The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-15
SCHWARTZ is HERE.
The Port Angeles Swindler on
His Way Back to Jail.
4 MUCH INJURED INNOCENT.
He Tells . Sad story Of Persecution
and His Fairy Tales Excite HE
Cellmate's Admiration.

Sheriff S. G. Morse. Of Clallam county,
arrived in the city last evening having in
charge Benjamin +. Schwartz, the Port
Angeles banker. swindler and faisiiicr,
who escaped from Jail while under sem
tence for eighteen months on the charge
Of having embezzled 1000 note at the
time of the failure Of the Bank of Port
Angeles. of which he was president.
Schwartz declares that at no time since he
escaped has he been in hiding. but, on the
contrary. worked every day under his own
name for Chicago firm in order TO keep
his wife and child. who recently died, from
want. According to his story. which
shows what an expert teller of fairy tales
he is, he is an injured innocent and the
charge was brought against him from
malicious motives and pushed by false
friends. who threw him aside after he
had lost everything. He is especi-
ally hard on w. Il. Gay. who,
he says. abscondcd from Rockport, NO..
and came TO Portland under the name of
q. W. Lyon and thence TO Port Angeles,
where. on account Of political differences
and trouble over the note before men.
toned. he set the machinery in motion to
cause Sehwartz's ruin. The efirontery Of
the man in telling what everybody knows
to be false is remarkable.
Banker Schwartz occupied cell in the
north corridor of the county Jail and when
introduced TO u Posr-INTELLIGE NCEg re-
porter by Night Jailer William Woolerv
got out of his hammock, put on his
gold-bowed glasses and said: "Ah.
good evening. suppose am al.
dressing q newspaper man." The descrip-
hn nf,x, xrh ha
disappeared could not have been more
accurate, and despite the fact that beard
of two or three weeks growth covered his
face. he was the same smart, intellectual,
benevolent looking man that Port Angeles
people believe an evil genius. His eyes
are brown, his forehead high and crowned
with growth of dark hair sprinkled with
gray. Ii the nose indicates anything of
character. Mr.. Schwartz has plenty of
pluck and energy. 1t has we'll been said
that he used good language and talked
nuensly as he told this story:
did no. intend to say anything for puhiiea-
ton until ! reached Port Townsend, bat now
that the sheriff informs me that am II be- taken
10 Port Angeles. will say that my eass ough; TO
&c put beiore the public with the Same yigor
that ". T. Gay used when be furnished Horace
White. the posr-ISrEIiIaEscEa correspondent
a. Port Angeles. with a column story following
my disappearance. There were tAiags given
out then that no one bur Gay knew. AID IS be-
tween q client and his attorney he was bonud
by ;ae ethics oil law 10 keep "a himself. " hen
went 10 Per; Angeles there we're hardly GO
people there, and now she boasts hoo ana pos
SHY more. think can justly sag thai did
more 10 make her What she is than any other
man, yet when mv raisiortunes came there was
not . beggar in the town who would give ne
kind word, and least OF all ihose who etsIaoed
into prominence over nay shoulders aud by my
help
Among the men who came 20 the town was
one ". L. Gay, who had lett Rocxposf, Mo.
under cloud and 10 kaoxn there IA an alb
seouder. Before coming 10 Fort Angeles he
stopped In Portland under tho name Of o. W.
lyon. This man soaght TO ran the conaiy
politics ana became e.aaty commissions. AZ
the elec,ioa las. fail | opposed the election Of
Judge J. e. Mcstiuton and the present sheriff. a.
variance with Gays wfsaeA There oegsa their
ean.ty. Before this. however, l had become
interested in the city IN many ways and
founded the rxs Nations. hank aud Thea the
nanx of Port Angeles Among sae latter oaaks
customers Was -. II. Gay. who borrowed - 70
and gave a ncte .ad mortgage made hs Aent
". usy, his dependent ofcsaef. - security
After tae note eecsme due IL remained SOMA
tine unpaid. and waea general depression IN
business drove tie tsak 10 the wall Il Was re-
discounted having hera aeld a. eoGisiefAa So
eGtsty. fvopis VITO i've in feF; AAss3ss knew