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

BOSTON, Jan. S1.-W. B. Keliher,
who is serving an eighteen-year SEN
tence in state prison for his part in the
wrecldng of the City Bank of Cam
bridge, has made 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
fieeced George w. Coleman, the boy
bank clerk, out of more than $S50000
the young employee took from the Cam
bridge institution. \ 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
and localities given by Keliher have
been found as described through inves-
legations. Among the things keliher
explains in detail are:
How he Q<elihes> talked with Mas
sachusetts judge Mow dead) on the
bench about q faro game.
How tire game victim was feeced
and the Judge was persuaded to keep
quiet.
Game Expenses High.
How the expenses Of obtaining each
instaliment 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 We're 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;
I'VE 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 ho-
tel. Walsh used to work this scheme at
various places over the country, when
a man like him was needed. These
clubs We're 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
l got in touch with him. Coleman
started things in 1905. taking 81 900 in
gold.
Joked of Stolen Money.
u met Coleman on May u, 1909.
| Coleman and l talked matters over
Then Coleman and went over to New
York He had $4,000 and | had $4,000.
We were joking about it, but as a mat
| ter of fact | did not know at the start
that Coleman was taking money out of
the bank.
4 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 % years in Boston, l 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 fizzing. l 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 / stepped up to the
| bench with friend whom | got to
make the Introduction.
"Proposition" for Judge.
1T was Judson Keith. | told the
Judge that had a proposition to make
to him that l thought would interest
! him financially.
You know said the judge, I can't
go into anything that Is not right
Judge I replied, you would be the
last man in the world that | would APP