Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-14
Ts4.r EOLD FRAUD.
EfaraIinG Revelations Affecting mere
toTure Respectable Parties.

EfarrEtnG Revelations Affecting E8*F'@
torure Respectable Parties.
The following particulars of a bold
fraud, alluded to in our nashville
speciaI uf Sunday morning, are from
the Chattanooga Commercial:
"Some time during the year 1879,
A, o. p. SehOrn, promlnenC Oud
! EelIow, at one time Grand Lecturer,
and past Noble Grand FOR the state,
! arose in the Lodge al MuriTet suoFO'
| md stated thal he mad received q lei
fer from A brother Abbey who hAd
once been "a mem Der OF tHe L3'G7 ~
that Mace, desiring 80 To- TtlGStasS1 -
| a u,e;s. Der, having under tie LAWS oi
the Gguer. become nn Aicitnt Odu
Fellow. bir. SshoTh spoke L iSuig Oh
the absent bTOtuCF, o0taiueh II rem
statement, aUG al" secured Tor hiLh
travelling caro-. ,..,f-,,,
Some II.2ls al, ,.l- "A ulAG, Fepntitg
IN he Alley, and bearing bis cfedth-
rials as an Odd Fellow, went o1I"Te
r tha medical eX4mlu-r al nashville
and passe2 examination los aunlt-
! rauc. 10 .ns . "a Fellows B7ueVo 'eht
? society. = life il-UraLCs organ 'loH
connected with the Order, WIN
h-aaquarters al Chicago. HE "ppii-
o | caLiLu v As granted.
Alley then disappeared, ana ". -
= How eli, OF mis- city, received llioIhIa-
ton from SenUrn tha5 Atoey was
u r,uslu Of his, and bt fore leaving IUL
4 Ths West. had made a nill, leaving al
his sfecIs and property 10 Ao"e.''
c and apuUIntiug nam Ills executor, Ia
I case Of amy unforeseen disaster. Some
months aiter the Ashtahu!A railroad
4 ecaideDt occurred. In the debris was
, found a charred p0cket-bo0k, when
= ubaO oDened, disclosed Alleys Odu
s FELLOWS travelling card. Ihe maj
who found il, as az Odd eiio"p d"
yised that the card be turned over u
/ the lodge in AshtaOula, VINO loF"af"e'
il TO the lodge at MuElFee5Doio
' SehOrn, on TeceipI OF me car" d" '9 =,
" Howell of his Cousins death, aDd III
; latter had himself, IN due ume, ap
n nnipted administrator OF Abby
:. estate. To him, as Aibey's admins
= traitor and heir, the amount or AloeS
t. beneficiary fund, 81 1872, was PAID o,
tba Odd Fellows Benevolent .SOciety
IL Howell also brought suit agsinst Ia
o T,ska Shore aud Michigan 13utner
Railway for damages. An a oFney
. Murfrees bOTO undertook the AdAaSe
% neut OF the suit. Tn6 proof SCENE
clear that Abbey had peTlshed
IN the disaster, and the railroad com pan
n e
$4,000 to Howell, of which the attorne
ld received, it is said, 81 200.
bo Not long since an Odd Fellow naae
~ named Fletcher, living in MIddI
We Tennessee, disclosed the fact that h
had heeu approached by Schorn al
-0L others TO pretend death aud by frau
IN. obtain money from the Insurance Q
ganiz4tiOn OF the order. THIS led
ne inquiry aud the disclosure of q star
/. | r1F fraud nTGnflpan I
Schoru, until now highly respectt
40 and bunored citiZen of MurfreesO GrO
70 n man of gray hairs business ma
of twenty years standing. Abbey,
1u- transpired, was an entirely hcliuo
u character, and il is claimed his ia
INC was assumed by d. G. Howell, for
de- purpose of fraud, A COMMITTEE
i, prominent Odd Fellows came 10 /
-Ie- city Iast Thursday, the ply stefan w
,rb examined the Abbey identified How
"a the man WHO be had examine
md the man who found tile pocket TO
Nv at Ashtabula, il Is claimed, answer
~ 10 HOWeli's dl-cTIptICni How
sty had left Chattanooga immediate
=: sfter the disaster, for Western tr
leii The tntory which seems 10 be est;
will izhed is hat SehOIn ana Howell &c
=, sDired To defraud the Benevolent I
VIII s0ciatioD, by the pretended ueath O
laV- fictitious person the asa Aoui@- HiS
Ter afforded them q splendid oppor
ave nity, which Howell at once impr"N
hev 10y visiting the sc ne of the disas'
= secreting the charred pocktt book
10 afterwards discovering iC he
uld, against the railroad probably oeihg
=, after Thought. Writs of attach III,
the have been taken out by the Odd L
lows Association and the Lake Sh
railroad, and We're served Thursday
all property owned by Howell.
Howell claims to have had cous
by the name of Abbey, aud claims
have paid out al! money. except alb
TIA Sl25, rt ceived by him on account
lost Albey's estate, TO Sehorn, in pay M
of notes made by Abbey before his s
ges posed 4, cease.
zion II il with extreme sorrow that
State chronicle this affair, the facts oblig
,Isv US TO connect with it the name o
,tion man who has heretofore borne re
sef- table name and been esteemed a
4 he useful and Woodworking citizen
the Chattanooga