The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-13
SICKENING SYCOPHACl' OF
new YORK AUTHORITIES

WELLAND, Ont, Jan. l3.-When court
convened this afternoon the Judge ordered
the extradition of James Abeel. the New
Yorker who impersonated young Goelet
and became engaged to Eleanor Anderson.
Abeel's attorneys will take an appeal i'm
mediately to the higher court in Toronto.
NEW YORK, Jan. l3.-The public here
Is glad that The emu OF the Anderson
Abeel-Goelet farce is IN sight. Interest In
the remarkable story was quickly succeed
ed by disgust. Now New l ork is viewing
with POSITIVE pam and revulslon the slav-
ism laDors OF lne pubic officials to punish
at the behest OF the great hmckerDocker
house the youth who dared to use its
name.
Seldom in the history of this city has
such outrageous preference been gwen by
the police and prosecuting heads to
family of name and wealth. 1t has become
a crying shame; this prostitution of the
laws forces to the will OF the puppets of
the aristocracy. 1t is time the people
knew the real history of the great toady
ing deal. The actual story of the case it.
self might as well be told, too. The press
has told neither satisfactorily as yet. Here
they are.
In the first place, the relation of Abeel
to Eleanor Anderson, the pretty telegra-
pher, according to the detectives, was
repetition of an old, old story. To attempt
to ruin girl under promise of marriage is
a thing that crops up day after day. Gases
of this kind are settled by the hundreds
every week in the lower courts. Hundreds
more week are turned away from the
doors of justice. Police and prosecutor
give the cold shoulder to these hundreds
of ruined innocents, the prey of the cadets
of the ''red-hght" district. If the accused
man has disappeared around the corner his
victim is told it's hard luck, that's all.
But, of course, in these simple cases a
knickerbocker name has not been used by
the tempter. That's where the difference
comes in, apparently.
Further, the detective host is authority
for the fact that the object of the offend
ing youth was not accomplished. The SEN
sibilities of the intended victim alone were
wronged. But even the outraged feelings
of confding girl do not furnish the mo-
tive for this moving of heaven and earth
by sleuth and prosecutor to bring Abel
to justice. Oh, no; were that alone che
offense, Miss Anderson would have been
laughed out of Jerome's Office long ago.
The name of Goelet was dragged into print
in unseemly connection at the season
when that house would figure solely as
joining its sacred branches with the house
of Roxborough. This alone has set the
city's police head, the district attorney,
the governor of the state and all the func-
tionares of Canada on the jump to hound
to punishment an overamorous youth.
More than $1,000 has been spent by the
New York authorities in their activities
to clear the Goelet name. Detectives have
L -, A., o,,1 oolx
by jerome as well as the police head.
Frantic wires from jerome have set in
motion the wheels of extraction in Al
bany Official attention, one-thousandth
part of which would bring justice to a
really wronged East-side girl, has been
squandered on tnls case. While the
swindlers and seducers of the hundred
thousands of the pool slip through the
inert fingers of the authorities, men and
money belonging to the taxpayers are
spent lavishly to back this attempt to
of the millionaire. Why? Because the
Goelets ask it. Do you wonder that
jerome has refused to open his mouth on
this shameful business?
When only the sensibilities of Eleanor
Anderson were bruised by the Abel
fiasco, jerome refused to lift finger to
help. Then came young Goelet in person
to see the district attorney, steered by
Delaney Nicoll, his counsel. Though the
world knew his name alone had been con-
cerned, this pasty-faced young aristocrat
demanded redress. He was welcomed and
made much of by jerome. Thenceforth
the whole prosecuting force bent to ex,
ecute his will The arm of the law grasped
for one amorous deceiver on a thrilling
technical charge of forgery in the second
degree. Ordinarily jerome wouldn't ask
detective to step across the street to
capture a man charged with such petty
offense. But this was different. A scion
of the house of Goelet was demanding
satisfaction.
Now YOU can see the secret of the whole