The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-03-18

The Forged Telegram that Ordered
HE Wheat % b Sold.
Sent from the Once In FULTON Ferry
BY . Young Woman Operator
The Sender Evidently One
Thoroughly Familiar
With the Market.

! Thoroughly Familiar
With the Market.
From the N.~ York sun, March ..
The ionsrd telegram that vss sent from
New York to Chicago on Tussdsy evening.
and which led to sale on the Chicago
Exchsnse ON Friday Of .omethi0g like
5000. 900 bushels al wheat Principaliv BY
James K Ke~n's brokers. wsa the subject
OF mnch discussion u the Produce
Exchsnxe yesterday. Prices did drop from
81 to 81, but the recovery was immediate,
and the closing quotations from Chicago
yesterday showed that prices vere slmo.t
up to the maxiDum.
Mr.. Keene reached his office early ye--
terdsy morning, and denied himself to every
one during the day. Mr.. Babcock, his
| broker here, wss authorized to say, how
ever, that Mr.. keene sss taking stels 10
discover the fors<r. bat neither here nor 1t
the Office Of the Atlantic snd Pacific Tele-
graph Company could more be learned re-
garding the forgery than tbs, one had been
committed. and that measures were being
taken to discover the iorsrr.
II was learned, hosever that the dispstch
had bern fled 1T the branch Office oil the
Atlantic and Psci6c Company, ." the Full.
ton Ferry house. "n Tuesday evening. Mis~
M>y Courtney, the operator there, said
that she received ~ NJ go on Tue~isy
evening. She wss just abost tn close the
office when she saw . message ihru-,
through the delivery window, aid ON it
we're two iveniy-cen silver pieces i,
was written on Western Union hall. rate
blank, which the Atlantic and Pacific Com
pany now receive. Seeing that ii MAS 3D.
dressed to Chicago, aud the half rate tariff
there being forty cents. abe parsed out ten
| cent? change, and all this without iSkiny
any notice Of the man vino delivered the
message The Office windows are partially
boarded. and only By special effort can .
to 20 away the operator looted through
the aperture, casually, but the man wss
turning away. and vas n, once los, in the
lhrong that fills Fulton Ferry house NJ
sh.i hour. She s.id Yesterday sf,~rnocL
that she did not believe that il would b.
po-sible for her To identify him. hat she
has m impsss.ion that he vOre black
fel, hat aud wa bearded. The me--.s.
tina, be left read ~ fo.lows:
6MARCH, 1872
To J.K. FisAer 4 Co, Ch;cfgo:
Sell whatever wheat, March or April.
market will take without declining more
than three cents. kEESE.
This dispatch vas sent 10 the main Office.
sud there repeated in the night to Chicago,
and the first intimstion that NJ. Ke<ne got
Of il, he says, wss after the receipts u tele-
grams from J. X. + isher 4 Co.. his brokers
in Chicago. informing him that they werw
selling. He telesraphed them TO explain.
and then they answered that il was done in
pursuance Of his instructions BY Telegram
This led 10 the investigation that resulted
in the discovery Of the forgery. Mr.. kesne
1t once informed Gen. Eckess that the A.
4 r. Company had trsna@istrd . forged
dispatch. and Detectives we're employed tn
discover the sender.
The dispatch iiseli in the wording SHOVE
that il was sent BY some one thoroughly
familiar With The wheat market. The
andvri,ine il plainly feeble attempt ri
d;rguise. II il bsckhsnded, but beam ssi-
nence Of being written By = business man.
Il could have hssn sent Only bv some one
Who wished to bear the market. and THE
fact msy help in the dircovery ii the per
petrators. II VAS ssid At the Produce Ex-
change yesterday that there had been Pri
va,e advices received some days ago iro1a
Chicago that clique was forming to i"ver
prices. and il !. believed that this Dispatch
may have been one Of the schemes of that
clique. Mr.. Keene also vas reported iO
believe this.
8en. Eckert said yesterday afternoon that
be believed The foryer would be apprshend
ed; ., leasi, the company wss following
the matter up With due diliGsocs. and 81
ready have information which hs did no,
deem prudent to make public. In his opio-
ion the fosger vss criminslly - liable II b
had forged . check, bot that was ques.
sion for the courts. The company hsd Of
iered no reward and b did not know y
any such step ~ eostsoplsssd.
There va no coafruation yesterday Of
the rumor that Mr.. Keens would offer Z
reward. What pushed brokers and speeu
lators shout the matter ~ Tie iact that J
L. Fisher 4 Co.. would take . hslf-rats
message. simply signed "Kesos." and viii
no other authority and ~ eon6rDation Of
is-ior Nr. Keene says b knew nothing
until many shoasasd bushels Of wheat had
bsea sold-so upon The Exchange and eel
what they did. The fact that il vas . halt
rate messass tsoo Mr.. Keeoe ought, they
cay, to have attracted attention. and Tx
further fact that 1t vas ~ open message
written after business hour, ought to havt
suggested that some word ought to be ~
ceived iron Mr.. Keens in the morning BE-
fore acting upon il. Besides. they ssy ths
while il might seem . favorable moment Il
sell while wheat vss st 81, which NJ
Keeoe bought u -, sill, - matter o
fact, the eooditioa 81 The market - sucl
- 70 b fasoisbls to holding and not sell
ing. and Mr.. Ksens's brokers must hav
thought Of this.
On the other hand. IL 10 said that tn
senior pastner Of ]. K. Fisher & Co. - il