Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09
BLOATED BON!DHOLDERS.

Two Cheeky Cusses Offer One Hundred
Thousand Dollars Worth of the City
Bonds of st. Joseph, Missouri, For
Sale to A New York Broker-They are
Caught In Their Little Game-Excite.
ment in st. Joe.
New YORK, April S.--Two men attempted
this afternoon, to sell at brokers' office city
bonds of the city of st. Joseph, Mo-, to the
amount of 100000 for so cents on the dollar
The bonds are only negotiable for other bonds
The transaction excited suspicion and the
men were handed over to the police and taken
to headquarters, where they gave the names
of James Irving and Joseph Fisk. The bonds
were examined by the financial agent of the
city of st. Joseph and found genuine. They
are supposed to have been stolen. Fisk gave
his residence as at the Astor House and Ir.
wing said he was stopping at the Sturtevant
house. The bonds are one hundred per
cents of the denomination of $1,000 each.
The prisoners were arraigaed in the police
court, where Mr.. Donald, agent for the bonds
in this city, appeared to prosecute them. II
is thought the investigation will lead to i'm.
portant disclosures involving other parties in
st. Joseph. The accused were remanded fol-
further evidence.
The men, when questioned as to where they
got the bonds, replied that they received them
from man in Missouri. Irving gave his oc-
cupation as real estate agent, and Fisk as a
Spectator. They were not known at police
headquarters. An investigation left little
doubt that the persons have the bonds in
their possession.
TOOLS OF CONSPIRATORS
in the city of st. Joseph. The financial agent
of the bonds says his suspicious were aroused
by the surreptitious way in which the bonds
were offered for sale on lhe street by strange
parties Efforts to sell them have been max
ing for a week past. The agent also said he
had no doubt tina these men did not steal the
bonds, but that some dishonesty of the
officials, or somebody at st. Joseph who was
at the bottom of it.
The agent says he discovered some thing
was wrong with the bonds when he saw they
were numbered consecutively from sol to "A''
81 ,0O0, each bond bieng for ga" 1000. Only
100000 worth Of the new bonds have been
issued, and these being so far ahead looked
like fraudulent issue.
A SUMNER FOR ST. JOE.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April S.-The week which
opened in this city with the killing of Jesse
James, the most consuming sensation of
many years, is closing with remarkable revela-
tons of huge bond steal. A private tele-
gram was received in this city this afternoon
from New York, stating that two men from
st. Joseph were arrested in the former city,
having in their possession 100000 of st. Joe
per cent bonds, which they were trying to
negotiate.
The fact is not generally known in the city
to. night, for the members of the council have
endeavored to keep the matter quiet pending
the investigation in progress. Your CORE
spendent cannot give the names of the parties
implicated in New York, but it is said that
they are two men who have roomed during
winter in a building On Edmond street in this
city.
Ex-Mayor Piner, City Register Etingo and
City Marshal Rilgo have left for New York to
look after the matter.