The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-05-27
Forged RAN Road Tickets.
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New York, May 81.

new OrkI nay 4.
On the 18th Of January, William r Barr,
General Passenger Agent Of the Erie Rail.
road, was informed by his agent at Omaha
that two tickets had reached his Office bear
ing the same number and date. Mr.. Barr
sent Alex Sisson, a detective connected |
with the road to investigate the case. The |
officer spent four weeks in Omaha where lie |
discovered the existence of a formidable |
gang of ticket forgers in the city. Sisson re
turned here and took every possible means
to detect the forgers, but in VAIN. The for
geries were perfect, and bogus tickets were
continually passed upon the road.
Just before the Mace Coburn fight
stranger called at the Erie ticket Office, and
asked to have ticket from Buffalo to New
y ork changed to an excursion ticket The
agent saw that the ticket was forgery, and
upon questioning the stranger, ascertained
that he had purchased it for ten dollars from
a Man in Mace saloon, on Twenty-third
street. This man, he said, represented
his Office was at the Prescott House. De-
tective Sisson obtained full description of
the ticket operator from the stranger, and
going to Mace's, found four bogus tickets on
sale. The so called agent had gone to see
the prize-fght. and the detective managed
to get on the train. Here he found hun
Greds of the bogus tickets, and on question
| ing the holders, invariably received the
same description of the seller, but in spite OF
his vigilance he could not capture the rascal,
and when pursuing his inquiries at Erie,
found that about five hundred additional bO.
gus tickets had be, n sold at the Reed House.
Sisson, went to the fight, and the swindler
Also but they did not meet, and good many
tickets were passed on the return trip.
Shortly after his return to the city, SissOn
found out the name and address Of the
swindler He detailed a subordinate officer
to cultivate the acquaintance of the man,
and to buy from him what bogus tickets he
hand. The swindler, Roberts by name took
kindly to the detective, and sold him five
hundred dollars worth of tickets for fifty
dollars, saying that he was short of funds
and wanted to go to Buffalo to get new
supply Of tickets. Having obtained evidence
enough, Sisson arrested Roberts last night
after some resistance, at the corner of Tween.
ty.third and Broadway, in Thomas saloon
He had a number of bogus tickets on his
person, covering nearly all the main Points
on the road. lie gave his name as Edward
b. Roberts. He is known to the police as
, Nevins and Morgan. After being taken tC
the Sixteenth Precinct Station-house, hi
confessed to Captain McDermost that he haC
a lot Of tickets in trunk IN the house o
Marian Walton, No. 60 Green street Thi
trunk was taken and found to contain ovel
3 five thousand dollars worth of forged tickets
D so we'll executed as to be scarcely distin
guishable, except by the duplication of tn,
5 numbers Behind picture frame in tn
s same house the detective found another 10
? of tickets The road has been swindled gu
8 o over twenty-five thousand dollars by tn
operations of this man. Roberts is nov
confined in the Sixteenth Precinct.