Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-31
BANK WRECKER TELLS
OF Fleeing GAME AND
WHERE MONEY IS HID

BOSTON, Jan. 31.-W. B. Keliher,
who is serving an eighteen-year SEN
tence in state prison for his part in the
wrecking of the City Bank of Cam
bridge, has made a. complete confession
to former Governor Bates, receiver of
the bank In his confession, made
public today, he tells fully how he and
others of the New York fake faro gang
fleeced George w. Coleman, the boy
bank clerk. out of more than $S50,000
the young employee took from the Cam
bridge institution. A striking feature
was the revelation of the hiding places
of large part of this sum. Acting on
! this detailed confession, naming well
known business men who, Keliher de-
clares. received some of the stolen
money, Receiver Bates is to file suits
shortly to recover the money for the
| benefit of the depositors.
1t is declared that the names. dates
I and localities given by Keliher have
been found as described through inves-
legations. Among the things keliher
| explains in detail are:
How he (Keliher} talked with q Mas
sachusetts judge CnoW dead) on the
bench about a faro game.
How the game victim was feeced
and the Judge was persuaded to keep
! quiet,
Game Expenses High.
| How the expenses of obtaining each
! installment of several thousand aver
| aged 100000, including the round trip
| to New York and the salaries of "su-
pers" in the fake faro games.
How two Boston bankers were vic
timized; how Martin Walsh posed as
the friend of John w. Gates and the
Vanderbilts
! In his detailed confession Keliher told
of his trips to Buffalo with Coleman,
He said:
| owe made two trips to Buffalo and
lost $4,000 each trip He was doing
the playing. 1t was the same game
there. The club was at the Iroquois no.
tel. Walsh used to work this scheme at
various places over the country when
man like him was needed These
clubs were all fictitious"
In his confession Keliher said:
| There was man named f. L. ORA
per who took Coleman to New York
the first time he ran into Walsh, and
Coleman lost $4,000 That was before
got in touch with him. Coleman
started things in 1906, taking $4,000 in
gold.
Joked of Stolen Money.
| 81 met Coleman on May u, 1909.
! Coleman and l talked matters over.
| Then Coleman and I went over to New
! York, He had $4,000 and l had $4,000.
We were joking about it, but as a mat
ter of fact l did not know at the start
that Coleman was taking money out of
the bank.
II had previously taken Judge -
over to New York and trimmed him out
of $4,000 1t was my knowledge Of men
and politics in Boston that enabled me
to play the game. | would have been
useless in Chicago, but having been in
politics for Is years in Boston, came
pretty near knowing who were the men
with me and what their weaknesses
were.
Il know that Judge -- gambled
a lot and liked the wine fzzing. 1 rode
up to the court house one afternoon
from the Hotel Somerset in Walsh's
big car. The judge was about to SEN
tence two fellows for gambling and
drinking when 1 stepped up to the
bench with a friend whom l got to
make the introduction.
"Proposition" for Judge.
1T was Judson Keith. l told the
Judge that l had a proposition to make
to him that l thought would interest
him financially
"'You know said the Judge, cant
go into anything that is not right
Judge I replied, you would be the
last man in the world that | would ap,