The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-16
The following letter has been received
by The Tribune.
WALKER 4 HILL
Attorneys and Counsclors ut Law
31i.3l5 Conncll Building


Attorneys and Counselofs ut Law
3li.3l5 Conncll Building
Scranton, Pa. .....
Ahurew Nelson walker Walter biddcll I'M
Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In this mornings ISSUE OF your paper, un'
def thc heading, Thought We'll or iiis scheme;
Macaulay Believed II Was Worth s5O,oOO,' ap'
| pears the following paragraph:
MARSHALL testified that he was in scranton once
| Tor Macauay, and was told by him to see Attor-
heys Hill. Walker and Grambs, who had some
connection win the business. In lliii walker
ONCE he got the Key OF the postoiiice Don oi the
bogus international Correspondence Schools tue
intention being to claim all the mail thaC came
to this city addressed in that manner, no matter
II 1t was intended for the real Mteinationai
school.
The dark uncertainty of the first sentence is oil
itself sufficient to diseoior our position IN th's
aiar, but the natural and almost necessary III.
ference from the second misbegotten specimen oi
bad grammar would be that we had not only
| been eustodians OF the postoifee boS key, but,
| Furthermore. had intended to gain possession OF
| mail directed to "Thc International Correspond
| ence Schools
II the person who furnished copy Tor the above
quoted paragraph were present at Macaulays
| hearing yesterday, he must know that nothing
in tho testimony presented would warrant such
a coupling OF our names, nor the name oil MT.
piaihDs Will sucH un inteIitioh'
We are well aware that prolific source OF
| misnfolnntion regarding this matter has been
open to the papers from the beginning by iir
the larger part OF what has appeared in print
emanating from that source nnd beng tainted
with untruth. So far we have refrained from
| making any renonstrancc, but now that Macau-
lay mas been arrested on criminal charge, anu
our names are still persistenty coupled WIFI his
doings, even to the extent OF the malicious IN
|
| quoted, we feel that 1t is necessary to ask Our
| home papers to let some element CT fairness en-
ter into their use OF our names and to have some
| regard for the correctness OF their accounts OF
M. 1a.a,,;," wi ,,I "o .a Wv - a., o,,;,o -,
| n frend of M,c,nIoy and bore a latter oi miro.
duction from him. did get postotice box kew In
our Office. It was found where it had lain ever
since. our refusal to take charge of it. These
| are the facts. Yet the person who wrote your ac-
count o, .he nearing YESTERDAY, deipelateiy Went
o". y. ,s ,,s way W "taeS us ,m n'','.t. .t..'1
IN d,;nr aIi that ,,a ;s a,,n.n, ~ ho,o nn,,or.
taken he would still gain merely what our
vet hero is an a+temnt on tho nart ~ somo nor.
son unknown to us 10 fleh from Ms thing OF
far greater value.
| Our whole connection with Macaulay has been
OF purely professional nature and VIC have
aeeoiueu nonof''ple ana courteous treatment 10
| wore accordod to ne ,vo vonturo IN sov ,h,t orr
city would he richer in ncntlcmsp ti,on sho il
| at present
| FINALLY nermir ia to sov that fin. vo,nr mon
| NJ Scranton who sionod tho Hrst ,nniicot;op for
| a charter q, "rhe Jnternnt;nnoI C,nrrcsnnnIonco
Sohoo,s,, noro not made oor6l,pts of Na,,,l,,,, i,
alleged nnnoses. being assured that If was his
| intention 70 conduct n corresnonJcnrc school
Hmm tbe failure of tbcir onn,cntinp Tiny censnl
| tn have any ;ntcrrs, in Ills nt,o,rs
| ycrv tr,lv ,.,urs
! Walker e. Hill
| scranton pa Ian II
|
heio" we give Il transcript ol lhe
stenoSrapher notes OF the testimony
of Detective S. L. Marshall with refer
ences to Messrs. Hill, Walker and
| Crambs. taken before Alderman Eas
son at the henrin~ of Macoulnv On Mon
dnv II 10 a co,nnIe,a onswer to ~.
| a,,,,,,at> .., 49,, ,..
| uoi,'eiie" ~ 'hS ie''ei VI
"aiher " HILL
| ,rrIr, ,rESTINrONy
| '''
| Alter describing his dealings with
| Macaulay in Chicago the detective pro-
| ceeded to tell about his visit to Har-
| risbure with the originator Of the
| scbana Tn rasnonsa to , question ~.
| to hat l,,,, n II.
.'"'re'e" '''e'e -''''' ''i'''' 'ai'''
A'-So when we arrived IN Harrisburg, lac cut
| OIL his beard, or had his beard changed. lie told
me had better not stop at the same hotel with
| him; that lie did not want any one to know
| that was connected with linn. So ] stopped at
tie Lochiel hotel Tor one week and lie nj the
| iiirShey house, and then moved down to the
iiirshey house. and we each had room adioin-
| ing, ana remained with him ut Harrisburg up
| to tho time he was arrested No, think 1t was
| on the 9th or 9TH OF December he asked me
would come down TO Scranton here, that he
would like to jolly Walker Il Hill along little
while longer; that they were getting impatient
for some money that they claimed he owed
| them, and that he would also like for me to
| look up and see whether there was any mail in
| the box, and get his key.
| Q.-SIail to him? TO whom was the mail ad.
dressed?
| A.-To the International Correspondence School
OF Scranton, Pa, addressed TO box IL.
Q.-Who had the key?
| A.-Thc key was in drawer in Mr.. Hills Of
| flee, Walker Hill; it was taken out Of the
| drawer and given to me | think by Mr. Walker.
| And i
| Q.-Wlat did you do?
Al came down here and saw those people for
| him and joied them along, as he told me TO
| do; and lie also told me to find out from them
| about this charter that they had chartered in
| New York state under the name OF The Inter.
| national Correspondence Schools lie said they
| had gotten a charter there, and that they had
gotten il in his interest as he had their letters
10 that effect; and that they now demanded money
] for their services, and that he had given them
SO many shares, of stock in this company which
he was going to incorporate here, and he did