiction TO bring the
firm into court.