Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22
THE LATTIMER FUNDS.
MONEY COLLECTED FOR CHARITY
AND PROSECUTION PURPOSES.

AND PROSECUTION PURPOSES.
Complete Report Has Beon Made by the
National Committee Of All Receipts and
Expensos-Conmsnt by Rev. Richard
G. Aust, Chairman of Committee.
A complete report of the National
Prosecuting and Charity Committee Of
the Lattimer Victims has been issued.
The report gives an itemized and de-
tailed account of ail moneys collected
for the charity fund, also an itemized
and detailed account Of the expenses OF
this fund. The receipts of the prose-
cution fund are also given with the
same exactness, but the expense portion
OF the committees report on this ac-
count is not as specific as it might have
been. The expenditures are Jumped In
five items, in which no names appear,
and it is not nearly as clear and explicit
as the other portions of the report.
The receipts of the charity fund from
September II, 1897, to the date of the
report, March 5, 1899, were 81, 3O5. go.
The dates and names of the persons and
organizations contributing appear In
the report The disbursements to the
widows and orphans and other depend
ent relatives of the Lattimer victims
were $4,l69.7l. The dates on which
money was paid and the names OF those
receiving it are given. A balance OF
$135. 80 remained
| PROSECUTION FUND.
To prosecute the shsriff's deputies the
sum OF $4,761.67 was collected. The
sources from which the money was re-
ceived is given. The expenses are
placed at S4,751.5s, divided into the
following amounts: Attorneys fees,
$2,756; secret service, S666.4l; printing
and stationery, S95.32; miscellaneous
expenses paid before, during and after
the trial, S974.75; railroad fares and
and horse hires, $500; total, $4,751.5 So.
A balance OF $1,000 remained in this
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Edmund Lembick, John Shigo and
Rev. Carl Houser audited the accounts
and their affidavit attesting to the
| WI cSehSSS VI ohO iCPoio oioo appears.
The balances in the two funds, $l35.-
SO in the charity and $40. 90 In the prose-
cution, were appropriated by the com
mittee to defray the expense OF publish
ing the report and having it printed in
pamphlet form. The papers selected
were tho Slauonian Truth, Freeland; the
Gournik, Wilkesbarre, and the Sza5adsag,
| Cleveland, Ohio, after which the COM
mittec adjourned sine die.
CHAIRMAs's STATEMENT.
Accompanying the report is state
ment from the chairman, Rev. Richard
C. Aust, regarding $500 contributed by
the Pennsylvania Slavonian Association
and the Greek Catholic Union. This
money was disbursed directly by the
representatives OF these organizations.
consequently no mention is made of it
in the report. He also states that the
contribution of 800 from Hon. Bourke
Cochran, of New York, was used for ex-
penses Of the executive committee.
Father Austs report further says:
"Publishng this account OF funds and
transaction during period OF eighteen
months, fulfill my last official obliga-
tion as the president OF the National
Prosecuting and Charity Committee of
the Lattimer Victims Not to explain,
or excuse in any way our transactions,
for they are plain and open, do 1 attach
this short preface to our final account,
but in order to thank charitable gen
| eral public for their kind contributions,
and the Polish, Slavonian and Hun
garian press for their assistance In col
lecting and forwarding various sums
from all states and territories In the
union. The charity fund shows that
the committee has not only assisted, but
entirely supported from September,
1897, to February, 1899, fifty-nine adults
(widows and eripples), and thirty-eight
children (half orphans), victims of the
unhappy Lattimer affair. Our funds,
now being exhausted, we have, instead
of throwing these poor uniortunates
upon the worry of general public,
made arrangements with our poor board,
whose representative has kindly con-
sented to sec to their wants.
! LACK OF MONEY.
GAS to the prosecuting fund, much
might be said. Much has been said by
officous, unreasonable and generally
malicious critics. The main facts in
the case are these:
ITO conduct such case, Of such i'm
portance, handling such a number of
witnesses, and find as opponents men of
capital, cash, and such willingness to
spend it, as we found them, say, to
conduct such case and have at least
some possibility of hope to be successful,
we should have had five or six times the
amount we had at our disposal. When
we made our first arrangements, we
had not enough to pay retainer to our
lawyers, and when we finished with the
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