Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-16
THE COTTON SWINDLE.
Suits Against The Missouri Pacific
Aggregaitng $150,OOO for Money
Paid ON Bogus Lading Bills.
Tho Facts In the GreRt sherman Cotton
Swindio Will Receive Another Airiog
IN the Courts az Dallas.
special to the Gazotto.

Special 10 the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tx, Nov l5,--The famous
cotton swind,lng cases wer. this evening
revived by the fling Of several suits
against the Missouri Pacific Railway com.
psuy. Three years ago Baum, Lahnstein,
Easton and Cammock worked rafting
cotton swlndle on Eastern mills and cot
ton factories, thanking upwards of
$4,000. they are known
10 have bteu pilOted through
their rGscnllty by a CERTAIN
well known firm of Dallas,
lawyers, The latter escaped prosecution
but not public suspicion and condemna-
ton. Baum, TIE active C0lef, died an
eNlle's death Ia a Canadian jail. Since
then All hopes of Conyictlng any one I'M
less { mipht be the railroad agent at
sherman, Easton, who had been weak
CatspaW ia me hands OF tae
shreUder scoundrals, was aban.
dcned, ana year ago County
Attorney Clint In the Kindness If his
heart determined th4l the luasE sinner of
the gang should pOtpay thelpenalty Of ali,
SO ne let Eastln uut on bond and he is now
working hlrd 10 make an honest living as
q clerk IA a Dallas Laundry. AZ u sequel
90 the great Texas cotton swindl6, "a. day
e. MsauCl nud Miar Lehman,
composing the firm Of Leh-
man Bros, general cotton commission
ncrcuapts doing business in the city of
Now York, 10y their attorneys, Crawford
a Crawford, died shit in the district court
against the missouri Pacific Railway com.
punY. They allege in substance that The
road s indebted TO them IN the sum
Of SlS 600, with Interest ON
he same from The goth of October,
1883, 70 uata. They state that on the
~ az October, 1883, at Sherman, Tex, the
datendaat executed aud delivered TO Joy
Lahnsieip It's certain bill OF cotton lsding
No. 80, whereby II received from Lain
stein $50 bales Of cotton In apparent good
order, market "ON " The number Of
bales being 900 consigned TO the
owners and holders Of the said
cotton bill of lading IA aforesaid, and en-
titled 60 receive the otton therein named
from the defendant, the Missouri Pacific
Railway company. Also another bill OF
lNdlng, No. ss, similar to the first, both
OF which together call for SIS COO, with
interest," az stated. That on the 81 d4y of
November, 1883, said Joseph Lahnstein
~ Dallas, Texas, drew his certain sight
drntt IN fnVor OF oliver & Griggs for the
sum OF $500 ON petitioners which he,
with the bill OF ladlng, attached thereto
delivered TO Oliver & Griggs, after he
had endorsedin blank the cotton bill of
leding ~ security therefor. That they,
the plaintiffs, paid the same.
Jitmsn Co., OF New York, I'm SINH
lar bushes, by the same attorney, illed a
suit qsinst the Missouyy Pacific Rail
way com )any for S22, Ss5,97 en- bills OF
ladlng Issued 10 Lobenstoin. The PRAYER
OF the petitioners Is similar TO the above.
1t Is understood other suits all aggre.
eating sl50,000 and three years IN.
terest viii DE brought ut Dallas
against the Missouri pacinc. The
latter company never lost a cent. II IA
claimed by the bogus bills OF ladng fraud
and any money they may have received
from Commack or other consplrators who
turned states evidence was like SO much
picked up in the road,