Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 1, 1894, Page 11

10 NOSHER AND NELLIE SAVER | More Facts About This Interesting Period of the Bank Wrecker's Life, MO.EY FOR BRIBES AND DIAMONDS | Wow the Two Became Acqualnted and How Frequently They Were Together -Girl Career in Omaha—Tell Talo Handwriting, last campalgn a number of rovelations were made regarding the official conduct of certain candidates for tion, among which one of the most startling was the Mosher scandal, based on the rela- tions of the convicted bank wrecker with lis Bayer. Friends of fmplicated offi- clals rushed Into print to deny the truth of the charges, and Mosher himself entered a general disclaimer, followed by a series of denunctatory attacks on the editor of The i Bee, Proof of the correctness of the statements mado was in the possession of The Hee at that time, but after the inauguration of the libel suit against Mr. Rosewater by the ex- sherift a further investigation of the mat- ter was made, resulting In uncovering a targe amount of additional evidence that fully corroborated not only the charge of favoritism toward prisoners in the county fall, but established beyond a peradventure the truth of the story of the liason between Mosher and the Sayer woman. ThePo is in this history of betwoen the ex-president of the Capital National bank and Miss Sayer not only a tinge of romance, but much of revelation as to the present financial condition of the man whose peculations depleted the treasury of the state of Nebraska to the extent of $236,- 000. There is abundant proof that although the depositors fn the Capital are still whistling for the money trusted to Mosher's care, the cheerful wrecker of that institution spent somebe”,”’ .y funds with a lavish hand while oStensibly | undergoing punishment for Y. crimes, and | paid right liberally in -uld, hard cash for | During the re-elec the Intimacy the exceptional luxuries that he enjoyed. | It was charged by The Bee that the ex- | pose of the relations between Mosher and } Nellio Sayer. was a maliciouy and cruel | blasting of the reputation ot a pure young | girl, who was even then on her deathbed a8 a result of the shock caused by the pub- Yication of her story. The attempt to work up sentiment against the editor of The Bee and in favor of Mosher's inamorata was sprung on the public under the following headlines: l “Rosewater Lies About Miss Nellie Sayer, Ruining Her—The Most Dastardly Thing | BEver Occuring in the State—Ruins a Repu- table Young Lady for Political Purposes—in Order to Strike Bennett He Ruins a Woman's Reputation—The Most Dastardly Libel Ever Perpetrated in Nebraska—A Hard Working, Respectable Girl is Ruined— Rosewater to Be Arrested and Prosecuted Most Bitterly —Miss Sayer Never Saw Mosher in Her Life." TERRIBLE HAVOC WROUGHT. Then followed this version of the case: # & % “A few days ago Miss Nellle Sayer was respected among her ac- quaintances, was loved by lher friends and was engaged to be married to a respectable young mai residing in Chicago; was, in fact, a young woman whom tho breath of scandal had never tainted. Today she is a social outcast, broken- hearted, disgraced, with relatives lover unforgiving; poor Nellie Sa now be compelled to lead a disgraced lifo the remainder of her days, and all because of the heartless, disreputable and untruth- ful articles that have appeared in Fhe Bee concerning her. * * * The absolute truth of the matter is that Miss Saver is a bright, intelligent, virtuous, industrious young lady, who never even saw Mosher and knows nothing further than that which sho has read in the newspapers. Coming here from a comparative village, Stella Neb., Miss Sayer Is attending a commercial college, ler time being most completely taken up with her studies. She has seldom been out with gentlemen, and then only to places of public amusement. Durlug all the time sho resided at 1517 Leavenworth street it can be found that she hardly ever re- celved company; that she was never alone with gentlemen, and that it is absolutely certain that Mosher was never in the house." It was stated editorially that “The Bee had never before done anything quite so atrocious as the deliberate wrecking of this young girl's life,”” who was “the life and Joy of the unassuming American home which Rosewater has burglarized for political ef- fect.” It was further stated that “against her character not a word of reproach can be truthtully uttered. Well educated, intelli- gout and refined, Miss Nellie Sayer Is the center of n circle of self-respecting, selt- supporting young women, who are indignant at the foul treatment thefr friend has re- celved. * * * Poor Nellle Sayer is to be pitied tn her disgrace, brought on by mis- vepresentation and fabrication.” It was announced that subscriptions would be recelved for prosecuting a fight In be- halt of Miss Sayer, and the recelpt of money for that purpose was acknowledged, but what was done with it is not yet a mat- ter of public record. However, facts are facts and therefore stubborn things, and in the verified his- tory of Mosher and Miss Sayer during 1893 thore fs little to comfort the friends of elther or to warrant their alleged indignation, when but a portion of the whole truth was told. HER CAREER IN OMAHA. That Nellie Sayer came to Omaha in the fall of 1892 a pure and innocent girl there are possibly none who dare gainsay. She sntered the school of telegraphy in the Ramge building and made her home with the family of Mr. Arthur, on West Leaven- worth street. She was well thought of, and not a breath of suspicion was directed agalnst her until she becamo infatuated with & smooth and not alto- gother gulleless , attorney, who of- Noes not any miles from the corner of Fifteenth and Harney streets. woord- 10g to the admission of Nellie Sayer her- welt, her downfall dates back to her ac- quaintance with that man, and to the fre- quently recurring theater visits, moonlight walks and late ovening drives with him was due the birth of a dread suspicion In the hearts of her friends and her subsequent change of boarding place. She went to the boarding house of Mrs. McKuight, 1814 Dodge street, and soon thereafter gave up her intention of becoming » tolegrapher, and onterod the business col- lege in Boyd's New theater bullding. Up to this time she bLad never scen Moshor, but had become exceedlngly friendly with | ar | a clerk employed by a well known merchant tailor. | Mosher in the meantime had not been pin- | ing for female society. He was taken into the custody of the Unfted States marshal in the latter part of January, 1993, and after pleading guilty to several of charges against him was released « pending sentence. 1s a great deal of evidence showing visits made by Mosher while in y and companfonship of a deputy United States marshal to divers houses of as signation, and it has been stated that it was at one of these places that he first met Nellio That young woman, however, gives altogether different story of her first meeting with the man whose acquaintanc brought her so much unpleasant notoriety, and inasmuch as he has solemnly asserted under oath that he never knew such a person Nellie Sayer, it may be interesting to / what she has to say about it Mosher, after his release on bail, and even for a time before it, boarded at the Midland hotel on North Sixteenth street, and thither in the natural course of events Nellie Sayer drifted. She says that she did not know Mosher at the time she went there, but she did know a woman in Lincoln known to fame of the unsavory kind. It so hap- pened that in the long ago, when Mosher's thoughts of Sioux Falls came only in dreams. this girl had known ‘“Champagne Charley,” possibly not wisely, but exceedingly well, and after he was snatched rudely from out her life sha transferred a portion of her af- fections to one of Mosher's bosom friends to be held in trust. When she learned that Nellie was stopping at the Midland, she wrote her that Mr. Mosher, who was also stopping_there, was an old friend, and re- quested Miss Sayer to see him and find out when the bosom friend aforesaid, who was then awav from home, would be in Omaha, It was in complying with that request that Nellle Sayer says sho first became acquainted with Charley Mosher, and from that very moment the acquaintance progresssed fast and furiousl But it must be remembered that during the earlier months of his existence in Omaha Mosher had not been forgotten by Pauline Hall, another Lincoln girl who had sur- rendered her virtue at his demand, and who frequently. visited him in this city to assist in whiling the waiting hours away, and for a time lived with him at a place ‘ Sixteenh street Moshe s wblivious of Pauline’s re- ¢. nim, and on one occasion he vinced @ desire to reciprocate in a material way, carrying this intention into execution by presenting her with a pair of diamond earrings. When he did that another $180 the bail an as kng of ex-Capital National assets faded from his possession. Had Pauline been satisfied to retain the diamonds_as they were given her, it Is quite probible that they would never have figured -In- this narrative, but she was not. The dlamonds were set-as pendants and, after wearing them a while, Pauline con- cluded that she would be better satisfied if they rested against the lobe of her pearly ear for a background and, communicating this wish to Mosher, asked him to have them reset on screws or pins in accordance with her desire: HE GAVE THEM TO NELLIE. Mosher had by this time transferred his inconstant affeetions to Nellle Sayer, and he took possession of the diamonds with an alacrity that might have awakened sus- picion in a person less devoted than was Miss Hall at that time. It was very soon thereafter that Nellie blossomed out in & pair of diamond earrings that Pauline had been wont to wear, but would wear no more forever. They were a present from “Charley,” who told her that he had loaned a man some money and taken them as collateral, but if they were not re- deemed by the I8th of that month they would be hers for keeps. It goes without saying (hat they were never redeemed, and Nellio gladly hailed the sunlight on the morning of October 18, on which occasion she confided to a friend the reason of her Joy. But Pauline did not know of this trans- action and, after walting what she deemed a reasonable time, she asked Mosher why he did not bring back her diamonds. It would never do to tell her that he had given them to another girl, and none knew this better than the astufe finuncier, so he told her that he was temporarily bard up and had pawned the stones to raise a little ready money to meet emergencies. Pauline was satisfied with that explanation, and so re- mained until she learned the truth. That Nellle Sayer knew that she was to receive the diamonds was conclusively shown by her action in requesting a lady friend at the Midland to pierce her ears for them, and this was done on the very morning of the day on which Nellie went o the Jail and received the ear rings from Mosher, who placed thewm in ber ears with his own hand in the presence of the woman who accompanied her to the jail on that occasion. The lady who pierced Miss Sayer's ears is stll a guest at the Midland. Sh placed a pair of small hoop rings of her own in Nellie's ears when the piercing was done, and Nellie wore them away when she went to the jall to get the pair that had been promised her by ““Charley.” The storfes of the chambermaids and por- ter of the Midland regarding the relations between Mosher and Nellie Sayer were mado public several months ago, covering the time that Mosher was a guest at the house as well as after he went to Jail, and the fre- quent telephone calls for Miss Saver from “No. 189" (the county jail) are matters of history, as are also the oft-repeated mnid- night cab rides, when Miss Sayer left the hotel and procesded failward In August Nellie went to Lincoln, where sha remained for nearly a month, not for getting, however, to frequently return to Omaha to hold overnight scances with the bank-wrecking individual who was sup- posed to be In close confinement in the county Jall. Previous to the time of her departure for Lincoln, Nellle Sayer had made the acqualutance of Mes. Ingalls, who then resided at Tenth and Pacific streets, but who removed to the Leavenworth street flat after the departure of Nellie for the capital city. About the middle of the week before the state fair, Albert Benuett, the younger brother of the ex-sheriff, called at the house of Mrs. Ingalls and toid her that he had been “‘hunting her all the afternoon.” He sald he ‘wanted to engage & room for a woman for that night and breakfast in the morning. He pald $1 In advance for the desired ac commodations. Nellle Sayer arrived about 7 o'clock that evening and said that a friend would call on her later. It was barely dark when Mosher arrived In company with Albert Bennett. The latter remained five or ten minutes and then went away, and was seen no mora that night. Mosher remalned in Miss Sayer's room until about 12 o'clock when he left the house alone. Nellie re- turned to Lincoln the following morning. Before taking her departure she sald she was coming back to Omaha to stay, but that her room rent In Liucoln was pald in advance for about ten days longer. She then made arrangements fo take up her abode at Mrs, Ingalls’ and at that time had her trunk removed there from the Midland. The next week she repeated her one-night visit and Mosher was there as before, the BEE: SUN —\ DAY, APRIL 1 THE program being apparently the same as the former oceasion. The foltowing Satur day she returned from Lincoln for good, and from that time as long as she remained at the Ingalls flat Mosher was thers every Wednesday and Saturday night The secret of Moshor's liberties was tipped oft by Miss Sayer, who did not attempt to conceal her knowledge of the fact that it cost Mosher $30 every time he got out of jail. It evidently came to the ears of Mosher that Nellle was talking too much and he upbraided her on the occasion of one visit for telling any one that he had to give up $30 every time he got out of jail, as It might make it harder for him to secure such privileges If the truth got out TELL TALE HANDWRITING. In view of the positive declaration of Mosher that he never knew Nellie Sayer the cut herewith may not be uninteresting to those who are famillar with the handwriting of the convicted ebraska financler, who Is now ‘“doing time" in the Sfoux Falls peni- tentiary everal Omaha bankers who had occasion to transact business with Mosher for a period of years have positively identified the writing as that of the ex-president of the Capital ational bank, while a number of experts, who have compared it with known specimens of Mosher's writing, have unanimously and unhesitatingly declared it to be the same. In view of the further fact that Mosher claimed to be financially ruined and without means It fs interesting to know that he not only found ample means at his com- mand to bribe his way to temporary free- dom and make presents of diamond ea rings, but that the erstwhile poor girl, who had come to the city to learn telegraphy, and later stenography and typewriting in order to make hcr own living, suddenly blossomed out in expensive silks and satins, and in some way found f{t convenl ||E to “blow 10" about $5 a week for gloves. When she went to Chicago to take in the fair, after ex-Deputy Jailer Horne had called on her and told her that she must get out of the city until after election, she had a trunk full of costly clothing, including silk underwear and an abundance of high-priced apparel of various kinds. At that time she gave to the colored servant girl all the Roods that she had worn prewous Yo" th Aavs ~f her suddenly aoquifed prosperity, for at this stage of the game 25-cenis-2-yard goods were not in_her line. During the earlier part of her stay at Mrs, Ingalls’ she received a letter from her mother, telling her that a girl from her home town was coming to Omaha on a visit and would call and see her. Miss Sayer was very much perturbed over this OMAHA DAILY | information, and said that her family be- lieved that' she was at work. They had formerly sent her money with which to pay her ‘hoard, but sinck she left school ‘they supposed that she wiis earning her own living. This girl would not understand how she could afford such fine clothes, and would tell the folks after she went home. In order to avert a possible discovery of the life she was leading, she attired herself in a very plain, cheap dress on the day on which she expected to soe her old friend, but for some reason the girl did not call. When the Figaro printed the fiction about Nellie Sayer being on her death bed because of the publication of the story of her re- lations with Mosher, she was still at the house of Mrs. Ingalls, and when she read the article she laughed about it, and de- clared that she “would rather be roasted by The Bee than coddled and upheld by a paper like the Figaro. 5 Miss Sayer did not pretend to deny the truth of the statements made regarding her relations with Mosher except the one that she first met him at a_house of assigna- tion. To a friend who knew her before coming to Omaha, and who spoke to her about the Mosher scandal shortly after its publication, she said, “they can't get us in jail. We're too tough a crowd.” When asked if it was true about her knowing Mosher, she replied evasively “I didn’t meot him the first time where they say I did. M.ASCULINE WEAR. The new cutaway sack for business wear 18 one of the most popular fads of the eeason. The absurdly large, club-like canes are only carried by extremists and those who wish to attract attention. One and a quar- ter to one and a half inches in diameter is the limit. The hunting Jacket is a garment specially adapted for driving, riding and hunting. It is a hand-knit woolen fabric, very fine and elastic. Like the billiard jacket, it has silk sleeves and is lined throughout with red flannel. There is a slight trousers. The width is medium and ayer- ages nineteen inches at the knee and six- teen and one-half inches at tha bottom, being a little more tapering . than before. The bottom has a slight spring, and there is a welt three-eighths of an inch wide at the sides. A mere suggestion of a crease is in order, back and front; not sharp, as that suggests the ready made stock trousers. An excellent glove for driving is the tan- dem. It is an oak-tan deerskin, having the thumb and full palm reinforced with red tan leather, and is therefore of two thicknesses. The material is heavy, vet soft and pliable. It has a pique stitch and the opening at the wrist is bound with red tan. An extra qual- Ity of this glove is the chevrette, which Is also finished in the same manner. In suitings, homespuns, cheviots, worsted, vicunas and tweeds are shown in a great va- viety of colorings. There is a tendency to get away from too cmphatic patterns. Very pretty overplaids, qulet, yet entirely new, are quite popular. The shades are largly soft brown and gray. Very small checks in two shades of gray, drab and brown are very stylish, The Oxford, Cambridge, seal brown and indigo mixtures in soft vicunas will sult men of quiet taste. The close-rolled cane-umbrella is more popular than ever, and to reduce its thick- neas, when rolled up, the rod Is made of steel and the number of ribs reduced from elght to six. This weakens the. umbrella for practical purposes, which, however, seems to be of no conseque The silk is plain glace, being thinner than twill. The silk covor 18 made to fit very tightly and it buttons snugly at the top. A novelty Is a dark leather cover, which covers stick and all except the handle. 4 An ageeable change from the so long popular four-in-hand scarf is the De Join- ville, 4t has made its appearance in a variety of small checks in highly colored but well contrasted combinations, and also in the hest known Scotch tartan plaids, such us the Forty-second, Forbes, Argyle, Gordon, Stewart, McLeod ‘and others. The scarf is from forty-four to forty-eight Inches long, by six and @ half inches wide. 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Cloth, ornamental, $1; paper, 50 cents Lovell, Coryell and Company, 44-47 East Tenth Street, New York. . The Book of the Builders. ' This famous ' work Thas been rightly described as ‘“The Autobiography of the World's Fair.” There s an unspeakable charm about autobiographical writing, in its simplicity, directness, Intimacy of knowl- edge and richness of incldent. And when this veracious and gossipy metlod of nar- ration can be applied to the genests and developing of a great event, it becomes of thrilling interest and unrivaled instructive power. What a remarkable work would be a his- tory of the Pyramids, written in thls man- ner: First, the man who originated the idea would write of the earliest crude con- ception in his mind, the reasons therefor, the modifications and developments of the plan and its final adoption by the Pharaoh of his day. Then the officer who selected the site would tell the story of the contests of various Nile cities for the honor and the rea- sons why the great monuments were placed uear Cairo. Then the architect would pra- sent lis varled tentative plans, showing why the present imperishable forms were adopted, to the exclusion of richer and more im posing styles of architecture. Then the builders would have their say, recording the transportation of mountains of stone over illimitable deserts, the laying of the broad and deep foundations, the feats of engineer- ing in building the upper courses, the dis- astrous episode of the Israelite slaves march- ing away under the command of Moses. Then the astronomers, the priests, the royal court officials, could set forth the relations of the vast granite piles to the scientific and public life of Egypt. What a chronicle of marvels that would be! Or, imagine a history of the battle of Waterloo, In which Napoleon should explain his purpose and t Wellington, his ar- rangements for Ney, the charge of the French cayalry; Vivian, the deeds of the English horsemen; Grouchy, the delay of h army in the fatal distance; D'Erlon, th combats and crumbling of the French right wing; Blucher, the rush of the Prussian brigades upon the embattled field, and Cam- bronne, the annililation of the old guard. How indescribably thrilling would be a history of the diet of worms, written by the great emp Martin Luther, and the at- tending prelates; or of the CRUCIFIXION, written in defail by St. Peter, the doubting Thomas, Pilate, Calaphas and’ Mary Magda- lene. When the leading s world's great events can plan and labor anc write together ' concerning the details of thelr achievement, we shull come very closé to the veritable foundations of history, and find their annals at once more worthy and reliable, more plauant and engrossing, than the perfunctory work of pale students in their lonely libraries. The “Book of the Builders” Is exactly such an ideal work, in which the Columbian falr, the grandest event in the modern era of industrial supremacy and human brother hood, is chronicled with minute precision and ing interest by the very men who planned and carrled it forward, and brought out of myriads of obstacles an unprece- dented success. It is an iuspiring pleasure to read in the very words of the victors, of grand conceptions evolved from noihing, of dificulties re- wmoved and obstacles evaded, of depros- sion, conflict, disaster, perseverance, and the final majestic triumph, whose fame fills all the world. The chiefs of the fair have themselves written the varying chapters of the “Book of the Bullders." Seventy-five of the leading artists of America have p pared for it an immense number of choice pic tures, and the Columbian Memorial Publica- tion soclety chartered expressly for this work by the state of THlinols, with ample financial quipment, will shortly Issue the work AL great cost tho society for a popular edition of this re markable book expressly for our own subscribers to be sold at merely nominal cost. The fuller announcements will be found in another pa ho Bee book's will not be a dreary condensation, but a skiliful epl tome (not wreatly reduced in size) of the costly Edition de Luxe, written in a piotur esque and instructive style, and containing all the salient facts and the finest pictures of the larger works. This sumptuous book sets forth the lnerinost chronicles of the Columbian fair, as contributed its leading projectors und ofcers, and it will certainly be an invaluable educational and general book of reference In any library, - ~ cure sick Risers. tors in any of the Pills that headache: DeWitt's Little Barly The Bee has arranged with | « I i 1 W t ever gets this i ABSOLUTELY IV THE BUILDING WYCKORF, W ANGLO-AMERT M. R. TRAUERMAN, Attorney BQUITY, COURT, Rooms 3 « E. VIAVI COMPANY, w ARMY HAMILTON CLOSE UP YOUR CLUBS QN 20U AUVRES, Another Excursion Party Goe To Portland, Oregon, and the land of frui and flowers, Wednesday, April 4th, and a se ond party leaves Omaha Saturday, April to select the land to be covered by their op under our HOME GUARANTEE PLAN. The following telegrams have been received this week from parties now on the ground: TO D. H . STEARNS, Omaha: Your lands are A1, Your right. Its officers gentlemen, WM. WHITAKER. MARK A KING, company all TO D. H. STEARNS: Have seen Clarke county. Are pleased. MecDonnell Piace is fine, J. A, GILLISPIE, J. A. McCLURE. Nothing anything like as well located or fine and valuable as this tract will or can ever be offered again, Ninety acres now left. W ho- lucky. Oneof the great advantages of our plan and this place is, you know in advance who your neighbors are going to be, who you will asso- ciate with in social, church and school worlk. (The state of Washington hasthelargestschool fund of any state in the union.) Over forty families of the best people. Cajl at our Omaha office, 101 Bee Building, and ex- amine the list of names, We seek American people, who have an ambition for something better than workiny for somebody else. Our terms and prices are fair and you deal with parties ¢f known responsibility. 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