The Globe-republican., 1891-07-01
sARpsLEy.s STORY.

RhllaAelphiA's Dotsuatang Trsesosss 1ee
lates the story q Ells DownfAu-Ae
Blanss the Bank Exsnlnef.
PHILADELPHIA, June 2A-John Bards-
ley, ex-city treasurer, who several days
ago pleaded guilty of embezzlement OF
public funds. was brought from prison
to court for sentence yesterday, but on
motion Of District Attorney Graham
sentence was suspended indefinitely.
The throng Of regular attendants At
the court of quarter sessions was sup
plemented by men prominent in every
walk of life. who had gone into the hot
court room to witness what they
thought was to be the crowning degra-
dation OF the man whom few months
ago they gladly acknowledged rs their
friend-John Bardsley. the faithless
treasurer OF the city and sel-confessed
violator Of the law.
Two weeks ago when Bardsley pleaded
guilty t0 the charges against him, the
court fixed yesterday as the time to
pass sentence upon him and public ex-
pectation had been wrought up by q
promise that when brought into court
he would make full and free confess
sion of his malfeasance. BY many it
was thought that in his statement or
confession" he would implicate men
high in business and official life, whose
names had been limited at but who were
supposed to have been his confederateS
Such expectations proved groundless.
The confession was in q line Of de-
fense of his own conduct, giving in de-
tail his various transactions 1t bristled
throughout with figures and showed
where every dollar he had been accused
of misappropriating had gone. The
charges to which he had pleaded guilty.
of loaning public funds at interest and
to specializing with them, he frankly
acknowledged, but he emphatically de-
MED that he had benefited by hi. trans
actions to the extent of one dollar.
National Bank Examiner Drew came
In for severe scoring at the hands Of
Bardsley and he laid it to his door that
he sunk his money in the Keystone
bank. Bardsley said that it was due
to Drew's plausible statements of the
banks condition that he had deposited
his money there. He further charged
Drew, through an acknowledgment by
President Marsh, of the keystone bank,
that Drew knew of the condition; that
Drew was under obligations to John C.
Lucas. the dead president of the bank,
for money loaned and for valuable
:avors received.
Bardsley implicated Henry Yard in
his transaction by stating that it was
through him he had loaned money to
banks. According to his statement his
present plight may be accounted for by
trusting too much in the statements of
others and he epitOmized in his own
words in telling the history of his de-
posits in the Keystone bank: II didn't
get the money and have never gotten
any part of it and it is still in the bank,
or should be there. / know that the
closing of the bank meant loss to the
city and state and personal destruction
to myself I therefore made every
effort to sustain the bank, and its clos
ing has resulted in my absolute ruin.
During the time 1 was in the Office
Of city treasurer never had any trial.
actions with Postmaster-General Wana-
maker, nor have l any personal know
ledge of his transactions with the Key
stone bank. have seen it stated prior
to the run on the bank and between
that time and March 90 that Mr..
Thomas Il. Wanamaker, son of John
Wanamaker, Mr. Marsh and myself
were very frequently seen together.
This is absolutely false"