Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-24
RAsCALITY AND RUIN
A Richmond Presbyterian
Reverend Not Gailty of
EmbeZZlcmcnt.
A et. Louis Post Office Clerk
Detected After Stealing
100000.
An Illinois Forgery Traced
Back to the Year 1913.
Tho seven slaug hsorers Of NJ ew
YORK $500, 900 short.
PRINT WORKS SUSPENDED.

sion of the large Albion Print Works,
OF Philadelphia, is reported.
SEVEN sLAUGHTERERs.
1t is ascertained that the liabilities
of the seven slaughtering firms re-
Gently failed aggregate $SOO,OOO. The
loss to the creditors will exceed $780,
600:
THE SUSPENSION OF CROSS co.
| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE Post
this evening says that the latest par
ticulars regarding the recent suspen-
sion of the firm of Cross & Co., show
liabilities of 1925, QUO, and the nomi-
nal assets S425, 600, consisting in part
of real estate, mining claims, etc.
Within the past sixty days seventy
nine thousand pounds sterling bills
have been drawn, and mainly nego-
tiated through our banks and banking
houses. A large creditor of the firm
informs us that there is not the slight
est idea of Cross & Co. resuming bus
mess, and states that 25 cents on the
dollar will be the largest amount re.
allied on the assets.
REVEREND NOT GUILTY.
RICHMOND, Oct. l7.-Rev. E. T.
Bond, recently indicted for embezzle-
ment while Secretary of the Presby-
terian Committee on Publication, was
declared not guilty to-day after a
trial in which the evidence was all
for him.
REMOVED.
OMAHA, Oct. 17.-Governor CARRIER
to-day removed Capt. Wyman, war
den of the State Penitentiary. The
gravest of crimes were charged
against him.
PosToFFIcE vILLAINy.
ST.. LOUIS, Oct. H.--About three
weeks ago Auditor McGrew, of the
Postoflice Department at Washington,
detected. through a new system of
keeping accounts inaugurated by him
self, swindling operation which has
been going on several years by or
through the connivance Of an employe
of the Department named O'Brien,
and by which it was thought that the
Department had been robbed of $780,
600. +. B. Lilley, deputy auditor Of
the Department, was Immediately dis
patched to this city, where he has
since been engaged with chief special
agent f. w. Schaurto and his corps
of detectives in working up the case.
The speculations were all made at
points remote from this city in the
West and Southwest, and Mr.. Lii
ley's mission has been so successful
that he left for Washington tonight
with over $4,000 which he received
from various persons who have been
in collusion with O'Brien.
FORGERY.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct. 17.-Forged
drafts, amounting with interest to
$4,000, purporting to have been
drawn on the old Commissioners
fund, March, 1S40. have been discov.
cred. They were presented for pay
ment by Fred White, of New York,
last winter, when careful investiga-
ton has been made, which has sho wn
them to be forgery.
FORGERY.
| KANSAS ClTY, Oct. 1S.-The mos
gigantic swindle was brought to ligh
here by the arrest of j. B. Hahn, Ed
mund L. Stevens and Geo. Miller on
a requisition from Gov. Hubbard, oi
Texas, on charge of forging land ii.
ties and issuing deeds for large tracts
of land in Texas.
The authorities are informed, and
Special Agent Foster was sent out
here, who obtained clue, which has
been closely followed ever since, and
resulting in the simultaneous arrcs,
of sixty persons in different parts OF
the country who belonged to the
gang.
No less than thirteen court houses
have been burned the past year to
destroy the evidence that could be
brought against the swindlers. Hahn
Stevens and Miller left for Texas to-
day in charge of officers from tina
State.