The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-06-11
VOLUME 26-NUMBER Sc.
August 9th, 1s7l.-Receipt from /.

August 9th, 1S71.-Reeeipt from /.
NJ NinslOw, of Indiana for 81, 200.
September 5th, 1S7l.-Receipt from
L U. Winslow Of Indiana, for - 275.
September 9th, IS7I.-PrOmissory
note of said company toI. NJ. Wins
low for 81 $3.50.
September 5th, 1STI.-PrrmissOry
note OF said company to l. U. Wins
low for 81 ,362.50.
September 5tb, Is71.-Warranty
deed from 1. U. WinslOw to said COM
pany for the consideration Of s., 200.
January S0th, Is72.-Receipt from
Binford & Gay, Of Michigan, for
81 2O3S. ~.
January Slst, 1S72.-Draft on First
National Bank Of Sandusky, In favor
Of BinfOrd & Gay for 81 ,2O6. SO.
Some Of the transactions connected
with these forged papers were Of de-
eidedly unique Character. The firm
of 'tBinfOrd & Gay, Of Michigan % Is
declared to be 3 myth. The consider
alton for this pretended claim against
the company was large quantity of
feneing-lumber and cedar posts for
the Columbus branch of the road, 10
which it WAS charged on tire books.
None OF that material was ever re-
eeiYed by the company, or used on
any part of its lines. The whole
transaction was u pure fiction, and
the firm Of "BinfoFd & Gay" was
none other than Rush r. SlOuns
The officers of the road have CORES
pOnded with almost every lumber
firm in Michigan, and no person
could be found who had ever heard of
/ this one. SlOane's voucher was mad e
out in this fictitious name, and q
draft was drawn which it is claimed
Mr.. Sloane endorsed in the nams- -Ol
"Binford & Gay" making il payable
TO "Bird, Morse & Co., at the Fourth
National Bank of New York. The
names of Scanklan, of NOrwalk, and
Peet, Of Toledo, which appear in one
indictment each, are also declared to
be wholly fictitious. In the WinslOw
papers half dozen different fOrgeries
are involved. Winslow is SlOane's
brOther-in.law, and lives in Indiana.
Sloane purchased twenty-eight coal
ears for the road from the Adrian Car
Company, which, according TO the
statements Of the latter, were billed
directly to him. Officers of the rail-
road company say that i'm making out
his voucher he presented a forged
bill, representing that the ears were
bought from WinslOw, at u large in
crease over the price actually paid TO
/ the Adrian Car Company, aud that
this difference, amounting to several
thousand dollars, went to swell his
ill-gottsn gains.
II is stated that Mr.. WinslOw is
not, and never has been, in the car
business, and that the use of his
name by Mr.. Sloane was an un-
mitigated forgery. The fraudulent
deed upon which one of the indict-
ments is based, was for q piece OF
swamp land, about q mile from San
dusky, which Mr.. Sloane is said to
have bought for q few hundred dol
lars, transferred to WinslOw, and
from him to the railroad company at
the price of seven Thousand seven
hundred dollars, the land being al
most valueless to the company.
/ Sufficient details have been given u
convey a pretty fair impression oi
the manner in which Mr.. Sloane
managed this railroad and its f.
nanees. The fifteen indictments for
embezzlement, are based upon the
transactions that were mentioned In
detail in our columns, at the time Oi
the proceedings before the Mayor
four days after SlOane's arrest. None
of the legal authorities Of Erie county
have the slightest intention Of en-
tering ROLLe prOseqlti in any OF the
cases, and with twenty-four criminal
indietmepts hanging over him, there
Is abund1nt foundation for the prevail.
ing belief in Sandusky, that the time
when ne will again set foot OH thG
soil of the United States is, at least,
exceedingly indefinite and uncertain
The forfeited reeogniZanee, amounting
to fOrty-six thousand dollars, has no
yet been paid by his bOndsman
Messrs. Moss and McKelvey. A
demurrer in the case has been fileC
by them, which will come up 70
hearing ON the 18th instant. Mr.
SlOane's family are scattered far ant
wide. The oldest son is attending
Harvard College, the second son was
when last heard from, in Buffalo, an
the youngest child. yet mere babe
Is under the care of its grandmother
This was left by the second wife, tn
present Mrs. Sloane being the third
The recent developments in cOnnee
ton with Mr.. Sloane have starteC
anew the tongues Of the gOssippers
and are the almost universal them
OF conversation in Sandusky.