New-York tribune., 1878-10-26
FORGERTES. SMALL AND GREAT

| THE FRAIrDo oN TIE UNION TRUST COMPANY
| REASONS THAT THE DETECTIVES HAVE FOR BIZ
| 1IRv1xG CHARLES W. PoNIEZ UUILTY-HIs AS
| SOCRATES AND HIS ARREST.
! motion was made before Judge Glider
sleeve in the Court Of General Sessions yesterday TO
| have the case OF Charles W. POntez removed TO Tue
Cour, Of oyer and Termncr for trial Decision viii he
r,ven on Monday Pontez was a clerk in the employ
| ment OF the Ncw-York Life Insurance Company. ana
WAS arrested on Wednesday evening for alleged COM
pllcy in the forgery by which the Union Trust Com
pany lost $6l22j The arrest OF Pontez was not sur
prise 10 those who have been familiar with the history
of the forgery "A soon the forgery was discoV-
erred the detectives employed in the case suspected
that some one employed by the New-Iork
Life Insurance Company was an aceomphce IN the
crime and II was determined To make thorough inVes
tgation of the place when all the employees were absent
ono Sunday several detectives went 10 the once ana
looked over all the papers ana cancelled documents In
examining bundle Of checks which had been cancelled
some time previous It was noticed that chtck Tor
about S15O,OOO not In its numerical order' a
closer isrecticu showed that the check differed from
tic rest In the bundle accOuh Of beng s0hed ana
folded as If 1t had carried IN mans pocket The
other checks had been carried about in wallet ana
we're as new in appearance as when first drawn.
When this check was cOmpaIcd with the forged one
the officers became satisfied that il had been used Tor
racing and copying purposes, and then retuTncdhashy
TO its proper place The forged cheek was an exact tac
silc the genuine check although in the 0theF chcchs
rcgu ary drawn slight differences could be detected
The signatures Mr. Banta and Mr. Beers on ihelorgcu
check fitted exactly their signatures in the check
| winch was drawn from the bundle The szo Of each
letter, spacing and the distance between The two
| names were precisely the same IN both
| After tuis discovery au examination was made OF
! every person IN the establishment. Nothing was
| learned from any Of the cmp.oyc' that tended
to clear up the matter From circumstances which
were aftcrward found ont suspicion rested on Pouez
In the first place learned that POutcz had Dtcn IN
the employ Trask Co., shipping merchants ana that
! Chapman, who had ate Waiu become hOttu IuTecI
WAS al the same time buokccpcr OF the concern They
| became firm friends. Through Chapman POhtcZ Hauc
the acquaintance Of Joseph Eliot no - now in Ludlow
street il for alleged completely in the forgery About
1872 the Third National Bank Of Baltimore was robbed
Of large sum of money, and Eot-who was then known
as 10" Eandtll-and Chapman were suspected OF he
ing the robbers immediately hIicf lHt l4"Iti} tut5
went 20 Europe. Pontcz followed them 10 London ana
renamed tncre with thrm some imt ,iltr Wis SUI
| sCqucutly obtained llnm t"c boHu"h Pot', ,"Ilt,'"
| by Pontcz TO MIS- CA'pmHu, showing tIii b, was
! one Of their associates. Ioutcz returned to
TINS country shortly aitciN"ld ana ic'iutu is 'itlD
IN the NeV-YorK IaIc Insurance company ME-. Ohdl'
man murdered while they rt;naincG IN l.oLa"n ana
tnr police suspected some OF the party o hA|luE con
MT. t.c decd Inc asSorI1It0 were next Ht'Iu oi III
man Becker. Eiuot aud Howard Adams were placed IN IN
jIil, but tnoy m escaped except chapman; "ho Ni.- s,I
tanned tLis country be was frequently erth IN the
company o1 ioncL ehoFl!l ait'i IiI". Haiii,e @ ,ny
tiut cover some crime. lLt ceremony Nde per
oru,ed i'm m. church of the IuusfEritJn and Poutcz
was rounslnau. Aicr that POnlez escorted Mrs El.lOi
| 10 th,.ITc, and other place ul 1nnsclurhl
VIVA tuc.e facts ~ their p,s>c~eCu the detectives
wrr, convinced that Toucz took the fret slcp M the
forgery Dy obtaining the cancelled cheek Nhch was u,
ycrtd TO Elliot. Becker ANA ll",ruE, lIl"Js L'lhel
-lav dId tire engraving and Bc,acr iur-ct tue ccti
Gates. "Sncu" Hamilton was aTp~d 10 "ilh the vac"
OF getlinS the chccN on thc market llc go '.",,"'L
who enlisted J.. A. Brown 10 het hioAeI L. ~ lIp"u
secured the services OF ii. l.. Brown, VINO hudD got
Maxwell Elliot performer tLt D,i''2 W II' -i' n,Ii
uud was RltcTVard II ntIItd by Llm Inc ucte''INcr
! although convinced tina, tna "as The conIac pGi,
/ fastcn quit the proper persons. Ihc
| h9, been closely watched. iuu,c Interested III
! the Cg-e declared yesterday that evidence mas been
I'M IN - ,,crcr,ly nrlIryrd ti1t Hot
| wuo has become Urea OF ms incarceration III Ludlow
street JAN, has ElFed information against Ills d'Cou'-
Mr Banta cashier Of the New-York Life Insurance
! COMPANY said Yesterday that it would not BE- Wise 10
disclose Inc nature uf the evidence which been
found against Ponez. lie saId that Poutoz was called
before the District Attorney several iImes Ior'nleht
| he knew Of the case. The Diat.Ict-Attorncy
though. hc was not telling al ne hur" ana "a' c'I I'u
that lac was not truthful IOht] vas H.u sh. @ y" & 'r
House OF De,cnIiou witness, AMI put under 5000
bali Alter remaining thtrc 40 d"yH ht stcuF Il n3l
the following morning ne entered HI coupl'A % ono
aud SAID 81 don't suppose you want me mere ahy more
relieved Tor present. Nj. Bana added thaj PoncI
was first rmpuyr by the comahS dboH1 ten ears "-o
n, ,ii,tia. Ar The tit, he went to London Mr. Bdna
syd. hc was absent about two months. lie repre-
srnicd that Nciy important personal business Obliged
nm to 20. Mr. Bauta remarked thaL ne did
NOT mink Pou.cZ CUud 1--we very long. lie was
suffering nom consumption and mad Lately Dccu very
SICK. lie bad TWO hcmoTrnaEcs Wiihlh lew Weeks
Tic prisoner tail, -Icnuyr young man. VINO dresses
neatly ana has Caudlu, honest-!oOklnS coGnl,nahCe
lie said Yesterday nad ucCu advised y MS cUun
sci nor 10 tak auoui lie asserted innocence
and declared that he had been uuluStly treated. lie
| Cumpllncd OF beng used in the same way as a con-
! ylctcd criminal the publicity gwen 70 the case has
ruined his name, ne sHd. "Once man gets blot on
MS name is ruECd forever, SAM ne. "INc often III
tended visit IOmbs 10 see now the Inside IL ar
ranged never pcCCG to De- lodged herc especially
Wucn am Innocent ~ any crime expect 20 DC Oul,
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