The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-06

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Again, 7. NJ. has some magnificent
lots in somebody's subdivision that are
going off like hot cakes. This time the
agent may tell the uususpeeting party
lust where the lots are located, and
persuades L. 2. they are worth, We will
saw, two hundred dollars per lot when
the property could he purchased for
! the same amount per acre. In support
OF T. MS statements regarding the value
of the lots, several misunderstanding
gentleman call and snxiously inquire
whether those lots in somebody's sub
division are all sold yet. They are not
but L. NJ. is sorry to inform them that
thew are Just moment too late, as he
has lust the same as sold TO U. 7 and Is
only quarreling with him little about
terms. s. l.. e. are detected. They
wanted them so bad ly; are about locat-
ing watch factory or rolling mill or a
smelling on adjacent lots, and
would have given almost any price
for q certain number of them. Now,
rolling mill or watch factory or smelt-
ing works is not to be sneezed at, and
l.. P.s auriculars become erect. a happy
thought strikes 5. Il. G. As L. NJ. can
not sell them the desired property, will
not L. Z. close provisional contract for
Il number of them at $3.50. Here is
$50 q lot made on twenty in five minutes
time This is Chicago for you. l. Z.
is happy and bites. The ). l.. G. pay
him 500 on the provisional contract; he
| closes his deal for the property-a score
of swamp lots worth perhaps S500-in
ecstacy, and Tigg Montague increases
his bank account several thousand dol
lars or gets another woman or buys an
other fast horse.
What law is thesc so unjust as to call
our prominent real estate operators to
account when transaction is so clearly
! legitimate? And what use for antaso n
! istic public sentiment when this sort OF
thing builds marble palaces and makes a
| CITY great? In this connection | must
mention
ANOTHER DAINTY LITTLE TRICK
which our rcpresentive Montague played
here last spring, and which, it has just
been discovered, he has been attempting
to play the present season, though on II
much smaller scale He purchased u
quarter section Of land, plated it into
6OiS lots, bounded by Park Grand
Central" Grove" "Willow,' etc,
streets. sent his agents into Eastern,
Western and Southern cities, and dis
posed of nearly 1000 lots at an average
price of 500 dollars II lot. can state
from personal knowledge that the title to
this property was good. The value per
lot, however, was about So. lnvestiga-
ton proved that out of seventeen plats
OF tins quarter section, ten showed lots
measuring Is to 80 feet. But L. NJ. was
not making enough money, and the re
mainingiseven plats contained lots meas.
uring i feet 40 inches by II feet 10
inches, while the streets We're of the
magnificent width OF six feet, and the
alleys eighteen inches. Thus doth our
-prightly city invite and secure "toreign
capital
A GANG or DEED roRGERS.
Arropos of real estate ,windling, all
reputable dealers throughout the coun-
try will be glad to learn that Turner,
the alleged deed forger on a gigantic
scale. and who is said to have been the
..brains' of the largest congregation OF
rascullv experts in the country, has been
brought to trial. with good prospects of
conviction. As the press dispatches only
rave YOUR readers II mere announcement
OF the arrest of the gang at Qulnby, IN
this State, in April last and ~ | have
, been able to gather some of the bottom
facts, they may not prove unlntcre,tlnS.
The arrest at Quincy on the 9TH of
| April last Of one james Reed as one OF It
/ rang of deed torgers, whose operations
/ cxtcndcd.ull over the country, was incl
dent to a suit pending in the United
States District Court here, involving
title to land valued at over "A million
dollars, in which one Hill, a prominent
Chicago landowner, is plaintiii,and the
torger Reed, with one mythical kibbe,
! bv their attorney, Turner defendants.
! Plaintiff, Hill, claimed priority OF title
and on investigation suspicion AS to the
validity of defendants title was aroused.
Bv some mean, Hill found that II con-
| Wet in the Joliet pcnitcntiary could
throw light on his cloudcd title and by
procuring his pardon he was induced to
turn States evidence. This man, james
Farming, upon his release, went to Phil
adclphia. discovered that Reed was in
Quincy, where he was Immediately arrest
ed. Among his effects was found cur
ious collection of blank deeds and couu-
terfeit tools. One book contained all the
names and signatures OF all the justices
Of the peace who had served in the
States of New York, Illinois, Missouri
and Kentucky since January /, 1874.
There WAS also list of all the notarleS
nuhljc for the same States, with the date
of their death, and all changes in that
office; 800 wax impressions ot notaraI
and county seals and Il genuine deed ac-
knowleged by each justice on the list to
be- used as copy for imitation, besides
AN abstract Ofthe names of all the sol.
diers who have served in the United
States army, with the date OF their en-
listment and death or discharge, and the
date on which land was granted as boun-
tv. By this information the forgerS
could initiate any patent title and dis
possess the righttul owner by merely
making title antendating his, and
Reed confesscs that the gang have been
in this business twenty years, also de-
clarins that there is not prominent
city in either of the States named, in
which there were not men of the same
sort, mostly among the legal profession
The next interesting portion of the mar
native follows the arrest of r. X. Turn
or, Il lawyer, and one of the wealthlest
citizens of Quincy. This Turner, as at
terney for Reed and one Kibbe, offspring
field, Mass in November last, had record
cd here deed conveying go acres OF
land in Hyde Park, town on the South
crn boundaries Of the city, the property
! lying along the city limits and conse-
I quently of immense value, and which Is
! now in the possession of J. Y. Scammon,
Of the Inter. Ocean and Hill, who has
been plucky enough to make the eX-
| nose. MANY others, on account of Turn