The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

IF the purchasers took but one lot; etn-
ers took several.
Morgan furnishes purchasers with
abstracts which are defective in fail
ing to show the mortgages and other
cloudy spots on the title. One OF
these bogus abstracts was sent to Eliza
Moore by Henry Carleton of Kansas
City, asking that it be brought down
to the present. The register did SO.
and concluded by endorsing on the
back of it statement showing the |
location OF the lots seven miles in the /
country. When he received it Carleton
wrote back last Saturday saying that |
the endorsement played the ID
with the abstract and knocked him out
of $500. He asked for another with
out the devilish details about location.
Mr.. Moore wrote him yesterday, that he
would make out no bogus abstracts. He
would only give an abstract made out
on his own blank form. If that would
not answer, Mr.. Carleton could 90 TO a
particularly warm climate. Carleton
appears to be another agent or mani
pulator in the business,
Daily, letters are received, not only
by the register of deeds, but by real
estate agents and others making
inquiries about lots in Highland Park,
their location and value and so forth.
| The writers all labor under the delu-
sion that the park adjoins the city.
1 Of &A1l hnk q =,
up largely, and adjoins the Santa Fe
round house property. Others are told
it lies on the east side of town. at the
junction of the railroads. C. A. Mer
ri1l, banker at Armourdale wrote Mr.
Bootey few days ago TO make inquire!
about some lots in the park which hC
was about to buy. To him. they were
represented as laying but two block.
from the Normal. All manner of rep
reservations are made to gull pur
chasers. Some of the victims ar
women, who fall into the trap as read
lily as men. Billy Jones. we under
stand, received letter few DAYS ag
from a Kansas City man, begging hin
to keep mum if asked any question
about the park. There are many othe
shameful features about tn,
fraud that we might notice, Blu
space is wanting to tell all tina
might be said about it. 1t is, on it
face, the boldest piece of villainny eve
. attempted to be perpetrated in or abou
this city. Men and women are swim
died right and left, and the city dis
graced. Every honest real estate ma
in the city-and they all claim to b
such, are loud in denouncing it as a
atrocious scandal and a burning dis
, grace. The officers at the court hous
are unanimous in denunciation of il
, and Register Moore feels keenly tn
humiliation of having by virtue of hi
Office to assist the rascalS in swindlin
tthe public. Somebody richly merits
suit Of stripes for perpetrating such
swindle and fraud on the public.
Who is the mysterious w. G. MOI
gan? Nothing in the records answer
this quite clearly. Only by conjectuI
, and inference can his identity be fixed
, AS we said. the plat of the park pul
ported to be acknowledged before A. {
Wharton by w. G.. Morgan, but wa
, brought to the registers Office b
W. NJ. Organ, who also paid all tn
fees in that Office. He professed to /
the agent of w. G.. Morgan. There
i, however, suspicious resemblance bt
tween his signature and that of w.
Morgan, as seen on the plat. The
again, the deed for the park sent b
the register to Morgan at Kansas Cit
was returned by the postmaste
marked suncailed for 1t was the
given to Wharton or Organ TO h
handed to Morgan, who calls himse
, an unmarried man.
From the foregoing facts you ma
! judge for yourself the indemnity {
Morgan. 1t ought not be very Difficult
to do so. Whoever he is he has don
much to injurs Emporia and bring di'
grace upon its citizens.
After due elaboration it was though
best to expose this atrocious swindl'
and warn the public against it befoI
: it goes any further. Damage enough ha
, already been done to the eity's reput;
ton, and victims enough to the frau
: confidenced out of their money. "Higt
land Park is a swindle. Bewa1