The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-26
AN ALLKGEO OIL sWINDLE.
OF r A. Howe, OF Meadvine. ON
p cha'Se OF Obsaining Money under
False Pretences.

EAA9o NOAcnCeS.
F. Howe, Eeq1 the superintendent of
an oil and lumber company, who resides at
Mesdville' was arrested in Rochester on
Friday last on charge of obtaining
under false pretsnces. The complainant
is acitizen of New York, named Nathaniel
3. Sheldon, and he makes the following
affidavit before Justice Bowling of the
TOmbs Police Court New York city:
Nathaniel Z. Sheldon, being duly sworn,
doth depose and say, that be resides in the
city OF New York, snd at present is stop
ping at "a Rsmsen street, Brooklyn; that
Frederick A. Howe, in the month of
March, in this year, urged this deponent 10
become the purchaser of an interest in a
tract Of land called the Howe Tract situs.
ted in Forrest county, Pennsylvania, and
also requested this deponent 70 make him
(said Howe) his this dtponenfs) agent to
make said purchase: that in order to in
duce this d~eponent to furnish him with
funds to effect such purchase, as said Howe
alleged, said Howe, of the said city of New
York, on or about the 18th of March, in
this year, represented to this deponsnt, that
he said Howe, had ct q time owned the
whole of said tract Of land; that he had
been over the property frequently, and
knew its situation and condition that
there were from two to three million feet of
lumber, of cherry and pine, for every hun
dred acres, besides the hemlock, and that
there were at that time three oil wells
being sunk on the property by s Rochester
company, who had bored h land for oil
purposes, and that the wells were down
about two hundred feet and that on
his way to New York he had pur-
chased three other engines for the Koch
ester company, and that the engines were
on the way to the property (the said Howe
meaning steam engines TO sink wells for the
purpose of finding OILY +; that there were
large coal and iron mines on the property
that the coal mine was open and being
used for 8 blscksmith's forge on the pro-
perty, and that the coal had been used for
yesrs deponent further says that he be-
lieved said statements and representations
to be true at the time they were made, and
relying thereon, he delivered to said Howe,
at said time, S., 500 of the money ofthis de-
ponent that subsequently, said Howe eff
fected a purchase for this deponent of q
small interest-to wit, one thirty.second
uldiVidedshare in said property, which
was purchased for the sum of 50, 500 that
the latter sum this deponent paid one
thousand dollars on being drawn upon for
said sum; that said Howe also paid one
hundred collars for this deponent upon an.
other contract deponent further says that
in the last part of May or the first part of
Il uno IN this uaaH he uyonk 70 eaSA graak lF
land, and, from his own knowledge, now
says that there was no cherry lumber upon
the property, and no pine wood there of
any description, the only kind of pine there
beng scrub pine, unfit for sale or use that
there were no coal or iron mines upon said
property; that there wss one engine on the
property at the time deponent Wss there,
but the apparatus was not resdy" to work; |
Lhst there was no well upon the property,
IS stated by Howe and deponent has sub
,equently Sscertained from 8 statement in
of ssid,Howe to said RochesterCo Com
psny, that said Howe has not purchased
any engine to be used on ssid property in
oil wells; deponent therefore says
hat each statement and representation Of
aid Howe in reference to these matters
vas entirely false, and that said Howe
Knew each of them to be false; that since
deponent discovered said represents
ions to be false he demanded of said Howe
he balance of the money remaining in
aid Howe's hands of the moneys of this
leponent, but said Howe has refused to re-
urn the same, or any part thereof, to this
daponent therefore charges that
AID doWe 1elonfouEfy End knowingly Uo-t
aimed from this d~eponent, with intent to
lefrand by means of false pretenses, the
ffty-hve hundred dollars of the mon
Us of this deponent.
Judge Bowling required Howe to give
'all in the sum of six thousand dollars to
wait a hearing on the complaint.
Mr. GOttlieb Rosenblatt, of No.-7s
hambers street, gave the required security
nd Mr.. Howe was liberated from custody.