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ject to the disposition of the city and

Ject to the disposition of the city and
state"
Continuing. he says: 81 have been
asked why l do not know what the
keystone bank did with the ss25. 600
deposited with them between March
and October, 1890. 1 reply, 1 never
knew of a case of depositor
asking the bank officers what
they proposed doing with his deposit.
In concluding his statement, Bardsley
says: For the past twenty years my
household expenses have never ex-
ceeded s., 800 per year, which sum also
included my personal expenses. In
March last L moved to Germantown
to be near the factory, buying last
which sum represented my wife's
savings of her lO-cent pieces, my saw
ings from all outside sources, espe-
cially my salary for services rendered
in any capacity outside my public duties
or my business, all set aside towards
this home, which my wife and were
Preparing for Our Old Age.
81 married twenty years ago, and
from that day to this we have lived and
denied ourselves. l understand l am to
be sentenced on three charges: First,
loaning public funds; second, receiving
interest on public funds, and, third,
buying securities with public funds.
These three charges | admit to be true.
Not knowing there was any law against
lOaning the state money in my hands
did loan to Robert Glendenning q Co.and
several national bauks in the city and
to several other banks through II. Ii.
Yard various sums of money. Every
dollar of the money l loaned, either to
Glendenning q Co., or to banks, was re-
fnrnQH a tho finQc fivnd hu mo
gether with interest, and all of this
money, both the principal and interest,
returned to me, l have paid over. No
part of that money is now in my posses
sion, L am especially anxious
that this court and the public
shall fully and clearly understand that
neither the state nor the city is the
loser to the extent of 81 by reason of
my doing any of these things for which
l have been indicted. On the contrary,
the profits arising from these transac-
been put by me within the control of
the authorities to whom they belong.
1t has been asserted in the papers
that
Many Prominent Politicians
and others have been borrowing from
me and have shared in some way the
profits of the Office. l want to say in
this connection it is true | have assisted
many men in private, political and pub
lie life in small loans. yet in every in
stance, so far as L can remember, the
money has either been returned or is
amply secured, and in no case has there
been any person or persons benefited to
the extent of 81 by reason or
my holding the Office. l have not shared
the profits of the office with any one.
was not aware of the existence of the
act of 1860 under which was arrested.
The act was passed over thirty years
ago, and there has never been any ac-
tion brought under it to the present
time. l have resided in this city over
forty years, thirty-fve of which have
been in active business, and over
twenty-five years in the public,
service, twenty-three of which was a.
member of councils, deYoting the best
years of my life to public work, neglect
ing my business so that made no profit.
neglecting my family by my mind and
body being devoted to public interests,
working fourteen to eighteen hours
almost every day, taking neither time
for rest or enjoyment of any kind,
working nights as well as days in the
Interest of the City
and during all these years living in the
most economical, because of want of
means, never eXpending on myself or.
family at any time over S1.500 per year; !;
denying them almost all the comforts of
life, depriving them and myself of the
ordinary pleasures of life because of my
want of money, and now, advanced in
years with wife and family to support,
| am stripped of all my property, my
family pennileSS, thrown on the chari-
ties of the world, my reputation
destroyed and my body in prison, and
all for what? Because bank has failed
in which placed the money entrusted
to my care and because l have violated
law to me unknown and never before
enforced. | have accounted for every
dollar of the money collected by me,
and | have shown that | did not keep
one dollar Of it for my own use. Having
accounted for all moneys collected by
or entrusted to my care, cannot be
called dishonest: it cannot be said l
have robbed or embeZZled, cheated or
defrauded either the city or state; and
when l have made all reparation in my
power by turning over all my property
and giving all possible assistance to
both city and state, what more can /
do?''
AT the conclusion of Bardsley's state
ment, District Attorney Graham asked
the court to suspend sentence indefi-
nitely so as to allow the expert account
ants to pursue their investigations fur
ther. This the court agreed to, and
Bardsley was taken back to prison.