Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1888-06-03

t.'i't W huoW anything aDout " askc
Mr.. Jolly, In surprise "Mr Flint toll
body"
ooh, dare say" said "but YOU sc
we do know abou, il; and we have res
son 70 believe that an attempt is bein
made TO obtain money from Mr.. Jackso
by false prctenaes; and, unless you te
me alt you know about the matter,
shall consider you as aiding in the Al
tempt; must, therefore, ask you /
tell me what You know about t.
am sure don't want 10 harm Mr.
Jackson In any way" said Mr.. Jolly. g
thought the only reason for keeping
secret was that IL was private matter
and II it will do Mr.. jackson any good.
am willing to tell You all l know abou
Yes" said, at is most important 4
Mr.. jackson, and must ask you to tel
me all you know"
well, sir" said Mr.. Jolly, "you see
Mr.. Flint wanted some alterations mad,
TO n desk he had In his Office, and amonl
other things ne wanted the drawers di
vided into different sized partitions. so a.
TO hold papers OF various sizes, and
went there one morning, before any one
had come to the office, TO do the work
Well, took one Of the drawers out O
the desk to put the divisions in, and aftel
had done so, happened TO look int
the compartment from which had TAX
en- II, and there / saw document
crushed up against the back, which had
evidently fallen over the end of the
drawer. pulled 1t out and looked over
It and found it was bond from Mr.. VIII.
liam Jackson TO Mr.. Sharper Flint fol-
1000. AS ! was examining it Mr.. Flint
came in, and showed him the docu-
ment and explained how | had found it.
He took il from me and examined it, and
said; Oh, yes; am very glad indeed
You have found it. | have missed this
bond for same time, and it might have
put me to serious inconvenience il l had
lost 1t. Here is sovereign for your
trouble, and would be glad II you would
not mention the circumstance to any,
body, as IL Is a private matter, which I
should not like talked about"
So far this recital did not appear to
contain anything likely to help us, but
seemed rather to confirm Mr.. Flint's
story OF his having mislaid the bond but
the next sentence Of Mr.. Jolly put a
different complexion on the matter.
You seef" he said, 81 knew that desk
used to belong to Mr.. Winter, and when
! saw his name on the bond | thought it
might be one OF his papers"
What" | said; do you mean to say
that that desk formerly belonged to Mr..
Winter"
Eyes, sir" answered Mr.. Jolly. "He
bought it at the sale OF Mr. Winters
effects. remember the desk we'll, as /
was at the sale when he bought it,"
This last information seemed, indeed,
to be Of a more important nature, since,
il the desk formerly belonged to Mr..
Winter, it was possible that the bond
might have been lost while il was in his
possession.
Well" I said, eve have reason to be-
lieve that that bond does not belong to
Mr.. Sharper Flint at all, but that he is
illegally trying to extort money from Mr..
jackson on tin fact. he has COM
menced proceedings against him to en-
force it. Will you be prepared at the
trial to swear to all you have stated to
me to-day?"
eyes, sir; l. shall be prepared to
swear to every word OF it,"
"Then | shall depend on YOU" l said, :
"and | must ask you not to talk about
the matter till after the trial"
"Rightyou are, sir-mum' g the word"
answered Mr.. Jolly, and shortly after
wards, having finished his job, he took
his departure.
As for me, l hurried at once to Farmer
Jackuon's house at Oakfelds and gave
him an account of what had heard. 81
tell you what my suspicion is" I said.
That bond was one of Mr.. Winters
papers; it was never given to Mr.. Flint
at all, and he did not know of It's exist
ence till jolly found 1t in the way I have
told YOU"
That's it, sir. you may depend upon
it," said Mr.. Jackson, giving me a slap
On the back that nearly knocked me
down. SPY George sir, we'll defeat the
yet"
"Not so fast, not so FAST" said I, eau
iiously. THAT is my suspicion, but |
10 not think it is sufficient to obtain
verdict in a court of justice. You see,
we have no evidence at all that it did
not belong to Mr.. Flint, and that it was
not lost while it was in his possession.
What we must do is to try to discover
he whereabouts of some OF Mr.. Winters
clerks and see if they remember anv-
hing about it. II the bond was mislaid
while it was in Mr.. Winters possession.
t is highly probable that some of them
would have heard something about it.
Rogers seems to remember very little
'bout the matter. However, we may as
veil go and see him again and try to
og his memory"
Accordingly we went over to Rogers
iouse and found him in.
Rogers" said, "cannot you remem-
yer anything more about that bond? Do |
'ou remember whether it was mislaid or
lot ?"
'Not that heard of" answered Rog.
RS; "but j have been thinking the mat |
or over, and think the most likely per-
on TO be able to give you information
bout it would be Mr.. Carter, Mr.. Win
er's manager.
'''Where does he live?" I asked.
"Ah, that's the point" answered
,ogers. 81 am sorry to say l do not
now. He left here when Mr.. Winter
led, and went to London, but don't
now his address,"
"And you are quite certain you recol-
bet nothing about it YOURSELF" l asked.
"Quite," answered Rogers. ''I have
cen looking the matter up, and | re-
member now that was ill for three or
our months just about the time the bond
J dated, and If anything special occurred
4 connection with it, 1 think it must
ave been while was absent from the
ffice."
"Well," said to Mr.. Jackson, as we
ERE leaving, 1--WE must use our utmost
ndeavors to get hold OF Mr.. Carter; but
would be as well to set to work quietly,
, as not to alarm the other side. We
light set a private detective at work
ut it is SO long ago since Mr.. Carter left
nat there might be some difficulty in
citing on the track, so think the best
'ay will be to advertise in few of the
ondon papers first, and if that fails, we
an employ detective"
1t was accordingly arranged that l
Mould do this, and l set to work to con-
der the best way of carrying it into eff