Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-15
Second Chapter
In the Peculiar Relations of Clerk
Speich and the Widow H.
LIST OF INQUIRIES
For Mr.. Spelohs Own Eye, Which He Can Answer
at His Leisure, Meanwhile The Widows De-
tailed Statement Is Being Put In Legal Shape
The Miraculous Disappearance Of Cows
Horses, Fences and Other Tangible Assets.

Horses, Fences and Other Tangible Assets.
The Globe is admonished that Mr..
Emanuel Speich chief Of the Mail
Depredations Division Of the Postofiice,
has a grievance against us for the eX-
pose i'm these columns a few Sundays
ago, in which we merely summarized
his peculiar management Of the estate
or farm of the wealthy widow, where
by great profit resulted to Mr.. Speich
and but S18 and a ruined stockless
farm fell to the share of the widow.
Desiring to be perfectly just i'm this
matter, we rise to address this much
aggrieved Government official i'm the
following language Of inquiry, to wit:
Assuming that it is a settled fact
you did a vast amount of business i'm
the recent past for Mrs. II. under a
power of attorney. why did you not
render an accounting when properly
and urgently requested to do so?
Why did you "lump-sum' the proceeds
of the sale of household goods, instead
of giving an itemized account Of said
sale. which one honest person might
ask and give? Why did you not keep
and render an account of the hay, corn
fruit. butter eggs, poultry, vegetables
etc. from the farm, which it is well
known you appropriated to your own
use? Why did you not keep an account
of the moneys received and expended
and render an itemized statement of
the same? Why did you not show
vouchers for the barbed wire you pur
chased and demonstrate upon scien
tifc principles the climatic on atmos
pheric conditions on the farm, as tC
why and how this wonderful wire was
eaten up by rust i'm a few years
From whom did you buy the wire, on
was it an imaginary fence you wished
to build2 Why did you not account
for five or six hundred dollars wortI
of young stock which so miraculousll
disappeared the stock you claimed
Fletcher drove off the farm between
two suns? Why did you not, as agent
and with your power of attorney, pur
sue. capture and bring back this stock
and prosecute the man who, you say
drove it off Don't you think you were
derelict i'm your duty toward your prin
cipal? Why did you not show vouch
ers for the purchase of a score OF
milch COWS you say you bought for
Mrs. H.. under the arrangement with
Mr.. Pickett, in the dairy business, and
show what kind of an epidemic on
blight. caused these "kowes' to disap
pear so mysteriously from the whole
face of the earth, so that neither hide
tail nor hair Of a single one OF them
has ever been found, after diligeni
search and inquiry? Why did you not
show where and from whom you
bought these brindled, long or short
horned bovines? Was this likewise a
myth. or the exhibition Of a vivid
imagination? Why did you not show
the conditions under which the sale of
Young stock was effected to settle the
partnership between Mrs. H. and
Fletcher. estimated to be worth at
least six or seven hundred dollars
her share amount to only Sl6 net.
Why did you. under your power of at
torney. refuse to render a bill Of sale!
Did you not feel morally bound to do
so. or did you think Mrs. II. had no
rights you were bound to respect?
Being a man of means a real es'
tate UdIOut Mlltu pl'ouAAANo AA"A tNt
know and understand business princi-
pies. do you consider your transactions
with Mrs H. bear the proper earmarks
of honesty? Did you refuse to rent ~
an account Of your stewardship from a
perversion of that law which says be
honest" or was it from that canker-
ing sin Of greed and mercenary vora-
city, or did you act the hypocrite out
of pure. Unborn, constituencies cussed-
ness? What became of the five horses
left on the farm when you took charge
with your power of attorney? Did
they also etherialize, evaporate and dis
appear from the mundane sphere of
"Ole Virginy?' You said dot does
ffe heat Of horses vas yurf any how
six hundred dollars" In the light of
all this complicated skull dudgery,
when you look at your reflection in a
mirror. don't you feel ashamed Of your
own diminutive little self? If you can
prove to any person other than old
Deland in the Treasury Department,
that you have been square In these
transactions, you can rake in fUe hun
dred dollars, but you must bear in
mind the investigation is to be thor
ough and exhaustive.
And further, Mr. Emmanuel Speich
we sayeth not i'm this excerpt but re.
serve the widows detailed statement
for another time.