The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-11
A FOOL AND Ills MONEY.

How "a Guiieiess Chicago Boniface was
Swindied out of Five Thousand Dollars
by "a Deceitfui Canadian-An Amateur In
Crooks dness.
Montreal Cor. New York Heraldsl
On Sunday afternoon DIR. Worms, q
practicing physician of this city, was ar
rested on a charge of forgery, the facts
concerning which are as follows: VIM.
l.. Newman, hotel proprietor, of Chi
cago, ILL.,, made affidavit before the Hon.
Judge Thomas Kennedy Ramsay that at
the city Of Chicago, in the latter end of
October last, Charles Worms resided at
the hotel kept by him. On Nov Ii
Worms informed him that he could get
contract in his favor from the Interior
Department of the Government for In
dian supplies; that il 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 up proposition and dehv-
cred it to Worms, who, as he himself
said, went to the Interior Department.,
and on returning said there was consld-
cradle stir and excitement about the con-
tract, and that they wosld have 10 so to
Philadelphia and there wait the turning
of events; that they went to Philadel-
phia, and a day or 50 after Worms pro-
duced to him a paper purporting TO be
the contract, in the following terms:
Especial order 7G1.
Contracts to supply the Indians awarded to
W. l.. Newman and John Keller.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Nov.
Is, 1S75.-Artices OF agreement made and en-
tered into this 18th day of November A. d.,
1875, between Gen. Ct. l.. Cowen, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, an officer of the Uni
ted States, on the one part, and VIM. l.. New
man and John Keller, of Chicago, Cook Coun-
ty, in the State of Illinois, on the other part
This agreement showeth thai the said Gen.
G.. l.. Cowen, for and on behalf OF the United
States of America, and that said w. l.. Newman
and John Keller, their heirs, executors, and
administrators, have covenanted and agreed
and by these presents DO mutually covenant
anu agree, 10 uilu Will ttcl OilltA. tS lplOWs
l. That the said VIM. l.. Newman and John
Keller, their heirs, executors, and administra-
tors, shall supply, or cause to be supplied and
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 Sl.25 100
600 pair of drawers at 70 cents 80, 900 leather
pouches, at 40 cents ; 900 shoes, brogans,
at SAB 100, 600 pairs socks, at 33 cents So
600 pairs WOODEN blankets at $3.50 10000
rubber boots, at @2.03; 800, 600 trowsers at
S3.9S 10000 rubber blankets, at $2.15. The
articles shall be received in the city Of Chicago,
H., and inspected by Capt. Charles Worms,
Inspector of this department.
2. The demand shall be made by the
Inspector, weekly or monthly.
3. The contract shall be in force two months
from date.
to any share herein, or any benefit to arise
therefrom.
In witness hereof the undersigned placed
their hands anu seals. 4. 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 adj
dressed to U. 5. 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 i'll the act of putting on his boot,
from which he had taken the $4,000 Gen
$500 notes., the said Worms replaced
the envelope in which he had placed the
So, COO 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 to
contain $1,000, to the postofiice and reg
istered it, receiving the ordinary certiti-
cate therefor; that he has since been in
formed that the said envelope was duly
received at the Executive Mansion at
Washington, on the Odd 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 false
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 a forgery, uttered for
the purpose of defrauding him and
against the peace and dignity of the State
of Pennsylvania.