FASHIONABLE EXILES. Life in the American Colony in Canada.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 187, 15 January 1887, Page 2

FASH ION ABLE EXILES. Life in the American Colony in Canada.

A correspondent writing from Montreal says that the necessity for a new extradition treaty between the Dominion and the United States is becoming more apparent, every day. In the city of Montreal alone at present there are upwards of thirty refogeeb from across the Hoe who dare not eefc foot on American territory. These embrace New York "boodlers" Alderman, Deinpsey, De Lucy, Styles and Kirk; John Keenan, the " Bismarck " of New York politics, who is known to have supplied the "boodle ;" ox Reading Clerk Moloney, who placed the "stuff;" Hoexter, the notorious New York insolvent, who reached Canada with $150,000 of his creditors' money, which he has eince lost in bucket *hopg ; Charles Walters, the Baltimore bank clerk, who is wanted for forgery ; the McMahon brothers of Lynn, Muss., the fraudulent deblois; Goldstein, the runaway jeweller of Albany, N.Y ; Bartholomew, the New England Bunk President, whose trauds were the sensation of a. few weeks ago, but not least John C. Eno, who has been sraying at Windsor for the last two weeks, evidently having became bored with the " eh u rchy ard silence" of his adopted home (Quebec), the ancient capital of this province. None of these mon make any secret of their whereabouts, they use no endeavor to conceal their identity, and they may be. seen daily funniug themselves on rit Jamegstreet, reading the ucker quotations on the " street " or smoking a cit^ar on the rotunda of the Windsor, the fashionable up-towa hotel. Their stealings alone aggregate millions of dollars ; still they walk one streets free as air, and when the word " extradition " is mentioned to them they jauntily reply that t^ey cfnnot br "taken, over" on a mifcdomeanour. Nctlii had the* cool effrontery to teek an af-ylum here in the vicinity where the headquarteis of one of the banks he had victmiicea to ibe extent of §97,000 ww situated, and, in f^ot, wae first seen in company with nib wife surveying the handsome building from tbe street. The New York brorilers continue to live in princely style, Keenan hae a s^ite of six rooma at the Windsor. He drives a fast team, which he keeps at More"'* liverystable near by, lias a governess fo>- hisgirle, and a McGilf College proftssor to coach hia boys e^ery o'ay • c Lacy liver at the same house, and while uc.t so in hit> manner of living spends not lObd (l-Uu G4O a week. At the Sfc Lawrence Ball "Billy" Maloney with his buxom vile ai>d his pretty blonde daughter ie quurtei'id. His two boys have enUied tie Jesuit College, while his youngest, daugb.cr ia a boanler at Ville Marie Convent, one ol the lnotifc. exponsive educational institutions in the province, ;einpsey, Sa>lea ana Kirk are also guests in the " Ball," and many is the bottle of wine they make away wi'-r. The same hou-e boarJe tloex'er aud GoldcteiD, while at the 1 ich Jieu, in the French quartorp, a po feel colony of trailer " hoodlera '' aie found keeping company with the acttose? o ( tho t--econd-clatß theatres. But while Canada, is full of American refugees, it imit-i not bo supposed that the United btuLcc is iiee fiom iis cntii.ge.it of" Canadian -oouimrels. Bo^tor3 pns=eeseB iiumer, tho ocfauiting Montreal rotary, who swindled hi* c.ecits nure ouL of $400,000, while Chiogo givee a rotuge t» his eon, v\bo aidtd and k 'Vieittd hiw lather'R hauds. No.v Voik Imiborr Civdg. the absounding Pic^den.. t *u~ B' . 'largo Bank of Canada, who ruined the juj^iituduu and overdrew his hccoum, to thn tunr .'*S.j^O ('OO, while hia bi other, the ex-Ti\asuier of the Montreal Loan and Mortgage Company, finds an aßylum in Drti tit, Tiuee defaulting cotpoiation oilicjo are no v iocuttd io. iNew York o'iVitaia, the ci v. ity Oierk j DeCourcey Hai nttt, the ex -collector attorney, and Men ill, fclio ex cannier, ih also harbors tho absoiduig Montreal luwyer, F. J. Keller, who i» now a practising attorney of Gotham ; two dcfaul. iug Alfred Isaacs.) and J. P. Klcale, and numerous commti'cial «.vind)o.^. Philadelphia lias a guett, Nathan Isaac j, who a few months ago abH^onded frcun here after swindling the bunk- and hi-! creditors to the tune "of 170.0U0 dol. b> inja-a cf falee> uvoices.