The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-19
The Outstanding Indebtedness Aggregates
$65,711-A Statement from Member Of
the Firm of Davis Brothers.
Damaging Effects of the Frauds on the
States Credit in Eastern Cities.
Methods of School Furnishing Agents in Cor
rupting Trustees-0perations of Repre-
sentatives of an Indiana Firm.
DENOUNCED AS FORGERIES.
MIR. Kitz Makes an Affidavit Regarding the
Validity Of Outstanding Orders.

DENOUNCED AS FoRGERIEs.
Mr.. Kitz Makes an Affidavit Regarding the
Validity of Outstanding Orders.
The showing made in the report presented to
the County Commissioners by Trustee Kitz was
the subject yesterday Of much comment, and
generally it was regarded as very unsatifactory
statement 1t was claimed by the friends of the
trustee, however that he had presented his re-
port in the customary form, and that there was
nothing wrong in his AFFAIRS that the increased
Indebtedness could be accounted for by the in
crease in expenses caused by the growth of
population, etc. Inasmuch as the indebtedness,
however, is several times larger than was con-
tracted under previous administrations, the de-
fense does not seem to be a very good one
Yesterday afternoon John P. Frenzel tee-
graphed to North Vernon to learn the dates of
the warrants held by Cooks bank, and after re-
ceiving a reply giving the desired information,
Mr.. sKrz made the following sworn statement,
declaring the warrants forgeries:
State of Indiana, Marion County, ss
formed that the Jennings County Bank. of North
Vernon, Ind, reports among its assets paper OF my
township purporting to have been signed by me, as
One warrant dated April 8. 1885, due June Is,
1888, fer 81 500.
ons warrant dated May %, 1885, due July Is,
One warrant dated June II, 1885, due Jan. Is,
1887 for 81 900
One warrant dated July g. 1850, due July 10,
1887 for 81 500.
/ state that never issued such warrants nor paper
of any kind whatever, for such amounts and at such
dates; and further state that if any such papers
exist purporting to have been issued by me they are
forgeries
So far as R. B. Pollard is concerned, I make the
ste aim
sentative any of my township paper. ERNEST KITz.
Subscribed and sworr to by Ernest Kitz before me-
this eighteenth day of September, 1885.
WIN. S. HUBBARD, Notary Public
During the day the County Commissioners sent
to Mr.. Ktz request for an interview. He re-
piled that he could not see them then, but that
he would appear before them to-day. The com
ments on the exhibit made in the report disclose
some things that have not yet been brought to
public attention
In an interview with Journal reporter on
Wednesday, Mr.. Kitz stated that he had issued
no due-bill or warrant for larger amount than
81. 500. Horace Mckay the ex-coector of in
ternal revenue, who is now engaged in the loan
and real estate business, told Journal reporter
yesterday that few days ago he was offered by
Mr. Mccormack, the lawyer, warrant for So, 100,
bearing the signature of Mr. Kitz as trustee of
Center township. The counsel of Cook, the pro-
prietor Of the North Vernon Bank told one
Indianapolis gentleman who was in North Yer
non yesterday, that Cook had held $500 of Mr.
Kitz's warrants but had sold So, 900, leaving the
So, 500 found among the assets of the bank when
it suspended, and, besides this. Cook had known
of SIS, 900 more of Mr.. Kitz's warrants which had
been sold in Ohio. A special dispatch from
at
Brown, the absconding trustee had
told friend there that he had
received $40, 900 in orders from Trustee
Kitz. The statement of Mr. Kitz in his report
to the commissioners that he had never had
any dealings with r. B. Pollard & Son or Davis
& Co.." is contradicted by the firm Of Davis
Brothers, the school furniture dealers The fol-
lowing special to the Journal was received from
Danvine Ind, the home of the Davis brothers.
where the junior member of the firm is now living:
1.-THE correspondent of the Journal to-day had
conversation with Mr. Arthur Davis, member of the
firm of Davis Brothers, Chicago in which he spoke of
He said that Ktz had had dealings with Pollard and
that their firm Davis Bros. held orders for $4,000
worth of school supplies for Mr. Ktz and that these
orders were given them BY Pollard butthe goods
not delivered because of the of Pollard He
further said that Kitz had bought of them globe
worth 5000, and bad ordered five more
| There have been rumors about the city for
several days that an attache of the trustees
township warrants and number of due-bills
held by different persons are mentioned that
were omitted from the report made by Mr.. Kitz
to the commissioners It may be that some
of the war; ants in circulation have been forged,
as Mr.. Ktz declares in his affidavit but there is
certainly no longer any doubt that Center town
ship warrants are in circulation. and the total
amount which has been reported up to the pres
| ent time includes:
Warrants held by the Nor tn Vernon Bank. So 500
Amount sold by Cook. ook.-.-.......... 1000
Amount which Cook says are held in Ohio. 5000
Offered for sale by Mccormack .-......... 300
Orders held by Davis Brothers .-.---...-.. 10000
Offered for sale at Greensburg. 1000
| Amount held by Brown, the absconding
trustee .....................-. 10000
| Making the total amount reported $47 600
Adding the due bills reported by Mr.. Ktz-. 49, Ill
| The total outstanding indebtedness unauthor-
ized by the commissioners would be ..... .$65 I'll
And as the limit is s-....--............-3 80, 700
The trustee has probably contracted an in
debtedness exceeding his limit 1927 oil
In Mr.. Kitz's report to the commissioners the
due-bills mainly divided among about half a
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