Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-12
Tho cass County swIndle.
Review ofthe History or nm Infa.
mous Transaction.

a suit was brought ! ncircait court
No. 3, this morning, says the st.
Louis Dtspatch, by gnss county
rgainst the unitoa States Express
company, to recover two pnnka ages of
bonds isslad by that county,t 10 the
Missouri Pacific railroad. In 1850,
which had been placed In the possess
sion of tho express company for
transfer, one box containing i27bond.
of tho denomination Of $1,000 each.
addressed 10 A. D.. LaDue, agent OF
the Land and Railway Trust company.
of New York, ard another box con-
tanning tliirty-iiyc bonds. OF the am
value. addressed to Northup & Chick,
New York. tho last named package
being held by order Of interested
parties. by the sheriff of this county.
who seized them. in transitu, Tie
plaintiff claims IN tho petition that
tho packages mentioned are wrong
fully held by the sheriff, acting upon
the order OF the agents OF the com
pany. to whom the bonds were issued
ami without execution or attacks
mcnt, whereof they bring aciian
against the express company for the
recovery of the same. The fist ma,ned
package was wrOpglully iuken from
the Keeping Of the sheriff of Cass
county by theft and transferred by The
said express company TO tho Land
aud Railway Trust Company, who
now have the $137, 900 OF the COUNTY
bonds in their possession.
Tho defendants answer the plaiu.
tits petition by denying that the
United States Express coninany is a
corporation, but simply common
carriers; and that they hive no
knowledge upon which 10 found any
hr'ict that the plaintiff is the nwncr
u: TIE property described. The de-
PENDANTS admit tina, they received the
PACKAGES ofthc Ca7s county bonds, az
sr't .r:'h in nlaim'i'fFS petition: one
with lJ1 $ .oa0 bon IL from A, -. La
.1ur. marked Il. >. Stephens. New
York. which package was delivered
as per directions. The second pack
are of t',irtv-tivc sSlDD bond IN. de-
fcn'liiits claim was not marked as
claimed by the plaintiT, hut addressed
10 Nm. 7. Nichols. Holden, No.
Wh'c,t IA now III the possession OF the
sheriff oftilis counlv.
stephens, having been made a Marty
to the suit, answers and SAYS that
plaintiff owns no par; Of the bonds.
hut that they + til" rpprrfv of the
land aud railway trust r~ontnaur. of
New York, and were directed TO him
- ;t&ent or the c"mpanv. Messrs.
and Nichols have filed like
answers.
Many OF II readers will doubtless
call to mind some of the troublrs
winch grew ont of the issuing of the
bonds referred to, which issue was
maze III The early part Of the wear
TO the Missouri Pacific railroad
or the building Of n road from Pleas
ant Hill. Hron@h IEoId-n, IN Cass
'ounty. Ia the Kansas line. These
,on'is were placed in the hands OF
slF. Clean. sheriff of that county. +,
rom whom they were taken hy
9iau're!fs mcn during their rad in
Missouri and eastrru Ka,;,a..
ne parties III whose hands the bonds
es, it!'tin" they could do nnIl.in.
VIM ti'r:l. threw them awnv- and
iiHf were Il short time afterwards .
aHnl aud came again into the pos
.eSsipn OF Mr.. Glenn. They were ii
'''"' 'I"i' iNNhH nv ~, federal ;
nfcrs a'f'l takcn TO Lnaycmwori, AMI
in the Quartrrmastcr's
'an'iS oI tait place for safe Keeping.
nj were not again in til. Possession
lie sheriff for 0ma ear In the
the Missouri Pacific trans
'':rt'; these bonds to ilc u. X. & +. /
abroad, by. as is ALLEGED. fraud o u
Ne pHri oi the county ollriqls. Thi,
elton so provoked the people of Cas-.
o;niy that Il mob was Organized Will,
he avowcd purpose of takiug ye,-
tanrc on the guilty officials. Tie
fs;iit was. that three prominent
ieii"rrs OF tn. bar were engaged as
"nnsci for the railroad comlI,uy and
fere regarded aS common enemies Of
he COUNTY. They were murdered in
Passenger train while p~ass!nn
Trough The countr.
The residents in the adjoining.
were SD inrensrI at the mur-
.er that a band of militia men was
rgfnized al Kansas CITY am sen, To :
or arrest the offenders. hu,
one Identified. and III. military
without accomplishing nny-
iiiiG. y short tim" afterwards .
OF the number implicated ;
the murder vert either arrested,
+ had gwen themselves up To The =,
uih"riii"s. and are now before tii,
court of .. .rkSon rnuu,y.