Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-02-05
MONEY. HIDDEN.
IN BOSTON
big cir Ke|iher Says It Is
In Safety Deposit Vault
CUSTOD|AN'S NAME SECRET

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Search For Hidden Loot of National
City Bank Of Cambridge Is Being
Conducted by Receiver Bates-keIi-
her Claims to Have Been Double
Crossed" by His Pals
Boston, Feb. 2-Search for the
hidden loot of which William j.
Keliher was relieved after he and
Martin j. Walsh, king of the faro
sharpers, had feeced George w
Coleman, is engaging the attention of
John L. Bates, receiver of the defunct
National City bank of Cambridge,
which Coleman wrecked.
Big Bill" in his confession, says
much OF the stolen money which he
took away from Coleman is hidden
In safety deposit vault in a certain
bank not far from Boston. Detectives
for Bates are hot on the trail of this
loot.
The name of the custodian Of this
money is withheld until suit against
him is filed by Bates, who is trying
to recover all the money that was
originally stolen from the bank to pay
back as much as possible to the de-
poaitors
Detectives for Bates are also try
ing to corrCborate parts of Keliher's
comics Whara hl uiupc na nf
certain people who were associated
with him in getting the money away
from Coleman.
Il will start criminal action against
any person, it it is shown to me that
he took the banks money with guilty
knowledge" said United States Dis
trict Attorney French after he had
read of the confession made by Kei-
her.
The federal prosecutor said he al
ready has two confessions of Keliher's
in which the convicted gambler makes
statements which accuse a number
Of people with violations Of the federal
and state laws.
Keliher's reason for making the
confession is because he now feels
that he has been double crossed by
certain people who promised to help
him keep out Of jail. He says he never
expected to serve a day behind prison
bars for his part in the wrecking of
the Cambridge bank. He says he ex-
pected the jury which tried him would
be successfully bribed, and he even
goes so far as to say that he believed
certain prosecuting officials had been
fixed also. 1t was not until he was
convicted that he awoke to the fact
that lie must pay the penalty.
Keliher declares he had a large part
Of the money taken from Coleman
when he lkeiiher) returned to Boston
| after Coleman was arrested, and that
| it was his intention to make a clean
| breast of it all and turn the money
| over to the authorities in order to es-
cape severe punishment, but that he
| was prevented from carrying out this
plan.
! In his confession, Keliher gives
| names, dates and places where not
only Coleman, but prominent Boston
| bankers, business men and even a
! Judge of a Massachusetts court were
trimmed The judge lost $4,000
The judge next day threatened those
who had trimmed him, but when it
| was represented to him that the story
| might not look we'll in print and that
he might be removed from his position
| on the bench he desisted
| According to Keliher's amazing con-
fession, one Boston banker was
tleeced of 1920, 900 at fake faro by
W alsh and himself. Another lost in
the vicinity of $4,000 Another prom
| inent Massachusetts citizen lost $40,
| 900.
Although many people insist that
Martin Walsh did not die in New
York as reported, Keliher says his
'pal' really is dead. Many people
believe Walsh's alleged death was
simply a hoax, planned so that he
might live peacefully for the rest OF
his life under an assumed name.