The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-04
BOTH WERE FRAUDS
HOW TWO MISSION SOCIETY OFF,
GERS TURNED THIEVES

nuaI Report Deals with the Cases of Ex-
Secretary Newbold and Ex-Treasurer
Oakley, Who Between Them Got Away
with About Forty Thousand Dollars
How Each had a Check ON the Other
and Didn't Use IL but Relied on the
Others Ignorance.
New York, Dec. 3.-The annual meet
ing of the American Church Mission
ary society for the election of officers
and the transaction of other business
was held at the mission house today.
General Wagner Swayne, president OF
the society, presided.
The first business was the reading Of
the annual report in which the alleged
defalcati ton of Secretary William A.
Newbold and Treasurer Henry A Oak
ley were commented upon. The report
speaks of the defalcation as follows:
The past year has involved the So
ciety in severe humiliation and loss.
An overhauling of the society's f1nan-
ces disclosed that the treasurer and the
general secretary had each of them TAX
en- for his own use q large sum from
the society's funds, received for a Sa-
cred trust The misconduct of each OF
them extended over a period OF sew
eral years, and, as is often the case,
even with institutions organized ex-
pressly for handling and taking care
of money, was brought to light main
ly by an accident. The amount taken
by the treasurer is computed by an ex-
pert accountant at s21,S23. The am
cunt taken by the general secretary
IS computed by the same person, at
s19,340 from September 1, 1887.
The society's principal fund was put
in the treasurer's immediate charge,
while the general secretary was put in
immediate charge of the society's cur
rent receipts. The books were de-
signed to be kept so that each of these
officers would have full knowledge of
both funds. The apparent result has
been that each of them relied for i'm
munity upon his knowledge that the
other was in no position to bring the
situation TO light.
1.-The treasurer was a person who en-
joyed in the highest degree the conf
utllCe VI the Willie the
general secretary for twenty-six years
the society's trusted superintendent.
The treasurer found means with which
to make good the sum for which he
was accountable The general secre-
tary had nothing nor had he anyone
who was sufficiently interested in him
to make good the amount.
"The question of proceeding against
+hpcl nerSOr1S ri IS cari-
Gus one and has been as seriously con-
sidered. The money paid back by the
treasurer came from another source
While no promise was made, it was
found that the circumstances were
such that, having accepted it, there
could rightly be no persecution unless
it were paid back, if indeed there could
be then.
1.-The general secretary has been de-
posed from the ministry and is old,
penniless and publicly disgraced. To
proceed against him and not against
the treasurer would be justly open to
a charge that the prosecution was not
because he took themoney but because
he had no friends to pay ii back"
The executive committee was unani-
nous in deciding that the society would
not prosecute.
The Rev. ]. W. Morris. the societys
missionary at Porto Allegro. South Bra
zil. addressed the meeting on the work
that is being done in that country. He
said the people of that country We're
looking to the United States for guild
ance in politics and religion, and that
since the church had been severed from
government rule, the church there. in
the short space of four years, has
grown wonderfully
The officers elected are as follows:
President, General Wagner Swayne;
treasurer, Andrew Seabriskie: secreta-
~, Rev, J. Thomas Cole:executive COM
mittee-Rev.. w. n. McVicar. Philadel-
phia; Rev. ]. s. Shipman, Rev. II. L.
Jones, Wilkesbarre, Pa; Rev. r. F.
Alsop. Brooklyn; Rev. z. W. Appleton
Cheltenham. Pa; Rev. a. B. Kinsolv-
ing. Brooklyn; Rev. J. A. AspinwaH,
Washington, d. c.: Rev. L. s. Osborne,
Newark; Rev. 1. n. Stanger, Philadel-
phia; Rev. J. H. Darlington, Brooklyn:
Rev. L. Bradley. Philadelphia; Rev. o.
A. GlazebroOk, Elizabeth. n. J.; George
c. White, Brooklyn; W. r. Whitney,
Germantown. Pa: H. NJ. Oddie, and l..
NJ. Blackford. Alexandria, Va.