The New York herald., 1879-09-30
"COL. SELLERS" ON A SPREE.

nEoIohAIIoN OF PAChAdE OF BONDS, FUND
IN CELLAR, REPRESENTING A QUARTER
MILLION OF WILDCAT ENTERPRISES
The package found Saturday evening. by little
Edward Burke. in the coal cellar of the house No.
AIT West Thirty-sixth street, containing q number
of certificates of stock in various enterprises. aud
also property deeds, was returned yesterday to the
owner. Laurence Deo. of No. 2o5 West Twenty-sixth
street. by Captain washburn. of the Twentieth pre-
cinct. The bringing of the package to the sta
tion house created sensation. aud the officers
part of the proceeds of recent bank burglary.
After u trifng examination, however. Captain WASH
burne began to think the titles of the certificates
had q mystical and far away sound altogether unfa-
miliar to his ear. if the stock had been in the
moon in place Of this mundane sphere.
He thumbed over the documents and saw
fifty shares OF the Oxy-hydrogon Heat and
Light Company. ~ hundred shares Of the New
Creek Company. of Virginia; hundred shares of
the Wagner Improved drooving Machine Company
''a good for about twenty-five cents" observed the
Captain. Then there were bonds Of the East Ken
tucky Coal, Lumber and Railroad Company and cer-
tifcates of tho Fulton Mining Company, the
United States Gas Company and the clayton
Fire Fire Insurance nee. Company. Total aggregate
he concluded the examination. The name
of Laurence Deo and his address having been found
presently he appeared at the station house
fed the captain that he the of tho recov-
along @ with the papers and that the whole - must
have have been stolen from him time
ago. The sergeant asked him if he intended
to leave anything by way OF reward for the
little boy who found the lost package. and he said
that just then he out OF small change. but when
he disposed Of some Oxy-hydrogen Heat and Light
Company shares he would cheerfully and promptly
remember the youth. "At q low estimate" said he,
these bonds represent probably $500. 600 available
m - N tn Il iann of nv
of them until tho market appreciates.
"You're waiting for the good time comingY said
just So" said the prospective millionaire. II
can afford to toiego many luxuries to accomplish
..You wouldn't give ono o. them ere bonds for q
schooner OF beer. ehs asked the Sergeant. in u
castle tone of voice.
"No. sir there's more than the price Of whole
brewery in just two of these bonds" proudly re-
piled the other, tuoking the bundle under his
"Do you suppose that valuable property was
stolen from him p asked Of the Sergeant.
home of night and raSed daw% nso mo was ths
cellar where the bundo was found and forgot all
about being there
getting wood in the cellar of the house No. AIT West
Thirty-sixth street. Saturday evening, when he
lying on shs ground Ko pcsoa up
and brought it up stairs. and about tearing the
papers to pieces. when his mother told him to wait
The father that they looked Of some Importance
and sent him around with them to tho Twentieth
precinct station house. There money of any
kind in tho package. He got nothing for delivering
1T up, but he expected the owner would reward him
handsomely few days.
The regular place Of resort for the speculative
owner of these shares is a liquor store corner
Of seventh avenue and Twenty seventh street.
Here ho spends his evenings when not otherv ise
engaged. and talks OF tho potsntiaty OF wealth be-
yond the dreams Of avarice. The bartender said:--
"Hes regular Colonel Sellers and millions III
fifty things. He has them ere bonds, or whatever
you call EN-, fve or six years. aud says they're
worth S2O0,OO0 or $4,000 but they amt worth
for tho whole caboodle. Once o while he
ages to raise few dollars them by putting them
up bail for fellows down In the District Attor-
ney's Office, and then he goes rip roaring spree
for week or so and suppose 1t of
these sprees he lost 'em. He amt worth . dollar
but to hear him talk you'd think he owned moro
than Astor and Vanderbilt put together lie used
to deal, he says, one time in real estate.'
"Did he have An Officer"
"Oh, he carries his Office in his hat
"And does he rozlly ever negotiate a sae2'
'Why, no. It's all gas and talk same Sellers"
(Which Of his bonds do you think the most valu-
able?"
.'well dang 1t If know. II he brought them all
in here now wouldn't give him twenty -hve-no,
not ten cents for them. I've kept them for him
here at various times when he purposed going
out on a racket and he used to pretend they
precious U whole hogshead full OF diamonds.
They all belonged to busted up companies have
been takon to the cemetery years ago.
'But people don't get taken in on such paperY"
swell they'll stand the drinks when they hoar a
man talk Of having paper in his pocket worth
quarter million. That etches drinks and cigars all
the timo. and guess that's what he thinks of most.