The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26
BANKERS ROW In JAIL.
Six Recent Occupants Whose Combin-
ed Shortage Is About So, 474, 900.
Chicago Inter ocean,


Tier No. on the third floor of the Cook
county Jail is bankers row. Within the
last three years its cells have been oc-
cupied by men once prominent in the
financial world, and It has become as
choice SOJOurning place in the estima-
ton or prisoners as IN the Lake Shore
drive In the consideration OF Chicago
outsiders
Six bankers have left homes of luxury
for more or less pT0rdct6d visit a num-
Der sOme-Or-Other OF the NTH tier. The
inner corridor is the meeting place Tor
these embarrassed financiers, who are the
envy of the less fortunate men under the
law ban. There are rugs IN me cells;
an easy chair here and there substituted
for the four-legged stoll; embroidered
covers conceal the rough tables and pho
tographs are hung against the iron graf
ings that form the sides OF the CramDed
apartments provided Tree of charge by the
county Friends and relatives supply
flowers that suggest that il is summer
beyond the Jail walls.
Theodore Schintz was the first banker
10 lodge III the county Jail He was
charged with the embeZzlement OF $4,000
from the Ertel estate. Other shortages
made the total about $500, COZ. Shintz is a
comparatively young man, and he did not
adjust himself readily TO a lie that con-
fined his activities He found no con-
genial companions until Charles ". Spald-
ing arrived. Spdiding is an older man
than Schintz, and his presence appeared
to relieve the pioneer OF the bankers
colony. Spalding retired to Jail owing TO
shortages aggregating $4GO, 600 in the Globe
Savings bank, OF which he was president
He was convicted OF endorsement and
made a trip TO Joliet before the Schintz
case wis disposed OF by the courts. Later.
when the former president of the Globe
Savings bank was brought back to Chi
cago TO testify in a civil suit, his mar
riage to his StenOgrapher gave d touch
OF unusual interest TO a Jail romance
N.-.sI -s.-ga 4
week, and then the other banker and the
less ariStOCrdtic residents showed the
greatest Difference to the young woman.
Spalding was taken back TO the Deni-
Tertiary. and an unsymp2thetic jury
caused SchintZ to follow him on an in
determinate sentence of from one to ten
years. But the bankers row had to be
made ready for new tenants. +. :. Dreye-
formerly OF the firm Of +. ). Dreyer d Co..
tool possession of cell No 9l2 before
Sp, i7g left the Jail This apartment IS
nea4 ne door. and is considered desir-
able Oreyer Is by nature a philosopher.
and on his first visit TO the jail he took
the view that he was enjoying the rest
cure. He said the change did him good.
and that ii was d relief to get away from
business. He deliberately prepared for
long stay, and seemed ret to mini the first
five months When his IoI mer partner
moved next door he extended a cordial
welcome TO him, and did all in his power
70 ms Se him feel at home. But Berger
look Things nard- Inc Dreyer ana Ber-
ger shortage was $4,000. and this fact
seemed to weigh on Bergers mind. The
arrival of George l.. Magill was a pleas
ant diversion. Magill had a small dis
crepancy of $4,000 70 account for in his
business of the Avenue Savings bank at
Thirty-frst and Michigan avenue.
The three bankers renewed their prev
ious acquaintance with one another and
became fast friends Fer four hours a
day the prisoners are allowed 10 exercise
in the big corridor from which flQ cells
open. From $3.50 TO 1i:30 a. III. and from