The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-04
BANK WRECkER
GIDEON MARSH
.SUBREADERS
Over Seven Years a
Fugitive.
FLEEs FROM PHILADELPHIA
LEAVING HIS BoNDsMAN IN
THE LUReH.
After Nearly circlfng the Globe he
Returns to the Scene Of his ;:
Crime-Quaker City
- Excited.
FLEES FROM PHILADELPHIA
LEAVING HIS. BoNDsMAN IN
TILE LURGH.
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Special Dispatoh- to The Gail.


PHILADELPHIA; :: NoN. 8.-Gideon
w. Marsh, the fugitive president Of the
Keystone National. Bank, which col
lapsed on March 20. 1881, returned to
the city to-day after an absence of over
] seven years, and surrendered himself
!: to his bondsInan, William H. Wanna
maker. -. -: "
The. closing OF : the Keystone Bank
:: created. a tremendous sensation at the
time, and. the developments immedi-
ately Subsequent thereto resulted in the
sentencing to ,lo1g- terms. of tmprison-
1nent.: of John Bardsley. then City
$. Treasurer Of Philadelphia, and Charles
Lawrence, the cashier of the bank.
Both have now completed their SEN
>. Marsh. was at the time of his dis
appearance, May u.s. 1885, under three:
Indictments for violation Of banking
laws. Security in $4,000 had been en-
tered by William H. Wanamaker- for
MaTsh's appearance in court. He sud
denly fled from . the. city, and Mr.
:: Manamaker was obliged to forfeit the
amount: of the bail, and 1t is*said that
he. expended fully $20, geo more. in an
'endeaEor to ascertain the whereabouts
Of the. fugitive;
:. Marsh to-day Informed. MIR. Wanna
maker that he. went. from here to
Brazil, where he remained several
:: years, and then came back to the
United States and located in the State
: of Washington, where he has been
= earning his living He came East a
few days age and was in New. York
Yesterday. He came to Philadelphia to-
day and went Immediately to Mr..
. Wanna maker's' office. Marsh will be
;. SURRENDERED. to the United States Of
= ficerS this afternoon
: !. Not until yesterday did Marshs
bondsman,> who had been prosecuting
:. his. search for him, for years, get an
. inklihg> as. to his whereabouts. Then a
:: telegram canIe to the office of William
II. Wanamaker. W ho is brother of ex
. Postmaster General .Wananlaker, stat
ing that Marsh was at the Hotel Wal
d0rf-AstOria, NeW York. and would
surrender TO, him in Philadelphia to-
day. Mr.. Wanamaker, who was in Bos-
ton, was Immediately. advised and he
left: that city for New York at once. 1t
is understood that the fugitive and his
bofidsfaan. met in New York last night
and that the agreement was there
reached for Marsh:to come to Philadel-
phIa to-day and surrender to the au-
+thorities.
/. This programme was carried. out.
without being recognized on the street
MarSh:werit direct to Mr.. Wanamaker' s
office, and later. in the day; accompa-
MED by.:,his lawyer and Mr.. Wanama-
!. ker, he. proceeded TO the office of United
F States. District Attorney Beck and was
committed to prison to await a hearing
:. :tQ=morrow. morning: -.
-, Marsh, in talking. to friends who
calied.on him in the United States Mar
sha1's office before he was taken to
prisons said in the more than seven
years. Of his absence he, bad roamed al
most over the world and. worked for a
living at anything. he could do. When
!. he'left" he had with him 1885. which he
:: had collected. from two: friends who
owed him that amount: He went by a
circiitous route TO. Brazil, and after
ward travelled from place: to place all
over. the world, He returned to Amer
i. lea and eventually located: in the State
of Washington, where, he said, he had
earned money at any kind of labor he
could get He said he often longed' TO
come back to Philadelphia; but was. de
TERED through a desire to protect his
. children from scandal He felt that to
return would revive a state of affairs
that. would be d scandal TO his family.
Mrs Marsh, by the way, obtained a d.
vorce: from the fugitive about a year
ago. on the :. ground ): of desertion, she
making affidavit that she had received
no word from her husband since the
: day of his absence. -:
: The news of Marsh's return. when II
became generally. known late in the
day, became almost the sole topic of
conversation: Not the least interesting
part Of the; discussions. were in refer
ence to the: effect the sudden appear
ance aOf the :banlS. president would have
in:.poiiticaf circles. . the. name of. the
fugitive has frequently been mentioned
in the .utterances .%of speakers at politf-
cal mass meetings in the: present furi-
ously: exciting campaign, and Marsh
has particularly been the. subject :ot
heated CONTROVERSY between. United
States Senator Penrose and John Wan