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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-20
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stood excitedly confronting Bigelow at
his desk.
"Bigelow, You Are a Defaulter."
"Bigelow, you are a defaulter!"
Pfster shouted, excitedly.
ooh, my God" he cried. 81 am
ruined, ruined, Tuined!"
Bigelow seemed about to faint.
Neither man spoke for several mo-
ments.
81 have fallen with the grain mar
ket," said Bigelow, finally.
"How much?" asked Pfster. "Tell
me ALL"
Zone million two hundred thousand,
AS well as | know" said Bigelow.
Pfster rushed from the bank to his
hotel and issued hasty messages sum-
moning every M of the bank direc-
tors to a meeting in his hotel that
night at eight o'clock.
His face twitching with emotion,
Pfster faced the men and announced:
Gentlemen, a defalcation of over
ST, 200, 900 has been discovered at our
bank"
"Who is guilty?" was finally asked.
Frank G. Bigelow," responded
Pfster, impressively.
The directors were literally struck
speechless for a moment. Then sew
eral expressed disbelief, and asked
what proof existed.
"Mr. Bigelow has confessed to me
himself" declared Pfster. HE says
his shortage is S ,200,00O."
A meeting of the directors, with
President Bigelow present, was hastily
arranged. The defaulter seemed re-
lieved by the discovery, and appeared
before the directors and calmly spoke
his confession.
Another story has it that William
Bigelow, vice president of the looted
bank, and brother of the ~defaulter, ex-
posed the shortage, although at the
time he suspected other officials of the
bank instead of his brother.
Bankers Save the Day.
When the extent of the d~efalcation
became known, naturally a u was
started on the bank and to meet the
emergency and restore confidence,
more than $4,000 900 in actual
money was raised within two days to
stop the run of frightened depositors
and save the greatest bank of Milwau-
kee from being swept from existence.
The panic was stopped by the formid-
able array OF money, but to accomplish
this there was the most remarkable
rapid assembling of cash in decades.
Chicago bankers contributed $1,000
600 of the total, the metropolitan fnan-
ciers being first to go to the rescue OF
their imperiled brothers of Milwaukee.
Another million was furnished by
the Milwaukee clearing house. In a d
ditioa the other banks of Milwaukee
called in $4,000, 600 of their reserve
funds for emergency purposes.
The II directors of the robbed bank
contributed a total of 81, 635. 600 by per-
sonal pledges from their private for.
tunes, which aggregated more than
$780, 900.
Only last September IN addressing the
American Bankers association in the
Waldorf-Assoria, New York city, Bank
er Bigelow, who at that time. wa:
looked upon as one of the lights rnt
authorities of the banking world, sald
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-20

Milwaukee, Visit has been de-
clared that all the worlds a stage and
every man as an actor in the human
drama of life plays his part. At the
present moment Milwaukee, the me-
tropOlis of Wisconsin, the great city
on the shores of Lake Michigan, second
only to Chicago in its financial and
commercial Importance, has shifted its
busy scenes to the center of the stage,
has trotted out in unexpected and
startling I'M the star performer in
the person of the president of the First
national bank of the city, and has held
the public of the entire country spell
bound by his amazing manipulation of
the millions of other peoples money.
Now you see it and now you don't.
By Way Of Contrast.
Yesterday Frank G. Bigelow, head
of Milwaukee's largest financial in
stitution; to-day a self-confessed de-
faulter to the amount of millions, no
one seems to know exactly how much,
for each day brings to light some new
trust betrayed, some fresh amount of
loss to add to the startlingly large
total.
Yesterday he was the influential d.
rector in a dozen or more different
financial and business concerns; to-
day they are dropping his name n by
one, and assuring their clientele and
the public that he 40 longer has any
connection with the business.
Yesterday Banker Eigelow was
pointed out with pride by the people
of Milwaukee as one of their most
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come to the full light Of the law-he
before the bar of justice; at home, a
wet-eyed wife; on the streets. dishon-
ored friends; in the distance, the gates
ajar of a prison.
A Friends Testimony.
Yet in his darkest hour a friend
writes of him:
broadcast type. He has made 0
young business men than any man in
the middle west. He loved young men.
He loved children. Never yet have /
heard of a worthy young man in bust
ness trouble being turred away By
him.
His glorious smile would give d
CLEAN of welcome and hope to the
humblest of those seeking his aid and
with the smile would go the help
needed. 1t is said hefn that he has
started a thousand young men in bust
ness and that not one of them has
failed"
Has Sympathy IF Many.
i HSn tn1o 1l1CIld dudo'
"The law can have no pity, a
make no EXCEPTIONS; hut you who
Judge this man, remember the other
side; remember that there are thou
sands of us whose hearts are bleeding
for the man we love, for this man who
has stood by us in our hours of trouble;
remember this and be charitable.
In the face of such a tribute can the
psychologist answer why from Deem
Der last to April q of this year Frank
Bibelow, day after day, eonnived at the
Justification of the books of his bank,
made an assistant cashier and possibly
two bookkeepers criminals, and one
of these a fugitive from justice.
plundered his institution for nearly
81. 500, 900 and then when Self-con-
fessed says:
81 have no excuse to offer for what
have done; my family knew nothing
of the condition of affairs"
Character Study of the Son.
The friend quoted above says Of
Gordon Bigelow, the on:
As d yOuuS HIGH hC oOWOo hAo ne
bats and he sowed them thick AID
plentiful, but though the oats were
wild they were clean, there was no
rust on them. The fathers heart bfed,
but it never hardened against his boy.
Mayhap, as is the way with hearts, it
softened a bit with the bleeding. AS
often as the boy would fall the father
would start him with a clean slate.
He had done it for other boys. Could
he do less for his own? And the boy
became a man and put his boyish ways
behind him, but he was still masterful,
still the leader of the gang He took
dips into the stock market and w0p.
HE invested IN manufacturing An-
terprises, and woh- He bought whsAt,
and won. The week before tho crash
in Milwaukee they taieed of Gordon
Bigelow as a broker who had arrived.
Through 1t all the father had
helped him. but he had not guided.
The boy was not that sort. He worked
on his own initiative. The father saw
his successes, his level Judgment. his
foresight, his almost intuitive kn0~I-
/, edge of the game. He loved tbs boy
| this boy VINO had made his heart bleed
and he was growing proud at hsna"
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Breakable.

Mrs. Bakebeans-I told Minerva, the
waitress, that she would have to pay
for what she,broke.
Bakebeans-What did she say?
Mrs. Bakebeans-She asked how much
the commandments were apiece
Town Topics.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-20

Life insurance policies, face value. 5000 600
1850 shares First national bank stock. 5000 0
IL. 200 shares National Electric stock. $4,000
900 acres of coal land in Colorado. $4,000
g. 200 shares in Del Norte company. 10000
Shares in Idaho company............. S0,VVO
Preferred stock, McKenna Process
company PittSburg ................ ZS,0VO
company 5000
Comanche Mining e Smelling stock. $4,000
Chicago Highland association stock. LOU
Stock in national bank, Atlanta. 5000
Fond du Lac bank stock $500
North western Iron company stock. 10000
Shares in Zion Furnace company, Ash uo
IduU ~
Notes of sundry individuals........... 4o,OW
'r pany ufahu Rapids huison 10000
Real Estate company ......... o0,VOo
Shares in milwaukee, iron works.. $1,000
-'I pan ShaieS .. H. Na'eS 100, 900
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-20
Stark Mad.

Lawyer-Did you examine this lady
carefully before certifying that she was
insane?
Physician-Yes. sir. | asked her age.
and she made herself out two years old-
er than she wash. Y. Weekly.
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Homestead Is Included.

Included in the schedule is Mr.. Bige-
lows home at Aston n Knapp
streets, on which he places a valua-
ton of $40, 900, which, less the exemp-
ton allowed by law on a homestead. Is
valued al $35, 900. The schedule OF as
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-20
ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES.
Queer Lot Of Names.

Miss Death was brought to the Ger
man hospital in Philadelphia to be oper-
ated upon for appendicitis. She was a
daughter, she said, of an undertaken.
The name of the surgeon who was
chosen to perform the operation was
Dys-Dr. Frank Hackett Dye. When
the operation vas over Miss Death was
placed in charge of two nurses. Miss
Payne is the day nurse. Miss Grone is
the night nurse. The patient recovered
rapidly, and in a short time babe good
by to DIR. Dye, Miss Payne and Miss
Grone-Fuel.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-20
National BANK Of commerce. St.

The table of assets, with the valua-
tions placed upon them by Mr.. Bigelow
himself. is as follows:
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-20

stood excitedly confronting Bigelow at
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-20
Methods of the Looters.

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His system" has had its day and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
FIRE on H4GGFRTY,s sT00P.
Young Man With Qneer Notions Bothered
McCarren'S Law Partner.

Daniel Langstaff young man living at
$50 Vanderbilt avenue. Brooklyn, who has
been doing all sorts Of queer stunts re-
Gently was locked up in the Classon avenue
police station last night charged with arson.
Policemen Smith and Cohen saw lang
staff climb up the stoop leading to tho
residence OF Henry +. Haggerty, who was
Second Deputy Police Commissioner until
removed by MIR. MoAdoo and who is Seua-
tor Pat McCaIren's law partner at % South
Elliott place.
The young man placed bundle OF news
papers against the door OF the house and
after pouring kerosene on the paper, set
fire 70 IT, Then the cops stepped IN.
After grabbing Langstaff they kicked the
oonhagration into the street. No dam
age was done 10 the Haggerty residence
Langstaf has been in trouble recently
because he went 10 various grocer- and
butchers and ordered goods sent 10 tho
homes of prominent persons. The goods
were al ways sent {. q. D., and the butchers
and grocers have been greatly annoyed
az q result. Among other thin,y-. Lang
stan recently wrote letter 10 president
ROOeevelt
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
CLEAR EXCISE EVIDENCE.
Magistrate Ommen Praises Police and
Rules ON sunday Sandwiches.

Seven excise oases came UP in Jefferson
Market police court yesterday az a result
OF polics activity on unday. Magistrate
ornmen held all but one of the prisoners
for trial. colamending the police for the
clear evidence OF " hioh the arrests were
made.
When everything is printed In the news
papers about the liquor question said the
magistrate, 4the police often get excited
and make arrests eld the prisoners are
turned out for lack Of evidence. These
are not Of that sort.
Four detectives, Ada ms, Glennon Walsh
and Keogh, Of the West Twentieth street
station. agreed in their testimony in the
case Of Henry Meibohln Of 49, Seventh
avenue, who was accused of selling Two
glasses of beer and one OF whiskey
Malachi o. Mahoney Of 1871 Washin ton
street, according TO Policeman Books of
the Charles street station, left his side door
open in the middle Of Sunday afternoon.
When Books in full uniform, walked into
tell O'Mahoney Of his oareessness, he was
called IAN offioious cop for his pains. The
saloonkeeper's defence was that only two
men instead of the three referred to by
Books were in the barroom. He was held
In the other case Magistrate Oommen
ruled
"A sandwich which has not been ordered
does not constitute a meal.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
ALL FOR MUNICIPAL LIGHTING
NO DTSSENSTON IN TANMANY on
THAT OR OTHER .WtTTERS.
Sullivan, with the Rest is for Mctlellan's
Observation-Disclosures OF Chairman
Odcli and Disgruntlcd Democrats Per-
fectly Understood in the NiENam.

Charles F. Murphy. leader Of Tammany
Han. has set at rest number of fallacious
reports which have been circulated lately
to the effect that he was at odds with Mayor
Mcclellan over the effort of the Demo
cratic organization Of New York city to
secure a municipal lighting plant. Mayor
Mcclellan has been and is very much in
earnest in this matter. and Mr.. Murphy
and all Of the leaders of the Tammany
organization are a. one in advocating it.
The report that the Mayor and Mr. Muir
ply were not altogether agreed on this
mea sure was similar to the reports it vas
announced last night. circulated TO the
effect that Representative Timothy d.
sullivan had joined hands with senator
Patrick II McCaTcn Of Brooklyn and
would oppose Mr.. Murphy and his associate
leaders in the Tammany organization
concerning the makeup of the municipal
ticket next fall. Indeed, report was sent
from New Orleans the other day, where
Representative Sullivan temporarily was,
to the effect that he favored the nomination
of Borough President John +. Ahearn of
New York for Mayor next fall
On Mr. Sulllyaus arr al in New York
city the other day. he romptly put "A qwe-
Jus on that report. declaring at the same
,l'''e va, me '''l ,D..,rn,,o,t - ,he citv
heVe IN me gooV s0'.'ilI'i,i'. W ,'-v ~,
favored strongly the denomination OF Mayor
McC lellan. hls announcement on .ne
part OF MI. Sullvan wa hlean' 70 eInNes
nlso a denial Of the statement mat he IN
any way had htched up with senator
McCarren. 49,.
Tammauy leaders SAID last night tnat
they understood oil about the alllhnce DE-
tween Chairman odeN OIL me nepuWnt,ali
Democrats whose political amhitlons had
not been attained and believed that me
alliance would he Of very great service 70
the Democratic organizations when make
up he delegates 10 IN" Guy TphNth''"" ="
nominate "A city ticket next fall.
In declaring himself ~ favor q nlu-
nlcpal lighting pIahl ~ NiII Ply -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
A CHILDREN's TWELFTH NIGHT.
With a Real King and Queen Seated BE-
hind \ 90 Pound Cake.

In the trailing velvet robes OF royalty,
with bejewelIed crowns set jauntily on their
heads thrteen-year-old George Mnroselli
and his fourteen yea r-old Queen from Baxter
street Jane Barberi led the march at a
Twelfth Night party OF the Sunday Kinder
garten Association in Bollentino's Hall
in Park Row yesterday afternoon. 200
members Of the association following with
candesticks Through the hall the King
and Queen. with two 2ayly dressed pages
"hoisting' their trains they said, guided
the way with the courtiens following, TO the
throne. This was behind ninety pound
fruit cake, covered with white frosting.
which made the youngsters bite their lips
in anticipation.
The granting Of crowns was determined
BY the proficiency with which the children
recite the art history catechism, their be-
havior and attendance at the Sunday school.
Besides the crowns, the king received
twelfth night star and the queen gold ring.
The children sang songs. and one re-
cited Paul Revere's Ride Then woollen
Tam o Shanters were given to the girls
and woollen mittens 20 the boys. They
were the gifts Of Randolph Guggenheimer,
who made them u speech in Italian, in
which he advised them TO learn good English.
Mira Truax Mcbride cut the ninety
pound cake with a butcher knife. In the
six LAYERS which were nicely graduated
growing smaller toward the top. we're
seven angels, and seventeen heans, on
which the children guessed for prizes,
receiving perfume, fancy soap and silver
candesticks for correct guesses.
George j. Gould and Louis c. Tiffany
sent contributions for the affair.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
LILIPUTTAN YEGGNAN.
\ beautiful Weeper. He Won Even the
Cops TIL They Dug Out His Kit

Henry Rasen. who runs clothing store
at l52d street and Third avenue was stand
ing before his place of business last night
when he saw boys overcoat IN one OF
the street showcases come to life and begin
TO steal out of the case. Rasen charged
and caught a ragged little boy just as he
was escaping with the coat under his arm
The boy wept pitifuly.
IN never do It again mister. was
cold and hungry. Look at me stookingsr
The crowd oast in its sympathies with
the boy. Policeman Kirk when he bore
the prisoner away. was very unpopular.
Al tho Morristown station the boy gave
his name to Sergt. Fennel IA Joe Cram
and said that ne lived at 1892 Southern
and neglected looking. He had the SYM
pathy Of the police until they began to
search him.
The first thing they found was pair Of
new stockings Joe wept at this point
Il had to do it. Me legs was that cold.
You don't have 10 look no furder. ] amt
got muffin more on me. Homes
But the police kept on looking. The next
thing they found was twelve well made
skeleton keys, The next was two diamond
glass cutters which had seen service. After
that came q very fair jimmy and q lock-
pick
DE iig's mp eaid Joe. resuming his
natural tone. But | amt goin' tel peach.
See
Detectives cent TO 1852 Southern Boulc-
Ngrd found shat il was a vacant lot Joe
ain4tted cheerfully that he lied about that
4, primary department third degree was
administered 1t brought the admission
that he'd been living with yegg gang
at Hunts Point. Joe added that they
abandoned him two or three days ago,
so he started to crack a crib or two on
his own hook
Though they administered the third
degree until they were tired out, the police
could not get Joe to tell anything about
the gang nor confess who gave him the
kit.
"Peaoh2 None for minel' he said.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
GL4ZIFRs ALL on STRIkE.
Not Against n Reduction In Wages, but 10
Force an Increase.

The strike Of the plate GLACIERS wont
into eject throughout the city yester day,
but employers say that instead Of being
against a reduction Of wages as their
delegate said on Sunday, it is 70 force an
increase in wages. The strike Il directed
against the members % the Window and
Plate Glass Dea lers' Association, who
have contracts for glazing at most % the
buildings now under construction.
+. II Holbrook Of Holbrook Bros. So
BeekTnan street, secretary of the assooia-
ton. said Yesterday that the members ~ the
association had offered 20 continue the
wages and hours OF 1904, bui the union
insisted on an advance OF Wtges. This. in
the present condition Of trace. the COM
pania4 could not agree TO.
we have carried our full force OF men
in these building troubles when We could
have done with 20 per cent. of them, as
other employers did said Mr. Holorook.
This strike i the return We have received.
We are now taking ON non-union men az
fast ~ they apply. The only chance the
strikers have Tor reinstatement - 20 de-
clare their strike Of We will keep any
competent non-union men we employ"
Pickets we're posted by the strikers at all
the shops OF the association So many
pickets gathered around the establishment
of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, at
Van Dam and Hudson streets. that II re-
uuired -four policemen to keep them in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
FROM DETAIL TO PATROL.
Fifteen Cops for Riverside section-Sur-
prise for Mctdoo--Detau Difficulties.

Fifteen plain clothes men have been
gathered from various precincts where
they are not needed and assigned to regular
patrol duty in uniform. Five 20 to the
West SiXty-elghth street. five 10 the West
Tooth street and five 70 the Vest l2jth street
precincts, where stories Of rampant crime
have caused fear that the police force
there was inadequate.
Commissioner McAdoo has been con-
siderably wrought up to discover that
Patrolman Owen Gallagher whom he
transferred from the Mulberry street sta
ton to the Fast Eighty eighth street sta
ton to do patrol duty some two months
ago. has been doirg plain clothes duty
down in Capt. Lanuy's Fast fifty-ffst
street precinct. How Gallagher got down
there and into citizens clothes when he was
sent further up and specifically ordered
into Uniform the Commissioner proposes
to find out. Gallagher has been ordered
back to the precinct and duty he was as
signed TO,
I've had the tail OF my eye on Galae CHER
for some time said the Commissioner.
"and now I've got my whole eye on him
| don't see how Deputy Commissioner
McAvoy should transfer him. because
Gallagher made a personal appeal to me
for protection from NcAvoy. who, he said.
was prejudced again him.
Gallagher. in the meantime. ha, applied
for retirement for ply seal disability ana
his case is before the board 4 lreeons.
The Commissioner sail that of all the
detailed men there are only about 200 not
doing actual police duty. Plain clothes
men, he considers do real police duty. but
he intends to reduce the number. There
are 244 where the records would lead one to
look for 2ls Besides, there are seventy
eight men doing short term. or FIVE day
assignments as plain clothes men. The
Commissioner has already taken of ten
men from the tenement house squad.
Il would like TO cut the court squads,
he said but the Judges tell me they need
all the men they have. Everywhere | try
to take off men from details | meet with
protests. not from the men themselves,
nor from politicians but from people in
terested who put up good arguments
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
ROUNDsMEN BY EXPLANATION.
Commissioner McAdOo Has New Wrinkle
in Making Promotions.

Commissioner McAdoo promoted five
patrolmen to the rank OF roundsmen yea
terdav. He summoned them to head
quarters and made a speech.
Gentlemen. | have your names from
the Civil Service Commission as eligible
for promotion and | have your records
of service in my hand Heretofore have
made promotions by taking the first names
on the list. but | am inauRurating new
system with you want to have some of
records that appear against you possibly.
If find you deficient shall reject you and
take men lower on the list Also want
YOU to understand you are appointed solely
on your merits and by me alone, without
outside influence.
The five got in and explained heavily
and satisfactorily
To-day two roundsmen will appear for
promotion to be sergeants