Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-09-06
More RascaItty.
FORGED ENDORSEMENTS on DISTRICT Az
DlroRs CEkT FICATEs-A STREET. con
TRACTOR ARKrSIEn.


FORCED ENDORSEMENTS on DISTRICT Ar
DIrORS CEKTI FICATEs-A STREET cos
TRACTOR ARRrsTED.
This morning Detective Comes took into
custody street contractor named J. ID Var
eey, on warrant sworn out hy Mr. q lhert
r watson, who charges him with obtaining
the sum Of sos by selling 10 him "A CERT cate
issned by the District Board of Audit for
slt9s2 to X. :. Davis, aud purporting 20 be
endorsed by said Davis trustee, with Intent
10 defraud, well knowing al the time of saiI
selling that the pretended endorsement OF n.
=. DAVIS, trustee, was fraudulent 10 seems
That Mr.. Watson purchased the certifcate
win Others, which ne disposed OF 10 a broker
named Speiden. The latter suspected thai
The endorsement was not genuine. and TOOK
the certificate 10 Mr.. Davis. az his Office on
4 = street, when Mr. Davis pronounced N "A
forgery AT a glance, aud took IL this morning
10 the auditors Office, where an inveSti-
CATION disclosed the fact that not only this
but several other certificates OF the BOarl
OF Audit, with false endorsements. are IN
clrculation-Oue with the name OF Commits
sloner Phelps-and also that cases are found
where duplicate certificates have been IsSuei
These Developments have caUsed consider
ahie eonsternation about The Columbia
building. MI. Davis today swore out a
warrant against James ID. Nernay. charging
MN WIN forgery. 10 Is not known as yet al
Nbo are implicated I'm this business. but the
lact Is aScertained that the certificates are
genuine, and that they have been stolen
rom The Office q the Board Of Aalit-whera
Iney are presumed 10 be kept untu The
hltDn-llN nj
owners forged on them. and then sold in fife
market 10 is a. yet imposSi bic 10 saw what
number OF them have thus beea a0stracted
Mr.. DISTRICT ATTORNEY wills Frpsr
REFoRM.-Before the commencement Of tie
nearing OF United States cases ln the Police
Court this morning, Mr.. Campbell CARING
ton stated that he had lust received a nofa
from Mr Wells, which he read before the
court, as follows:
WASHINGTON, n. G.. Sept. eth. ly7s.
rHIrffHF 4 80
Ny Dc0T Sri left hurriedly a. ; morn
lng, ana therefore failed 10 say that I wished
al convenient time this morning you would
announce 10 the court that hereafter no g0I-
fHoSq1aos will be entered by the ssistapt
District Attorney In the Police Court. bar
that IN All cases where parties are arrested
on criminal charges the case will be submit
ted TO the court for its consideration. Yours
Truly, III. Ill. WELLS. Dist. Attorney.
Mr.. Darlington remarked that this had
netn written al his own request, not desiring
10 exercise the power nor assuming the re-
spOnSlblllty or entering Rglie yr JSegl6es with
out the knowledge and concurrence OF the
court.
The judge remarked that ne was very CHAD
MI Darlington had taken this course as 10
"oaia relieve him OF many embarrassments-
A QUICK JoB.-Water Registrar Timothy
lubey, IN accordance with pre- vious notice
had the water turned of i'm the eastern sec
ton and other portions OF tie city on Satur-
day night, for the purpose OF putting ia a
stop-Valye In the thiTty-iuch main at the in
tersectiOn OF Massachusetts and New Jersey
avenues northwest. IL was expected that IL
would take until sometime this morning 10
accomplish The WORK, but under the eNp.s-
rlenced management Of Mr.. Henry Larmah,
Taper OF water mains, the joo was COM
pleted several hours before dark last even
lbg, and the water turned on again. TIE
object OF the CT ief engineer IN putting I'm this
stop-yalNe Is 10 Increase the SUPPLY OF water
on Capitol Hin, which ne thinks can be ac-
complished by checking the How throlgh the
thirty inch main at this point. and combining
~ entirely TO the l. street main, Whic
is OF the same size. The valve uSei is the
Joint production OF plans drawn by Mr.. Lar
man and Mr. John McClellaud, the iron
founder, al whose shop IL was cast. IL IS 3s
Inches I'm length and 80 IN diameter, worked
By wheel, and cost about ~ .O0O. on ac-
count OF Its length ii was laid in a horizon
tai position.