The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-26
BARDSLEY'S APPEAL.
The DefauIteTs Effort to Secure
CIemency.
EXPECTED SENSATIONS UEDEyELOPED
He Defends Ills Conduct on the Ground
That His Wrong AetsyTere Not For HIS
Personal Heneat-Drew Blamed
FOR HIS Ruin

PHILADELPHIA, June 24.-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
p1emented 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 browning degra-
dalton of the man whom a few months
ago they gladly acknowledged as their
friend-John Bardsley, the faithiess
treasurer of the city and se1f-confessed
viOlatOr of the law
Two weeks ago when Bardsley pleaded
guilty 20 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
promise that when brought into court
he would make full and free confess
sion of his malfeasence. 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 eOnfederates-
Such expectations proved grOundless-
The confession was in line of 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
F. acknowledged, but he emphati cally de-
MED that he had benefited by his 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. Bards1ey 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; tina
Drew was under obligations to John c
Lucas, the dead president of the bank
for money loaned and for valuable
favOrs received.
Bardsley implicated Henry Yard il
his transaction by stating that it wa
through him he had loaned money t.
banks According to his statement hi
present plight may be accounted for b,
trusting too much in the statements o
others and he epitOmized in his owl
words in telling the history of his de
posts in the Keystone bank; Il didn'
get the money and have never gOttel
any part of it and it is still in the bank
or should be there. I know that tn
closing of the bank meant loss to tn
city and state and personal destructiO
TO myself. I therefore made ever
effort to sustain the bank, aud its clos
ing has resulted in my absolute ruin.
During the time I was in the offie
of city treasurer never had any trans
actions with Postmaster General Wans
maker, nor have any personal know
ledge of his transactions with the Key
stone bank. I have seen it stated prio
to the run on the bank and betwee
that time and March 20 that Nj
Thomas b. Wanamsl1er, son of job
Wanamaker, Mr.. Marsh and mysel
were very frequently seen together
This is absolutely false"