Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-07
InspectOrs' Report.

The report of Inspectors Tidball and Shall
cross. which accompanies the above letters sets
then clerk in the Office of the board of health
Of this city. associated with himself number OF
Dorsey, John Miner, J. NJ. Peck, Alvin o. PECK,
Samuel q. Cobel1, and others. and began making
sureties 20 on bonds, which pDb combination ma On
submitted with their proposals men, it has since
irresponsible. BY means of these straw bonds,
which it is alleged were supported by false repre-
succeeded in Obtaining in the course of the next
four years, larger number OF contracts for mail
aOn TRe epo Of s in GBe
and Shalleross gives, with great fullness,
proof of their fraudulent haracter. The following
cases are illustrations. Under advertisement,
two thousand four hundred and fifty routes. in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Ohio The Ohio aggregate bonds accompanying
his proposals amounted to 81 600, 700. He secured
was reSuired to file bonds in the totsi sum aia
OF $40 900 his sureties for this service
utterly worthless. Barringer, who resides in this
city. has made affidavit, in which he says he does
t % spd & DID not at the time OF executing the bond
he soTe he owned were nre9f'eSfy; nef that the lends
deed OF sale Of properly and all he located in
Georgia was made by Alvin O.. Peck to
him for the purpose Of enabling him TO go
upon the bonds, and that the whole transaction
was fraud concocted by Albert E. Boone Alvin
Q. Peck and James Nicholas Collan, notary pub
ruary TO- 1881, for mail messenger and station ser
vice in large cities Boone put in twelve bids, with
bonds sggregatng Sl6i, GOO. He secured three con-
tracts, two in Boston and one in Brooklyn.
The aggregate of the bonds required for the
awarded contracts was SIS, 100 The sureties for
this service were Samuel N. Hoyt. James W. Don
ohue and William w. Jackson. Hoyt is irresponsi-
BILE: Donohue has made affidavit, submitted here
with explaining the fraudulent part taken by
Cobell and himself in the matter; jackson did not
possess the real estate he swore he owned in BraX
ton county West Virginia, at the time he executed
the bond. He has made affidavit before United
States officer, in which he says the land he
he owned was decided to him by Albert
L. Boone in consideration of one dollar
for the purpose of enabling him To go
upon the bonds for Caban Boone and K. NJ.
Armstrong He admits he knew moth
ing about the land, and acknowledged the entire
transaction to have been a farce; Boone himself
never owned any land in Braxton county, West
November l. 1877, to February TO- 1881, inclusive,
Boone bid on four thousand six hundred and
ninety -four routes, aggregate bonds accompanying
these proposals amounted to 81 95s 1872 Out of all
these bids he secured one hundred and two
contracts (au of which are still in opera
tion and most of them having two and three
years to rum, requiring bonds in the
total sum OF $50, ,305. From what mas been
shown regarding the character of his sureties.
1t viii be that in Boone should fail in
the performance of any of his later and most i'm
protection, as his sureties are worthless.
A number of other similar cases are cited
by the inspectors, all showing the same dis
graceful state of affairs that exists IN that of
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