The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-03

Mayor and toll him everybody Il satisfied
No man has better friends. do not I've.
lieve that he u forger and will not believe
II until the secretary Of the association
makes oath that his name has bcen forged.
The bankers know his signature and II Is
absurd to believe that they could be de
oeived."
Prosecutor Emley hurried back from hi
vacation to-day and, upon receiving The
report Of the State Bank Examiners re-
garding the alleged forgeries, wrote a
| letter to all Of the institutions. informing
them that the report was to the effect tina,
the Mayor had borrowed money on collateral
some Of which was fictitious. and upon
Misrepresentation. He requested the
banks to give him any evidence they might
have and advise with him a. TO the proper
course to pursue.
III the banks are not sufficiently inter
ested.' said Mr.. Emley, ito make q com.
plant, I do not feel 1t Is up to me to initiate
one. At the same time to say that they had
been satisfied by payments made by his
friends will not be an answer to my letter.
Any evidence may get will be laid before
the Grand Jury in September. 1t Is up
to the bankers.
With one exception, the bankers have
declared to-day that they were satisfied.
They insisted that they had always been
satisfied that everything was good. Not
one Of them seemed to be disposed to make
any trouble for the Mayor. The president
Of the German American Trust Company
said that he wasn't satisfied, but expected
to be shortly. He said he believed II was
up to the Banking Department to mako q
complaint.
That the city had suffered in any way
was absolutely denied to-day. Owing to
the Mayors absence, the city Is without
an official head. and will be for ten days,
dent OF the BOARD Of Aldermen can assume
the duties OF Mayor.
Comptroller Donahue in the meantime Ia
sitting on the lid He announced to-day
he would pay out no money on anybodys
order until the time elapsed. Last Friday
the Mayor sign ed $4,000 Of bonds. He
also vetoed a much discussed franchise,
showing, his friends. Democrats and Re-
publicans, say. that he was honest. Scores
Of them waited about the City Hall for an
appearance of the Mayor, and showed
personal grief ct his non-appearance.
Tho fact that he is the only Republican
ofioeholder shows his popularity. No one
would say word against him to-day.
According to his partner, the Mayor for
a month has acted queerly. Mr.. Chalmers
said that several times recently he had called
up his own Office on the telephone to ask
IL Mayor Belcher was in. His friends
all believe that financial troubles we're
preying on his mind.
Mayor Belcher Is about so years old.
He married his second wife about two years
ago. She Is reported to be almost pros
trated at their country home at Midvale.
All day long she has boon calling on the tele-
phone to ask II her husband has been found.
The Mayor has two grown children by his
first wife, son and q daughter. They
both live here. The Mayor has not been a
high liver In any sense He lost heavily In
the col lapse Of an ice company q few years
ago, but even that fact docs not clear up
the mystery az to his necessity for all tho
money he has borrowed.