The Sunday globe., 1901-08-11
Against a Treasury Clerk and His
Own Daughter.
A DEMAND FOR HIS REMOVAL.
The Name Omitted 10 Save, II Possible, His
Daughter, but II will be Furnished Secretary
Gage ON D8mand-DiYorOed by His Wife, She
Tells Her Attorneys the Horrible StOU-A
Responsible Informant Gives Details,

There is an employe Of the Treasury
Department who ought to be in the
penitntiary serving a life sentence
for the crime of incest! His name?
No; The Globe will not at this time
disclose his name, and for the reason
that it hopes or expects this article
will cause his removal from Office and
break up his incestuous intercourse
with his own daughter. The Globe
win state, however, that the name is
Enthusiastically and broadly Scotch, al
though it is problematical whether the
individual who wears it was born in
Scotland.
The man in question is a protepa Of
a chief Of division in the Treasury,
who also wears a Scotch or North Of
Ireland cognomen. This chief is aware
Of the charges made against his pet,
and guards him with rare fidelity from
exposure or punishment. Why he does
so, even those familiar with the facts
are unable to surmise.
The incestuous clerk has been di-
vorced by his wife, and to save her
erring daughter she refrained from al
leging in her petition the crime which
would send her husband to the peniten-
tiary, which he richly deserves, but
which would forever bar her daughter
from breaking off the unnatural rela-
tions which exist between the two.
The wife and mother discovered to her
horror the incestuous intercourse, and
communicated the fact to her attor-
neys, 1t is from this latter source
The Globe indirectly obtains its infor-
nation. The relations Of father and
daughter were maintained despite the
pleadings and protests of the wife and
mother, and she, after vain pleadings
finally left them and sued for and OBJ
tanned a divorce on other grounds, the
husband not daring to contest the pc
tition, fearing, if he did so, that ex-
pOsure and consequent punishment
woulG follow his contest.
The Treasury Department can not
afford to carry this beast on the Gov
eminent payroll and Contaminate the
atmosphere of the Department with
his presence. The Secretary is here.
with notified that the name Of the
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as also, by permission, its source Of
information, to the end that the wretch
may be quietly dropped without Of
Tending public modesty by any further
details or exposing the sinful daughter
to inevitable ruin. A mail request for
the name will be promptly answered,
and the evidence in our possession
furnished the Department.
If this offer is ignored we may find
It necessary in the interests of the
public service and public morality to
be more specific and regretfuhy pub.
lish all the details Of the horrible
crime in our possession. Our inform
ant is a man of such high standing
practising attorney and formerly
connected with the Department in a
responsible positiOn-that there is
hardly any room left to charitably
doubt the truth and accuracy of the
charge. Here are the very words of
our Informant
"You must know that while at pres
ent | am a practising attorney at the
District bar, | have held a responsible
position in the Treasury Department
under a former Secretary. | know the
man in question also his chief
Of division, and the wife who divorced
him, Her attorneys informed me that
she communicated to them in conf
dence this horrible crime Of her hus-
band and daughter. I think you ought
to expose Il in such n manner that the
SHINING girl be shielded and given a
chance to break of her relations, re-
form and live a respectable life. But
the father and seducer ought to be as
suredly dismissed from the public
service, even though he escapes the
penitentiary through the motives
which prevent his former wife from
exposing and prosecuting him"
The Globe has as stated, omitted
the details which the attorney in ques-
tion recited, and which leave no doubt
of the guilt of this beastly father and
husband, but even in his case The
Globe would not have him condemned
unheard and without investigation as
to his probable guilt. This can easily
he arranged, as the attorneys to whom
the wife made the statement can be
reached and no doubt the unfortunate
wife herself
It is up to Secretary Gage at present,