Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-15
A DEEP GAME.
Henry S. Ives Charged With the
Boldest Forgery OF the Age.
A Desperate Game to Win the Millions
of a Dead Man Brought to the
Surface and Exposed.
A Tale Which, if True, Stamps Ives as One OF
the Most Consummate Scamps that
Ever Walked the Earth.
A PLAY FOR MILLIONS.


Sun, in its last edition this afternoon,
nrinted q sensational story of an attempt
|, 70 rob the estate of the late Christopher
Never Of 81, OOO, 900 by means of forgery,
and charges Henry S. Ives with the
crime. The Suns headlines are as fol-
lows:
elves is a forger. Details of his bold
scheme TO rob Christopher MeVer's
estate. Seven million dollars was the
booty. Ives traced the dead's initials
and staynor touched them up. Perjury
but an incident. The master thief calmly
! told Woodruff the details he was 10
! swear to.
| The sun SAYS: "Henry S. Ives, who
! has been so often and so truly referred
! TO in these columns as master thief,
! also ranks high among foTgers. The
narrative will show that he, by forgery
of the two initials, "A. c. and an NJ,
! was in a far way to obtain ut least
ten thousand dollars in cold cash and TO
open the till which contained something
more than seven million dollars. Ives
added TO his previous crimes that OF
! forgery in the latter part of last Deem
| her, This fact is published to-day Tor
| the first time and can be substanJ!atea
whenever it shall become necessary
The story which follows tells now
Never was induced to lend money to
Ives and StaynOr and how the discovery
of their crimes finally
! DROVE HIM TO HIS GRAVE.
The Sun then says that within three
months after Meyer's death there was
mt into operation, through Ives agency,
a scheme to impoverish Meyers estate,
and to omen I'D TO himself and his con-
federates n mine Of 81 900 900. In the
fall of 1888 there was Begin, IN an ONO
court, SUIT by Albert Meteor against Ives
& StaYnor and executors of the estate
, of CHRISTOPHER Meyer tor the balance
of the purchase money OF ms
syndicate interest remaining unpaid
, VoluminOus dispositions an that action
were taken in this city during all IaSl
= fall, but only the most meager outline OF
, the case was ever made public. No
| sooner, however, had the pIalntlh oegut
) his case than the coiIusive character OF
ac+ion was revealed Ives and Stayno1
were uorniually defendants, but theV
s hwere the principal witnesses whom the
9 plaintiff called to prove his claim against
= thenseIves Neither of them wa
5 solvent. and the manifest intention
e was to turn to the only response
e ble defendant, the estate of Christophe
e Never. To make that estate answeraDI
f.; it was necessary to prove that Meyer MAJ
e been a partner of the Ives gang, End q
e such responsible for all their losses
e Meyer was
DEAD AND COULD DENY NOTHING.
II The ready lips OF Ives and Staynor sWor
d. with affected reluctance to everythm
essential 10 prove his partnership. The
produced from their own letter Dook
a written propositions to Meye
e which, if accepted, would nav
is made him partner. 81
1t unfortunately for this scheme, outside o
is their own assertions they could prove n
h acceDtance by Meyer of their offers
Ives aDpreciated the difficulties Of II
VS. situation and proceeded characteristic
IN ally to overcome them. It was nece'
Id sary 10 produce some writing oman
- Never. None such was in existence, al
Of the very fact of such thing had bee
discIaimed by Ives and StaynOr in the
ed | deDoslIions. But TO a NapOleonlc mn
IL such obstacles are trivial. If the doci
I'd ment did not exist
r II MUST BE MADE TO EXIST.
oi The project was no sooner concelvt
~ than executed Facilities were II
nd wanting. Staynor had been an engrav
III IN MS youth anu III 9tlictL OsAB'tNA0- Ai'
first come into the employment OF I
American bank note company, and "
was skillful with pen. Accordingly
the next meeting of reference there W
voluntarily produced by Staynor PAP
which met the conspiratOr's requi1
IN ments. Without the slightest prior SD
gestion it haG sprung into life, fully III
tured and ready for business. OF cou1
il clearly showed that Meyer was pa
N ner of Ives, Staynor s. Meter, and
ng sponsible for all claims against them
on the full extent OF his estate.
IT, The Sun then gives in tull the agrt
'n0 ment which, Ives s Staynor paid, ms
eir Meyer a full partner with them in I
at Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton de-
ort This paper is signed II. 81. C. M. s. {,
B. $. The sun charges that Ives fora
be MEYERS initials to the document,
ev- that powerful magnifying glass sho
that the initials were traced. The
then gives detailed account of the Ct
ception and execution OF the crime.
sun reporter this informing had an int
view with Ives and.fle still insisted
t a the initials were genuine.