The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-01
FOREIGN NEWS.
London Bankers Victimized.
RECORD OF AN AMERICAN FORGER
ABROAD.

LONDON. Sept. 30.-The man arrested last
week for $4,000 forgery on Glynn, Mills &
Co.. bankers, has been identified as VIM. Ring
gold Cooper, an American, formerly in the
and experl forger. The check on Glynn, Mills
| & Co. for $4,000 had been paid, and but for
the forger's foolhardiness he would have
| escaped While detectives were looking for
| the forger, he walked into q bankers office
| and demanded what all this talk was about a
| forged check, when he was promptly arrested.
The arrest led to the discovery of another
forgery on the Bank of England in June last,
for which he will be arraigned today. Detec-
tives have also learned that he was living in
sumptuous fashion at an elegant country seat
called East Lodge, near Hertfordshire. Here
he played the part of an English country
gentleman, hunted and shot with the neighbor-
ing gentry, gave grand balls and dinner par
| ties, attended church regularly, donated liber-
ally to the poor, and was highly respected.
| Meanwhile, he paid frequent visits to London
| and forged the names of his respectable neigh
| bors in Hertfordshire. Cooper was born in
Kent county, Delaware. In 1861 he was en-
ployed as clerk in the Navy Department at
Washington where he forged the name of
Paymasters Spaulding and Allen to requisi-
lions amounting to $4,000. He was arrested
while on his wedding trip, and after speedy
trial sentenced to five years Imprisonment.
After his release he went to New Orleans
married an eslimable lady there, squandered
her fortune, committed extensive forgeries
was arrested. jumped his bail, disappeared,
and next turned up in San Francisco, where
he procured employment as clerk at 500 per
month. Soon he went into business as stock
holder, swindled his partner out of $4,000
and disappeared. Forgeries to the amount of
100000 to Ell, 900 ON American letters of credit
were recently committed, Messrs. Smith, Payne
& Co. being the victims. The forgers got
81 900 in Bank of England notes from Smith,
then went to the Bank of England, represent
ing that they were going to South America
and wanted gold. The bank people were bam-
boozled and gave them gold and small notes.
AS soon as the forgery discovered the
bank stopped payment of the notes. The
forgers changed the numbers and so passed
them. No clue has been discovered.
The Irish Tenantry Troubles.
LONDON, Sept 30.-The Pail Mall Gazette
comedies that the complaints of the Irish tell
ant farmers are mostly genuine; that they are
for the moment unable to pay their rent, and
that they believe i'll their right to remain on
the land in every event. They are fresh from
the exhortations of the most popular politician
in Ireland, meaning Parnell, to stick to their
homesteads at whatever consequence. If
general refusal to pay rent is followed by a
wholesale eviction, this again will almost GER
tainly be followed by agrarian murders; and
unless the Irish Executive is prepared to sup
port the landlords by measures amounting to
little less than military occupation of part
of the country, the landlords will have to
choose between virtually conceding the tell
ants claim to tixity of tenure and giving the
signal for an outbreak of something hardly
distinguishable from civil war
Heavy Business Failures.
PARIS, Sept. 30.-Advices from Vienna an
nounce the suspension of Schild & Co., large
irm OF diapers. Liabilities 100000 torins
Several Paris and Lyons houses are among the
creditors. Sieber & Jerabek, cotton merchants,
at Vienna, have also failed. Liabilities 100000
forms. The failure affects parties in Manches-
ter and Liverpool.
The Rinderpest in Russian Poland
BERLIN, Sept. 30.-The rinderpest is raging
in Russian Poland. Further precautions have
been taken on the Silesian frontier to prevent
its introduction into Germany.
No Hope for Liberalism in Germany.
BERLIN, Sept. 30.-The election today and
next Tuesday will be the most critical of any
in the past twenty years. The issue is for or
against Bismarck. 1t is believed the liberal
cause is hopeless and Bismarck's success a fore
gone conclusion.
Prussian Diet Elections.
The elections for electors to choose deputies
for the Diet were held today. In Berlin
majority of the candidates returned are Pro-