The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-27
MIR. KITS WARRANTS.
The Value of the Trustees Attorneys-The
Developments of Yesterday.


The Value of the Trustees Attorneys-The
Developments of Yesterday.
Thomas G. Hewitt, the Chicago man who came
to Indianapolis to establish the genuineness of a
large amount of Center township warrants, bear
ing the signature of Mr.. Kitz, and purporting to
have been issued by the trustee to r. B. Pollard
has left the city, having succeeded, it is said, in
obtaining evidence which will at the proper
time be produced to refute the charge
that the warrants are forgeries In the mean
time no additional paper has turned up. 1t
seems, however, that Mr.. Kitz feels that there is
a necessity for putting another lawyer between
himself and the public, and taking greater pre-
cautions for legal protection. He was
in consultation with Attorney Spaan un-
til after IL o'clock Friday night, at the
lawyers Office, and it was reported yesterday
that John S. Duncan had been retained by the
trustee as additional counsel Mr.. Duncan,
when questioned about the matter refused to
state whether not the report was true When
Hewitt came to the city with the Pollard war
rants in his possession for the purpose of
ascertaining if Mr.. Kitz would declare
them forgeries, it is said, that he was in search
of the trustee two days before finding him.
Finally Hewitt's attorneys called at the Mer-
chants National Bank, and asked Mr.. Frenzel if
he could bring Mr. Kitz into their presence.
what do you want with Kitz9" asked Fren-
Eel.
1--WE have some warrants bearing his sig
nature and we want him to examine
them and say whether or not they are genuine I"
'"There can be no objection to that / will
rinp in a m Mr Erap
eel returned with Kitz and his lawyer, Mr..
Spaan.
The warrants were shown the trustee and he
was asked if the signature was genuine. Merely
glancing at the paper, and without making any
examination. Mr.. Kitz said: They are forgeries
Just like the Others"
He was then asked if he had ever, at any time,
had any dealings with Pollard but before he
him to say nothing more, and the interview at
once ended.
Mr.. Kitz's lawyer seems to have been a very
useful person to him in more ways
than one. When lawyer Mccormack
and Morris Solomon We're trying to
sell some of Mr.. Kitzs warrants to William
Henderson, they took to him legal opinion
bearing the signature of Fl. N. Spaan. relative
to the power of the township trustee to issue war
rants and the value of the paper as safe invest
ment This opinion. Mr. Henderson says, was
left with him to examine, and he returned it
when he refused to buy the werrants.
1t is suggested by lawyer that Mr.. Kitz may
have meant something more than has Teen sus-
pected by the public when he made an affidavit
declaring the North Vernon Bank war
rants to be forgeries. He may have meant
that the warrants were obtained from him by
misrepresentation "a few years ago." said
the attorney, when farmers throughout Indiana
were induced by swindlers to sign paper which
was supposed TO be an agreement to take the
agency for wind-mills. and these papers after
wards turned out to be notes, it was claimed
by their manipulations been guilty of forgery,
and the charge was sustained in the courts. It
may be that Kitz means that these Pollard war
rants were obtained from him by misrepresen-
tations--rot that the signature is not genuine.
II he should ever be tried for per-
jury he could easily be acquitted
by claiming that be accepted his lawyers inter
probation of the meaning Of forgery, when he