The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-05-18
HEAVY FORGERIES IN WALL
STREET -.
[From the New York Tribune, May 3

Late Yesterday afternoon rumor was
in circulation through Wall street that
a leading Spectator in stock and gold
bad forged checks on The Continental
aud other banks 10 very large amount,
and after converting them into available
funds at some of our leading banking
houses, where lis credit was considered
| first rate, fled from this city. In this in.
stance rumor proved correct. The indi-
vidual referred to is one John Ross, who
for the past month has occupied an office
a. No. 81 Exchange place.
lie has for some time past been known
to the operators 10 and around The Gold
Room aud Exchange, and has previously
borne a good name among monered men.
It is only within the past few months that
his operations in gold and stocks have as
sumed any magnitude.
Although the amount of bis forgeries
will not by any means compare with those
of young ketchun, they are not yet
sufficiently large to create an ex itement
throughout the moneyed circle of the city.
At2 IL o'clock yesterday, Mr. Albert
Speyer, dealer in gold and stocks, re-
ceived from the Fourth National Bank
two checks for $4,000 each, purporting
to be signed by him. certified by the bank
and signed and endorsed by John Ross.
! Both checks bore the same number The
| bank officers state that their ceriifcation
of the checks is a forgery. Mr.. Speyer
also states that his signature is forgery
! The checks came from The Union or Con-
tinental Bank in the regular way of ex-
change, and had been taken by them on
Tuesday. They are Autographed, and
fac smile of those used by Mt. Speyer,
the numbers beng the same as used By
| him upon one Of his checks a few DAYS
! since.
| AT about the same hour Howe & Macy
bankers and brothers al No 80 Wall street,
received from the Leather Manufac urer's
Bank two checks drawn for *54, 000 each,
IN currency, purporting to have been
drawn By them, and received in the way
of exchange by the above bank from the
Union and Continental Banks. They
were made payable 10 the order of John
Ross, and were Irlfect counteriei,s OF the
style Of check used by the firm the rev.
enue stamps on Them bearing the man
of the firm. Both we've forged.
A few weeks since koss pad into the
hands Il Groesheuk & Co., brokers, of
No 80 Broad street. large amount of
money to be invested in Michigan Cen.
/ tlai RaihCad bonds These bonds are
very plain, and are easiy counrerfeire,l
The | o DIS were purchased and given t..
/ Ross Two weeks since he CA lad on Mr..
aroa>b OK, aud, stating that he wanted
10 borrow some money, left as security
what Purpor'ei to be seine OF the bonds
! purchased for him by he firm. The
money WAS loaned him, and The bonds
taken he bond, lef; By him as security
now prove 10 be forged. lie has also, it
IS stated, borrowed other sums from the
firm,
! Ga Tuesday Ross called upon J s.
| Cromise & Co. Brokers, at No. - Wall
street, where lie was well known, and
purchasel S50,Q0 il gold in payment
Tor which lie tendered check 70, SEA
600 on the Continental Bank, wEere he
WAS kn2wn TO be depos''or, and which
bore tie IRRIGATION Of The bank This
check was sert 10 tie bank by the tTtn to
know if the cerlitcaion was correct. The
bank returned for an answer that it was.
The cIerk was by the firm, suits, 9nentIv
deposited in the Eank Of the common.
wealth, and in The regular conr = of
exchange reached tbs Conlnen,a! Bank
yesterday, where Tie certitcation pro-
rounced forgery. II is question Of
yetaci'y at present betN cen the firm and
the bank, Tie former claim that lie hank
,fli.ers Informed their messenger when
eat With lie check that he certicalion
WIS correct Thi> the hsnk denies
! Al . o'c'ock on Tuesday after Don