The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10
4 FOOL AND HIS MONEY.

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On Sunday afternoon Dr. Worms, 6
practicing physician Of this city, was ar
rested on a charge OF forgery, the facts
concerning which are as follows: VIM.
T.. Newman, hotel proprietor, OF Chi
cago. ILL.,, made affidavit before the Hon.
Judge Thomas Kennedy Ramsay that al
the city of Chicago, in the latter end OF
October last, Charles Worms resided at
the hotel kept by him. On Nov. 13
Worms informed him that he could get
a contract In his favor from the Interior
Department of the Government for In
dian supplies; that it was subsequently
agreed that the said Worms should OBJ
tain the contract In favor Of the inform
ant and John Keller, of Philadelphia;
that afterward it was agreed that New
man and Worms should go to the city OF
Washington in order to arrange about
the contract; that they arrived In Wash
ington on the 10Th of November and put
up at the same hotel. On Saturday
Worms went to the Interior Department.,
and returned in about half an hour and
requested him (Newman) to draw up
proposition for the said contract; that
he did draw mp proposition and del1v-
cred it to Worms, who, as he hlmself
said, went to the Interior Department,
and on returning said there YVES cons1d-
cradle stir and excitement about the con-
tract. and that they would have TO go to
Philadelphia and there wait the turning
of events; that they went to Philadel-
phia, and day or so after Worms pro-
duced to him paper purporting to be
the contract, in the following terms:
Especial order 1911
Contracts to supply the Indians awarded to
W. L. Newman and John Keller.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Nov.
49, 1875-Articles OF agreement made and en-
tered into this 18th day of November, A. D.,
1876, between Gen. G. i. Cowen, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, an officer of the Uni
ted States on the one part, and Wm l.. New
man and John Keller, of Chicago, Cook Coun-
ty, in the State of Illinois, on the other part !:
This agreement showeth that the said Gen.
g. L. Cowen, for and on behalf of the United
States of America, and that said W. Il. Newman
and John Keller, their heirs executors, and
administrators, have covenanted and agreed,
and by these presents do mutually covenant
and agree, to and with each other, as follows !:
/. That the said VIM. L. Newman and John
Keller, their heirs, executors, and admIn1stra-
tors, shall supply, or cause to be supplied ana
issued at Chicago, Ill, at the Office of the In
spector of Indian Affairs, articles hereto speci-
fed, that shall be required for the use of the
Indians 100, 900 flannel shirts, at $1.25 10O,-
900 pair of drawers at 20 cents 10000 leather
pouches, at 40 cents so, 600 shoes, brogans,
at $2.45 100000 pairs socks at 80 cents; 3d.
900 pairs woolen blankets, at $3.50 10000
rubber boots at $2.03 800, 600 trowsers at
So. 80 $4,000 rubber blankets, at 50. Is. The
articles shall be received in the city of Chicago,
ILL.,, and inspected by Capt. Charles Worms,
Inspector of this department
oh oil hn
Inspector, weekly or monthly.
3. The contract shall be in force two months
from date.
4. No member of Congress shall be admitted
to any share herein, or any benefit to arise
therefrom.
In witness hereof the undersigned placed
their hands anu seals. H. CHANDLER,
Secretary of the Interior.
The deposition goes on to state that
Worms informed complainant that the
signature to the contract was that of the
Hon. Zachariah Chandler, of the city Of
Washington, Secretary of the Depart
ment of the Interior of the United States;
that Worms directed him TO sign the
contract for himself, as well as for John
Keller, as his attorney, and that he did
so sign, as we'll as the said Charles
Worms, as witness. Further, that
Worms then produced an envelope ad-
dressed to y. S. Grant, President of the
United States; that into this envelope,
so directed, according to previous under
standing, he placed $1,000 currency,
with the contract signed by him, and
then closed the envelope; that Worms
then suggested it would be better to seal
it with sealing wax; that thereupon his
attention was called from the letter, and
while in the act of putting on his boot,
from which he had taken the So, 900 (ten
$500 notes., the said Worms replaced
the envelope in which he had placed the
5000 with another envelope similarly
directed. The latter fact, the deponent
says, he is informed of and believes it
from information by U. S. Grant and
Zachariah Chandler; that afterward he
took the envelope, which he believed 60
contain So, 1000, to the postoffice and reg
istered it, receiving the ordinary certif-
cate therefor; that he has since been In
formed that the said envelope was duly
received at the Executive Mansion at
Washington, on the 22d of November,
and on being opened was found to con-
tain nothing but scraps of paper. The
affidavit further sets forth that Newman
has been informed that the signature to
the contract was not in the handwriting
of Hon. Zachariah Chandler, but fflse
one, forged by Worms; that he had no
right to sign the same or obtain the con-
tract; that it was, he believes, never is
sued from the Interior Department; that
said contract was forgery, uttered fo1
the purpose of defrauding him and
against thepeace and dignity of the State
of Pennsylvania.
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