The Detroit times., 1911-09-01
CAWtEf ADMITS
He HIT HIGH SPOTS
Thieving BoOkkeeper Says He Went
After Good Time Hard-Hopes
To Escape Punishment.

II left Detroit a month or so ago
so that my employers would md out
that something was wrong with my
accounts. I didn't have the nerve TO
tell them myself and face the music,
said Michael Gilroy, OF Scranton, Pa,
known in Detroit as ]. G. Cawley. as
he talked 20 a Times reporter In the
county Jail.
Cawley is charged with forging pay
roll checks drawn upon the Detroit
Savings bank with the name OF r. K.
Collins OF the Collins-Green Manufac-
turing Co., Nos. 429-431 Brooklyn-ave.
He left Detroit for Scranton a month
ago. but was found there by the Pink
erton detective agency, brought back
to this city, and locked up.
Cawley is about % years old, but
looks older. He is q clean-cut fellow
with a clear eye. He dresses neatly.
but not extravagantly, and is clean
shaven. He has the appearance OF a
prosperous clerk.
81 won't be in here long" Cawley
declared confidently, and wouldn't
have been here today IL hadn't prac-
tically given myself up to the authori-
llCo. nO AAA9NbCIB lnAhhg 10 oOt
tied out of court. have retained Hugh
Jennings. manager OF the Tigers, an
old friend OF my family In Scranton,
to handle the legal part of my affairs.
He and the officials OF the company
were up here yesterday and we went
over the accounts thoroughly. There
will no doubt be some settlement
made very soon.
II have undergone q severe nervous
strain during the last few weeks and
I am pretty well shot to pieces. l
went directly TO Scranton from here
and got job with Arm just outside
the city. l worked there steadily for
a few weeks and then made up my
mind that l had better give myself
up, come back here and get the thing
over with. So last Saturday after
noon, when / was on the train going
home, l saw the chief - the d. & H.
railroad police department, and man
who. thought, for some reason or
other, was Pinkerton detective.
went over to the chief and gave my
self up. They sent men from Detroit
TO get me. The detectives had been
looking for me since the Thursday be-
fore, understand.
81 have a number of influential
friends In Scranton and they notified
Mr.. jennings of the affair, and got
him to come up here and act as my
attorney. He will be the only lawyer
that shall retain, for, as I said,
expect that there Will be no proceed
ings in court whatever.
afnrxr that hauo haan htfffuO
the high spots right along during the
last year Is true to some extent. I
have been having a pretty good time
all right, but you know that when a
man gets In the fix that I am every
body Is willing to exaggerate his mis-
deeds. wasn't living like million
aire, as some of my friends have said
About a year ago my father died
In Scranton and that broke me all up.
was very nervous after coming back
to Detroit and was sent TO hospital.
Then, when I got out didn't care
much for anything except a good time,
I guess, and went after II pretty
strong.
II am % years old and have been
married five years. I have two chill
dren. My wife and family are now
in Scranton. I was hoping for their
sake that the story Of this affair
would never getinte the papers. None
OF the eastern papers got It, and had
hoped that It would not be printed
here"
R. e. Collins, Of the Collins-Green
Manufacturing Co.. says that he can
not tell whether there will be settle
ment made with Cawley out Of court.
AS yet, he says, there Is no way of
telling just how much the loss to his
company will be, and he does not know
whether the loss will fall upon his
concern or the bank cashing the forged
checks. q