New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-22
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE GREAT FORGERY.


MAXWELL. GIVES BAII--BROwN STILL IN THE ToMBs
CONNECTION OF KELTER AND DAUMAN WITH
THE CASE.
The investigations in the great forgery, by
which 1t is feared that the Union Trust Company Will
lose OOO have not yet been so successful as ex
pected although the detectives were very busy on satu
day and yesterday searching for further light on tue
subject Horace E. Brown, who was committed on
Friday In default Of $4,000 bail. expected to
be able to furnish that sum on saturday, put
his bondsman did appear and last night he still occu
pied Cell No. 73 at the Tombs. Efforts were made on
Saturday arrange bail for George L. Maxwell but thcy
were not successful Yesterday however Justice Duy
went Mr. Maxwells residence at No $50 West twenty
thiri-st where Mr. Maxwell was confined by MS
fractured ankle and bail bonds for $4,000 were sgne"
by John d. Maxwell and George Forrest, one OF the
commissioners of Emieration. Mr. Maxwell was then
relieved from police surveillance
The extent OF the knowledge of Montague L. Marks
the LAWYER and his clients julius Keller OF NO. i%'o
Thrd-ave. and Louis BaumaD, concerning the fogged
check had not made entirely clear up to late hou
last night though of the abest detectives III t'S
CITY have been at work upon this branch OF the case Tor
several days. On Saturday, man giving MS name "s
Charles /. Edwards sent to the House OF De'en'oh
from the District Attorneys office He was not regularly
committed, but was simply sent there until further
investigation could he made. and probably VIII DC lot
maIy committed to-day. Edwards stated to an inquirer
that he was detained on of some remote con-
necton either real supposed with the forgery on inc
Union Trust Company The nature OF this connection
could not be learned yesterday Detective Lyons OF the
Police Central Office Mr Keller yesterday afternoon
10 the House OF Detention where he is to Dc held as
witness in the case. The detectives were LOOKING
FOR Rouman Also Bauman making arrangements TO
become a partner of Keltner in the manufacture VI
glass in New-London, Conn. Mr. Marks, the lawyer,
drew ND the papers OF coparn ershp for them IL Is
stated that Bauman handed Keller check Tor S9ooV III
gold telling Keller have it cashed, and after deduc
ing the as agreed for his half of the capital 10 nc
tnrn the remainder to him THIS proved to be the check
made payable to bearer by William l. Halch y SUI,
which was procured by g. L. Blood Jan. s. 1877, and
handed to George Maxwell to make up the rest OF the
gold ordered for the NewYork Life Insurance Company
rs WAS then snpposed How this check reached Ban
mans hands had been learned last nRht, Dut IL is
believed that lie received IL from Brown -,
Further investigation of the case is 10 ne mace touhH
The detectives have an accurate DESCRIPTION OF the per
son who believed to he the principal III this IoisT
hut they have not vet been able 10 capture nm
50 500 gold check has not been found as YET we m
Goling II having alarmed and either having &c
eroved or Cancelled 10 until the storm mas blown over
Edward King Pre- sidcnt of the Union Trust company;
said on saturday that he had beeH within three hours OF
This check aud believed that he should have captured
II the holder had not taken frghi al the nolse ,a' NJ
Forgery was making in financial ard police circles MI
King said he hoped that II had pee t
destroyed. As it had been made PAYABLE ape Ice, 20
bearer ANYBODY could use IL, ana sl increased
il IS believed that bail VIII be procured Tor blowh TO-
DAY; but II As Is done capt sainlsnn hops 70
fcjtln OF the United stamp upon the check 10 en-
able him 10 rearrest Brown oil a charge that WI DrnS
Lin before the Federal courts Ii is believed that seNc
raj her persons will be shown 10 he implicated IN the
forgery. 49, -. Nib. rras,od o,a
Man they claim is an Important witness in the forgery
The name Of the refused by the police officials