Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-10-14


way clerk, who swindled his employ
ers Of nearly a quarter Of q million
pounds by means OF forged stock GER
tificates, dispensed q very consider.
able sum Of money In charity. Lead
Ing double life and, out Of Office
hours, posing as successful financier,
he was constantly applied to by his
acquaintances to assist charities in
which they were Interested. and he
helped others as generously as he had
helped himself. To beggars he rarely
gave less than sovereign, and time
upon time he went Stunning in or
der to help cases Of distress B
But it cannot, OF course, be asserted
that his gigantic frauds were operated
by him with the object Of being char
table. He was undoubtedly generous
and the total amount OF money he gave
away in charity would have kept him
In luxury all his life. Palmer, the
daring burglar, it would seem, ems
barked on his wonderfully successful
career Of crime solely from perverted
philanthropic motives. He lived humbly
and gave away all he stole. Redpath
lived in such lordly style that one won
ders that he should have managed to
escape detection for SO long as ten
years. 81 sss
Palmer. was without doubt the most
successful burglar England has ever
known, not only because his haulss
were generally rich, but because DUR
Ing q whole decade OF systematic
crime he never once fell into the hands
sof the police. It Is estimated that he.
acquired" more than f1OO, 900 In the
course Of his career, and almost every
penny Of this was given away In char
tty. Norwich, where he lived, owes
him debt OF gratitude 1t is not likely
quickly to forget for his benefactions
In that; town alone ran into tens Of
thousands OF pounds. No local case Of
distress ever came under his notice
without receiving help from him. The
old and crippled particularly evoked
his charity, and it is said that he spent
upward Of 100000 in establishing an
infirmary. s.z
In no small measure was It due to;
his charitable propensities that Kint
the famous bank clerk who robbed
the Bank Of Belgium Of nearly q mill
lion Of money, drifted on his career OF
crime. It was his ambition to- be q
great philanthropist, but as a bank
clerk he had not the means, and, hop
ing to get rich quickly, he went In for
rash speculations. Losing, he robbed
his employers to obtain the money
with which to pay his account and to
make another attempt. He found It
comparatively easy to get hold Of large
sums Of money In this way, and he
went on stealing not only to pay his
losses, but also to obtain funds with
which to be charitable while he was
waiting for great stroke Of luck to
make him rich and thus repay his bor-
rowings. us
Luck, however, was against. him,
and one day he awoke to the fact that
he had In all robbed the bank OF near
y fI,000, 600, which he could never
hope to repay. Discovery being In
evitable, he fled, only, however, to be-
caught and sentenced to fifteen years'
imprisonment.
y Milreau, who was said to have been
connected with some Of the best fami-
Hes In France and to have possessed
considerable means until ruined by
the Panama canal disaster, was one Of
the best friends the beggars OF Paris
ever had, and to obtain funds FOR help
ing them he became a systematic thief.
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