Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
STOPPED THEIR MAIL


Hand In the Suppression OF SwindlinG-
A Long List of High Sounding Frauds
to be Prosecuted Under the Law Pro-
hibiting Lotteries-A Sweeping Order.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-The United States
authorities have determined to sup
press the bond and investment COM
panies which are operating all over
the country. Post Office Inspector
Stuart received from Washington yes
terday list of over fifty concerns
operating in much the same manner as
the Guarantee Investment Co. of Chi
cago, whose officers were convicted in
Judge Grosscup's court. Accompany
ing the list was communication from
the chief post Office inspector at
Washington stating that the companies
named had been investigated by As
sistant Acknowledgement Thomas, and
had been pronounced by him fraudu-
lent and not entitled to the privileges
of the United States mails. Inspector
Stuart was instructed to notify the
postmasters in his district not to de-
liver any of them registered letters or
money orders. He was also directed
to secure evidence against any of the
companies operating here or anywhere
else in the west and prosecute them
under the law forbidding lotteries and
the act forbidding the use of the mails
for swindling purposes.
The companies included in the list
are as follows, some of them being vir-
tually branches of the same concern,
but operating in different sections of
the country: Equitable Investment.
Co., Council Bluffs, Ia; Perpetual Ma
turity Bond Co., same city; Iowa Guar
antee Investment Co., Keokuk, Ia;
Reserve Fund Investment Co., Creston,
Ia; United States Investment Co.,
Bankers Investment Co., Capital Con-
sui Co. and Columbia Bond Investment
Co, Minneapolis; North American In
vestment Go. and st. Paul Guarantee
Investment Co., Milwaukee,; State of
Washington Bond Co., Tacoma; Phn-
nix Loan and Investment Co., Colorado
Guarantee and Loan Co., Guarantee
Investment Co., Investment Bond Co.,
and Workmen's Investment and Bond
Co., Denver; Walden Investment CO.,
Pueblo, Col; Pacific Coast Bond and
Investment Co.. Ogden, Utah; Utah
Savings Investment Co., Mt. Pleasant.
Utah; Utah Guarantee Investment
Co., Seattle, Wash; Guarantee and
Bond Investment Co., Covington. KY;
Columbia Bond and Investment
Co., Newport, KY; American Guarantee
Savings and Investment Co., Fort VAL
ley, Ga; National Confederate Guar
antee Co.. Nashville; Phoenix Savings
and Investment Co., Waco. Tex.s
American Bond and Investment Co.,
Equitable Investment Co., Missouri
Loan and Investment Co., and Ne
braska Savings Investment Co, Omaha;
National Guarantee and Invest
ment Co.. Lincoln, Neb.; Ma
tional Savings and Investment Co.,
Tekonska, Mich; Columbia Invest
ment Co., Saginaw, Mich; st.
Louis Mutual Bond Investment Co..
and Guarantee Investment Co., ST.
Louis; Pettis County Investment Co..
Sedalia, Mo-; Missouri State Loan
| and Investment Co., Fayette,
Mo-; Provident Bond and Invest
ment Co. and Franco-German Electric
Co.. Cincinnati; California Land and
Water Co., Dayton. o.; Union Invest
ment Co. and Louisiana Lottery CO.,
Kansas City; Guarantee Investment
Co., Hull, Ill; American Certificate
Co.. New York city and Utica, N. Y;
Provident Bond and Investment Co.,
Washington. D. c., and Philadelphia.
Inspector Stuart was instructed that
any change in the plan of operation by
these companies is not to be allowed
to change their status before the post
Office authorities. Abandonj -
bond maturity" plan will not save
them from prosecution If evidence can
be secured that they have heretofore
violated the law forbidding lotteries.
''This order shutting out the invest
| ment companies from the mails" said
Inspector Stuart" is a sweeping one,
and will put an end to the swindle."
Identified as the Murderer Of Edga,
Fitxwilliam in st. Louis.
ST. Louis, Dec. Q. - Miss Lizzie
Schedule, who was on the Midland
car on the night in September last
when Edgar j. Fitzwilliam was muir
dered. was taken to Chief,of Detective
Desmond's Office yesterday and con.
fronted with a number of negroes from
whom she at once picked out James
Murray, now under arrest for robbery,
as one of the men who committed the
murder.
Murray was very anxious that Miss
Schedule should say that he was not
/ the one who killed Fitzwilliam. He re-
lated the circumstance of the murder,
telling how he stood at one side Of
| Fitzwilliam while Dude Charley
stood in front and did the shooting.
In doing this every few minutes he
would interject his remarks with:
Now, amt dat SO. young woman"
Miss Schedule refused to agree With
him, saying she did not remember the
exact positions OF the murderers.
Ed Murray was next brought in.
| He confessed he was there, but Miss
| Schueble could not remember seeing
| him in the car.
Charles Williams, alias Kirby, the
| negro to whom James Murray con-
fessed while in Jail. reiterated his
| story.
William Henkley, alias Henze, alias
Jonah. another negro, ARRESTED early
| yesterday morning. was also brought
in. Henkley said that James Murray
told him the day following the muir
der that he killed Fitzwilliam. Henk-
ley will be held as a witness.
The Bureau of American Republics May
| be Abandoned.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The question
of the ultimate fate Of the bureau of
| American republics, almost the last re-