The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-07
A Pacific Detective Locates
His Man After q Long
Chase,
But Indiana Authorities Re
fuse to Recognize His
Requisition,
And the Alleged Swindler is Per.
mitted to Laugh in His
Sleeve.

papers OF FRIDAY in regard to the arres,
of an alleged Missouri Pacific ticket forgeI
at kokOms, lndiana?" asked a prominen,
railway man yesterday of BAzOO reporter
The scribe replied that he did not, when
the railway man continued: "The case is
full of interest, and as The party who work.
ed il up is a resident OF Sedalia, it possess
es considerable local interest, and at the
same time shows plainly how the smoothes,
detectives in The country sometimes slip up
On their game after spending much mOnev
and time in locating the party wanted"
Being asked for the particulars, the
BAzoo's informant related the story of the
crime and the outcome, enabling the re-
porter to give il TO the readers of "tle pa
per published for the people now on earth, "
IS follows:
Several months ago the firm of Ross &
De Land were engaged in the ticket broker
business in Kansas City, and were looked
upon as among the most careful and con-
scientiOus young men in the city They
did a large business in their line, and were
generally recognize II rs the leading brokers
OF the place. Both members of the firm
moved in the best circles, and never were
they suspected, until last winter, of being
other than what they appeared on the sur
face
AT length, however, an official of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway made the discovery
that tickets from points in Indiana and
Illinois to points in Colorado and New
Mexico, via the Missouri Pacific, Atchison,
Topeka d Santa Fe and Union Pacific roads
were being counlerfeited or forged. After
4 thorough investigation the forgery was
traced to the broker firm of Ross & De
Land, and for some days the papers teemed
with accounts of their alleged crookedness.
Both partners lost no time in fleeing 1 rom
the city at the mouth of the Kaw, and for
a time their whereabouts proved a mystery.
Finally, however, Tom turlopg, chief of
the Missouri Pacific detective force, and
one of mis- men, who makes his home in Sc
dalia, were placed in charge of the matter
lane, Oregon, where he was arrested in JAN
uary last by FuriOng and brought back to
Jackson county, where he laid in the Jail
at Independence until the fore part of last
June, when he was r, Ii ased ON bond to an
swer to an Indictment for forgery in the
third degree, his trial being st for some
day OF the present month. In the meantime
DeLand had not been apprehended.
While Ross & DeLand made Kansas City
their base OF operations, they had CORE
spondents in Sc. Louis, through whom they
transacted business. Careful inquiry led
the detectives to believe that George Nc.
kinzie, of Muliord & Mckenzie, st.
Louis, was implicated with the
Kansas City firm in the forgery, and he
was indicted for forgery in the third
degree in the St. Louis criminal court for
having handled and sold similar forged
tickets at the other end OF the line. A mo.
ton was made to quash the indictment,
and after hearing full argument Judge Van
Wagner sustained the demurrer. The
tickets forged were what sre called Limited
tickets" which require to be stamped by
the company, issuing and signed by the
party purchasing the same, thus forming y
contract for travel. The stamp on the
back was Union Office, PEORIA" and not
the stamp of any railroad company known
to fame. Hence there was no evidence of
contract, and the Judge said.
II am of the opinion that an instrument
like the one set out in these indictments
possesses no attribute or element of con
tract or any constituent that would confer
a right or creste an obligation of any kind
whatever, and the mere printing or stamp
ing them as set out in the indictment, or
having them In possession, affords no cause
or foundation for a criminal prosecution
under the provisions of our statutes. The
prosecution cannot be maintained under
section 1894, r. S. of 1879"
After Ross had been captured, the rail.
way officials who we're interested instructed
Mr.. Furlong to bring in Thomas A. De
Land, the other partner, and at this point
the Sedalia detective was called IL to locate
DeLand. He lost no time in proceeding to
his work, and in February last found him
at KokOmo, Ind, where his wife resides
with her people, she being a daughter of
ex-Judge Lindsay, a very prominent man
of that district.
Furlong was at once appraised of the sit
uation, and armed with a requisition from
Governor Crittenden on Governor Porter,
of Indiana, he went after the accused, but
failed to get him, some one having given
the clew away. A second attempt was
equally fruitless. Finally De Land was
again located in Kokomo, where he had
gone to attend the funeral Of his 5-year. old
boy. The Sedalia operator had waited
something like two months for this oppor.
tunity, and the minute he set eyes on De
Land he telegraphed to Furlong to come
on Immediately. rs their man was there.
This much accomplished, the Sedalians
returned home, while Furlong and George
w. Herbert, of st. Louis, proceeded to the
HOOsier state. Arriving at KokOmo on
the 9th OF July,a call was made ON Sheriff
McRannell, and that officer was asked to
accompany the party in making the arrest,
as required by the Indiana Law. The sher.
i'll at first wanted to procure the aid OF one
of his own deputies, but that was thought
unnecessary, as the detective party was
deemed sufficiently strong to accomplish
the arrest. Meeting according to promise.
the party surrounded De Lands house at 8
o'clock on the morning of the 18th and ar.
rested him while in bed with his wife.
The Law of Indiana requires the sheriff
In such casee IN tsko thu pr;soro. "a ,ho