Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-25

Csgary to locate MIN, EVEN my Olu
friend "Gii." Barger, who volunteered
his services free, wanted and secured
several hundred for expenses, and 80
It WENT mean the money-until l
had but solitary thousand dollars i'm
the bank and Judge Charles G.. Satin,
whose fortunes 1 had forwarded from
the carpenters bench to the Probate
Judgship, touched" me for that
amount. IL came about in this way
however, Satin was on my note i'm the
bank for $1,000. OF course, he knew
that this sum represented his indebt-
edness, not mine, to the bank, mas
much as it was payment to me for sery-
ices rendered whereby his share was
ten times that amount Yet the note
stood in my name with his as endorser,
and he was denghted at the prospect Of
being able to take up the note, and
exhibit It around town as proof that
he suffered financial loss through his
generosity in helping me. Now, every
body in Columbus knew that Satin owed
me all that he was, and that without
my backing and assistance he would
be still showing jackplane instead Of
collecting rents on the 100000 worth
of property he had accumulated in six
years as Probate Judge. 1 knew his
scheme to find some legitimate excuse
to go back on me- and that the $1,000
note would be just the thing to acquit
hm in the eyes of our mutual friends
of ingratitude. Hence, l quietly took
up the note the morning it matured
with my last $1,000, and when Satin
called at the bank during the noon
hour he said: well, I suppose 1 am
stuck for that Elliott $1,000 note. This
is what a man gets for befriending peo-
pie"
There is no Elliott 81, 900 note here;
his wife paid it an hour ago"
The paying teller subsequently in
formed me that Satin turned all the
colors of the rainbow and skunk from
the bank like the cur he was and is.
Of course, the fellow went back on
me, like hundreds of others who gave
me up as lost Men l had befriended
with purse, voice and pen, others whom
1 had saved from shame and exposure,
and others still who permitted a con-
tinuance of their friendship, like
Burns ct al, used it simply as a cloak
to bleed me for all 1 was able to stand.
1 was speedily forced to mortgage
my city residence and country place
for $4,000, all of which went into the
expenses of my trial, lawyers fees, wit
nesses' expenses, and a living for my
family, who, during the three months
Intervening from my arrest to the be-
ginning of my trial, and the three
months more 1t lasted, drew no
revenue from either my paper,
which was seized the day / was put
on trial, May 10th, or from any other
source. The seizure Of the paper was
rascally piece of business concocted
by Moses Il. Neill, Capt C. Il. Clarke
and John ii. Reese. This latter fellow
got shot in the lleshy part of the leg
by Osborne, and he sued me for $4,000
damages Ii Reese had come forward
man-fashiOn, and asked me for assist
ance he would have received the same
But he had heard, through Clarke, that
l had an offer for the Sunday Capital
of $4,000 or $4,000, and putting their
heads together, with Moses H. Neill
| they thought TO shake me down for
$4,000 of the amount When the read.
er understands that those three ours
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all three of them were under Obliga-
tions to me in the matter of valuable
| service performed, their base conduct
viii be properly estimated l declined
to be hlaclzmailed Then, by n law of
Ohio passed that winter, they seized
the paper and gave bond in $4,000.
My stan Immediately left the office,
and, under my instructions, refused to
help the scoundrels get out the paper.
They were stuck, and the paper, occu-
pying premises owned by my wife, she
notified them to remove the presses,
type and machinery Immediately,
meanwhile charging $50 per day rent
for the premises. But my trial for
life and liberty commenced on the very
day my paper was seized, and | had
to intrust the legal proceedings in that
case to Judge Earnhardt, who sold out
to Moses r. Neill and never collected
the y.o, 900 bond, which was easily col
lectable inasmuch as the newspaper
property was in my wife's name, and
was illegally seized as mine.
1 have mentioned that a man named
Emil Kisewitter was interested in the
prosecution of my case. kisewitter
had been county and State auditor,
and at the time of my trial was run
ming a savings bank. IL is a curious
fact that he became State auditor
through a joke perpetrated in the Of
flee of the Capital, by my city editor.
1t occurred in this way, 1 had gotten
up a State ticket by interviewing the
members of the legislature as to their
choice for governor. lieutenant govern
nor, etc The only Office on the ticket
for which no choice was expressed
was that Of auditor. The ticket was
left blank, pending a concenseus Of
opinion by mail / gave my city editor
charge Of the matter. When the paper
was going to press he noticed that the
blank was not filled, and he stuck in
the name Emil Kisewitter, Of Frank
lin" New Franklin County was other
wise unrepresented, and being an inn
portant Democratic stronghold, the
press throughout the State reproduced
the ticket as the expression Of the leg
islature and no objection was raised
to the Franklin County man. When
the State convention met, / led the
Franklin County contingent and Sc
cured the nomination Of KiseWitter.
He was elected and repaid me with the
basest ingratitude /, therefore,
watched his official actions closely, and
caught him dead to rights. He at
tempted to refund the State debt at 4
per cent, and having awarded it at
/ that figure. jumped on the train for
| Atlantic City, where Governor Hoadly
was sojourning to get that Official to
approve with his signature the award
| headed him or with a telegram to
Hoadly, Of the attempted steal, and
sent the addresses Of five bankers In
New York and Chicago, who wired me
that they would take the debt at per
cent. thus saving the taxpayers $3.50.
900. KiseWetter was bailled at the last
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