Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-24
TREASURER eARDsLeVs DEFICIT.
Experts Find q shortage Of cso.ooo,
which May Reach $4,000.
[By telegraph 70 the DIspatch.l

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PHIlpvrpHA. Pa. May 23.-The affairs
OF City-Treasurer John Bardsley were
brought 20 crisis by bis arrest few min
utes before II O'clock tonight at his home,
corner Penn and Price streets, German
town. He is sick in bed and two detectives
are guarding the room in which he lies. :,
The three expert accountants appointed
by Mayor Stuart to examine Mr.. Bardsleys
accounts discovered discrepancy, OF
$4,000 shortly before noon to-day. Ihey
Immediately notified Mayor Stuart. VINO
directed that they should make formal am
davit. This they did as follows:
$4,000. AND
"Taylor Faunce. Lawrence i. Brown,
and John s. Kuen, being duly sworn ac-
cording TO law, depose and say that they
have been appointed by the Mayor hon
Edwin s. Stuart, to Investigate the ac-
counts of John Bardsley, city treasurer
that in pursuance of their employment
they examined the accounts and ma
misappropriation Of upwards OF S39:0OO !;
also, that large sums of money have been
collected by said treasurer, and although
his accounts with the State have been duly
settled by the auditor-general and demand
made according TO law. the said JOIN h
propef State officer entitled 60 receive the
same, all of which they say is true upon
their own verifcatiou in. part and partly
on information and belief"
AwARRASr ISSUED.
The Mayor Immediately had confer
ence with City-Solicitor Warwick, District
ATTORNEY Graham, and other city officials,
and the result of this conference was the
issuance of warrant for the CITY Urea
surer's arrest. The warrant was placed IN
the hands Of Chief-of-Deteet,Ves Woou;
and that official, with two OF the most
trusted members OF his stan, started ~ ~
o'clock TONIGHT for the handsome new
residence of Mr.. Bardsley in the fashlona-
BILE part of Germantown. Since his trouble
began Mr.. Bardsley has been punctual IN
his attendance 70 his official duties until
this morning, when q note was received
from his physician announcing that the
CITY Treasurer was too Ill to appear at ms
Office. The detectives found him III IN bed
tonight.
COULD NOT BE REMOVED.
Their instructions were to take HIM In
custody if he was able to leave the house,
but they found that he could not be re,
moved from his bed. so Chief WOOD leit
| hrs two men AT the door of the sick mans
room. He will be given q hearing before
Magistrate Pole at the Central station on
Monday at noon, when the story OF hls
| shortage in detail will be told.
AN ENORMOUS sum.
IL is said tonight that the discrepancy
discovered is in the Treasurer's account
with the Third National Bank where the
citv deposits amount to $4,000. Within
| a month Mr.. Bardsley is said to have drawn
49,. 600 from the bank and appropriated IT
| TO his own use. The experts have been en-
gagged in their work for three day., and this
Is the first discrepancy discovered; other
shortages may be brought 10 nght pa
the many banks in which the city funds
are deposited. The discovery was made
today that Mr.. Bardsley's personal de.
post with the suspended Keystone Bank
amounted to 100000.