Smyrna times., 1886-10-20
An nnwortbv Man,s 1Need
TWO PRoMIsSoRY NOTES RAISED TWO
HUNDRED DOLLARS EACH.

About a week ago John 4. Mowbray, OF
Frederica, Del, came TO Easton rom y.
Nichaels and offered on the street for sale
two nrOmissorv notes apparently drawn by
John G. Harper to John E. MOwbrayi one
at four months for $3.50 and one at SIX
months for S240. VIM. NJ. Coney pur-
chased the first one Of these notes ana
Charles w. Gibson the other. Mr. GIBSON 5
note passed in course of business 10 RoDGfC
b, Dixon, who notified Mr. Harper ana ne
was dumfounded at the information;
Mowbray got two notes, one for tnlrty IN anu Ia
one for forty dollars, from MI Harper III
this way
Last Tuesday night ne went to Mr.. Har-
per's residence, Beverly, near St. MlchaeII59'
after Mr.. Harper had retired. lie was call
ed up and M0wbray told him that a note
Mr.. Harper had endorsed for him orlglhal3F
for 800 but which had been reduced69 SiO,
was again due at the Easton bank ana JnaI
the bank had refused to renew IT. but IhaI
L. Dobson. one Of the bank officers, had
told him that if he would get Mr.. Harper
note for the amount, he (Mr. Dodson)
would take it and pay of the note IN oank,
and proposed to Mr.. Harper to lend MN
his note for $50 at four months and anOJnef
for $40 at six months, saying he would De
abld to meet them at maturity. MI Ilat-
per had every confidence in Mr.. Mowpray,
and his first impulse was to draw ms cugCk
| for $40 and pay off the note for him, out
he reflected that Mowbray would perhaps
| be more creful to pay the notes at bank
promptly than he would be to pay nm a
! debt he owed him individually, and agreed
! to do it.
Mowbray produced two blank notes and
| himself filed them up with the " four an i
"six" respectively for the months, and
thirty and forty respectively for the
/ IL lt,& bo M
| blank line very close to the printed word
| dollars. Mr. Harper signed the notes and
! Mowbray took them and departed. lie af-
| terward raised each note by writing the
words 1.-TWO hundred and Immediately
before the words already written and dis
posed Of them in Easton rs stated.
The matter became public in EastOn on
| Tuesday and the community where Mr.
! Mowbray is very well known was deeply
shocked. Mr.. Harper was greatly grieved
that his friend, in whom he had trusted and
in whom he had so much confidence, should
prove so MULTIPLICATION LeCtqeT o.
| 1hUrSddB l4th.
Last Friday we received n letter from
Mr.. Mowbray asking US to withhold thC
article published in the Morning Ncl0s tho
day before copied from the Baltimore Sla
adding lit is untrue and will be cOntradic
ted by the proper authorities or parties
concerned not later than Monday" Moth
ing has however been heard from hin
since, and the following from the Eastor
Star of yesterday may explain the reason
We understand that Mossrs Gibsoi
and Coney went to Frederica last week ant
saw Mowbray, who put on a bold face 0nC
talked them into believing that the note
are all right, and they returned confden
that they can recover the money out 0
Mr.. Harper, notwithstanding that lii
/ fOrUprV vifiatQS the whole note Now hla'
says Mr. Harper signed the otcs in blank
and he filed them up for the amount h
wanted Ifthat was so it is a little singula
that he should have gone about town Wed
nesday morning looking for pale ink T.
match the ink the notes were drawn in."