The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-02
A $40, 500 BOND ROBBERY.

Arrest Of Brokers Having Some Of the BndA
in their Professionalism ExaminatioIo al
the Tombs Police Court. q
On the night of the 22d of March last the safe IN t
ONCE Of Ambrose G. Kingsland & Son, No. IS Broad
street. was broken into and robbed of fifteen virgin
State bonds Of the value Of $1O,5Oo These bond
were numbered as follows :-1,A3, 1,101, liza
1l.47s 12e1s 1904 2Ss, s74, s2e 1896, so1s, 4s2,
4,951, 4,952, A953
A day or two ago Mr. George L. Kingsland foun
record of the numbers of some Of the stolen bond
the books Of Manning De Forest brokers, 10 Wal
street. and he thereupon appeared before Justid
Bowling and made complaint OF larceny againS
John b. Manning and Albert H. De Forest. On thy
complaint the Justice issued warrant and pacad q
In the hands OF detective Duseubury, who yesterd0
arrested Manning and De Forest, and recover4
four of the stolen bonds, which were in their POD
session. n
The prisoners were taken before Justice Dowli1
Cunning S. Bedford appeared for the prosecutioj
and Mr.. Robert Sewa for the defence.
The first witness called was the complainant, NJ
George L. Kingsland who testified rs follows <
George L. Kingsland sworn deposed:-Fifte4
Virginia State six per cent bonds were stolen fro5
Sons, at No. IS Broad street. on the e2d Of Maro3
1868; have made an AFFIDAVIT which details 10
Monday or raeSg this week At ts their
10 Wall street: saw both Mr.. Manning and Mr.. ID
Forest; had a conversation with Mr.. De Forest y
told him shat had received notice from the Aul1<
tor Of the State Of Virginia informing me that q
bond had been> sent to Messrs. Isaacs 4 Co., Of
altered and that ne had presumed 1t to be one Of he
bonds stolen from. US, OF which we had received
notice; that this bond had been sent down to Mesrs
Forest, Of New York; De Forest told me that his
bond had been brought into his once along win q
number OF other bonds; that he had declined to uy
this bond for the reason that 1t had been defaedd
but had bought the other ones; he showed me aise
recognized the numbers OF ten bonds witch ire
our property; DE Forest also said that he neeL
q our ns9 naTss and ts
said that he had sold all the bonds he had boufhtt
meaning the bonds the numbers Of which wera
were the bonds which We're stolen on the 2ad q
March: he used the expression "all the bonds;n nat
was Monday, the 27th Of April Mr.. De Forest old
me he purchased the bonds from Hendricks Christie
4 Co.; there seemed to be no concealment Of the
fact that he had these bonds: the bonds were inouf
between the night of the 2st and the morning ofthd
Sewall, after which detective Dusenbury was pltced
on the stand and testified to obtaining four OF the
bonds in question from the defendants on o search
AT this stage Of the examination Mr. Bedford vitlf
drew 08charge OF LARCENY and put in the charge OF
reccivt ystolen goods. Evidence to prove this was
then Introduced, when the prosecution closed. 4
Mr. Sewall then made motion to dismiss the wnfh
the testimony His Honor denied the motion, and
witnesses for the defence were called.
MT Hendricks, OF the firm OF Hendricks, Christie
Co.. was the first witness. He testified to klow@
them $1,000 worth Of virginia state bndsj
$4,000 of thcse bonds were issued before the
war and So 900 since; for the former charged fifty
cents and for the latter thirty-sx cents this waa
their full market value; when offered these binds
for sale did not know that they stolen; reven
heard Of the Kingsland robbery; bought the bonds
from Mr.. William Muir, OF Broad street; one o. the
bonds was deiaced when bought It. and Mr.. Muip
afterwards refunded its value to Mr. DE Forest;
have been in business since 1861 II Is commo1
thing In Wall street to reject Southern State bondA
for informallties.
tourned until half-past ten O'Clock this morning the
defendants being required to enter into 900 bon
each for their appearance.