The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-28
TONGUE OF CALUMNY
Ever Busy to 1njure the Reputation
Of Good Men.
Charges of bribery Have often Been
Made Against ConEressmcn, But
They Have Never Been
Made Good.
Especial Washington letter.

y criminal who endeavors to
divert public attention from
himself.
1t is a scheme as old as the hills and
was practiced oy thieves away back
of the time of Jonathan Wild, Schin-
derhannes, or any of the others record
ed in history.
Dutch Heinrichs," one of the best
known criminals in New York, about
dozen years ago got away with an
immense tray full of magnificent dia-
monds by resorting to that old ruse.
He knocked the saleman down, grab
! bed the tray,eran out into Broadway,
handed the, tray to a confederate, who
stepped into an adjoining hallway, and
closing the door after him, while
''Dutch" ran down the street bowling
stop thief" followed by the sales
man, who had recovered and came
forth making the same cry
Everybody joined in the chase. The
| salesman soon fell out of the race,
Clutch" kept the lead until the crowd
numbered hundreds, and then he quiet
ly disappeared from the chase; fortu-
nately without meeting a policeman,
who might have recognized him. His
confederate filled his pocket with the
gems, left the tray in the hall, met
"Dutch" that night and divided, giving
Heinrichs the bulk of the wealth, of
course. A few days later they saw
"Uncle Jim Matthew'S" who gave them
long green paper for the sinners.
This story was told confidentially.
a few months later, in "Uncle Jim's"
place on Broadway, near Twentieth
street, and Heinrichs said insinuating-
ly: Captain of precinct had good rea-
som never to suspect me in de game"
Well. the cry of "stop thief" was
recently raised in the national house
of representatives by a congressman,
who made great front of virtuous
indignation about having been offered
bride, and incidentally endeayored
to besmirch the reputation of so good
and honorable a gentleman as Lemuel
E. Quigg, who never wronged any man
but himself
This is said to be the first time in
the history of our country that any
representative has endeavored to bring
| odium upon the name of an innocent
individual, and he also former mem
Der of congress. In 1894 there was
a general hue and cry about certain
senators making use of their positions
to put money in their purses by specu-
lating in sugar stocks. A special COM
mittee was appointed by the senate to
investigate the charges which news
papers had made. One by one the SEN
ators appeared before that committee
and denied having had anything to do
with the stock market, until Senator
Quay, of Pennsylvania, appeared, and
he said:
This committee has no jurisdiction
over the actions of any senator. Never
theless, | will tell you frankly that
have speculated in sugar stocks and
in other stocks for many years, and
that / shall continue to do so, as long
as l please"
The first case of alleged bribery to
come before the congress was on De-
cember 30, 1895, when Robert Randall
and Charles Whitney were charged be-
fore the house of representatives with
attempting to bride members of con-
gress to vote for bill granting all
of the lands lying between lakes Erie,
Michigan and Huron, to a company of