St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-06
TIM AND HIS FATHER.
What the Minneapolis District
Court Records Say Of
ByrneS' Career.
They Make the Politicians
Financial Methods Look
Very Peculiar Indeed.
minneapolis Millers Subscribe
Fifteen Cars Of Flour for
Russian Sufferers.
FarnsWorth's Coal Ordinance
Killed--More Of the Pump
Investigation.

There is scarcely doubt that limo
thy Z. Byrnes has been indicted by the
grand jury. Seven indictments were
reported to Judge Lochren yesterday,
but none OF them Will be made public
until the indicted parties are placed I'M
der arrest. 1t is common talk about the
conrt house that one of these indictments
charges Hon. Timothy E. Byrnes, late
appointment clerk of the United States
treasury department under President
Harrison, and now national organizer
for the National League of Republican
Clubs, with having cIiminally altered
certain documents executed by Mary A.
Goodrich, his mOther-in-laW. In 1887,
it is alleged, Mr.. Byrnes bought seven
teen lots from Mrs. Goodrich, and as
security for the purchase money he
Executed Seventeen Mortgages.
which were never paid. A few months
after the transfer of the lots, it is
charged, Mr.. Byrnes told Mrs. Goodrich
that he could sell two of them to good
advantage if she would execute salts
factions Of the two mortgages covering
them. Mrs. Goodrich consented to this,
believing that she would receive the
money derived from the prospective sale.
After he executed the satisfaction it is
alleged that ByrneS SO altered the in
StrumentS as TO make them cover ten
lots instead of two. 1t is further charged
that he negotiated a loan of S12, 900
on the property released by the alleged
fraudulent SatiSfactiOnS.
The Indictment of Timothy f. ByrneS
will not create much surprise among
those who know him best. For num-
Der of years his business transactions
have been rather dubious. he has been
the defendant in number of suits in
the district court, the files of which
show that his old father, Daniel
Byrnes, has been YictimiZed by him to
the extent Of $4,000 or more. A little
over year ago the SWediSh-American
bank brought three suits against L. Z.
and Daniel ByrneS to recover an aggre-
gate amount of Sl3. 1891 .53, with interest,
on prOmissOry notes signed by L. E.
Byrnes and
Endorsed by Daniel Byrnes.
The cases were tried and Judgment
was ordered against the defendants for
SI4,69G.10. To avoid all attachment on
his property Daniel Byrnes. the father,
paid the Judgment. About the same
time the National Bank OF Commerce
brought similar suit and secured judg-
ment for $4,000, which the old gentle
man was also obliged to pay.
After thus paying ont over $1,000 to
satisfy judgments against his son. Dan
lei Byrnes lost patience and brought
suit against Timothy TO get his money
back. He secured judgment against
the son Of ST. 096.1O but that is all he
did secure. The judgment stands on
the records tOday-unsatiSfed
Since the suit Of father against son,
another suit has been brought against
them On the strength Of another prom
issOry note executed by the son, and in
dOrSed By the father. 1t is the case of
the Security bank, and the claim
amounts to $4,000. This case has not
yet come to trial, but last week an
attachment was issued authorizing
the sheriff of Meeker county to
seize the property of Daniel Byrnes and
hold it until the Security banks claim
against Timothy Byrnes is settled.
And so it appears that the property of
Old Daniel Byrnes is rapidly being alb
sOrbed by the debts of his son Timothy.